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another day, another dignified appearance

_**The Velvet Underground& Nico - Chrysler Art Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, September 1966**_ Those with their ear to to the (under)ground in the past month or so may have noticed that there’s a fresh VU & Nico tape making the rounds in various places — why, there’s even a proper vinyl bootleg popping up here and there. Fun stuff for un-fun times. The first hint of this September 1966 recording arrived a few years ago in the form of a lovely version of “Little Sister,” a Nico-led tune that the Velvets had not previously been known to have performed live. Now you can hear much more of the band at the Chrysler Art Museum in Provincetown, MA, including a killer “I’m Not A Young Man Anymore,” a masterful “All Tomorrow’s Parties” and an absolutely mesmerizing “Heroin.” The sound quality? Well, it’s a Velvet Underground audience tape, so set your expectations accordingly. This is indeed the same run of Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows where the famed photo that adorns the back cover of the Banana album was taken. (Ryan H. Walsh has some general info about the gig!) Things may have gotten heated/hectic at one point. “Somebody had tipped [the police] off that the Velvets had stolen most of the leather braids and whips they were using from a local handicrafts store that afternoon,” Andy Warhol remembered. “When the police came in, Mary [Woronov] had just strapped Eric [Emerson] to a post and was doing the S&M whip dance around him. They confiscated the whips and then undid Eric so they could confiscate the straps he was tied with.” Oh those crazy kids!

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