Friday, September 30, 2011

VU - 1967-04 - Gymnasium, NYC

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Dr. Forrester said...

Source 1 -

The Velvet Underground
April 1967
The Gymnasium, New York City

Equipment: Vinyl Bootleg > Linn Sondek LP12 > AudioLab 8000A > iMic > Audacity > WAV > Flac level 8

Transferred by Upsetter

Sound quality: ? Sounds pretty good to me!

Tracklisting:

1 - I'm Not A Young Man Anymore
2 - Guess I'm Falling In Love (Omitted, released on PSAS BOx)
3 - I'm Waiting for the Man
4 - Run Run Run
5 - Sister Ray

September 30, 2011 at 5:59 AM
Dr. Forrester said...

Caught Between The Twisted Stars 4CD box:
Disc 4: Illuminations Of Atonality


April 14-16 or 21-23 or 28-30, 1967
The Gymnasium, New York City, New York

06 Guess I'm Falling In Love


silver CD>Mac G4 desktop>Peak>xACT>flac

The lineage given above is from the original seed of this disc which I estimate to have been sometime in early 2005. From the obvious vinyl noise I think it's safe to assume that the recording for the CD was sourced from the (excellent) vinyl bootleg, 'And So On'.

From http://members.aol.com/olandem/vu.html:

Cale said in some interviews he owns the tape of the entire Gymnasium show, including Walk It As You Talk It with a really good guitar sound. There's an 'old' recording of Guess I'm Falling In Love, broadcasted on WPIX FM by John Cale on June 3, 1979, and available on some bootlegs like And So On LP or Everything You've Ever Heard... 3LP box set. This version sounds clearly different (seems without drums) from the Peel Slowly And See box set version and has some lyrics differences (the box set version begins with "I got fever..." while the 'old' version begins with "I got MY fever..."). On the WPIX tape where Cale plays the 'old' version he clearly says that it is from a tape he stumbled across. He definitely says "Gymnasium, April 1967"

September 30, 2011 at 6:00 AM

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