The Velvet Underground: Live at Max's Kansas City (Deluxe Edition) [disc 1] CD Track Listing
The Velvet Underground
Live at Max's Kansas City (Deluxe Edition) [disc 1] (1972)
2004 Rhino/Atlantic Recording Corporation\n\nOriginally Released1972\nCD Edition Released April 1989\nRemastered 2CD Edition Released August3, 2004\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: (Remastered 2CD Edition) The original 1972 release of Live at Max's Kansas Citwas a single LP, cobbled together from recordings that fabled Velvet Underground fan Brigid Polk madeon her personal tape recorder on the night of August 23, 1970, when VU played two sets at the legendary New York club Max's Kansas City. It's longbeen debated whether this is actually the final date Lou Reed played with the Velvets, but there's little question that this capturesthe band in its final days, when Reed's interest in the band was declining and when a pregnant Maureen Tucker was ohiatus and replaced by DougYule's teenage brother Billy. The change in drummers is significantsince Billy is a straight-ahead rock & roll drummer, far moreaccomplished than Tucker, and gives the band forward momentum atthe expense oftheir long-stnding mystique. It's a different, inferior band than theclassic lineup of the Velvet Underground --who are documented well onthe excellent double-volume set 1969:Velvet Underground Live and the2001 box Bootleg Series, Vol. 1 -- but they're stillery good, and Liveat Max's Kansas City is both enjoyable as music and a historical document of a great bandat the end of the road. In other words, it's one for the fans, and it's even more so given the decidedly lo-fi, bootleg-quality of the tapes,which are, after all, amateur audience tapes, right down to prominent audience chatter between and sometimes during thesongs (that it's poet/rocker Jim Carroll who's the most prominent voice makes it somewhat more interesting). If the original LPisue was onefor the fans, Rhino's 2004 expanded double-CD reissue of the album iseven more so since it contains more or less the entirety of the two sets, including six previously unreleased tracks, all of which are of asimilar musical standard tohat constituted the original album. Some of these clearly remained in the vault because of problems with the recordings -- set two opener "Who Loves the Sun" begins mid-song, while "Candy Says" has a fascinating conversation between two audience memersabout seeingPatton recently -- while others, such as a surging "WhiteLight/White Heat," could have made the finished LP if there had beenspace. The CD gives the compilers room to roam with the entire set,andwhile this expanded set offers no rvelations -- and the fidelity, while improved, is still bootleg-quality -- it still has the advantage ofoffering the entirety of a historical recording instead of the highlights, which ultimately does make it an improvement over the original,evenf the music is still only of interest for fanatics. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW (1 CD Edition) There's a certain amount of disagreement among Velvet Underground scholars regarding whetheror not this album, recorded by Andy Warholassociate and longtime fanBrigid Polk on a portable cassette recorder on August 23, 1970, does in fact document Lou Reed's final appearance with the VU. If this wasn't his last stand with the group, it was certainly close to the end ofthe line, anwhile the performance is technically strong, it isn'tespecially inspired, with Reed sounding more than a bit weary. (At this point, the band was near the end of a three month residency at Max's, doing recording sessions for Loaded during the day, aschedule that wouldtax most performers.) The absence of Maureen Tucker on drums (who waspregnant and sitting out the Max's shows) makes an even bigger difference; the replacement of her steady, tribal pulse in favor of Billy Yule's busy, sometimessloppy style does these songs no favors. But thereare a few lovely moments, including rare live performances of "After Hours" and "SundayMorning," and Reed and Sterling Morrison lock guitarswith theirusual authority on "Waiting for the Man" and "Bginning to See the Light." The audio quality isn't great, but given the circumstances it's better than you might expe
This misc cd contains 7 tracks and runs 41min 8sec.
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- The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting for the Man (05:50)
- The Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat (06:07)
- The Velvet Underground - I'm Set Free (05:33)
- The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane [version 1] (06:18)
- The Velvet Underground - Lonesome Cowboy Bill [version 1] (04:41)
- The Velvet Underground - New Age (06:44)
- The Velvet Underground - Beginning to See the Light (05:49)
