yah, they're real

http://sendmedeadflowers.com/2008/02...gymnasium.html

1. I'm Not A Young Man Anymore (previously unheard VU song)
2. Guess I'm Falling In Love
3. I'm Waiting For The Man
4. Run Run Run
5. Sister Ray (debut live performance)

i'm not sure if this site has been mention here yet but they have LOADS of VU and related stuff aswell

http://www.velvetunderground.be/index.php

Holy shit, the Gym Tapes sound fucking prime

Wow, thank you guys.

I downloaded the Gymnasium live thing. Sounds awesome.

Got mine from dime last weekend and only listened to it just last night. Listening again this morning. Wowed.

it was originally seeded here (edit: oh, stu already mentioned it)
http://www.velvetunderground.be/
(dime banned track 2 because it's on PSAS)

for anyone ready for another fix, this is a good number that sounds great

Run Run Run > Miss Joanie Lee (The Factory 1/03/66)
http://www.badongo.com/file/8024339
23 MB .rar vbr wma mp3 (11:57)

gymnasium is great, good song that young man one. great!

For anyone that downloaded the Gymnasium show that's going around, here's a proper fix and some nice disc filler (or perhaps consider making this disc two of a '66 and '67 set) if you like.
Cherry-picked from various bootlegs and with similar sound quality to those from the Gymnasium show, tracks 6-11* are downloadable at the badongo link below.

*Of course this is only a suggested track order; "Miss Joanie Lee" may be better as the closer, for instance...

The Velvet Underground
New York '66 & '67

The Gymnasium, NYC 4/??/67
1 I'm Not A Young Man Anymore 7:17
2 Guess I'm Falling in Love 4:18
3 Waiting For The Man 5:24
4 Run Run Run 6:55
5 Sister Ray 18:55

The Factory, NYC 1/03/66 rehearsal session
6 Miss Joanie Lee 11:57
7 Day Tripper tease > Boom Boom Boom (instrumental) 6:23
8 Heroin 6:17
9 There She Goes Again 3:34

The Gymnasium, NYC 4/??/67
10 Guess I'm Falling in Love* 4:12

Cinematheque, NYC 2/06/66
11 European Son (instrumental)+ 4:16

http://www.badongo.com/file/8050395
92 MB .rar vbr .wma and *.wav

*lossless .wav from Caught Between the Twisted Stars
Disc Four - "Illuminations Of Atonality"
performed at a different April '67 show at The Gymnasium

+ Lou can faintly be heard singing the lyrics to "Suzie Q" at the beginning, but other than this, the track is an instrumental "European Son." The show took place at one of Andy Warhol's "Up-Tight" happenings at Cinematheque on W. 41st St.

Thanks atari.

You're welcome. dbpoweramp can convert those .wma to .mp3 for Mac-only users. You probably have something worked out already.

At one time there obviously was an alternate April '67 Gymansium recording because the other "Guess I'm Falling In Love" appears on disc four of Caught Between the Twisted Stars. Hey, maybe that show is still out there and will surface too eventually. It might even be an early/late show kind of deal...who knows?
It's my rudimentary understanding that this one came about because the owner of a surviving tape made a bunch of green vinyl copies to sell on ebay and then someone along the line (most likely in Belgium) digitized it.

The "Heroin" from the '66 rehearsal at the Factory is interesting. It sounds like it could be one the first times they ran through the arrangement. It's very sparse save for a couple of wonderfully ecstatic viola outbursts courtesy of John Cale.

nice

good stuff

Thanks for that, atari. Did you hear on a track off the Warhol tapes when Lou Reed is practicing and suddenly he starts playing the riff of The Beatles's ''Day Tripper''? I was surprised by that.

Thanks, Atari. More cool stuff.

I'd happily give an eye to have a recording of the above. This is apparently from one of the 1966 Chicago dates without Lulu Reed.

Okay, let's not overboard on the bootleg thing. Too much of a good thing and all that...

Shut it, will you?

Make me.

 

01 All Tomorrow's Parties
02 I'm Waiting for the Man ( Nico )
03 Venus in Furs ( Nico )
04 The Black Angel's Death Song ( Nico )
05 Heroin
06 Femme Fatale
07 Run Run Run
http://rapidshare.com/files/90619281...d_11-04-66.rar