The Velvet Underground played Boston on March, 15 1969 at famed music venue The Boston Tea Party. Someone put a microphone inside Lou Reed’s amplifier and the result is pretty magnificent.

Bootlegged as The Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes, the recordings are formidable in their unadulterated rock and roll fire and fury and a revelation for anyone who hasn’t paid close attention to Reed’s dynamic guitar playing which in this set is a monolithic roar, a pulverizing electronic kaiju (strange beast) grinding whole universes into pebble and sand.

Listen as Louzilla annihilates the planets and their multiple moons with blasts of amplified frequencies as sublime as they are world crushing. This is the sound of heavy metal thunder!

I’ll be posting more soon.

The louder, the better.
 

I wish Lou still played guitar like that.

I love this song. I wish that groove would just go on for ever. So simple and yet so satisfying.

The Guitar Amp Tape version of Sister Ray may be the sickest fucking thing you’ve ever heard. I love it.

know and love this as one of my fave velvets recordings but have allways been puzziled by this mic inside the guitar amp shit sounds more like the recording device whatever it may have been is positioned very close to the front of the stage in line with Mr Reeds guitar speaker and is picking up mainly that and his vocal and very little of Doug Yules vocals and none of the front of house PA (if there was one)anyway thats my take on it for what its worth

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Oh my god. Feeling a bit weak in the knees now. Thanks for fixing it.

*sigh*  That Metallica/Lou Reed album is gonna suck, ain’t it?

Rosko: Yeah. Must definitly. This, however, did not.

THIS IS TH’ SHIT!

Lou was great once upon a time: long, long ago, on graduation day…

Velvet Underground * Godzilla sessions photo>

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If this video had played on Night Flight in the early ‘80s, it might have changed the course of my life.

The Guitar Amp Tapes show MUST get an official release now!

Undefeated and unbeatable.

enjoy this while the legend still lives.

what good is metallica in october?
why no good
no good at all

People forget what a great jam band Lou and the velvets were.

Thanks so much for this…. Lou forever!