Lou Reed & John Cale
special surprise guests Moe Tucker and Sterling Morrison
A Live Performance Event for the 1990 Andy Warhol Exhibition
Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France
15 June 1990

contrast clause: the final track of this show, a performance of "Heroin", also is included in an albeit shorter form (by about one minute) within the more comprehensive collection "Searchin' For My Mainline" (3-CD box set). It is not clear (to me) whether that track is a capture from the same recorder/file, but I thought I'd mention it having located it after a bit of site research. I'll get around to acquiring it sometime soon!
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=412212


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"we've a little surprise for you" (oh yes, indeed!)

Inspired by the recent posting of two shows of quite early, "work in progress" performances (see below) of songs by Reed & Cale which would become the "Songs for Drella" album (released over a year later), I remembered an alternative late-in-the-process performance of this material, a show also of considerable note, but for different reasons. I picked it up here after a reseeding several years ago, but it dropped off the tracker, allowing me to re-introduce it. I don't believe there has been any official release for the tracks of this show in the meantime.

By the time "Songs for Drella" was released in 1990 after those early-1989 shows in NYC, Cale already had moved on to his collaboration with Brian Eno, the wonderful pop album "Wrong Way Up". Still, the occasion of a major Andy Warhol exhibition in France in June resulted in an invitation for Cale and Reed to perform songs from the obviously-related album as part of the exhibition events. Lucky for all of us, this invitation was accepted.

The performance, in a suburb outside Paris, was recorded by an audience member, and since it happened outdoors to a relatively small crowd, the sound quality is quite clear. Even better, the capture included the soundcheck (mostly attempts to get the song "Forever Changed" down cold) as well as the main performance. For the crowd in attendance, this must have been quite the treat, seeing two Velvet Underground legends together performing in tribute to their own mentor, himself still recently-deceased but receiving a significant art exhibition. Perhaps Warhol collection shows are frequent enough nowadays to be taken for granted, but three decades ago they were scarce and major events.
http://www.fondationcartier.com/en/exhibitions/andy-warhol-system

Both sets are worthwhile, with the main set a respectable tribute to Warhol and the songs with which the pair already seemed to be getting beyond enjoying performing. At least the album still stands as a terrific collection of sorrowful, intimate, and sometimes fun songs. But then the duo pull off a coup by bringing out the other two classic-lineup Velvet Underground members (singer Nico also had passed not long before) -- guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer/singer Moe Tucker -- for a rendition of the early VU song "Heroin". The four had not shared a stage in over two decades. The gasps from the audience were justified, and audible in this recording. The performance was somewhat rusty, but a definite reminder of the forceful, inspired band that originally recorded the track, helmed by Warhol, well over two decades earlier.

Tucker had written and performed her own song tribute to Warhol on her rambunctious album "Life in Exile after Abdication" (from "Andy": "I lost an old friend today"), and would go on to collaborate with these other three Velvets for songs on her album "I Spent a Week There the Other Night" during the following year. Clearly, the band members were comfortable enough with occasional, infrequent gatherings together, though this 1990 performance would be a long-wished first step toward new works.

A culmination would happen later with a VU reunion tour, initiated during 1992 and performed during 1993. While the band subsequently frayed once again (and Morrison passed a couple years later), we're lucky to have the "Live MCMXCIII" from that tour, recorded interestingly during their Paris shows, as a document of this lineup's final act. Reed, of course, would depart this planet in 2013.

As for this file set, the most-recent upload here included the worthwhile notes below, and a dossier of artifacts promoting and from the exhibition. The 3-CD set mentioned above also includes an interview which doesn't appear in this collection. None of the files from the files I acquired have been altered, with the exception of this text file. Please enjoy!

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Note: the early-1989 performances mentioned above:

Lou Reed & John Cale
St. Ann's
Brooklyn, NY
January 7/8, 1989
"Songs For Drella - Drella In Progress"
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=742601
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=742602



(from original manifest)
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Lou Reed John Cale Paris 15 June 1990 audience recording from 1st generation cassette RESEED

....we've a little surprise for you....

2018 RESEED notes: I've tidied up the track titles and included CD artwork but made no other changes

(the soundcheck)

track 01: Forever Changed 8.24
track 02: Style It Takes 1.37
track 03: Forever Changed 2.20
track 04: Nobody But You 9.21
track 05: Slip Away 2.07
track 06: Hello It's Me 8.22
track 07: Forever Changed 4.06

(the concert)

track 08: Style it Takes 5.02
track 09: Nobody But You 4.30
track 10: Slip Away 4.05
track 11: Forever Changed 5.39
track 12: Hello It's Me 3.27
track 13: Heroin 11.47

Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
John Cale: viola, keyboards, vocals

+ Sterling Morrison: guitar (track 13)
+ Moe Tucker: drums (track 13)

lineage: MAXELL UD11 90 (1st generation) cassette - (Wavepad) - wav - flac (level 8) - you

original recording by the Raven
transferred to WAV July 2008 by lurid_uk
uploaded to Dime July 2008 by lurid_uk
RESEEDED on Dime June 2018 by lurid_uk

I received an invitation to this, the opening of the 1990 Warhol Exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Jouy-en-Josas, but couldn't go because I was financially embarrassed. I've been kicking myself ever since.

I had seen several of the "Songs For Drella" shows in New York in December 1989, and just assumed that this would be more of the same - I never dreamed that Moe and Sterling would also be present.

This show was reviewed extensively at the time so I dont think there's anything I can usefully add now. It was, of course, the first time that Lou, John, Sterling and Moe had shared a stage since September 1968. Their impromptu rendition of "Heroin" is a little ragged, but the old VU chemistry is still there. John's viola playing is particularly good - at one point it sounds as if there's an aircraft taking off!

The Raven managed to capture an excellent recording of the entire proceedings. There's a little audience noise but it's not at all obtrusive. None of the "songs" performed at the soundcheck are complete - mostly Lou and John are just doodling around to set the levels. (Lou keeps returning to the riff for "Turn To Me", for some reason....). I've tried to chop up the soundcheck sensibly into "tracks" - the whole thing fits nicely onto 1 CDR.

Scans included with torrent files:

1: Invitation to the opening of the Warhol Exhibition at Jouy-en-Josas
2: Programme for Warhol Exhibition at Jouy-en-Josas
3: Fondation Cartier Press Release for Warhol Exhibition at Jouy-en-Josas
4: Museum Of Modern Art Press Release re Warhol Print Retrospective
5. Letter from Fondation Cartier requesting material for display at Warhol Exhibition
6. CD artwork (2 different versions)

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