Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes
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| Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes | |||||
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| Live album by The Velvet Underground | |||||
| Released | October 16, 2001 | ||||
| Recorded | May, November–December 1969, St. Louis and San Francisco, United States | ||||
| Genre | Rock and roll | ||||
| Length | 72:44 (disc one) 78.47 (disc two) 78.32 (disc three) 230:03 (total) |
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| Label | Polydor | ||||
| Producer | The Velvet Underground | ||||
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Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes is a triple live album by The Velvet Underground. It was released on October 16, 2001 by Polydor, the record label overseeing The Velvet Underground's Universal Music Group back catalogue.
The Quine Tapes is currently the first and only release in the proposed Bootleg Series. It was originally recorded live by Robert Quine, a fan of the band who would later become an influential new wave guitarist to play with musicians such as Richard Hell and Lou Reed.
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[edit] The Quine Tapes
During 1969, The Velvet Underground toured the United States and Canada, playing well over 70 dates. By this time, the band had picked up a sizeable fan base and every now and then a fan would bring along, with consent of the band, recording equipment to record a set. Most of the time, this would mean relatively simple hand-held recorders resulting in lo-fi mono audience recordings, as with this set and the 1972 live album Live at Max's Kansas City (1969: The Velvet Underground Live was the notable exception, using stereo soundboard recordings).
Robert Quine, an avid Velvet Underground fan, used to travel to as many V.U. gigs as possible. He became friends with the band and they allowed him to record sets from the audience, occasionally asking for playbacks. Quine recorded many concerts, but as his original musicassette tapes began to wear out, he compiled four reels of what he considered the best material. These "best-of" reels were ultimately released in 2001 as the present The Quine Tapes set. The original musicassettes from which the reels were compiled no longer exist.
Musically, The Quine Tapes find the band in top form during the same phase in their history as documented on 1969 – the two sets even share a performance of "Rock and Roll", recorded at the same concert by both Quine and the Matrix sound personnel. Quine's tapes, although lo-fi audience recordings, capture much more of the music's ambience, especially in the larger venues, such as Washington University in St. Louis, where the band could let loose and roar. Additionally, The Quine Tapes contains songs that the band only rarely performed by this time, such as "Sunday Morning", "Venus in Furs" and "The Black Angel's Death Song", along with other obscurities such as "Over You", "Ride Into the Sun", and "Follow the Leader", which had never even been bootlegged in its original form.
[edit] Track listing
All tracks written by Lou Reed except as noted
[edit] Disc one
All tracks recorded at The Family Dog, San Francisco, November 1969.
| # | Song title | Time | Date |
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| 1. | "I'm Waiting for the Man" | 7:46 | 11-8-69 |
| 2. | "It's Just Too Much" | 4:08 | 11-8-69 |
| 3. | "What Goes On" | 8:25 | 11-8-69 |
| 4. | "I' Can't Stand It" | 6:20 | 11-8-69 |
| 5. | "Some Kinda Love" | 4:48 | 11-8-69 |
| 6. | "Foggy Notion" (Sterling Morrison, Doug Yule, Maureen Tucker, Hy Weiss) |
4:41 | 11-8-69 |
| 7. | "Femme Fatale" | 3:14 | 11-7-69 |
| 8. | "After Hours" | 3:05 | 11-8-69 |
| 9. | "I'm Sticking with You" | 2:48 | 11-8-69 |
| 10. | "Sunday Morning" (Reed, John Cale) |
2:56 | 11-9-69 |
| 11. | "Sister Ray" (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker) |
24:03 | 11-7-69 |
[edit] Disc two
All tracks recorded at The Matrix, San Francisco, November/December 1969.
| # | Song title | Time | Date |
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| 1. | "Follow the Leader" | 17:05 | 11-27-69 |
| 2. | "White Light/White Heat" | 10:03 | 12-01-69 |
| 3. | "Venus in Furs" | 5:14 | 12-01-69 |
| 4. | "Heroin" | 8:11 | 11-23-69 |
| 5. | "Sister Ray" (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker) |
38:00 | 12-03-69 |
[edit] Disc three
All tracks recorded at The Matrix, November 1969 except for track 7, recorded at Washington University, St. Louis, May 1969.
| # | Song title | Time | Date |
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| 1. | "Rock and Roll" | 6:49 | 11-25-69 |
| 2. | "New Age" | 5:24 | 11-24-69 |
| 3. | "Over You" | 2:41 | 11-25-69 |
| 4. | "The Black Angel's Death Song" (Reed, Cale) |
5:54 | 11-23-69 |
| 5. | "I'm Waiting for the Man" | 11:37 | 11-27-69 |
| 6. | "Ride into the Sun" | 11:11 | 11-24-69 |
| 7. | "Sister Ray / Foggy Notion" (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker / Reed, Morrison, Yule, Tucker, Weiss) |
28:43 | 5-11-69 |
[edit] Personnel
[edit] The band
- Lou Reed – vocals, rhythm and lead guitar
- Sterling Morrison – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Doug Yule – bass guitar, organ, backing vocals, lead vocal on "Ride into the Sun"
- Maureen Tucker – percussion, lead vocals on "After Hours" and "I'm Sticking with You"
[edit] Technical staff
- The Velvet Underground – producers
- Robert Quine – recording engineer
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