1969 VELVET UNDERGROUND LIVE w/LOU REED: UK 1st PRESS

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  1969 VELVET UNDERGROUND LIVE w/LOU REED: UK 1st PRESS UNPLAYED/MINT, 2 BEAUTIFUL RECORDS, TOP LOADER GATEFOLD
1969: VELVET UNDERGROUND LIVE WITH LOU REED

ORIGINAL UK MERCURY (6641 900) FIRST PRESSING (February 1979) OF THE FINEST LIVE DOCUMENT OF THE VELVET UNDERGROUND THERE IS, "1969" (released in Europe in 1974 (and the labels carry that date) but not released in the UK until some five years later)
COMPLIED BY MERCURY FROM TWO RECORDING: October 1969, Dallas, Texas and November 1969, San Francisco, California THIS IS A WONDERFUL TWO LP SET AND IT'S IN BEAUTIFUL, POSSIBLY COMPLETELY UNPLAYED CONDITION - THE LABELS SHOW NO SIGNS OF USE AND THE SLEEVE IS CRISP, SHARP AND FRESH - FANTASTIC COPY - AS GOOD AS IT GETS

PRESSED ON TWO QUALITY MID-WEIGHT RECORDS (individually numbered 9198 029/ 9198 030) WHICH HAVE THE FIRST ISSUE BLUE/SILVER MERCURY LABELS WITH 'MADE IN ENGLAND" TEXT
FIRST UK PRESSING MATRIX NUMBERS:
Side 1: 9198029 1Y//1 ∇ E420
Side 2: 9198029 2Y//1 ∇ E420
Side 3: 9198030 1Y//1 ∇ E420
Side 4: 9198030 2Y//1 ∇ E420
THE RECORDS ARE HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL TOP LOADING MATT GATEFOLD SLEEVE COMPLETE WITH THE TWO ORIGINAL POLYDOR POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVES

Sadly, outside of a handful of audience tapes of extremely variable quality, no one thought to make a live recording of The Velvet Underground during their 1967-68 peak.
However, in 1969 a VU fan (who was a recording engineer) brought a reel-to-reel tape machine to the shows the band played during an engagement at The End of Cole Avenue in Dallas and the next month, the band played The Matrix in San Francisco, where a tape machine had been installed into the hall's sound system, and the band was allowed to record their set.
Five years later, long after The Velvet Underground had collapsed and Lou Reed's solo career was on the rise, Mercury Records compiled highlights of the Dallas and San Francisco tapes into a two-record set, 1969: Velvet Underground Live, and it is without question the best (legally-released) document of this band's considerable strengths as a live act.
While they were a somewhat more sedate band with Doug Yule on bass rather than Cale, they still had plenty of life left in them at this stage of the game; there are few voyages into the sonic unknown here, but Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison had matured into one of rock's most potent guitar combinations, Maureen Tucker was as distinctive a drummer as even picked up a pair of mallets, and with Doug Yule at her side they comprised a truly superb rhythm section.
Sounding tight, confident, and passionate on every cut, this set finds the band visiting highlights from all four of their studio albums, as well as a handful of previously unreleased numbers.
From the delicacy of "New Age" and "I'll Be Your Mirror" to the rave-up energy of "What Goes On" and "White Light/White Heat," 1969: Velvet Underground Live captures the many sides of their musical personality with commendable skill and is the best live document of the legendary band whose remaining influence cannot be over-stated

Track Listing:
Side 1: Waiting For My Man (7:00) / Lisa Says (5:46) / What Goes On (8:47) / Sweet Jane (3:58)
Side 2: We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (3:12) / Femme Fatale (3:01) / New Age (6:31) / Rock And Roll (6:00) / Beginning To See The Light (5:26)
Side 3: Ocean (10:46) / Pale Blue Eyes (5:50) / Heroin (9:42)
Side 4: Some Kinda Love (4:44) / Over You (2:15) / Sweet Bonnie Brown - It's Just Too Much (7:50) / White Light/White Heat (8:32) / I'll Be Your Mirror (2:17)

LABELS: The labels are like-new - clean, bright and unmarked with no evident spindle traces or signs of use - this copy is, in my opinion, completely unplayed - MINT
VINYL Visual: Both records retain their original deep, glossy sheen and appear as-new (to be very picky there is a tiny spot on Side Three (but I do mean very tiny and it has absolutely no audio consequence) - MINT(-)
VINYL Audio: Flawless playback from start to finish with no imperfections to report. Fantastic atmospheric recordings of great quality - MINT
SLEEVE: The original top-loading matt gatefold is sharp, crisp, clean and fresh with just the slightest signs of storage rubbing to the surfaces (very, very minor) otherwise, like-new with no edge wear and all spine text clear and bold - NEAR MINT

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FANTASTIC UK FIRST PRESSING OF THE VELVETS' '1969' - THE FINEST LIVE DOCUMENT WE HAVE OF THE BAND AND VERY, VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED INDEED
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