![]() ![]() ![]() These performances are compiled and mixed from the original 1969 multi-track recordings made by club manager Peter Abram. ![]() A disc of 1969 sessions on the fourth disc includes 10 previously unreleased mixes including Andy’s Chest which was re-recorded for 1972’s Transformer and Rock & Roll which in a different form featured on the next VU album, Loaded.Įighteen live tracks (eleven of them unreleased performances) from a two gigs in late 1969 at San Francisco’s The Matrix complete this set. This new super deluxe set is a generous six-CD package and features two different stereo mixes of the record (including Reed’s own ‘Closet Mix’) and a promotional mono mix. This record, which presented a new softer side to the band, didn’t feature co-founder John Cale with 21-year old Doug Yule stepping in to fill his shoes. Having ticked off 1967’s The Velvet Underground & Nico (in 2012) and White Light/White Heat (2013), the album under the microscope this year is the band’s third album, The Velvet Underground which was originally issued in March 1969. For the third year in a row Universal/Polydor will reissue a Velvet Underground album as a 45th Anniversary super deluxe edition box set. ![]()
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