from Silver CDs
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Disc One - Exploding Plastic Inevitable b/w Poor Richard's:
1. Melody Laughter (30:02) /
2. Femme Fatale (2:48) /
3. Venus In Furs (4:58) /
4. Black Angels Death Song (4:12) /
5. All Tomorrow's Parties (5:58) /
6. Waiting For The Man (4:29) /
7. Heroin (6:47) /
8. Run Run Run (8:46) /
9. Poor Richard's (9:56).
1 : Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966 - on the 'Peel Slowly & See' Box set, 2 to 8: Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966 / 9 : Poor Richard's Club, Chicago, Illinois, June 23, 1966. This track is actually Heroin and Venus In Furs from Ronald Nameth's Andy Warhol's EPI film and ends with 1'17 of an unidentified Sister Ray.
Disc Two - Chic Mystique Of Nothing Songs:
1. Nothing Song (28:42) /
2. Venus/Heroin (3:42) /
3. Chic Mystique (26:12) /
4. Train 'Round The Bend / Oh! Sweet Nuthin' (19:08).
1 : Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966. 2 : USA Artists, WNET TV, NYC, February 7, 1966 / 3. The Dom, NYC, April 1966. / 4. Second Fret, Philadelphia, May, 1970. This track ends with a 2'20 instrumental - same source as the hidden track on Ostrich/Hilltop CD but longer excerpt.
Disc Three - Sweet Sister Rayn's Heroin:
1. Sweet Sister Ray (39:33) /
2. Sister Ray (24:30) /
3. Hey Mr. Rain (7:10) /
4. Heroin (6:36).
1, 4 : La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio, April 28, 1968 / 2 : The Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, March 15, 1969 / 3. Wembley Arena, London, June 6, 1993.
Disc Four - Illuminations Of Atonality:
1. Searchin' (17:25) /
2. Lady Godiva's Operation (4:53) /
3. The Gift (12:10) /
4. Run Run Run (8:51) /
5. What Goes On (8:55) /
6. Guess I'm Falling In Love (5'13)/
7. A Short Lived Torture Of Cacophony (2:20) /
8. Black Angel's Death Song (3:39) /
9. The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group Of All (3:30) /
10. A Distant Mirror (10:55).
1 : Searchin', "Swan" mix, Mayfair Studio, September 1967 - from White Light, White Heat/ 2 : mono mix, Mayfair Studio, September 1967 - from White Light, White Heat / 3 : Wembley Arena, London, June 6, 1993 / 4 : Hilltop Pop Festival, August 2, 1969 / 5: although it's listed as "1968 live" this is really the same version as 1969 Live album / 6: The Gymnasium, NYC, April 1967. The track ends with a 1'00 instrumental excerpt - same source as unlisted track on disc two / 7 : listed as "New York City 1965", actually a part of Columbus '66 Melody Laughter recorded backwards... / 8, 9 'Le Bataclan, Paris, January 29, 1972' was released officially in a limited run from Pilot Records in 2004. / 10 : this is collage including the VU Rock & Roll Hall of fame introduction by Patti Smith, the band accepting the award, the band playing Last Night I Said Goodbye To A Friend, then Ghost Story from the Bataclan show, then 53 seconds of I'm Waiting For The Man from Max's Kansas City '70 [ed. note: phew!].
Notes: the package is a CD size cardboard one, with 4 individual CD sleeves inside, each
made to look like a 45 RPM singles picture sleeve. There is a photo of the Trip Club poster,
Poor Richard's poster, Balloon Farm poster, and a few photos of the band and a photo of
Andy Warhol peeling a large banana on the back cover. The 64-page booklet includes a Sterling
Morrison interview with Greg Barrios, a review of VU & Nico album by Timothy Jacobs from
Vibrations No. 2, July, 1967, Chicago Happenings by Larry McCombes from Zig Zag, Vol. 5,
No. 1, April/May, 1974, New York Art And The Velvet Underground by Jonathan Richman from
Vibrations, September 1967, A Quiet Night at the Balloon Farm by Richard Goldstein, Problems
in Urban Living by Richard Somma, and another interview with Sterling, Reflections In
A Lone Star Beer.
This set is supposedly a limited edition of 500 copies.