Confused

[Kill Mick]

And what of the Boston Teah Party Sept '68 tapes that WGO lists? It even lists the sound quality (B) swhidh implies that somebody has heard them.


Havent heard of the Hippodrome tapes....whats the story with them?

The San Diego Hippodrome July 68, as detailed above by Alfredovu. As ever Olivier's site has details, I think it's detailed in the WL/WH Day-by-day book as well.

[peppergomez]

Thx. Damn...that is indeed the holy grail.

[alfredovu]

The song makes for an almost too perfect, typically Velvetian anecdote: a band so perverse they play a great song only once, never returning to it live or in the studio in the belief that this mythical version can never be surpassed. And yet there is evidence that the song will be played at least once more. Robert Gold?s review of a show at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles a week later mentions a ?sour, raucous version of ?Sweet Rock And Roll.??

The song must have made an impression on Gold for him to cite it in his review. But it seems unlikely that anyone else will ever get to hear the ?Sweet Rock And Roll.? According to Morrison?s unpublished interview with M.C. Kostek and Phil Milstein of What Goes On, ?That was a great performance ? [but] the tape was stolen that very night. Stolen within seconds, actually. As soon as it ended, it vanished, never to reappear on earth.?

Above from Untenberguer book. What if the tape was stolen by Cale??

[Andre83]

dear alfredo ...... the tape was stolen from Cale ? therefore exist and will be published at some point? please give me a hope

[alfredovu]

The holy grail would be live VU from summer/fall '68 when Cale was still in the band. I imagine that was probably the pinnacle of the band, musically. Plus they would have been playing a lot of e songs that ended up on the 3rd album and on VU. Imagine Ocean and What Goes On with Cale on organ, and he played viola on Sotry of My Life when they played it live.

Summer 68. Agreed - the sound of the band in a process of change.. Plus Beginning To See The Light and Foggy Notion. If only we actually knew this stuff existed. Until then it's a bit like fantasy football (only interesting). The sole track we know exists is Walk It and Talk it. Not off the 3rd but...

Did they ever do Ocean with Cale live? Had it been written then?

On Unterberger's book page 202 refereing to Cale' interview in NME April 1974 " ...It was sad in a way because there were still some great songs to be recorded like 'Here Comes the Waves' , ..."