Cameo Role wrote:To download: this show with Cale that ISN'T the Warhol Museum one.
'this show with Cale?' - do you mean the live '66 EPI show?
In my dishonest opinion Live '68 is the only truly must-have unless you're a die-hard:
I agree that the Guitar Amp show is kind of fun and you can almost be forgiven for forgetting that it is post-Cale in its high-energy interrogation.
I never really understood the whole Quine Tapes thing so I won't comment. Ok, I will - its boring and Live '69 had already said most everything about that era. See below.
I played Live '69 so often when it first came out but now hardly ever. It was charming and a small revelation at that time. The sound of a band formerly with an bad attitude in art and rock becoming comfortable with being another rock band. It DOES have the alt. versions of New Age and Sweet Jane which are lovely. You should pick those tracks up somehow.
EPI Live '66 is unique but I agree with general opinion that it is a rather flat performance of the first album's songs. It did send shivers up my spine when I first heard it, though, The two long improvs from that show are also interesting for the same, umm, historical reasons.
Sweet Sister Ray is tantalising in that it is a (slightly?) dull 40min warm-up culminating in the ghost of a Cale-era Sister Ray deleted at the end of the tape! Supposedly deleted by Reed's own hand. (Did that guy who recorded it really hand over the master copy?) Play it, imagine the Sister Ray performance that followed, then weep.
Guess i'm just falling in love...
Mr. Datsun-Mr. Bateman