The Velvet Forum

Follow the link
------
Velvet Underground

Hilltop Rock Festival, Rindge, NH (1-5)
2nd August 1969

La Cave, Cleveland OH (6)
late January 1969

Audience recording

CD-R(x)->cdda2wav->FLAC

Hilltop segment taped by The Professor

Liberated bootleg:

"Ostrich/Hilltop"
(Colosseum 97C-019, Japan (?), 1997)

415 MB FLAC

01 Waiting For The Man
02 Run Run Run
03 Pale Blue Eyes
04 What Goes On
05 Heroin
06 Sister Ray/Murder Mystery ("with two hidden tracks added at the end: a 4'21 instrumental excerpt from The Dom, April 1966 and a brief 45-second unidentified excerpt of feedback noise - which sounds like a part of Sister Ray")

Fingerprints:
vu-Ostrich\ Hilltop-01.flac: 2e5f2789dfc60c6d67abcdf6052603c3
vu-Ostrich\ Hilltop-02.flac: b29e3cb504b5eff80285627a34aed4ea
vu-Ostrich\ Hilltop-03.flac: e4a6172c4aa9d8e4358a70449be5db62
vu-Ostrich\ Hilltop-04.flac: 1cfac1859f2c7013a42c0539ad1eedf2
vu-Ostrich\ Hilltop-05.flac: 7c3465b7cd91dce29dcaeeebb9dc25e0
vu-Ostrich\ Hilltop-06.flac: a1867e8d6adfad8610d4d30c2c8d9d81

Someone posted an MP3 version of the Hilltop portion so here's a lossless one. I received this in a trade and my trading partner described his discs as being "from silvers" so I thought CD-R(x) would be the safest description.

The tracks were extracted twice with cdda2wav (w/maximum Paranoia) and both rips produced identical checksums.

I've always thought that the 'frying pan' sounds on this recording suggested a vinyl or acetate stage at some point but who knows ?

Thank you. I hope more VU can make it's way to the wonderful land of torrents. Maybe someone has compiled a collection of miscellaneous tracks released across various bootlegs and would like to share it. Nudge, nudge.

yes, thanks so much for this torrent. I know there are many of us severely lacking in vu who greatly appreciate it.

My favourite version of "Run Run Run" ever.

Finally got this down, sounds pretty good. I had always assumed Run, Run, Run was the only recording from the show. Nice surprise, thanks for sharing it!

For those of you that missed it the first time, this has just been re-uploaded at http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=15595

Arne

Slight difference this time around, deckarep...it has SR from The Second Fret, Jan 3 1970