(Polydor)
In case there was still any doubt, here’s more proof that the Velvet Underground were quite possibly the greatest band ever to come from the good old U.S. of A. — and maybe anywhere. Recorded by future über-guitarist Robert Quine (Richard Hell and the Voidoids; Lou Reed) over the course of the group’s month-long stay on the West Coast in 1969 (one recording is from a St. Louis gig), the performances on these three discs, at the San Francisco Family Dog at the Beach dance-concert venue and The Matrix club, capture the Velvets stretching out, playing with songs, lyrics, grooves and riffs, and, most of all, each other.
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