“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 sizable 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 ambiance, especially in the larger venues, such as Washington University in St. Louis, where the band could let loose and roar. Additionally, The Quine Tapes contains 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.”
The Velvet Underground
Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes
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Disc 1:
01. I’m Waiting For The Man
02. It’s Just Too Much
03. What Goes On
04. I Can’t Stand It
05. Some Kinda Love
06. Foggy Notion
07. Femme Fatale
08. After Hours
09. I’m Sticking With You
10. Sunday Morning
11. Sister Ray
Disc 2:
01. Follow The Leader
02. White Light / White Heat
03. Venus In Furs
04. Heroin
05. Sister Ray
Disc 3:
01. Rock & Roll
02. New Age
03. Over You
04. The Black Angel’s Death Song
05. I’m Waiting For The Main
06. Ride Into The Sun
07. Sister Ray / Foggy Notion
