1969 Live With Lou Reed private remaster
Posted: 31 Dec 2017 02:27
I've finally completed a project I've wanted to do since The Complete Matrix Tapes were released two years ago. Using that 4xCD box set and the Live at the End of Cole Avenue bootleg CDs, I've reconstructed 1969: Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed with the best materials available.
In the spirit of the original CDs, I've added a bonus track to each disc. "I Can't Stand It" is included as it was on the "Volume 2" CD release. Bur rather than a second version of "Heroin," I've included the furious back-and-forth guitar strum of "There She Goes Again" as the bonus track on disc 1.
I made an attempt to cut off material at the beginning and ends of each song and add fade-ins and fade-outs, as per the original 1969 Live. I wasn't always successful in replicating it exactly, but I was a lot of the times. And I think anyone interested in listening to this be able to look past these small imperfections and enjoy the HUGE improvement in sound quality. It sounds so much better not only than the partly vinyl-sourced 1988 CD version, but even the 1974 LP version, which used stereo mixdowns of the Matrix tracks, and multi-generation copies of the four End Cole tracks.
Without further ado, here's download links for .zip's of the FLAC files:
Disc 1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1lz85zds891o8 ... 1.zip?dl=0
Disc 2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c3dckt5pb5wqk ... 2.zip?dl=0
In the spirit of the original CDs, I've added a bonus track to each disc. "I Can't Stand It" is included as it was on the "Volume 2" CD release. Bur rather than a second version of "Heroin," I've included the furious back-and-forth guitar strum of "There She Goes Again" as the bonus track on disc 1.
I made an attempt to cut off material at the beginning and ends of each song and add fade-ins and fade-outs, as per the original 1969 Live. I wasn't always successful in replicating it exactly, but I was a lot of the times. And I think anyone interested in listening to this be able to look past these small imperfections and enjoy the HUGE improvement in sound quality. It sounds so much better not only than the partly vinyl-sourced 1988 CD version, but even the 1974 LP version, which used stereo mixdowns of the Matrix tracks, and multi-generation copies of the four End Cole tracks.
Without further ado, here's download links for .zip's of the FLAC files:
Disc 1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1lz85zds891o8 ... 1.zip?dl=0
Disc 2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c3dckt5pb5wqk ... 2.zip?dl=0