40 minutes of "Sister Ray". 3 fat spliffs. Time well spent. I'm investing in my FUTURE, dammit.

You can never have too many versions of Sister Ray.

@mavjimbo

2 жыл бұрын

Each one a different experience

@Ronin777z

Жыл бұрын

@@mavjimbo That’s what I love about the VU. Every performance of each song is different

@loureed3015

Жыл бұрын

Love it,joy division lets go,its just like sister ray says,,,,one loaf,people get bready,f33d jah world,

@loureed3015

Жыл бұрын

Fukin romans

@Oldtanktapper

8 ай бұрын

Had a friend years ago who was a VU collector, he had some weird bootleg 12” vinyl which was just a collection of versions of Sister Ray.

time stamps of the various sections of this performance for academic purposes and because I'm autistic. I'm no music expert and this is by no means 100% accurate. After around 19:28 it becomes difficult to split this into clean sections but I did my best. If there are corrections to be made, let me know 0:00 - intro, first and second verse 4:15 - solo by Sterling Morrison 6:00 - Moe Tucker switches to double time 8:01 - interlude 10:29 - solo by Lou Reed 19:28 - interlude, third verse 23:50 - instrumental picks up in intensity 26:52 - organ riff, solo by Sterling Morrison 29:37 - Lou Reed joins in 33:14 - outro, fourth verse

@thecasualfront7432

3 жыл бұрын

Cool bro

@christophersybil8109

3 жыл бұрын

A true sweetheart

@jackstraw6760

3 жыл бұрын

Dam dude, Deadheads don't even breakdown a lengthy Dark Star like you did. Nice job.

@rudorky

3 жыл бұрын

thanks!

@danw1086

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

you can easily just put this on in your kitchen while you make food and feel slinky and in the groove the whole time. You'll be done eating and then you can do dishes, all while feeling badass. Great atmospheric rendition of this great song.

@chetcskes329

8 жыл бұрын

hey !...great idea, I'm on it man !

@versioncity1

8 жыл бұрын

+Tom Lute thanks for handy hint of the day. how to feel groovy in suburbia

@steveanderson7864

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Lute I am refinishing chairs and a table right now grooving.

@juancarlosariasrubio7627

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Lute 1sdñgc v8i

@romandogbird

5 жыл бұрын

This was my breakfast, hearing this version for the very first time. thought about how fucking great it felt all day. read your comment and somehow I just know this isn't going to be a one-time thing.

When you talk about the Velvet underground on this form,They were beyond brilliant. Greatest band in history for me.

@MathijnvanderHeijden

2 жыл бұрын

they are the essence of what making music with others in the moment as one, there are just very few bands that i know off that just do it right (its hard to explain im no musician) i just love how things just evolve flow on with their interactions. I think they will always be special just looking at how it came to be and when that was where it was, and idk but its hard for me to imagine even that some1 so young wrote such 'wonderful' things during that era. I think this is probably one of the really few truelly timeless bands at least the first 3 albums where if u ask me. If it where released today it would still work, and always will most likely.

@jasonwade6945

2 жыл бұрын

They definitely opened my eyes and spirit. They always put me in check when I disagree with the Holy Spirit

@jekylwhispy

Жыл бұрын

Queen is a better band

@Ryguzapi

Жыл бұрын

@@jekylwhispy 💀

@cedricmorelle4354

Жыл бұрын

Yes incroyable !!

Feast your ears upon the transition at 3:45 onward and tell me thats not rock and roll in it's purest, most raw form. orgasmic

Lou Reed: (said of the lyrics) "'Sister Ray' was done as a joke-no, not as a joke-but it has eight characters in it and this guy gets killed and nobody does anything. It was built around this story that I wrote about this scene of total debauchery and decay. I like to think of ‘Sister Ray' as a transvestite smack dealer. The situation is a bunch of drag queens taking some sailors home with them, shooting up on smack and having this orgy when the police appear." fucking love lou reed.

@gregperez-greene7408

8 жыл бұрын

I couldn't relate more to this comment if I wanted to

@cirquedude123

7 жыл бұрын

So I never thought about it until you said that, but it is a musical comedy! You're absolutely right! Lol

@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631

4 жыл бұрын

VC1 sounds tame.

@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631

4 жыл бұрын

Greg Perez-Greene the story behind the song sound tame. U could see the influence of Burroughs and genet.

@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631

4 жыл бұрын

Jacob Hutton sounds tame

19:57 Tucker hits the drums VERY hard after the lyrics talk about the guy getting shot, scared the crap out of me lmao

@mitchellcobb4826

2 ай бұрын

Lol he constantly shoots a bag

@mavjimbo

Ай бұрын

That's hilarious

This performance of Sister Ray sounds like it was written for The 1969 Velvet Underground Record, really cool to hear my favorite Noise Rock song in a softer style.

@lamestudiosinc418

3 жыл бұрын

I kinda see where you're coming from but I don't think they would've put a 40 minute noise rock banger on that one 😂

@jimmybuckets5863

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it has a similar vibe to “Some Kinda Love”

one of the best grooves i've ever heard

@gothic666-punk5

5 жыл бұрын

yes, really very groovy :-D greetings :-)

@nmax696

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder what the Dollar was for? Seems important.

A total masterpiece of Rock and Roll...!!! Avantgarde, atemporal.

Love it.. I can smell the 60's punky stuffs

15 mins in, I've came 6 times already

If this is all the music that there ever was.... I could still be happy.

I put this on when I am really struggling to do some complex tasks at work, it really helps.

@darthjesus420

5 жыл бұрын

MemoFromEssex I had it on at work today and I really did groove with it. Def relatable

@almishti

10 ай бұрын

easily as helpful as listening to Bach innit. :)

I am fucking speechless. The art of music is absolutely present is this piece of complexity.

@deweypug

7 жыл бұрын

Indeed! Surreal, sublime and sonically sumptuous!!

@kathyfrancis9229

Жыл бұрын

I just discovered this. I love it. Brilliant.

Second to none ❤️. Eternally underrated

@JJONNYREPP

Жыл бұрын

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A brilliant, brilliant version. LIke a stage play, a dramatization, and inspired musically.

I always thought that this is one of the best songs around, especially the crescendo in the beginning - gives me chills every time. I listen to at least one version of this song every day. Each version is different than the rest as equally as wicked.

@buena1968

Жыл бұрын

Me too, though more weekly than daily, though that would be hardly a hardship... Classic and somewhat genius song.

@naranjojo

Жыл бұрын

Once a day, like a vitamin.

You know, the Grateful Dead and the Velvet Underground both started with the name "the Warlocks " and I can't help but think with songs like this that they are the same band in alternate universe. Difference between NYC and SF, speed/ heroin and lsd, Andry Warhol and Owsley Stanley.

@thepostapocalyptictrio4762

4 ай бұрын

In some ways the same. Long jams, substantial changes from the album version.

@dianepeel7154

2 ай бұрын

there was lota of speed and heroin in SF. Don't believe Media myths about flower children. SF had hard drugs which is what ruined the scene. The Hells Angels dealt speed and the Blacks in the Fillmore District (SF) and Oakland dealt heroin (like Blacks in Harlem). The Angels also dealt acid in Haight-Ashbury and elsewhere. SF had a dark, seedy urban side which is always ignored by the Media and eclipsed by the Hippie scene.

@krismichael1633

Күн бұрын

@@dianepeel7154 Manson put the flower child myth to sleep along time ago.

All great songs may go on for half an hour or more! Splendid!

The idea of animating a Velvets concert is brilliant. With or footage of an entire actual performance, and considering the power of CG, an animated performance is an intriguing concept.

I'm so high right now listening to this gem 💫

Ace clarity on this live masterwork from this the hardest of bands.

@steveanderson7864

6 жыл бұрын

This comments fucking kicks ass.

the velvets at their most crazed, two thumbs up for the upload!

I love the album version but this gives it a run for its money.

Mo is primal on this. Stunning.

Divine little jewel, pure masterpiece.............................................................

Class tune. Not heard this song for ages. I almost forgot how good it was.

This should have been on the Voyager Golden Disc...

@boris3877

5 жыл бұрын

Bach and sister Ray, that's humanity.

@hippojuice23

3 жыл бұрын

And you can see 2 aliens looking at the eachother like "what the fuck?"

@numsiskit

3 жыл бұрын

How about "Last Great American Whale", just to get human saltiness and cynicism across?

hands off the Velvet Underground, VEVO!

This is the most Can-ish VU recording I've ever heard.

@goclbert

7 жыл бұрын

stripedhyenuh CAN listened to plenty of VU.

@startervisions

7 жыл бұрын

really? dope

@romandogbird

5 жыл бұрын

Faust had surely eaten many a tab to the original SR when they wrote Rainy Day Sunshine Girl, this version just makes it more obvious how VU-informed much of the rockier Kraut acts actually were.

@giomakyo

5 жыл бұрын

Neu...

@user-uo6ev5zr1k

4 жыл бұрын

I agree

This is beautiful as the chance meeting of a dessert spoon impregnated with chocolate and a plastic bottle without a protective cap, on the edge of a devastated heath covered with weeds following a succession of bad weather caused by a depression coming from northern Europa 👏

This here is some killer late night cursing/road trip music not only this particular song but the whole VU: Matrix Live (1969) album. One of my favorites. RIP Lou

The Matrix Tapes is one of ~ if not the best ever live box sets ever released...

made of gold.

Only true punks can improv for 40 minutes just to piss off the band that played over their set time the previous night. If I remember correctly, Grateful dead went over their allotted time and VU played over theirs the next night to screw over Dead. Thus giving birth to them playing sister ray for 40 minutes multiple shows.

@altdelet3778

3 жыл бұрын

What a cool story

@lucasherzog5358

3 жыл бұрын

VU proving they were the superior Warlocks

@jackstraw6760

3 жыл бұрын

That's a great story. I never knew the VU and the Grateful Dead ever shared the same stage. The Grateful Dead was a true punk band masquerading around as a psychedelic country blue grass blues rock band. Sounds like the Dead taught Lou and VU how to jam. This is amazing. Dead Heads cross over bridges just to hear what's on the other side. From VU to Iggy to The Cure to Dr. John to Patti Smith to Emmy Lou Harris to the Talking Heads to Bob Marley.... we just love good music and this is good music.

@jackstraw6760

3 жыл бұрын

@@lucasherzog5358 Or The Good Ole Grateful Dead teaching VU how to chill and get along. I'll bet whatever Garcia and the boys did that night wasn't planned or on purpose to hurt VU.

@Juuhazan_

3 жыл бұрын

What a power move

Sister Ray's just one of those tracks where every performance deserves to be different. That's what I think's so great about it, it's so simple so you have the opportunity to have more fun with it! Lou Reed always did this in his live performance career, and this is just like the template for that; here's the song, if you can play the chords that's great. What else you got?

How can this be SO much better than anything else the velvets did!?!? Don't get me wrong; I love the velvets all the way, but this is something entirely different

only the velvets could make a song 36 mins long.So many versions, all bloody good. Got into them through bowie (bless him) in 71, couldn't get stuff like this then. KZread has done a good job.

According to Lou Reed quoted in Mojo article called "overloaded"... There was a real Sister Ray. "This black Queen," Reed says, "John and I were uptown, and up comes this person, very nice - but flaming." Reed wrote the words, a set of incidents and character studies, on a train ride from Conneticut after a bad Velvets show there. "It was a propos of nothing: 'duck and sally inside' - it was Selby, uptown. And the music was just a jam we had been working on" The provisional title was SEARCHING. Selby was an NY novelist /poet.

@dugitomi

7 жыл бұрын

Hubert Selby, Last Exit to Brooklyn, is one of the best books i've ever read. why isn't he recognized as one of the greatest writers in the english language of 20th century? it had as profound an impact on me as did Naked Lunch and Clockwork Orange, by Burroughts and Burgess, respectively.

@nbcouch

6 жыл бұрын

I've heard that the character "Sister Ray" was supposed to be Ray Davies - ?

@brotzmannsax

5 жыл бұрын

@@nbcouch Ray and Dave are both female to male trans like most of the British Invasion, and the song Two Sisters he wrote about them.

@nbcouch

5 жыл бұрын

@@brotzmannsax oh, dear....

@brotzmannsax

5 жыл бұрын

@@nbcouch I know it's a real mindblower, but if you look at the transvestigations on here you will see it's been around for centuries. All the decades we watched all those movies and great music and were totally deceived by male to female and female to male characters. Unfortunately, upon deep research it looks like we were duped by the Who, Beatles, Stones, Kinks, etc. and those who were knighted or Sir standout the most, including Billy Shepherd who has stood in for Paul all this time.

This is awesome!!! A buddy introduced me to Lou Reed when I was a teen. I've been listening ever since. It has always been fun. 🍌.

Someone could earn a PhD examining the riffs in this song.

@billbailey695

4 жыл бұрын

I did. Spent it on records.

@robertmiller532

2 жыл бұрын

@@billbailey695 Now show us your work

Mo Tucker is my religion

don't know how i found this at a quarter to midnight......but I'm dry fucking my furniture its that bad-ass!

@startervisions

7 жыл бұрын

hahahahaha

I thought I had listened to everything from teh VU's.... WOW

Around 8:34, after the fast jam, one could almost imagine the Doors playing for a bit...

This is perfection

Great music will always resurface

Not long enough.

just from the opening groove on sister ray, I can tell this is a great show.

マトリックスほんといいですヨ✨

Amazing!

thank you.. ineeded this

Mesmerizing.

Banda maravilhosa!!!😍😍😍

yes! such a good find.

This is just fantastic.

@JJONNYREPP

Жыл бұрын

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wow. amazing

jesus fuck this is a jam like I am not sure I've heard before. VU never ceases to amaze!

This is f*king amazing!!! Gwon Lou!

people don't seem to be aware that lou was a masterful guitar player

@markcarey67

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but a good lot of that at this point was Sterling

@renaudgarel1494

2 жыл бұрын

No! Jeff Beck or Jimi Hendrix are!!!

@je7647

2 жыл бұрын

@@renaudgarel1494 john fahey is a better player than them both, just because I said lou reed was masterful, iT doesn't warrant a comparison

@bluegreenface1193

2 жыл бұрын

yes very underrated, he paved the way for so many players but still sound original

@renaudgarel1494

2 жыл бұрын

@@bluegreenface1193 who are thèses players ?

Absolutely brilliant! :-)

This version of “Ray” is absolutely mesmerizing-love it!!

This is pure gold. And now we have Endless Boogie for those who care bout heavy and long jams

Freak out, again hahaha thank you Velvet.....

Perfection.

Perfect for when yer in airport waiting...

This recording and version of sister Ray is just an amazing ride from beginning to end.

Holy shit, this is just incredible

I am the man from The Bad Guitarist and I mean terrible podcast on Spotify and other platforms ! This inspires me I came up with something I use a mediation stone as a pick that comes up with a different sound on a guitar missing a string, this is inspiring to come up with a different sound even more and play the whole podcast just to do it ! I love VU, The Doors movie made me want to research them ! It is true if you listen to them you will attempt music big time !

best workout song ever

❤ Le Velvet « Éternel « à jamais !! Pure musique,absolue et tout bonnement géniale,magnifique et magique 🤩🙏🫶 LOVE

Such talented players:)

Awesome..

Pure top notch

@JJONNYREPP

Жыл бұрын

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Sister Ray really done it all and knew what would happen.

The part around 8:00 where it drops right down to the drums is my favorite

en vivo desde la matriz, genial !

du ba carnal. A huevo. Qué chingón pa'!

All day

Sublime

that's rock'n roll baby !!!!!!

this song at 1.25 speed is a whole different beast. It kills the bass a little but the drive of the song is insane. Sounds so much wilder and groovier.

I feel like I've been reborn.

It doesn't get much better

Wow!

It’s just fucking gorgeous

...lol...Thursday to Saturday ...my type of gig. Easing in the comedown Sunday.

thanks whoever

When ratio & proportion matters, The Velvet Underground wields & weld the nth power.

this is better than the album version - how is that even possible? and without Cale

All the músic of velvet & lou is the soundtrack of mi life .. my english is a shit, but understand . I from canary , never study english

Nice 😎

Hell Yes!!

Freak out, thanks

go go go yea man on on yes

Great fuzzz

great

10:30 sh*t gets real, VU!