Velvet Underground - What Goes On / Follow the Leader

[cactaceous]

Why would anyone make a recording and try to pass themselves off as the real artist? This guy is pathetic. Thanks for wasting our time!!

[MowgliX]

John is wearing a piece of jewelry that Edie bought him, I think. Is this Lou singing?

[trippysmith]

thats lou reed singing

[indiagracedarling]

Is it not John Cale singing?

[CHUCKLOVES1969]

if that's lou reed singing,,then i'm paul mccartney.

[JamesMcFarlane88]

@CHUCKLOVES1969

its called heroin,,, relaxes the vocal chords

[CHUCKLOVES1969]

@JamesMcFarlane88 ..okay...and i'm paul mccartney...(what's so funny, is that i voted by the junior high school newspaper staff that i DID look like mccartney, and i did play bass 1967-70) so now i understand that the tape IS from a reliable source and so i have to now give way to the probable fact that it is....mr. lou reed.

and yes.....from 1st hand experience....heroin....does slow one down. thanks for your input.

[MrVelderado]

great but recording quality is poor. it sure is lou reed here. i love that babadi babadi baa. even lous guitar is out of tune like always. but nice rhytm guitar work

[thaxdouglas]

are you sure this isn't the guy from the Walkmen?

[gnowave]

@thaxdouglas

its lou, heard so many stroned velvet sessions that i could tell if its him pissing in the corner, which he often did

[moosey62]

Fuckin magic

[moosey62]

Rock on welsh boy

[MowgliX]

I believe the necklace - a silver snake - belonged to the beautiful Edie Sedgwick! John Cale had a 6-week relationship with her.

[MowgliX]

I love this song! I love the VU, Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker, Nico! Love them, and Doug Yule too!

[sofaguard]

i have this at correct speed this is just slow, thats all. not fake. its lou after the vlvets isnt it?

[Rockyspence]

Why is there any doubt that this is Lou?

[acadx]

@Rockyspence i agree thats lou

[ingotglyph]

What the hell! Of course this is Lou, apparently recorded during his "El Bingo" phase.

[johnseabron]

definitely not lou singing

[justmoveitmoveit]

This is not the correct version of this bootleg. This version is not at the correct speed. Lou's singing.

[jokedout]

that does not sound like a Welshmen ppl.

[rmorte62]

thqt is not lou reed singing. probably Yule who carried on with the Velvets after Cale and Reed were gone. He tried to imitate Lou's cadence

[chickey1861]

Maybe fake--definitely bad.

[jblacktree]

Lou singing, of course. Not Yule and, KEE-rist not Cale.

[gazatthebopp]

that is not cale singing

[teamhowdy]

ya he was out of the band by this time I think it's doug yule singing

[SadLisa777]

Amazing Cale!

[1stchampagan]

complete fakery

[clickswitchh]

its john cale singing not lou

[1stchampagan]

ye, that's john, voice of the valleys, cale alright.....

[kidcalabria]

Thanks for posting this. Reed often played his songs for the Robinsons. Lisa Robinson was instrumental in letting the world know about the New York scene thru her articles, & her husband put the money up for Lou Reed's first solo album, in London, 1972.

What Goes On must be one of the best songs ever. As far as I know, there's no recording of it with Cale on organ, although they played it with him before the Doug Yule 'era'. Follow The Leader appeared finally on Reed's Rock'n'Roll Heart (1976)

[Rottenhaus]

@kidcalabria Velvets did it live...but the only version I've heard is on one of the volumes of the Quine tapes...

[kidcalabria]

@Rottenhaus

I know they used to do What Goes On live with Cale on organ, but I've never heard it. I don't know the Quine Tapes that well. Do you mean The Bootleg Series, the CD with the brown-paper-bag-like cover?

[Rottenhaus]

@kidcalabria

Yeah, that's the one-it's one of those songs, like 'Booker T', or 'Guess I'm Falling In Love' that the casual listener wouldn't know about because they were never 'officially' released during the bands' existence...

[TorpedoSam88]

I dunno, sounds fake to me.

[notsovelvet]

Yeah,has to be.