Finally, a new Velvet Underground release worth the price of purchase

Courtesy of Music Tap comes word that the end of October will see the release of legendary and oft-bootlegged Matrix Tapes by the Velvet Underground. Unlike many of the bootleg versions, this release should be just about everything from the 1969 run of shows.  

The Matrix Tapes – The Velvet Underground

CD1 – Set One:
01 I’m Waiting For The Man (Version 1) (14:06)
02 What Goes On (Version 1) (8:58)
03 Some Kinda Love (Version 1) (4:59)
04 Heroin (Version 1) (8:13)
05 The Black Angel’s Death Song (6:20)
06 Venus In Furs (Version 1) (4:38)
07 There She Goes Again (Version 1) (3:08)
08 We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 1) (3:16)
09 Over You (Version 1) (2:24)
10 Sweet Jane (Version 1) (5:12)
11 Pale Blue Eyes (6:08)
12 After Hours (Version 1) (2:58)

CD2 – Set Two:
01 I’m Waiting For The Man (Version 2)
02 Venus In Furs (Version 2) (5:16)
03 I Can’t Stand It (Version 1) (7:54)
04 There She Goes Again (Version 2) (2:54)
05 Some Kinda Love (Version 2) (4:12)
06 Over You (Version 2) (3:07)
07 After Hours (Version 2) (2:37)
08 We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 2) (3:42)
09 Sweet Bonnie Brown/Too Much (7:54)
10 Heroin (Version 2) (10:08)
11 White Light/White Heat (Version 1) (9:30)
12 I’m Set Free (4.48)

CD3 – Set Three:
01 We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 3) (3:18)
02 Some Kinda Love (Version 3) (4:40)
03 There She Goes Again (Version 3) (3:02)
04 Heroin (Version 3) (8:34)
05 Ocean (11:03)
06 Sister Ray (37.08)

CD4 – Set Four
01 I’m Waiting For The Man (Version 3) (5:31)
02 What Goes On (Version 2) (4:34)
03 Some Kinda Love (Version 4) (4:46)
04 We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 4) (3:26)
05 Beginning To See The Light (5:42)
06 Lisa Says (6:05)
07 New Age (6:41)
08 Rock And Roll (6.58)
09 I Can’t Stand It (Version 2) (6:54)
10 Heroin (Version 4) (8:18)
11 White Light /White Heat (Version 2) (8:45)
12 Sweet Jane (Version 2) (4:20)

Shot By: Eric Hayes

Jimi Hendrix and Charley Weber (the child) at Royal Albert Hall, February 24, 1969, by Eric Hayes. Read the story behind this fantastic image over at Ultimate Classic Rock.

Royal Albert Hall show from London, filmed on Feb. 24, 1969.

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It Was 45 Years Ago Today: The Velvet Underground - The Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA, January 10, 1969

Grab it here

 

1. Heroin (8:25)
2. Move Right In (4:46)
3. I’m Set Free (4:37)
4. Run Run Run (7:49)
5. Waiting For The Man (8:56)
6. What Goes On (4:29)
7. I Can’t Stand It (6:18)
8. Candy Says (4:46)
9. Beginning To See The Light (5:49)
10. White Light/White Heat (5:42)
11. Pale Blue Eyes (6:27)
12. Sister Ray (21:23)

Thanks to Doom & Gloom From the Tomb

Friday Ephemera: Stooges 1969 French picture sleeve

Courtesy of Bedazzled & Derek's Daily 45

Movie of the Week: Gene Vincent, Rock and Roll Singer (1969)

Here's a terrific (if somewhat sad) look at one of Stupefaction's long time heroes, Mr. Gene Vincent.

Sweden 1969

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Movie of the Week: Woodstock Diary 1969 - Friday Saturday Sunday (2009)

In honor of the 44th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival, here is one third of Woodstock Diary 1969: Friday Saturday Sunday from 2009 - a three hour collection of footage & interviews directed by D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, and Erez Laufer. 
This is from the second day of the festival.

Read an excellent interview with the Woodstock Festival's main man, Michael Lang, 
courtesy of Mojo Magazine -  
Inside Woodstock With Organiser Michael Lang

Harlem Cultural Festival (1969)

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Sterling Morrison was a working man (1969)

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Ann Arbor Sun - May 28, 1969

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The Smith Tapes - released tomorrow & Kickstarter campaign ending soon!

From the NY Times today, The Smith Tapes: "...more than 100 interviews with rock stars, artists and assorted radicals recorded from 1969 to 1972 by Howard Smith, a longtime writer for The Village Voice. They have now been cataloged and packaged for the digital era as “The Smith Tapes” and will be released in monthly batches over the next year. The first, with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Lou Reed, Frank Zappa, Mr. Clapton and others, comes out Tuesday through Amazon’s MP3 store and next week on iTunes. Read the entire article here. If physical formats are more your thing, donate to the Kickstarter campaign (trailer below)which will make available a boxset of these recordings.

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Just Because: John Lee Hooker (1969)

The Beatles rooftop concert in full: January 30, 1969

I can't believe I've never seen this entire thing. And like the recently posted Charlie Is My Darling, I'd watch this now as I'd be surprised if its up for very long. Although this has been on YouTube since January, so maybe it'll be available for a while...

Famously recorded on the roof of Apple in London on January 30, 1969, it was to be their last performance as a band in public. The footage was included in the Let It Be documentary released in 1970. Songs included:

Get Back - 01:03
Don't let Me Down - 04:18
I've Got a Feeling - 07:53
One After 909 - 11:35
Dig a Pony - 14:38
Get Back 18:30

Movie of the Week - Bilzen Jazz Festival 1969

Thanks to reader Mike F. of Chicago for sending this our way. Its an amazing film of the 1969 Bilzen Jazz Festival which features many acts that traditionally don't get a lot of play on the left side of the Atlantic including Brian Auger, and The Move. Check out the Humble Pie version of Dr. John's "Walk On Gilded Splinters" which is nice since I've been on such a Dr. John kick lately. The festival was held in Bilzen, Belgium, from the mid-sixties through the early eighties.



Appearances by, but not in this order:
SHOCKING BLUE
DEEP PURPLE
BONZO DOG DOO DAH BAND
TASTE
MOODY BLUES
SOFT MACHINE
MARSHA HUNT & WHITE TRASH
BRIAN AUGER & THE TRINITY
STEVE SHORTER & TILLY SET
HUMBLE PIE
LIFE
BLOSSOM TOES
THE MOVE
ROLAND AND THE BLUESWORKSHOP

Electric Church Music - The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Stockholm 1969

The Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden

January 9th, 1969

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01 Killing Floor

02 Spanish Castle Magic

03 Fire

04 Hey Joe

05 Voodoo Child

06 Red House

07 Sunshine Of Your Love

The MC5 and The Stooges play Queens, 1969

Thanks as always to Its All The Streets who are big shots now that Douglas Wolk & the Rolling Stone tumblr posted about them - they're just finding out what we've known for ages!

Behind the scenes at FAME Recording Studio in Muscle Shoals, AL (1969)

I must be dead. This must be heaven. Bedazzled just posted this literally a few minutes ago. Holy jesus...This is actually just as much, if nor more, Memphis/Stax stuff than Muscle Shoals, but who cares? This footage is priceless! And yes, Spike, that looks like Isaac Hayes on sax to me.

Kyle's Cassettes: Skip Spence - Oar

Alexander “Skip” Spence
Oar
1969 Columbia

Usually when most folks start nearing the end of their twenties they start saying things like, “Oh, I would never take acid again. Maybe some mushrooms, but I just don’t think I could handle acid anymore.” And they’re probably right, their fragile psyches would crumble into a million shattered splinters on a healthy hit of clean window pane. It sucks that most people are a bunch of pussies, but then again what are you gonna do?

At any rate, what this kind of conversation begs to question is what exactly would happen if you did just keep on dropping tabs like it weren’t no big deal? Answer: Oar. This is the biggest, baddest, axe-murdering, double-barreled daddy of lost American classics.

A little back story: In 1968 Alexander Skip Spence disappeared into the New York City night with a black witch that filled his head up with an economy sized dose of high grade LSD. Subsequently he tried to kill one of his band mates and then got the padded cell treatment for six months in Bellvue. Upon his release from the hospital he rode his motorcycle down to Nashville in his pajamas and recorded this way-the-far-fuck-out piece of Americana. More than anything this album is about someone humping out past any sort of acceptable boundaries with no promise of return. This shit is no joke. And it sounds amazing too, all haggle toothed and grizzled, slightly panicked, but riding it out all the same.

Spence had founded the Moby Grape and had been in the Jefferson Airplane, but he never really put out anything after Oar. He died of lung cancer in 1999. At the time he was living in a trailer in Northern California all strung out on coke and heroin. Most people probably think this guy was a total loser, but I say definitely not. Most people work their nuts off so that their children will grow up to hate them and they can live in some retirement community on a golf course. Spence may not have been lunching on the back nine, but this dude did more than most fools even talk about doing. This is what paying the price sounds like. Forget about it.

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Rolling Stones in Hyde Park, London, 1969

ROLLING STONES CONCERT

42 years yesterday marked an anniversary for the Stones famous Hyde Park concert in London which followed the death of Brian Jones. News reel footage courtesy of the Guardian & British Pathé.

Beat Jazz movie of the week - Batman Poem by the Liverpool Scene

The Liverpool Scene perform "The Batman Poem." Grab an MP3 here. Via This Isn't Happiness.