Velvet Underground Live Exploding Plastic Inevitable 1966

Live recordings of The Velvet Underground & Nico performing live in 1966. They do two songs Heroin & Venus In Furs. You don't really see much of the band it's kind of a pre psychedelic freakout Andy Warhol film stuff. Watch and see. Below are links to the whole 20 minute movie at archive.org aand the other link is to a pretty extensive Warhol site with Andy's activities for that year highlighted.
http://www.warholstars.org/chron/1966.html
http://www.archive.org/details/exploding_plastic_inevitable

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[MindsiMedia]

It might be from the 12/11 gig from Summit NJ where they did Heroin but Angus had already left the band by then.

[joleblonde]

I've done a little digging. According to the Victor Bockris Lou Reed biography, Lou developed hepatitis (sp?) after the "failed" EPI tour of LA in mid-66. The band was booked to play in Poor Richard's in Chicago, so Moe moved to play bass, John sang...and Angus was brought in to play drums. According to Bockris, the gig was so successful they were asked to play a 2nd week, and Lou developed mad paranoia as he wasn't in control!

I reckon this is taken from that gig, making this a real gem!!

[imgoing2hellcom]

what a fucking trippy tour ..... i would literally kill someone to be able to live in that time

[KingOfUm]

@imgoing2hellcom If you promise to obliterate the singer from Nickelback for me I'll see what I can do for you.

[alfluna5]

no me canso de escuchar a estos tipos. Pasan los años y suenan cada vez mejor(no hablo de la calidad técnica del sonido sino del poder de su música para golpear y sorprender)

[tmgore64]

@MindsiMedia No. This is from Chicago '66. Lou was sick. John substituted on vocals. Angus Maclise temporarily rejoined the band on drums. Moe played bass.

[Nguli34689]

I wanted to see this when the Velvet Underground movie came out. I was twelve and my parents wouldn't let me. That was so long ago, but I remember vividly some of my memories from the mid-60s. A few years later, I bought the banana album and liked it. Things like this were new and never before seen or heard in such a way. The Velvets really did break ground for others. Kenneth Anger also came out with some dark and sinister surrealism. I am glad to have seen and heard the things I have.

[joleblonde]

Any idea when Heroin was recorded on this? Sounds more like Angus MacLise rather than Moe Tucker going by the bongo-esque sound, which would place this audio before December 1965.

Also is that John singing, or a very soft-voiced Lou trying to find his particular audio style?

[toysintheattic93]

i would give anythin for a time travelin trip to the factoryyyyyyy

[ggrenster]

Love this version of Heroin!