Sweet Sister Ray's Murder Mystery

Leon · Post by **Leon** » 14 Sep 2004 13:29

Hi. I've had this boot on original CD for years and just realised that I've never seen it shared out anywhere or even the Sweet Sister Ray track (a great 40 minute jam with Cale).
I have it ripped and FLAC'd, I'm thinking of torrenting it on Easytree but my upstream bandwidth is just 128K so it's going to be slow (files total approx. 338 megs).
I'm just wondering if anyone's interested before I do it (basically I don't want to waste my bandwidth if it's just going to be a pack of leechers grabbing it

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Let me know if anyone's interested.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » 14 Sep 2004 16:27

Sounds good to me!

Leon · Post by **Leon** » 14 Sep 2004 16:47

Ok, that's seeding now.

http://www.easytree.org/torrents-detail ... uploaded=1

Leon · Post by **Leon** » 15 Sep 2004 00:34

Well, there's 60 people downloading this from me now!
Hope everyone enjoys it, it's one of my favourite VU recordings.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » 15 Sep 2004 12:29

Listening to it now! Awesome, thanks a lot Leon.

Considering it's the Cale VU doing an extended improvisation, it's interesting how different Sweet Sister Ray is to the chaotic Warhol-era improvs. Very languid, almost opiate-like. Maybe there'd been a change in the favoured drug in VU circles by '68!

Leon · Post by **Leon** » 15 Sep 2004 14:54

Mark wrote:Listening to it now! Awesome, thanks a lot Leon.

Considering it's the Cale VU doing an extended improvisation, it's interesting how different Sweet Sister Ray is to the chaotic Warhol-era improvs. Very languid, almost opiate-like. Maybe there'd been a change in the favoured drug in VU circles by '68!

No problem. It is a really great improv. alright, it's one of my favourite VU tracks. It would have been interesting to hear Sister Ray as performed on that night too, there must have been a good reason the bootleggers faded off after a couple of minutes, I'm sure they realised Cale era tracks are pretty few and far between.
I picked up that boot a few years ago at a record fair, it was pretty cheap actually - I think the guy thought the CD was faulty (disc was filthy and wouldn't play until I cleaned it a few times!) or else he didn't know what was on it.

OT: But as per my post on Easytree, I've the 2 disc set of the guitar amp tapes too if anyone's interested. Let me know and I'll rip it.

Pig Related · Post by **Pig Related** » 16 Sep 2004 12:09

Thanks a lot, man. I didn't have any live VU recordings with Cale yet. I love it.

alfredovu · Post by **alfredovu** » 16 Sep 2004 14:11

It would have been interesting to hear Sister Ray as performed on that night too, there must have been a good reason the bootleggers faded off after a couple of minutes, I'm sure they realised Cale era tracks are pretty few and far between.

THERE IS A REASON, (OLD GUYS KNOW THAT): JAMIE KLIMEK´s SISTER (Jamie Klimek was the guy who recorded those shows at La Cave) took the original tape and accidentally erased 99% of Sister Ray and the other missing songs but Sweet Sister Ray & Heroin.
It was told for years that Klimek handed this tape to Lou Reed and when Lou returned the tape to Klimek all thoise songs had disapeared, but this was not true.
Time ago I contacted Mike Carlucci who was in touch with Klimek when this tape finally surfaced as bootlegs and he confimed that his sister made the "job"

citizensmurf · Post by **citizensmurf** » 17 Sep 2004 14:42

alfredovu wrote:
THERE IS A REASON, (OLD GUYS KNOW THAT): JAMIE KLIMEK´s SISTER (Jamie Klimek was the guy who recorded those shows at La Cave) took the original tape and accidentally erased 99% of Sister Ray and the other missing songs but Sweet Sister Ray & Heroin.
It was told for years that Klimek handed this tape to Lou Reed and when Lou returned the tape to Klimek all thoise songs had disapeared, but this was not true.
Time ago I contacted Mike Carlucci who was in touch with Klimek when this tape finally surfaced as bootlegs and he confimed that his sister made the "job"

Damnit! I hope she didn't tape over it with Phoebe Snow or Carly Simon. Or worse, a Partridge family Xmas album, arrrgh.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » 17 Sep 2004 16:09

Of course, the other reason that SSR would've been truncated is that it's sourced from a vinyl boot LP - which would only have been able to hold around 40mins of music. Hence also the little gap about 20 minutes in - time to turn the record over!