The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs - Live

[Marguerita679]

tis kakomoiras hahaha

[Schlongster69]

Lmfao dat whip!

[DanDeePee]

i love how everyone seems so into it (stoned probably, lol) and VU is just kind of in the back round playing wondering what the fuck everyones doing

[nismolionblue]

You are all fags!

[nismolionblue]

You are all fags!

[mrbrunse]

Crossing Jordan gerade geschaut :-)

[ceiderduck]

Dreadful shite quality

[mesealuka]

people used to dance at shows

[Izaak247]

Drugs

[doctorfuse007]

Crazy that the viola was involved with starting punk rock.

[TenWhoWereTaken]

Pure, distilled decadence.

[osensei75]

Wow. That guy with the whip is definitely in the zone.

[MowgliX]

I only wish we had more material, more footage oct the Velvets, and of Edie and Gerard dancing. There is so little left now.

[WhitstableWilliams]

How come Andy Warhol was able to make 10-hour films of inanimate objects but never shot any decent film of the Velvets...?

[ieremius]

@WhitstableWilliams good point.

[dirtynuke]

The infamous whip dance, haha

[calilove1942]

So hipster it hurts

[nayadevictoria]

no son estupidos, solo deben estar drogados..



[scotchvelo]

Tremendous dancing.

[JP1234Productions]

Heres the name of the Andy Warhol factory member that is not credited. SUPERDUDE

Superdude is still alive and playing music at nearly 70. He is the person standing right behind Andy in the photo on sonicbids.

It would be nice for him to get some recognition.

Youtube channel: jp1234productions

sonicbids url: Superdude

[kronos66]

Suuuuperb!

[mojangles1]

..oh damn, i think that's Gary Busey at 20!

[craigwithington]

John Cale id the coolest man to walk the earth.

[DutcHcHinK]

One question: Who is the guy who danced beside Edie ? He looks like he is totally on speed ...

[holfordstars]

I agree with boosheri, when I was young I experimented with LSD and whilst listening to this had the most terrible visions that I could have imagined- the whole day turned out to be bad just because the song had stepped on my mentallity and gort enhanced by my silliness with drugs. I still listen to it now and find it the most macabre piec of music ever written. Wherever the heroin took them- it must have been a really dark place.

[FistyCarrera]

@holfordstars: The lyrics of this song is based on a novel by Sacher-Masoch. So it's not "where heroin took them".

[Spoutnik1957]

is it edie sedgwick dancing?

[myorangeatmosphere]

@Spoutnik1957

yes :)

[spagisthebomb]

they all look like maniacs. i love it

[Mirada84]

Gerard Malanga is so talent-challenged

[JohnDamagedSoul]

THE FULL VERSION OF THIS,PLEASE...

[drugrocker]

the crowd are all mangled. total precursor to acid house parties with yokes in warehouses 3 decades later

[HandicappedWalrus]

@PilesOfVinyls Well it was supposed to be funny I suppose. I meant it sounded like a 50 year old paperpress or something like that. Horrible sounding grinding gears.

[HandicappedWalrus]

Sounds like a constipated forklift...

[PilesOfVinyls]

@HandicappedWalrus What you said made so little sense, so much to the point where it is funny.

[melloncollies]

the mecca of the alternative rock

[simplee67]

this record might have been scary at the time but it wasnt banned - there was just no reason to play it on commercial radio; NO ONE liked it. apart from some very smart, very tuned-in new yorkers. they were an artists band and there just aint many artists around then or now. but don't act like they were so dangerous that mainstream radio was scared. there simply was no commercial appeal. this record topped out at #103 on the charts lol

[PeaceKarmaLove]

0:38 gets me everytime <3

[Fishfliphatsock]

I'm surprised they could keep from busting up in light of the lame-ass dancing.

[whokeithmoon]

xxxxxxxxtra gay

[laurenluvzcbas10]

that was awesome. Love the Velvet Underground. But what was up with that dancing? Come on, Edie! I thought you had more soul than that!

[jimmy9540]

they been smoking that crack

[AndreasPGaming]

@jimmy9540

in 1970?!?

[anewbredkilr]

That was horse shit.

Nothing but horse shit.

Just horse shit.

They should rename this as "Just Some Horse Shit"

[BeTheDeathOfMe]

@anewbredkilr

It's the sound quality + the fact that you are probably listening to them on some speakers made of horse shit.

[anewbredkilr]

@BeTheDeathOfMe maybe you should rewatch this video. just saying. my speakers are AMAZING. i think thats why it sounded like shit. and plus this song just sounds like shit sir.

[BeTheDeathOfMe]

@anewbredkilr

It's because the microphone used to record it is distorting. Not much one can do about that except go back in time and use a better mic?

[anewbredkilr]

@BeTheDeathOfMe now thats a reasonable explanation. (BeTheDeathOfMe gains 10XP)

[damickelsen]

This is fucking amazing. Does anyone know where I can find the full recording of this performance?

[whokeithmoon]

@damickelsen yeah at the local shit hole........

[rochebraziliano]

only thing LOU REED can to do its reworking music from others musicians and then singing his lyrics with it as background music. LOU REED and JJ CALLE are not original from 60S UNDERGROUND music its really they are minor talents from BEAT GENERATION that came ending in 1965. They were into a band named THE BEATS that did try misleading people thinking they was THE BEATLES theirselves. BEWARE VELVET UNDERGROUND ARE CRAPS and POSING like OBSCURE and TRUE UNDERGROUND bands of the time.

[FistyCarrera]

@rochebraziliano: And George W. Bush staged 9/11, right? How dare you diss Lou Reed, a man who's been living his passion for music for over 40 years now! What have you ever done that was so great, you little shit!

[rochebraziliano]

@FistyCarrera i think you never ever heard of LES SAUTERELLES? did you??

[iiortexicta]

edie <3

[rubyo94]

This Is RIOT!!! :D

[edrixie]

WHAT IF THEY JUST COULDNT PLAY REALLY?... hmmmm.

[MowgliX]

The girl at 0:31 is Edie Sedgwick! I love her.

[brucelee6790]

"lol what" to quote myself at seeing the end of the video... here's an idea! how about showing the hole thing!?

[james23678]

is this actually a live bootleg, u cant heat the vocals at all

[l2moua]

0:35 - 0:39 I bet he was conducting an orchestra for face painted trolls warped by the 11th dimension

[JoeBarone93]

Yeah that's Edie Sedgwick. And Gerard Malanga's famous whip dance. All that white noise with that backbeat that's Venus in Furs alright. @grbb98 baby you are there; it still lives in your body. And the way it ends in black like the metal window that would slam in your face when your three minutes for a quarter ended at a 42nd Street live sex show. Shit. Goddamn.

[VonDazzle]

Is it Edie Sedgwick that blonde girl ???

[GROOVEYRECORDS]

Gerald is just whiping it good.

What a piece of work

[grbb98]

this is definitely the party at the end of the world. like a fellini outtake, but better, because it actually happened. and i wish i had been there, too.

[grbb98]

this is definitely the party at the end of the world

[TheBigMclargehuge]

@grbb98 Can I come?

[schizzie345]

I love it! It almost looks like a Saturday Night Live parody of the Velvet Underground! The guy dancing at 0:36 is so 60's...

[kgriggs8]

This was the best time in history. Only in the 1960s and 1970s would any of these people be allowed to live.

[lurcherlongdog]

Some of these people have had way too much caffeine. Or maybe refined refined sugar. Kids, eh!

[JackM2409]

0:36 i was doing that dance last night at a club in glasgow, didnt look cool wen i did it, that guy is brilliant

[elieattie]

shiney boots of leather

[jiffcat]

eddie sedewick and Gerard Malanga are the moth, undergrounds the flame,

[i0love0the0strokes]

fucking cooooool

[artistinstinct]

>>>O<<<

[MowgliX]

Edie was the finest of the fine. Too bad she was ruined by drugs.

[musicluva314]

Who had a camera phone bck then?

[klinsmeier]

East coast then was a lot more cool than West coast.

[thespecter2]

@klinsmeier I know but we flip flopped. Until Jersey Shore that is. :P

[DrSquidley]

words cannot describe the audience.

[punkace]

@DrSquidley "The Factory"

[CasaJess]

That girl with the short blond hair. Was that Edie?

[tetiontkon]

@CasaJess yes

[MowgliX]

@CasaJess Yes, yes indeed it was. That was the beautiful Edie.

[CasaJess]

@MowgliX Ahh thanks wasn't sure :) cause I can't see her face.

[MowgliX]

@CasaJess Right you are, but there are other clips from the same occasion where you can see her face. This happened at the Silver Factory by the way, in 1965 or early 1966. If Edie had quit using drugs in 1967 she might still be around today. She was a heavy amphetamine and sleeping pill user then but wasn't that far gone in 1967.

[CasaJess]

@MowgliX Ahh haven't seen the others, I didn't like the quality of the sound very much. Sad loss. Pretty girl.

[MowgliX]

@CasaJess Edie would have been 67 years old today, had she not been a sleeping pill and alcohol abuser. "The quality of the sound"? Is that important?

[CasaJess]

@MowgliX Yes I know that. And of course it is.

[boosheri]

This crowd preferred speed over acid.

[TheRemonstration]

@boosheri Not their audience at the Trip in Hollywood.

[ItsNotColdEnough]

@boosheri Speed is fun, but there is nothing better then a good acid trip.

[ElizabethxPete]

Awsome! Just, awesome

[carpboy]

That guy dancing is the best. Fucking hipsters.

[TheAngryCars]

Wow everyone was on trance

[featheredantlers]

I'd pretty much sell my soul to the devil to be there.

[hippiestoneman]

everyone was so wasted

[bigdunk9]

VU & Nico is the scariest record of all time. Never mind all your post hardcore or your Cannibal Corpse shite, this was so direct and cynical it was basically banned from every outlet across the West. People wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. There's such a terrifying undercurrent of desolation and despair that people would pretend it didn't exist rather than listen to it at all, apart from those wrapped in a stormy world of drug addiction (see above) Lou Reed, greatest songwriter of all time.

[sekhmetraptah]

@bigdunk9 Actually, I'm sure any number of college lit courses covered this song in respect to why the song was written & trust me when I say that literature should never be deemed scary, unless unread.

[bigdunk9]

@sekhmetraptah True, I agree that writers are further ahead of their time than musicians, but there's no denying that it is still a highly innovative track - musically. It's all well and good that it was based on a book, but to actually transfer that to a record and express the desolation and isolation of the world people like that lived in truly is genius.

[sekhmetraptah]

@bigdunk9 Reed & Cale were brilliantly, politically, socially & philosophically attuned;but never scary,maybe to children. A rare talent can caress political complexity through their music (Black Angel's Death Song's G.T. Miasnikov homage;)or breathe life into the mastery of the double entendre(Perfect Day's homage to all the shallow & clueless that drive us crazy that we have to share the planet with;or JT's Locomotive Breath,dedicated to all bipedal train wrecks that we patiently tolerate.)

[bigdunk9]

@sekhmetraptah I don't mean that they were scary people, they were mystifying characters, especially to be writing songs like Venus In Furs & Heroin in 1965, but in no way do I think they're scary. The record itself is scary, in a sense that it is brutally honest with the world.. the album rides on a wave of sadomasochism, heroin inclination, and nihilism. I don't have nightmares about it, but it is scarily prophetic and honest.

[sekhmetraptah]

@bigdunk9

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's 1870 novella centers around an un-named man who confides in Severin von Kusiemski of his obsession of his anointed Venus, Wanda von Dunajew. The un-named man's fascination with Wanda is so extreme that he is willing to be subjugated to the unlimited depths by this woman of his fantasies. Politics and literature were a popular poetic venue during the time the song was written.

[OrchidOxycodone]

@bigdunk9 I so totally agree with all this though honestly I find lou reed to be abit of a sellout now and I by far have more admiration for John Cale and Nico.

[doodletownpipers]

@bigdunk9

you've really mastered hyperbole

[gunnsgthartman]

@bigdunk9 Scariest? Why do you qualify it as scary?

[rsgrievous10]

@bigdunk9

but now its seen in a different light though

tbf just because its heavy death metal or whatever doesnt means its scary. venus in furs reminds me of long lonely desert roads for some reason. im going to listen to it and think yeah

[Kekkeyu]

@bigdunk9

Scariest record of all time?

Ever heard of The Residents?

[bigdunk9]

@Kekkeyu The Residents set out to do that though I think. The Velvet Underground combined the best of 60's rock but turned it into something completely different and desolate. A schizophrenic 60's sound, I like The Residents, great, great band, but scariest record of all time I would go for this. To each their own, however.

[frankierolover13]

this is just ridiculously great man

[dropacidtrip]

esta chingona esa cancion si que si

[shootthemoon86]

the fag with the whip ruins it

[punkace]

@shootthemoon86 That shit blew peoples minds when it came out though. It was always a bit cheesy, but this made 1966 America (hippies and squares alike) shit their pants in terror.

[shootthemoon86]

@punkace oh i know.... I've read "Please Kill Me".

[shootthemoon86]

@shootthemoon86 who is that guy? i vaguely remember them referring to a guy with a whip during Velvet concerts in the book "PLease Kill Me"

[LaLiLuLeLo1991]

Epic dancing at 0:35...

[icecreamlove45s]

there's gotta be more footage to this right??

[CalandrielAurealin]

HAHA! I always crack up thinking of Gerard Melanga and his whip dancing.

[TheKnittingSongbird]

Brilliant

[invisible000ful]

1:18?

[lortiovn]

More than 40 years later and only DJ Brumo comes close to the magic of VU. Held og lykke med specialet og go tur til Ukraine.

[loppeged]

@lortiovn YEAH DEEEEJAAAY BRRRRRUMO Nikki Beach best video EVER on UTUB! HE MAKES UTOPIA so REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tak tak. HIls DJ BRUUUMO on LØKKEN-BEACH. SES

[iscream22]

Oh damn,,, that is Jack Smith!

[iscream22]

Are there any videos of "I'll Be Your Mirror" live with Velvet Underground w Nico?

[dannyhood66]

Is everyone on acid? I don't see people laying around on bean bags? Oh yeah," that's just an everyday pot vibe that i never seemed to really enjoy.'' Couches bean bags and pot,''and maybe some television would be nice,'' But I don't want to get up to turn the damn thing on on! !aH

[radiantredhead93]

Is that Edie Sedgwick?!?!

[meantamborine]

@radiantredhead93 yes it is. i love her dancing

[jfkfgrygrr]

Jack Smith wearing the sweater and dark sun glasses at the start of video is the shit

[MowgliX]

The Velvets are very addictive. I'm so hooked!

[folkrockm14]

LSD is a great drug.just sayin.....

[kitto42]

Awesome party..

[barrycw1]

incendiary..

[wicked3lovely]

this song. this song. this song. this song. i can't get enough of it. this song was written after the book Venus In Furs.

[11TwoWhiteRabbits11]

if you like weird music with unconventional never ending LYRICS then by all means check out my song interdimentional beings, but im guessing most of you wont like it

[Rusticating]

Mesmerizing

[MelbaToast454]

why so serious?

[meantamborine]

wow Edie moves perfectly to the music

[LuanTEP]

To be there, listening to this sound...

[Terra148]

Serious fucking people.

[thespecter2]

I would trade all my acid to be there. Kinda oxymoronish.

[apaneagra]

@thespecter2 ahaha cool comment . i bet you would

[dannyhood66]

@thespecter2 Got acid?

[Kosher1202]

@thespecter2 how is this an oxymoron?  STUPID

[thespecter2]

@Kosher1202 At least 19 people disagree with you. Water your brain, maybe it will grow.

[Kosher1202]

19 people are stupid. it's irony, not an oxymoron

[thespecter2]

@Kosher1202 Yeah, implied i meant oxymoronISH. As in adding in the moron portion and ISH. It doesn't work as well as it could because an oxymoron pertains to words but I wanted to work out a pun.

[freedomstartswithyou]

@Kosher1202 the irony is im not a rocket surgeon but i would guess higher lol

[CalandrielAurealin]

@thespecter2 Yeah, I'm sure once you got there, though, you'd get all that acid back and then some...

[ohkfilms]

@thespecter2 im looking for a sheet

[Psychocandyy]

dioses una de los mejores disecos que he oido

miticos

[jackhillty]

gerard was pretty

[revolver1966]

on fookin crack

[2121lollollol]

@revolver1966 so wut dont judge me man

[exeuroweenie]

The band and the song still hold up-sounds cool as ever.Gerard Malanga,Edie Sedgewick,and the hangers on just look affected,goofy or pretentious depending.

[dirtynuke]

edgie segdwck dancing and just shaking it, and lou reed looking like a total frankenstein head.

the vu are the most innovative band in history.

[sotchease]

Frankenstein Head...perfect description man HA!!

[cinephilefromhell]

You can just feel the hate ooze off the band at the audience. hahaha.

[KapaKastle]

@cinephilefromhell

it was a time of love not hate the band was far to stoned to feel hate

granted the dance was stupid looking.

but the band was stoned out of there heads they did not care if the people there were listening

[cinephilefromhell]

@KapaKastle does everyone thinks the band was on drugs? the vu were anti-hippie. they didn't do drugs that caused love they did heroin (except for maureen tucker wh practically a saint). lol

[KapaKastle]

@cinephilefromhell Heroin is a drug.Have you ever done heroin ?

[cinephilefromhell]

@KapaKastle heroin is a drug. but you don't shoot up heroin and go out on the town.

[KapaKastle]

@cinephilefromhell yes you do unless you shooting enough to kock you out

[DutcHcHinK]

@cinephilefromhell Speed and Heroin ... And this is (in my opinion) something more dangerous than Cannabis and LSD ;) The Hippies dreamed about a world that doesn't exist, VU lived in the cold reality ... Both movements have something common

[snowpunk88]

Is Edie Sedwigk the woman that dance behind the band?

[swanny266]

baboon what school did you go to?

[keithmoonrocks]

VU were the antithesis of hippy. Dark, weird, artsy cool, and not exactly "nice". And brilliant. This stuff has aged way better than The Grateful Dead in my opinion.

[Yugobanian]

yea man your 100% right i know someone who served them at his bar for years on longisland. He always told me they were each individually weird in their own way..he compared them to andy warhol himself, quiet and very controlled.

[TMundo]

so goth but more 60's?