Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes

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Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes
Live album by The Velvet Underground
Released	October 16, 2001
Recorded	May, November–December 1969, St. Louis and San Francisco, United States
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	230:30
Label	Polydor
Producer(s)	The Velvet Underground
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork (9.4/10) 11/26/2001 Robert Christgau (A-) link
The Velvet Underground chronology
Final V.U. 1971-1973 (2001)	Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes (2001)	The Very Best of The Velvet Underground (2003)

Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes is a triple live album by The Velvet Underground. It was released on October 16, 2001 by Polydor, the record label overseeing the Velvet Underground's Universal Music Group back catalogue.

The Quine Tapes is the first and up to now only release in the proposed Bootleg Series and owes its name to the person recording the original tapes, Robert Quine (who would later become an influential new wave guitarist and play with Richard Hell and Lou Reed).

Contents 1 About the album 2 Track listing 2.1 Disc one 2.2 Disc two 2.3 Disc three 3 Personnel 3.1 The band 3.2 Technical staff 4 External links

[edit] About the album

During 1969, The Velvet Underground toured the United States and Canada, playing well over 70 dates. By this time, the band had picked up a sizeable fan base and every now and then a fan would bring along, with consent of the band, recording equipment to record a set. Most of the time, this would mean relatively simple hand-held recorders resulting in lo-fi mono audience recordings, as with this set and the 1972 live album Live at Max's Kansas City (1969: The Velvet Underground Live was the notable exception, using stereo soundboard recordings).

Robert Quine, an avid Velvet Underground fan, used to travel to as many V.U. gigs as possible. He became friends with the band and they allowed him to record sets from the audience, occasionally asking for playbacks. Quine recorded many concerts, but as his original musicassette tapes began to wear out, he compiled four reels of what he considered the best material. These "best-of" reels were ultimately released in 2001 as the present The Quine Tapes set. The original musicassettes from which the reels were compiled no longer exist.

Musically, The Quine Tapes find the band in top form during the same phase in their history as documented on 1969 – the two sets even share a performance of "Rock and Roll", recorded at the same concert by both Quine and the Matrix sound personnel. Quine's tapes, although lo-fi audience recordings, capture much more of the music's ambience, especially in the larger venues, such as Washington University in St. Louis, where the band could let loose and roar. Additionally, The Quine Tapes contain many early songs that the band only rarely performed by this time, such as "Sunday Morning", "Venus in Furs" and "The Black Angel's Death Song", along with other obscurities such as "Over You", "Ride Into the Sun", and "Follow the Leader", which had never even been bootlegged in its original form.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Lou Reed except as noted

[edit] Disc one

1. "I'm Waiting for the Man" – 7:46
2. "It's Just Too Much" – 4:08
3. "What Goes On" – 8:25
4. "I Can't Stand It" – 6:20
5. "Some Kinda Love" – 4:48
6. "Foggy Notion" – 4:41 (Reed, Sterling Morrison, Doug Yule, Maureen Tucker, Hy Weiss)
7. "Femme Fatale" – 3:14
8. "After Hours" – 3:05
9. "I'm Sticking with You" – 2:48
10. "Sunday Morning" – 2:56 (Reed, John Cale)
11. "Sister Ray" – 24:03 (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker)

[edit] Disc two

1. "Follow the Leader" – 17:05
2. "White Light/White Heat" – 10:03
3. "Venus in Furs" – 5:14
4. "Heroin" – 8:11
5. "Sister Ray" – 38:00 (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker)

[edit] Disc three

1. "Rock and Roll" – 6:49
2. "New Age" – 11:18
3. "Over You" – 2:41
4. "The Black Angel's Death Song" – 5:54 (Reed, Cale)
5. "I'm Waiting for the Man" – 11:37
6. "Ride into the Sun" – 11:11 (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker)
7. "Sister Ray" — "Foggy Notion" medley – 28:43 (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker — Reed, Morrison, Yule, Tucker, Weiss)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] The band

• Lou Reed – vocals, rhythm and lead guitar
• Sterling Morrison – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Doug Yule – bass guitar, organ, backing vocals, lead vocal on "Ride into the Sun"
• Maureen Tucker – percussion, lead vocals on "After Hours" and "I'm Sticking with You"

[edit] Technical staff

• The Velvet Underground – producers
• Robert Quine – recording engineer

[edit] External links

• The Velvet Underground Web Page
• Foggy Notion - a Velvet Underground Web Corner

The Velvet Underground
John Cale | Sterling Morrison | Lou Reed | Maureen Tucker | Doug Yule
Willie Alexander | Angus MacLise | Walter Powers | Billy Yule
Discography
Studio albums: The Velvet Underground and Nico | White Light/White Heat | The Velvet Underground | Loaded | Squeeze
Live albums: Live at Max's Kansas City | 1969 | Live MCMXCIII | Final V.U. | The Quine Tapes
Box sets and outtake compilations: VU | Another View | What Goes On | Peel Slowly and See
Selected best-of compilations: Rock and Roll | The Very Best of The Velvet Underground | Gold
See also
Chelsea Girl | Exploding Plastic Inevitable | Lou Reed | Nico | Steve Sesnick | Songs for Drella | Andy Warhol