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The Velvet Underground - Sweet Sister Ray's Murder Mystery (1969)

Track listing:
  1. Sweet Sister Ray 39:36
  2. Sister Ray/Murder Mystery/Sister Ray (part 1) 28:19
  3. Sister Ray/Murder Mystery/Sister Ray (part 2) 4:11
  4. Story of My Life 1:59

Notes


Track 1: Recorded April 30, 1968 at La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio

Lou Reed-White Gretsch Falcon
John Cale-Viola
Mo Tucker-Drums
Sterling Mrrison-Gibson Guitar

Track 2: Recorded January 28, 1969 at La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio
(On the CD, this track is track 2 and 3)

Lou reed-Guitar
Sterling Morrison-Guitar
Mo Tucker-Drums
Doug Yule-Bass, Keyboards

Track 3: Recorded October 2, 1968 at La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio

Lou Reed-Guitar
Doug Yule-Bass
Sterling Morrison-Guitar
Mo Tucker-Drums

VU website identifies this recording as one of the rarest. It has very good sound particularly for the time. The instrumentation is generally very clear, but the vocals are less audible; but most of the recording consists of drone/trance pieces anyway.