Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground 1966 LP - Rare
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Description
This is a 300 of its kind bootleg of the Velvets live during plastic exploding time(see below)...the album is in VG+ shape, and the cover is in great shape...get this while you can...
Artist: The Velvet Underground
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Release Date: 1981
Type: Live, Bootleg
Genre: Rock
Review
This Velvet Underground bootleg LP was originally recorded during an Exploding Plastic Inevitable show at the Valleydale Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio, on November 4, 1966. Although the Velvet Underground performed two sets at Valleydale, this LP consists of only the first and last pieces played, "Melody Laughter," and "The Nothing Song." The original, deliberately minimal package did not identify the songs by title. This bootleg was issued by Cincinnati record store manager Bernd Baierschmidt, who had attended the original Velvets gig at the Valleydale, in addition to the one held at the Topper Club in Cincinnati the night before. Most sources credit Dick Felton as the original recording engineer. Baierschmidt was in possession of a reel-to-reel copy of the entire show, but selected the two longest pieces in the set, as he felt that they represented an important side of the Velvet Underground then unrepresented on record -- their legendary, long, in-concert improvisations. Nico was still in the group at this early stage of the Velvets' history, and contributes eerie, wordless vocals to the noisy proceedings, dominated by feedback solos, droning guitars, and tribal drumming from Maureen Tucker. Ultimately, the whole Valleydale show surfaced on other bootlegs in the CD era, for example on If It's Too Loud for You Move Back!. Baierschmidt had wanted to issue the remaining tracks on a second LP, but died in a motorcycle accident on Cincinnati's notorious "death hill" before anything could come of it. Nonetheless, Baierschmidt's estimation of the artistic value of these recordings is shared by the Velvets themselves, who elected to include a condensed, 11-minute version of "Melody Laughter" on their legit compilation Peel Slowly and See. The Velvet Underground 1966 was the first recording of any kind to feature material from the Valleydale show, and has better than average packaging for a bootleg. As a result, it is one of the best-known and most highly sought after LP-era boots of the Velvet Underground (only 300 copies were pressed), even though the CD incarnations of the same material have superior sound quality and more of the concert. ~ Uncle Dave Lewis, All Music Guide
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