Velvet Underground Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes Vol. 2 LP RARE Lou Reed

Description: RARE 3 volume set ( this is vol. 2)LONG out of print (edition of 300 copies)UNPLAYED COPY. Tummy Tapes present the long-awaited second installment of The Velvet Underground‘s The Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes. Recorded through a microphone jammed in the back of Lou Reed‘s amp right around the release of their third album, The Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes are formidable in their unadulterated rock and roll fire and fury. They are a revelation for anyone who hasn’t paid close attention to Reed’s dynamic guitar playing which in this set is a monolithic roar, a pulverizing electronic “kaiju” (strange beast) grinding the whole universe into pebble and sand. Paste-on covers. All tracks recorded at The Boston Tea Party on March 15, 1969. The Velvet Underground never quite broke through to the mainstream during their lifespan, but they attracted plenty of die-hards who, as the Brian Eno quote goes, started their own bands; many of the rest instead recorded the Velvets. This particular tape is one of the wildest VU artifacts, and a total delight for listeners who love a good guitar freakout. Looking to preserve Lou Reed’s feedback-laced improvisations, the taper (known only as “The Professor”) placed his mic as close to the guitarist’s amplifier as possible. As a result, Reed’s insanely blown-out solos and the relentless pulse of drummer Maureen Tucker dominate the recording, later dubbed by bootleggers The Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes. Even though some of the many muddied Velvets audience recordings have been officially released over the years, Lou’s almost inaudible vocals here suggest that this one is likely to remain in collectors’ hands. But it’s a must-hear for fanatics. Lou Reed in his time with the legendary Velvet Underground did more for changing the face of rock guitar than many others, Lou´s sound was so revolutionary, I read in an interview that Lou wanted to sound like Ornette Coleman, he wanted his guitar to sound like a free jazz sax, he overloaded the sound with volume and effects in order to make it sound like a sax, I Heard Her Call My Name is an instant classic of guitar fire, few rock n roll moments have that intensity on guitar, Lou was nearly reaching free jazz heaven from a rock n roll base. But the Velvet underground, was more than Lou´s guitar, there was Sterling Morrison’s distinctive guitar playing, a righteous cross between jangle guitar and krautish monotony, Sterling's guitar playing was nearly metronomic in the Velvets dynamics, minimal in its pyrotechnics, but vital in its propulsive rhythms, and talking about rhythms you had Maureen Tucker, known for her minimal kick-snare beats, so influential to future garage rockers, punks and hardcore crowds. On top of that you had Lou and John Cale´s fiery duos, or duels, either way they set any place on fire, or emptied the rooms, Cale was a sound terrorist either on bass, keyboards or his insanely played viola, Cale knew exactly what he was doing, setting noise on a pop context, giving his raspy viola sound to the VU´s tender ballads or their galloping rockers. But The Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes makes little justice to the Velvet as a group, it was made by putting a recording device inside Lou´s amp, so what we got basically here is the sound of Lou´s incendiary leads, accompanied backed very far by the rest of the group, don´t dismay, as the songs sound just as you know them, except vocals and certain details are left behind (you can use it as the VU´s karaoke-tape), here you have the unique chance to listen to a guitar player who stood ahead of its time, who applied free jazz improvisational techniques on a rock format, a player who wasn’t afraid of going all the way and applied Ornette Coleman harmolodics to his guitar technique. Lou´s guitar style was so unique, with the rock n roll fire of Chuck Berry, the perception of the guitar as a universal sound tool of Roger McGuinn and the eternal influence of the aforementioned Coleman, little understood in his own time, “noise” and “incompetent” tags added by contemporaries were simply crushed when Lou´s influence grew enormous with the passing of time, as the punks adopted the VU´s as sonic fathers in the 70s, the new wavers even adopted the Velvets as ideology source (and even The Cars´ Rick Ocasek stole Lou´s image), and the “alternative” rockers of the 90s and 00´s adopted the band as icons (just ask the Strokes or The Killers, who simply are redoing the VU´s old tight avant pop)

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