The Velvet Underground – Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes

Oh to have a time machine and go back and see this amazing band live. With or without John they were light years ahead of almost everyone. If only people could have understood that better than.
Stuff like these tapes just prove over and over again how amazing they were!
So the sound isn’t perfect,who cares it doesn’t need to be! The music is!!

Primus inter pares!
The 4 studio albums; Chelsea Girl.
The Matrix Tapes.
Te Quine Tapes!
1969: 1969: Velvet Underground Live with Lou Reed,
Mono Vinyl Box Set.
1986 Vinyl Box set (Stereo).
Half-Speed Master edition of the 3 first albums.
Loaded: Reloaded Vinyl Box Set.
Peel Slowly and See cd box set.

The Quine Tapes is essential for many reasons, not least of which because it contains what I believe to be the longest version of New Age available. The outro so simple, so perfect. D, G, A; G, D, A and set up perfectly by the verse, chorus, bridge.

"Something's got a hold on me and I don't know what...
IT'S THE BEGINNING OF A NEW AGE".

BAM. Complete perfection. Ovah and ovah. Play it for 20 minutes or 20 years. I'd stand there for the whole thing if I could. A route to Divinity no doubt.

Lengths of extant versions of New Age...
Loaded - 4:40
Peel Slowly And See - 5:11
Live At Max's - 5:58
The Complete Matrix Tapes - 6:11
1969 Volume 1 - 6:40
Bootleg Series: The Quine Tapes - 11:21

Maybe someone can add a longer version from a real bootleg?

As bootlegs go this is pretty good; Robert Quine did a decent job with his little Sony recorder, and it is undoubtedly light years ahead of some of the other sorry offerings out there with the Velvets' name on. I won't name and shame, but suffice it to say that if you want to actually enjoy listening to the Velvets live, then buy this, Live 1969 and The Complete Matrix Tapes. The others really aren't worth your time.

Per Sundazed this title is now out of print as of 01/12/21.

Considering the technical standards of portable tape recorders in the late 60´s, the sound is really very acceptable,
i heard far inferior stuff recorded on portable equipment, as it is with lots of other live documents you have
to activate your sonic imagination, then this is really great stuff, big hugs for the great Robert Quine.

Great stuff! Doesn't sound as good as 1969: Velvet Underground Live with Lou Reed, but it sounds A LOT better than the Boston Tea Party recordings. This is a must-have for fans of live VU.

I guess this is the way rock and roll has to sound. Another question is ...is this music made for masses ?
The sound is raw and sometimes polished but off course it is a BOOTLEG series.
Sometimes i wish there was a timemachine for seeing and feeling this music. And yes there is NO John Cale here but that is not that important to enjoy these legendary gigs. Listen to this and start a band !!!
Very important and legendary.

It's a bootleg, dude! Having it in poor quality is so much better than not having it at all!

I had this on CD but I found the quality so bad you could hardly listen to it; I was wondering if anything has been done to attempt to improve the sound quality here.