The Velvet Underground ~ You're Driving Me Insane (demo)

song: "You're Driving Me Insane"
artist: The Velvet Underground
CD: -etc

Early demo tape. According to the CD this recording was done before the VU had officially formed.

Thanks to Zero G Sounds for posting this music.

http://zerogsounds.blogspot.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• velvet
• underground
• drive
• me
• insane
• demo

[nicorigo]

Where's does it come from? V.U? I don't think so. Lou Reed, yeah, but I'd say it's something out of a Pickwick records back when he was chain-writting for them.

Never it's a recording than can be attributted to the V.U.

[ElvinCole]

@nicorigo - it comes from the VU cd "-etc" According to the liner note they recorded it before they had offically become the VU.

[dradic14]

great work, i mean blend of music and video (one of warhol's factory film footage). realy, realy nice!

[RICSIKE06091976]

Velvet Underground or not, Reed's vocals are totally great, and the Roughnecks on this one are fitting in quite perfectly. Love it!

[kidcalabria]

This is not The Velvet Underground & it's not a demo. This is from 1964/65 before The Velvets, when Lou Reed was a staff songwriter at Pickwick Records & several songs written & performed by him (with other musicians, not The Velvets) were released on budget compilations or singles: this, Cycle Annie, Sneaky Pete, I've Got A Tiger In My Tank, The Ostrich, etc.. For The Ostrich Pickwick wanted a real, live band to promote it, which is why & how Lou Reed met John Cale, & the rest is history....

[danielcm81]

Does rock and roll get any better?

[NintendoSegaSonyGuy]

What CD is this demo on and where can I find it? You can't match VU's early stuff.

[RAYEDEN]

This is NOT The Velvet Underground, it's one of those made up Pickwick session bands doing a Lou Reed song, with Lou on vocals. John Cale got involved for 'The Ostrich', yet another pre-velvets Lou number, and his interest was piqued when he found out that Lou had a guitar with all six strings tuned to 'E', and from there they began working together.

[dirtynuke]

It's a light show!

[djboony]

@nicorigo are there four? what else is there apart from this and the ostrich id love to hear them

"get down on your face!"

[nicorigo]

That's the Roughnecks:

The Roughnecks were one of several studio-only groups that released tracks to which Lou Reed contributed in the mid-'60s, when he was a staff songwriter and session musician at the budget/exploitation label Pickwick. Of the four Pickwick-era Reed-associated cuts that surfaced on the Velvet Underground rarities bootleg The Velvet Underground Etc., . ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Here u go. Hardly a velvet tune...I''d say the CD notes are full of it...