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I Want My MP3 - Velvet Underground Live 1

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The Velvet Underground with Nico in Columbus, Ohio on November 4, 1966. (And some people reckon nothing happens in Columbus.)

It was a toss-up on which track to post but I settled on "Femme Fatale" for the verve with which the band support Nico's wonderful monotone. Judging by the applause at the end, the patrons of Columbus had some trouble digging the VU. As a reward the band played "The Nothing Song", which goes on for 29 minutes!Check the description of Nico on the poster: "pop-girl of 1966!"

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Comments (18)

  1. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says JOHN! I just fell out of my seat...to see Velvet Underground and Columbus in the same post....who knew!! Where is this album? I am going to have to have it...I love all things VU and I had no idea they ever played here!!
    Permalink posted 07/10/2007
  2. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says I was able to find it on a torrent site! Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention...the Valleydale Ballroom was bulldozed before I was born I think....this is awesome! A great souvenir as I take leave of Columbus
    Permalink posted 07/10/2007
  3. Jonh Ingham
    Jonh Ingham says Thought you'd like it. :-) Consider it a leaving present.
    Permalink posted 07/10/2007
  4. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says I do love it...thanks so much!! Lou Reed in Columbus...too bad I wasn't born until 74....i would have loved this show!
    Permalink posted 07/10/2007
  5. Mike the Knife
    Mike the Knife says Any V.U. is worth a listen, guys. I am drifting away on this in the wee hours of the morning. Ahhhhhh...
    Permalink posted 07/10/2007
  6. soulrocket
    soulrocket says i believe vu were labeld back then as an arty band along the makes of andy warhol & they didnt get the proper recognition after they were gone & lou made it big. that would explain the lack of enthusiasm. probably too much for the ohio state.
    Permalink posted 07/11/2007
  7. Jonh Ingham
    Jonh Ingham says I'm not that deep on VU history, but from what I remember they went on tour with no kind of buzz around them. It's likely that the people attending that night were there for a show, any show. And get songs full of whips and 'shiny shiny leather'. I wonder how big the audience was? It sounds like 10 or less.
    Permalink posted 07/11/2007
  8. Rawkkiddoh
    Rawkkiddoh says loving the concert poster quite a bit, is it one you own?
    Permalink posted 07/11/2007
  9. kaleef
    kaleef says right on jonh!!! great upload, and i'm with rawk on this one, that poster is fine~ heh... and b fell out of his seat
    Permalink posted 07/11/2007
  10. Jonh Ingham
    Jonh Ingham says Rawk - Yeah that poster's a good one, isn't it? I don't own it but I've tracked it a few times on E-Bay. Unfortunately it's (1) rare and therefore (2) out of my price range. I have about a dozen Fillmore and Avalon posters tho.
    Permalink posted 07/11/2007
  11. contrabandwidth
    contrabandwidth says Ah yes Jonh, good post indeed! Let's not forget one of the greatest influences to New York Punk came out of Cleveland, Ohio - Rocket From The Tombs. I know Cleveland isn't too close, but we can thank concerts like this for breeding bands like RFTT. For those of you who don't know RFTT was one of the greatest bands never to lay down an album (until recently). They went on to form the bands The Dead Boys (with some of the RFTT songs) and Pere Ubu (which was pretty much just Dave Thomas from that group. So good things do come out of Ohio, Blair :).
    Permalink posted 07/11/2007
  12. steve simon
    steve simon says i used to have this poster, and have no idea where it is, i am sick about it
    Permalink posted 07/12/2007
  13. Spike
    Spike says Did Wes Wilson design the poster? He was one of the best of that bunch. I remember reading somewhere that back in the day the Fillmore people would drive up College Avenue in Berkeley putting up posters, then drive back down and notice that many of the posters had already disappeared into people's collections. The poster mentions The Plastic Inevitable. That means that the light show consisted of numerous simultaneous Warhol films, right? I didn't notice, until hearing this live version, how beautiful the guitar patterns are. Reed, right? Maybe in late '66, when I was in college, I heard that VU and Warhol would be performing nearby, but failed to take interest. Soon after, it was Big Brother, and again I failed to take interest. Who knows what up-and-coming geniuses I'm missing as we speak?
    Permalink posted 07/15/2007
  14. steve simon
    steve simon says spike, the fact that u will admit to missing lou and janis makes me like u very much
    Permalink posted 07/15/2007
  15. Spike
    Spike says steve, the fact that you didn't mistake what I said for false humility makes me like you back.
    Permalink posted 07/15/2007
  16. steve simon
    steve simon says i love it spike
    Permalink posted 07/16/2007
  17. Jonh Ingham
    Jonh Ingham says Spike, yes the poster is an early Wes Wilson design. The Plastic Inevitable was the light show, tho from what I've seen they were mostly Warhol's films projected over the band. Guitar patterns courtesy of Mr. Reed.
    Permalink posted 07/16/2007
  18. avenustylee
    avenustylee says I like the song a lot. Wasn't it done by the Tom Tom Club, with Tina Weymouth (from the Talking Heads) and all a bit later?
    Permalink posted 07/21/2007

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