I know the drumming is really simple, but I've got to give props to Moe Tucker for staying as solid as a rock for all eight and half minutes. There's something almost zen the way she just keeps the driving backbeat on time without indulging in a single fill. It keeps the song grounded, despite all the methed-out chaos around her.

@mavjimbo

2 жыл бұрын

Less is better

@leeroberts8114

2 жыл бұрын

She must have been the only straight one here, the others sound twisted!

@stefanofocacci

2 жыл бұрын

Maureen Tucker was a human metronome.

@ashleymonday298

2 жыл бұрын

She did it for 17 minutes on Sister Ray!

@Deepnecrology

2 жыл бұрын

No motorik without Moe Tucker

The coolest group that ever was or ever can be.

@saturatedneowax

3 жыл бұрын

@King of The moon careful now, paul is going to piss his pants again

@blackrebelradio9879

3 жыл бұрын

Do more drugsm

@carmenopramolla5262

2 жыл бұрын

@kinG oF tHe mOon Beethoven had multiple personalities????

@eddietasker9110

2 жыл бұрын

The absolute best of all time

@BigManRecords22

2 жыл бұрын

What about the band fucked raw?

I just love how unenthusiastic that first 'white light' is.

@humanoid9787

7 жыл бұрын

I live for the unenthusiastic "whaite heead"

@alifakhreddine998

6 жыл бұрын

Hes spun as fuck

@thomasdecelles3207

6 жыл бұрын

Tom's Box

@Tenskwatawa4U

6 жыл бұрын

It LOOKS unenthusiastic. It does NOT sound that way at all. In fact, this one cooks mighty good.

@Tenskwatawa4U

5 жыл бұрын

It's blasé, not unenthusiastic! ;)

It was my privilege and honor to actually tell Lou Reed, in 1984, that he was Beethoven. He just laughed.

@paulsavage5057

4 жыл бұрын

If you mashed up "White Light/White Heat" or "Sister Ray" with Beethoven's fifth symphony and played it at a German cafe, it might piss off a lot of Germans and make them leave. They should get over Beethoven some time. He probably didn't write all of those symphonies by himself. Nothing in Art is original. Beethoven maybe was a con artist like Don Trump. He's got the golden touch but he's King Midas in Reverse and all he touches turns to dust in his hands. He is the Master of Disaster and a American Napoleon in Rags driving his boot through the face of the Statue of Liberty. (He probably wants to buy this gift from France, too and give it to his wife so he can get into her pants one more time.)

@paulkass1052

4 жыл бұрын

Peick

@altdelet3778

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulsavage5057 The Germans love VU, a lot of Kraut Rock groups started because of Lou

@paulsavage5057

3 жыл бұрын

@@altdelet3778 That's too bad because Lou Reed was Jewish and it is not his real name.

@altdelet3778

3 жыл бұрын

Paul Savage Who cares

The basslines of this thing are just INSANEEEEE

@louisvint1107

9 ай бұрын

John Cale was an amazing musician

The fact she can beat the drums that long is impressive

@fauberkaupfmann982

5 жыл бұрын

Meth. Ever heard of it?

@pommelhorsepommelhorse8731

4 жыл бұрын

@@fauberkaupfmann982 meth? moe? never. beer

@dylanwesley3964

3 жыл бұрын

It's not that difficult of a beat. Just a straight 4/4 with no fills really

@dylanwesley3964

3 жыл бұрын

I mean look at her, she is just chilling lol

@bulletbelt97

2 жыл бұрын

she was the heartbeat of the band

from this spawned every indie band for the next 40 years

@e.7397

7 жыл бұрын

You're obviously not familiar with time.

@ze2180

6 жыл бұрын

we wish.. it would be awesome but indie bands are full of pheromones

@chrisnunya7419

5 жыл бұрын

*50 years

@paulsavage5057

5 жыл бұрын

What's an indie band? Is that like a concept that you buy from SubPop? Independent labels always sell out because it's part of the process of becoming part of the music industry.

@Johnconno

5 жыл бұрын

No. It didn't.

I used to sit in my friends garage when I was 17 and smoke bucket bongs out of all old paint bucket and 2 litre bottle of orange. We'd be fucking baked and getting wrecked listening to this and Canned Heat. Fucking good times.

@2011LittleWing

3 жыл бұрын

Yes...

@primalscream8000

3 жыл бұрын

My friend and I started a band when we were 16 and played this and sister ray countless times

@garyhenderson1717

2 жыл бұрын

Yes LSD to

@garyhenderson1717

2 жыл бұрын

Mr Henderson this is real rock not that new shit

@henrydemonfreid1985

2 жыл бұрын

we must have been in practically the same garage! bucket bongs - really remind me of the glory days

Lou was such an original guitarist. I don’t understand why he didn’t make more stuff like this on his solo career.

@davidfilipelli7207

3 жыл бұрын

I love the way he and Sterling play off each other. I think that chemistry had something to do with it.

@Raitor33

3 жыл бұрын

​@@davidfilipelli7207 Totally. Sterling is so underrated...

@chrisv7004

3 жыл бұрын

All of them together brought out this sound. They didnt have it alone

@mavjimbo

2 жыл бұрын

Different band,different sound

@Just2532yd

2 жыл бұрын

Lou was more into rock n roll and that’s what he decided to do in his solo career. VU and Lou’s solo albums are different but equally great

The 1960s still ahead our times ...

@davewyatt1468

5 жыл бұрын

Hank Funk Punk it was a GREAT era 100% but to say it’s ahead of the now times..... not so sure, there is music so intensely innovative now days but you have to search for it, the radio\ media will not play any of it

@ga1969ga

4 жыл бұрын

Nothing interesting since 2000

@verticalfish

3 жыл бұрын

abo-abo You’re listening to the wrong music. If you’re not into the modern pop, why not try exploring the indie scene? There’s a ton of psychedelic bands out there too if you want complexity.

@ga1969ga

3 жыл бұрын

@@verticalfish They all just repeat things created by someone. Anyway, if you are 50+ you have enough psychedelic stuff in your life.

This version of this song is my fav song of all time ever! I really mean that.

best guitar solo ever.

@klausrain111

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it is! He enters another dimension.

This epitomizes New York late 60s cool..... I like the warehouse party vibe of this live version.

Lou Reed taking us here to guitar heaven...

Sterling and Lou. The real dynamic duo of Rock and Roll Guitar. Props to Maureen and Doug for holding the beat and backing them up. Overall best version ever!

I prefer this version. It's a slight difference, but it's so significant.

If Syd Barett could have been in the Velvet Underground that would have been super lit! This reminds me so much of Syds guitar playing

@lawrencefeldman7744

4 жыл бұрын

Listen to Kevin Ayers "Singing A Song In The Morning" and it's outtake "Religious Experience". Syd guests on some decidedly Velvetsy guitar runs for real!

@lawrencefeldman7744

4 жыл бұрын

You can bet by late 67 Barrett heard Velvets. He certainly heard Love. Bowie heard Velvets by then as the Riot Squad covered Venus in their lyrics. And played Waiting For The Man.

@alexanderwilliams3955

4 жыл бұрын

Both Bowie and Mk1 Floyd had heard and been influenced by the VU

@liveapk2535

4 жыл бұрын

@@lawrencefeldman7744 I doubt cause Syd's been playing like that before 67 which can be heard in Interstellar Overdrive's take from 'London 66-67' which I think was recorded in Jan 67.

@Tedthomson98

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine if LSD had been Lou Reed's preferered drug over Heroin? We would have had a much more psychedelic Velvet Underground...

Never heard this version - brilliant. The best music there was back when I was 21 - and still is.

@MrFluffstuff420

9 жыл бұрын

I'm 22 now and this is brilliant love it.

@roncalabro

7 жыл бұрын

David Jones you were born in 1948?were you in the Nam?

@DrLongSchIong

8 ай бұрын

24 now. Been obsessed with this band for the better part of a decade

@davidjones5165

8 ай бұрын

Now 75 y.o. and still listening... mainly on headphones when on my bike trainer if TOO wet for my daily 15-20 miles cycle ride!

I prefer this version of WL/WH over the studio track. Blows it out of the water!!

Mo Tucker doesn't get the credit she deserves.

@duraosunda

5 жыл бұрын

And what credit is that? Let us know.

@written12

5 жыл бұрын

Well, she was the Velvet’s Ringo. (though Ringo was a much better drummer) I mean, like Ringo, she played just what the Velvet songs required. She was a time keeper and made enough noise and added atmospherics when needed(check out her playing on Heroin or Ocean). A drummer addicted to playing fills galore would have wrecked VU ‘s songs.

@marienbad2

5 жыл бұрын

@@duraosunda: if you have to ask, you will never understand

@nicolasserres-cousine9852

5 жыл бұрын

@@duraosunda honestly, your question is borderline offensive my friend

@rickg8015

4 жыл бұрын

thenoosehangsfromheaven S U P P O S E D L Y Well Said.. I’m a fan of those drummers like Elvin Jones, but then there’a people like Olatunji (major influence on Moe) that matters too.

Reed's solo on this may be my favorite guitar solo of all time.

I recall, very well when I first heard this album or record. It was a seemingly beginning wretched period in 60's music accompanied by some disintegration, the Beatles ended; Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison died. Whether they aimed for that or not the Velvet Underground eschewed it, my favorite track is Sister Ray.

@RICSIKE06091976

3 жыл бұрын

Mine too. My favorite track ever.

what a bass line

Absolutely love this live version, it's the pinnacle of this turning point of possibilities of rock music at least for 1968, and the fact that this bands popularity is like what an indie band is today, it's like obviously based in blues but then the improvisational experimental jam is so ahead of its time

@GoatDust

6 жыл бұрын

hippiecheezburger Jfc ur everywhere

@stevewright9482

5 жыл бұрын

69 dude..

@rickg8015

4 жыл бұрын

hippiecheezburger blues based improv? Maybe Cream.. but not really VU.. I dig both bands, but VU is more part Bo Diddley, and part Drone Avantegarde La Monte Young, and part Albert Ayler free jazz..

@paulsavage5057

4 жыл бұрын

It's because these idiots didn't know how to play anything else and they didn't care because they wanted to spit on the flower power generation and give the finger to their generation and previous ones as well. But this music could only be made in New York where the beats surfaced and brought music to poetry while the rest of the country slept and then screamed in terror when the President got shot on live television instantaneously creating a paranoid American culture and thereby sowing its seeds of destruction. Innocent Americans were shipped abroad as young heroes and soldiers just to keep the industrial complex military machine going to fight a useless war which only proved that absolute power corrupts absolutely and that even the American president sometimes has to stand naked before his friends and family and the Americans who love him. Kennedy was too good to be true and he stepped on the Rockefeller's and Henry Ford's toes which just shows that you can't trust power when it comes from the barrel of a gun and the inmates are controlling the mental hospital and telling doctors in Washington D.C. what to do. They never understood that there isn't no glory in fighting a war that will never end until the treasury runs out of money and the president's son is killed fighting for glory in a foreign land. It's hard to realize that your leaders and country lead you astray just to kill their sons while the fat cats and Boston aristocrats get rich off of young people's blood that flowed in the street in '68 while you sat in your easy chair that you worked all your life for and wept tears of hatred. All the rich folks and mid-Westerners voted in, clapped and then tipped their hats to a criminal loser who loved kissing babies but valued his freedom over their own and couldn't share his wealth or power with anyone who wasn't white. But he bought his way to freedom by paying off the right Washington men and by '76 all was forgiven and America was ready to start again because you can't put a President in prison because he is above the law and has too much power and too many friends. Can you?

@paulsavage5057

4 жыл бұрын

@Hash Lee Nice comeback. I was really stoned when I wrote that a month ago. Lou Reed was against the West Coast's hippie ethos and he felt betrayed by them, so he wanted to capture the urban chaos of a living in a huge metropolis like New York City. He achieved this through using minimalism in the music of VU, whereby the their music emphasized repetition, fewer chord changes, and less extravagance compared to their musical counterparts on the West Coast whose music critics constantly ridiculed and showed less empathy towards the Velvets than they did for their homegrown music scene. Musicians like Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead had almost God like status in the Bay Area and the Jefferson Airplane was another 1960s phenomenon who were given mostly positive reviews by the San Franscisco and L.A. music critics unlike the Velvet Underground probably because no body understood or liked their first two albums on the West Coast and elsewhere in the U.S.A. except for New York and college towns like Boston.

kings of drug rock

Strange how cool and vibrant all the live versions are to the offical album version.

Thanks. Amazing. Been a fan since I was 12 years old in 1970. What an Awesome souvenir from days gone by. What can I say? There's Mo Tucker killing it in drums, Lou Reed doing some amazing guitar. Andy Warhol and Nico mixed in for good measure. Thanks, again. This totally blows Me away.

@andrewdavies4955

3 жыл бұрын

100% correct...

@michaelstevenson470

8 ай бұрын

This was recorded in '69; Andy and Nico were long gone. The film footage is basically decorative.

you can hear the ACID in this song. this is the true definition of ACID ROCK. I was just playing this song today and I will continue to listen to this song in the year 2066.... I'll be 100 years old!!!!!

Greatest band of all time.

Why can't music be like this today...

@AP86777

4 жыл бұрын

So true and so sad.

@zackzallie8735

3 жыл бұрын

Stop fuckin' complain and don't look at the charts. Start fuckin' discover new bands instead of whining .

@macksea1158

2 жыл бұрын

Doesn’t every Alternative Rock band sound just like this? I mean i never heard many other 60’s bands really play this kind of music too much. Maybe you should actually listen to music man.

@mavjimbo

2 жыл бұрын

The creativity is just not there

@anahitaazadeh3449

Жыл бұрын

Try death grips

a masterpiece ahead of its time....

Perhaps the greatest live band ever ......

You know, there's a lot of great musical artists going into the white light lately. Thanks for all the White Light David, Lemmy, Buffin, Glenn, Paul, Dan, Martin, Keith, and Prince. And to Lou and all, gratitude. This is a cool song!

@scottdavis7050

5 жыл бұрын

True..but the white light and white heat he is referring to is the heat you blow out after injecting crystal methedrine aka crystal meth..but yeah it means whatever you want it to mean though you know it is music to do your own thing to..

never heard a jamming version of this love it

Love the velvet underground. ...💋

the most timeless of his era ... i love you, lou reed, i always did

I absolutely love it! Very crisp sound for a live Velvet recording from back then, Lou sings most of the lyrics, unlike in most other live versions! I really enjoyed it, thanks a lot!

@rockitMiC

6 жыл бұрын

You know there has been crisp recordings since the German invented HI-FI in the forties! It took only someone with ears and feeling to record great music: the machines were here.

In fact, this song is meant to describe the feeling of injecting speed.

@hugosophy

Жыл бұрын

Not speed but heroin. The speed they did back then was in pill form.

I love Maureen play, so simple, precise, hard!

This is SO COOL! An awesome piece of audio & visual together with a hard-core chunk of psychedelia in the middle. I LOVE IT - Thanks for sharing.

Never bored of them !!!!!

3:22 Lou seamlessly changes his tuning in the middle of a solo. I could only dream of being that good of a guitar player...

@eddietasker9110

2 жыл бұрын

It's actually really easy what he did, he's just matching the high e to the b string ( they didn't use standard, but for ease sake we'll pretend they did), you can hear this also in the solo to run run run.

@David888B

Жыл бұрын

@@eddietasker9110 Is it Lou or Sterling? How do we know for sure?

@craigharrell7144

Жыл бұрын

@@David888B I've been wondering tha for years.

the audio is the studio version. the video is actually an hour jam session they had with nico titled "The Velvet Underground and Nico 1966 " its on youtube

Amazing that this film exists. Live 69 was just a great album.

Miss that era and want it back.

Nothing will beat that feeling of tingling in the brain and the feeling you get just before you get light headed. Whether your nose is numb or your arm, you're fucked. Then you come off, and after a while, life is good again. Until you're fucked, and realize you're fucked either way. GOD DAMN! What a world we live in. No one can quite see see the uselessness of even general movement like a still junkie. Why do they hate people like us? Same reason they take a limo over a taxi. It's all about how your arrived at the same destination. We'll die alone, and you'll die alone with "satisfaction."

@allancarroll1645

8 жыл бұрын

amen

@gregoryswift9573

8 жыл бұрын

for sure

@roncalabro

7 жыл бұрын

Bol Ogenstein pretty nihilistic attitude there man. if you suffer from addiction, you're not alone and there's always help

@GoatDust

6 жыл бұрын

Bol Ogenstein yeah I'd rather not experience that in any form other than music bro

My favourite version of this great song.velvets forever

fantastic ! thank you for posting it ! Really !

historical video...simply magnificent!!

I've heard my fair share of LIVE white light/white heat ..... THIS is my favourite FOR SURE. Doug has that killer bass line grooving and the rhythm/rhythm, rhythm/lead interplay with Sterling and Lou is FANtastic ...... w Moe holding it together. What I'd give to go back in time and simply witness this. Those folks at the Matrix were LUCKY! Lemme know if there's another version that tops it for you....

thanks! never heard of this 8-minute version before

The Velvets weren't "marijuana music". They were heroin and speed music.

@devinkhoury4490

4 жыл бұрын

damn good when your smacked though

@lawrencefeldman7744

4 жыл бұрын

Smoked plenty to all of it believe you me!👁️

@blee4583

4 жыл бұрын

That's 100 percent true on the speed part

@CarnivalofLVX

4 жыл бұрын

That is correct :-D

@Romany1111

4 жыл бұрын

They were poseur music, with the only talent being Mr. Cale. Who soon left.

one of the most trascendental rocknroll songs i ever heard in my life and the comment section doesnt seems to make honor to this.. i was hoping to read mindblowing comments like my thoughts

@literallyunderrated

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

this is great

Amazing version, but none top the studio version, that rugged, speed crazed Jerry Lee Lewis piano pounding gives it so much energy. The guitar solo in this is absolute amphetamine euphoria though

@klausrain111

10 ай бұрын

Bollocks.

ため息が出るぐらいカッコイイ…

Sonzeira! Levantou meu astral

On the eponymous LP, this title song was only relatively short. Here it unfolds to its full size.

Wow. The sound quality on this is better than the studio version.

@mavjimbo

2 жыл бұрын

And you can hear Mo's drumming

fantastic!

This music makes me feel good. Despite all these computations I'm seeing.

The best version of another great song.wow.

Most underrated band ever. Such an important band.

i have listened to this version of this song a lot. when i was 20 this was it!

had to come back and listen again. There's a good one entitled Velvet Underground 1968 White Light White Heat live-that I bet everybody would like..

I don't know how back then they could get such quality live recordings, but I'm glad they were able to for our listening pleasure!

wow, great version

They are now & always been have immortal !!!!!!!!

it never gets old

Moe Tucker one of the greatest drummers to ever live

@thorstenschlitt2725

6 жыл бұрын

CY Cheng yes, but the song is easy (for drummer)

@fuckamericanidiot

6 жыл бұрын

Yes and what a strange truth that is 😅

@Tenskwatawa4U

5 жыл бұрын

She was so wired into the best technique was almost irrelevant.

@drivethebeat66

5 жыл бұрын

I think she's not playing on that one actually

@Tenskwatawa4U

5 жыл бұрын

She absolutely is. It was over a year after this that she took a pregnancy hiatus and was replaced by Billy Yule. That was the summer of 1969, and the extended Max's KC gig. And she replaced Angus Maclise a long time before this.

i love the part around the 6 min mark where it feels like its finally coming together and so ru and u open ur eyes smiling but then it goes psychadelic again and the smile grows bigger. thats vu in a nutshell

Nice, a new upload from Brian Eno. I might watch that video later...

Only The Velvet Underground

maureen remained loyal to her hairstyle her entire life

That jam 2:30 seconds through 540 plus is one of their best

Saw the in concert I was mesmerize by Mo Tucker on the drum!

Great version of this song!

Cale thank you for this album as a whole

god tier song. it's 60s alternative. you wouldn't expect it would be so catchy.

Got 1969 double Lp in early 80s. Every note,vocal and instrumental beyond brilliant,just essential but I need to turn away as to not see the album cover. Called the Butt album in my home. Unfortunately cannot be unseen. Otherwise one of the truly great double live Lps. To die for.

@II-xl7lj

4 жыл бұрын

Good cover, what are hell you talking about

@erikteunissen7543

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic album, ugly cover

sublime Lou!

Fantastic song

amazing

The coolest band captured by an inept film student.

Andy Warhol's house band! So late '60s, I know, I lived through this.

Andy filmed everything. Hours and hours of people sitting on a couch. Why is there no footage of this band just playing???

@notapplicable328

3 жыл бұрын

Re-read you first sentence and you got your answer 😂

@lynnehuff9659

Жыл бұрын

Really, there must be. I can't watch this, the people off stage were kind of fun to watch. Besides "The Velvet Underground" "White Light White Heat" my favorite, I had "The Plastic Exploding Inevitable" I don't think I liked that one. I lost them in a flood.

@lynnehuff9659

Жыл бұрын

You might like the video the Velvet Underground-White Light White Heat Live 1968 still camera high jinx, but kind of cool. Shows Lou some.

Glorious racket!!!! I SO love this. And as others have mentioned. Tucker! She's a beast!!

"The Velvet Underground" is a long name for a typical rock band, but in music it has a least common denominator that makes it simple just like holding a book, looking at opposite leaves and begin to read.

Brilliant! A masterpiece classic from Lou Reed, the Beethoven of Rock n Roll! :)

@ForARide

3 жыл бұрын

No, that goes to John Cale, the real genius behind their sound. Lou Reed once said about JC: "I only hope that one day John will be recognized as the Beethoven of his day. He knows so much about music, he's such a great musician. He's completely mad - but that's because he's Welsh."

@neuroisis85

2 жыл бұрын

It John Cale is what made the VU great after he left they went to shit and Lou Reed's solo stuff is garbage.

Shine on.

@lulem400

8 жыл бұрын

***** you

@lulem400

8 жыл бұрын

***** Sounds like a description of original sin.

@skateboarding118

5 жыл бұрын

lulem400 was just playing the intro in my head, and right on the first chorus just saw this comment! Great timing

Sterling's lead work on this song is a masterpiece of melded fractured melody and controlled noise...

@markjackson5665

Жыл бұрын

Lou plays the main “ostrich” solo on this

Best jam band. Beyond psychedelic, beyond garages no matter how glam. Survivor of mk ultra. White light. Laurie Anderson. Blessings and RIP

Everyone so relaxed, drummer, guitarist, audience. Lou sounds like he's working hard to whip them up out of slumber...

@hugosophy

Жыл бұрын

They are all high on heroin. Hence the dark sun glasses indoors

The Stones were the first to talk about drug use. They were the first band to display the "punk rock" attitude. However, The Velvets took it all to the next level

@II-xl7lj

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, is this a joke? What the hell does punk have to do with it? Do you even know the meaning of that word, ignoramus? According to this logic, if the stones are related to this, then VU - the creators of the rap, lol. And stones had nothing to do with the discovery of drugs in music, that's what what, and this honor rightfully belongs to VU. And count who and how many times cowardly and shamefacedly hinted at pharmacy vitamins in their parodies of rebellious songs, you can as much as you like, but in any case, the stones and in this are outsiders, because the same Byrds did it at the same time but much more convincingly

The world has been trying to catch up ever since.

Brilliant.

sounds amazing ._.

Only discovered them in the 70s in my teens mind immediately blown!

yea its a jam alright Lou an sterl . can't get no better

2:18 is the shit man. Lotta stuff came from that little "riff".