Velvet Underground - Guitar Amp Tapes 1969

Ever wanted to hear Lou Reed play

guitar in the VU louder?

Here you go. A gig with the guitar

mike shoved into his amp capturing

all his sonic glory ..... and the quiet

delicate bits you could never hear.

You can read whole essays about this

tape - how Reed applied free jazz

improvisational techniques on a rock

format and used Ornette Coleman

harmolodics to his guitar work .....

or just a man hitting his guitar very hard

and making a glorious noise.

The quality is not as bad as you think, you

can still make out the songs but in the distance.

If you want to listen to the VU songbook,

probably best to stay clear but if you want to

hear some sonic mangling - get some White Light, White heat