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Hi guys some time ago I found rehearsal Matrix recordings on the web, they are obviously very good. Anyone know if there is still some material?

In the section on the '69 Matrix gigs on Olivier's site it quotes from a Quine interview, where he says he taped over his rehearsal tapes

"Then they went to The Matrix for a couple of weeks, and that's where I really got to know them, 'cause in the beginning, they'd start off on a weeknight around 8:30 and sometimes there'd be two or three people in the place. So they got to know me, and we'd get talking. I asked if it was alright if I taped the stuff. They said it was alright. Sometimes I'd sit around at their rehearsals and tape the rehearsals. Ultimately, I taped over the rehearsals. There was nothing really spectacular going on in them. They'd just work out new songs, but it was interesting to see them in rehearsal, to see how they worked together. (...) So I taped all those nights, I think I missed one night. I remember the next day, he said: "Oh you should have been here last night, we played '

What's on the recording you have?

At this link(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXFbCvP ... rt_radio=1)you will find two versions of S.B.B one very valid. Then I have to look in my pc I have a version of I Can't Satand it, hotter than the Matrix tapes and a Some kinda of love I think. In my opinion they are not Quine recordings

On Dispatches from the dream factory there are these tracks:
November 1969
Matrix or Family Dog, San Francisco, California

Tape: audience recording by Robert Quine. Source: Dispatches From The Dream Factory - Disc 3 (1).

Sweet Jane (6:12)
I Can't Stand It (9:29)
Sweet Bonnie Brown (4:55)
It's Just Too Much (3:11)
Heroin (8:26)
Some Kinda Love (4:07)
Sweet Bonnie Brown II (5:39)
Lisa Says [cut] (2:44)
Heroin is actually an audience recording version of the track available as bonus on the official 1969 Velvet Underground Live CD Volume 1.

November 11, 1969
Unknown location, San Francisco, California

Tape: audience recording by Robert Quine. Source: Dispatches From The Dream Factory - Disc 3 (1-2).

Waiting For The Man (6:16)
[cut] White Light/ White Heat (5:45)

thanks!
are these decent quality/ close to the rest of the Quine stuff?

I've got a load of bootlegs on CD-R that i don't listen to, but i think Dispatches came out after I'd done all my trading (with you and others on here) but I do like Sweet Bonnie Brown a lot, would be curious to hear the 5.39 version, unless it's only that long because of false starts etc...

Yes they are of comparable quality. I don't remember much in the way of false starts. Other than Lisa Says, the songs are complete. Worth having imo.

thanks!