Lou Reed & Velvet Underground Film Super8 [Part 1 of 2]

Psichiatrists Convention Jan. 14. 1966 - Velvet Underground First Public Appearance(super 8 films). Lou Reed & Velvet underground;

At the Dom on 8th Street (Manhattan) april 1966

Village Gate June 7. 1966
Barbara Rubin, Tuli Kupferberg, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Ed Sanders, Gerard Malanga, Andy Warhol.(Storm De Hirsch)

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[dantewood]

Great find...regarding the sound, I've yet to hear a copy with any better. Too bad, the Warhol or whoever estate this belongs to wouldn't have it remastered. I'm sure there is a sound board recording somewhere. Thanks for the share!

[poulet288]

Where did you get this material?

[ludvik199t]

ill be your mirror. awful sound though

[Conrad Alexander]

This was not their first public performance. They were the house band at Cafe Bizarre in late 65, That's where Barbara Rubin found them, and then took Warhol to see them play. That was when they began their collaboration.

[filmerado]

Wow Gerard can dance

[djboony]

super 8 doesnt record sound....

[octagon79]

just thought i should reccomend a bootleg called 'Caught Between the Twisted Stars" if you like melody laughter. you get the entire piece there whereas the one on the Peel Slowly Boxset is just an excerpt. If you are a fan of the velvets its a holy grail of material.

[Timmybear]

Oscar Wilde, October 16, 1854.

[WorldAtlus]

the second song sounds like some kinda sped up instrumental jam similar to 'melody laughter' found on the extended 'velvet underground and nico' album from the peel slowly and see box. either that or almost some kinda slowed down version of 'run run run' or something like that.

either way it's the greatest band in the history of sound, doing a happening , as usual, unlike anything that's ever been heard or ever will be heard again

[AcePilot101]

Saw my psychiatrist today/ told him his drugs gave me a new disease/ quit everything to take up smoking/ no more problems with booze and pills/ just got laid by an playboy bunny/ cancer won't wait/hitching to Guadalajara/standing by the side of the road/blowing my mind in a field of corn/watching the river come down/outside time