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... I just thought I'd give a head's up to newer members that they can still sign in to Yahoo Mail - Username brigidpolktapedtheworld Password maxskansascity - and download the original MP3s of the 'Warhol Tapes'. As far as I'm aware these are the still the best versions available, apart from the tracks on the VU & Nico Super Deluxe edition, although I haven't heard the Dispatches from the Dream Factory versions.
I've also added a little MP3 featuring Nico myself, pretty awful quality but the best I've heard it in. Enjoy.

One of the best threads this site has ever seen! We still miss her dearly. I wonder what happened to the Fluffernutter Devices?

What are the "Warhol Tapes"?

Well really it's just the name I used for the collection of tracks that were featured on the "All Tomorrow's Parties: Remembering The Velvet Underground" promo CD, which were supposedly recorded by Warhol himself. Rosie Lee obtained what at the time was the best copy of them in circulation (and still is?) and posted them here as a series of MP3s if the forum members were able to answer certain VU questions. I read on a post somewhere that she 'held the forum to ransom' but I never saw it like that, I think she generously shared the recordings with us and had a bit of fun in the process. She was mad as a box of frogs, though.

Somebody (SimonM I think, so credit to him if it was) suggested we saved them for posterity so the Brigidpolktapedtheworld Yahoo account was created, and other tracks were also added. The MP3s Rosie Lee had posted were also subsequently used to compile the "At The Factory - Warhol Tapes" bootleg CD as well which I guess is another reason I used that name.

Hello,

I don't know if links to torrents sites are allows here, so I don't provide one, but there is torrent floating around named The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties with following info.txt file:


The Velvet Underground
Title: All Tomorrow's Parties

Lineage: Master Warhol Museum CD -> CD(gen1) -> .wav -> CD(gen2) -> .aiff -> .flac (level 8)

01. Walk Alone
02. Venus In Furs/Crackin' Up
03. Rythm & Blues Instrumental
04. Run Run Run into Miss Joanie Lee
05. Day Tripper into Boom Boom Boom
06. Rockabilly Instrumental
07. Blues Instrumental
08. Heroin
09. There She Goes Again
10. Green Onions
11. There She Goes Again
12. Heroin
13. I'll Keep It With Mine
14. European Son/Suzie Q
15. Get It On Time
16. I'll Be Your Mirror

01-11: rehearsals, The Factory, January 3, 1966
12-14: Up-tight, The Cinematheque, New York City, February 6, 1966
15-16: rehearsals, The Factory, March 7, 1966

This is the unedited, unfiltered, full-file All Tomorrows Parties bootleg. Here is the story...

Back in the prehistoric days, before torrents and FTP, was this thing called "trading CD's thru the mail." One of the guys who I traded with said he had something very special if I'd like to hear it, on the condition that I never trade it until he said it was OK to. He sent me this! Someone who had access to the CD recorded it and made a copy for himself and a friend. That friend made me a copy, which is where these files were extracted from.

Now, I dated this really strange chick for a while after meeting her one night after a gig in Luxembourg. Many of you know her as Rosie Lee. She was in a band called the Fluffernutter Devices and was a HUGE fan of the VU. She asked if she could have a copy of this disc, so I converted it so she could play it on her portable player on her band's van. It was this lossy copy that made it onto the site a while back and it was from these lossy tracks that Nothing Songs put out one of their bullshite compilations.

(I'd like to point out that quite some time ago, just before I met Rosie actually, the person who provided me this disk stated that it was OK to circulate it.)

So, anyone who purchased the Nothing Songs set containing these tracks is actually listening to MP3's converted to MP4's. I saw some idiot paid over $100 on ePay for a bootleg of these tracks. What an idiot!

Anyways, here ya go. As far as my VU "vaults" are concerned, this is it. I have nothing else to give the community. For anyone who is hiding recordings deep in their basement, why not share the wealth? What good is a recording if you are the only person who can enjoy it? Why not share it and let hundreds of other people hum along with you?!

Originally uploaded by MG196
Reuploaded by Roofvogel to www.velvetunderground.be

Thanks for the heads up! I wasn't here when the original thread happened.
It looks like too many users tried to access the mailbox from different places:

"You are logging in from a device we don't recognize. Learn why
For your account safety, please choose either a listed phone number (carrier charges may apply) or email address below to receive a verification code."

Sent to:

Oh dear, that's never happened to me. Were you able to log in ok in the end?

No one can log in, cause there is no possibility to put in an alternate eMail adress.

Sunshine wrote:No one can log in, cause there is no possibility to put in an alternate eMail adress.

So how come I can still log in to it? And it's not coz I set the account up in the first place, coz I didn't.

Can someone confirm that the torrent referred to features genuine flac versions, and not just a flac copy of a CD compiled from lossy MP3s (i.e. the 'At The Factory - Warhol Tapes' CD)?

the brigidpolktapedtheworld yahoo account is still active - but tracks are only mp3s.

The original tapes came to light at the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and were used in a temporary exhibition at the museum, called All Tomorrow's Parties, in 1993 I think. The first bootleg version that was released was a super crap audience recording from a museum event where the CD was played.

Those were the days, eh?