Product Description

VELVET UNDERGROUND Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes (2001 US 23-track 3-CD album box set featuring tracks recorded live at The Family Dog San Francisco in November 1969 The Matrix San Francisco in November/December 1969 and WashingtonUniversity St Louis in May 1969. Each CD is housed in a card picture sleeve with fold-out booklet and presented in a picture box)

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. I'm Waiting For The Man
2. It's Just Too Much
3. What Goes On
4. I Can't Stand It
5. Some Kinda Love
6. Foggy Notion
7. Femme Fatale
8. After Hours
9. I'm Sticking With You
10. Sunday Morning
11. Sister Ray

Disc 2:

1. Follow The Leader
2. White Light/White Heat
3. Venus In Furs
4. Heroin
5. Sister Ray

Disc 3:

1. Rock And Roll
2. New Age
3. Over You
4. Black Angel's Death Song
5. I'm Waiting For The Man
6. Ride Into The Sun
7. Sister Ray/Foggy Notion

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41397 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-17
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Original recording remastered, Best of
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
Despite the black market vibe of the title (Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes), these grainy but historically significant live Velvet Underground recordings--taken from poorly attended shows in San Francisco during November 1969 (the post-John Cale and pre-Loaded era)--have never been made available before, illegally or otherwise. Furthermore--and unlike most other bootleggers--avid young fan and tape recorder operative Robert Quine (an apprentice disciple of Lou Reed's savage guitar style and a future founding member of punk combo Richard Hell and the Voidoids) didn't have to suffer the personal indignity of standing furtively at the back of the hall with a microphone stuffed down his trousers. Quine's recordings--initially made on cassette tape but later (and rather fortuitously) transferred to the more durable reel-to-reel format--were made with the band's blessing and enthusiasm but have remained hidden away ever since. Consisting of three CDs, the Bootleg Series Volume 1 set is further forensic proof, if needed, that the Velvet's seedy, dissonant, lurid, violent, anarchic pop was well out-of-step with the times but has remained decidedly in-step ever since. Specifically, these shows capture (courtesy of the mute audience philistinism) some kind of culture-clash between the West Coast's "flower in your hair" optimism and the Velvets' "spike into my vein" subterranean nihilism. With sheer bloody-mindedness, the Velvets' treat their audience to 38 soundboard-splintering, pornographic minutes of "Sister Ray", as well as kooky School Concert takes on "After Hours" and "I'm Sticking with You" and a "Venus in Furs" which--in the absence of John Cale's whiplash viola glissandos--creeps and crawls with Doug Yule's spooked Doors' organ. As Jonathan Richman once enquired, "How did they make that sound, Velvet Underground?". Dunno. But they did. And things have never been the same since. --Kevin Maidment

Chronique amazon.fr
Le son des disques officiels du Velvet captés live en 1969 et 1970 (1969, Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed, volumes 1 & 2 et Live At Max's Kansas City) n'était déjà pas terrible. Autant le dire tout de go, la prise de son de celui-ci est carrément exécrable – de bien meilleurs pirates circulent. Toutefois, ce n'est pas pour autant qu'il faut bouder ces enregistrements dont l'intérêt est aujourd'hui historique, et donc quasiment réservé aux amateurs purs et durs qui pourront à loisir comparer ces versions de "Sister Ray" et "I Can't Stand It Anymore" aux originales – celui qui ignorerait encore tout du Velvet fera mieux de commencer par les premiers albums en studio. Détail croustillant, d'ailleurs mis en avant par le label qui sort in extremis ces bandes du placard : c'est le guitariste Robert Quine, membre fondateur des Voidoids de Richard Hell, puis compagnon de route de Lou Reed et Lloyd Cole, qui, jeune fan pétri d'admiration, a capturé cette chose sur le vif en 1969. Fort logiquement indiqué aux membres de la famille. --Hervé Comte