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January 2-14, 1967 Steve Paul's Scene, New York City, New York The Steve Paul & Andy Warhol Underground Amateur Hour Poster: reproduced in Peel Slowly And See booklet p. 78 and in Andy Warhol - 365 Takes (take #43). Photos: shot on January 7 by Fred McDarrah, available in:
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February 18, 1967 NY Relief Fun Glitter Acidheadspeed Ball & Parade Handbill: 8.5 x 11" program sheet for a mixed media show, writing in butterfly shape. The Velvet Underground (and Angus MacLise) are clearly listed but it's not clear whether the Velvet Underground actually played, or were just on the soundtrack of the films being shown. This psychedelic butterfly themed handbill also lists numerous other participants, including Andy Warhol, Harry Smith, Bobby Neuwirth, DA Pennebaker, Amy Taub and many, many more. Additional live music was provided by the Gato Barbieri Quintet and Larry Coryell's Free Spirits. Single sheet Press Release: announcing a series of mixed media events presented at the Filmmakers' Cinematheque, NYC, Feb. 25th-March 2nd, 1967. 28x21.5cm. Prints two separate texts, the first beginning: "The Underground will present a festival of movies, slides, film loops, jazz, rock, et al. The artists, led by Barbara Rubin, plan to topple the current concept of theatre and movie house by placing the musicians in the middle of five screens". Musicians mentioned are The Free Spirits and Gato Barbieri, "plus films by leading underground movie-makers, among them Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, Ed Emshwiller, Jonas Mekas, and Miss Rubin". The second part begins: "..at the Cinematheque..we are having New York's first United Acidheadspeed Relief Fun Ball & Glitter Parade. In the Dental Destruction of the Chairs a Mass Mental Concentration Against Furniture Instigated by their Presence by Angus MacLise & The Velvet Underground with the Contributions of their movies, slides, loops, projectors, & Madness of Harry Smith Andy Warhol..Jonas Mekas..Jack Smith..Piero Heliczer..Gerard Malanga..Shirley Clarke..Pennebaker..Stan Vanderbeek..", ending "& just about anyone else you can think of for 12 days in the mass love contest 'Smother Me'". |
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March 31-April 1, 1967 Exploding Plastic Inevitable Posters: "2 shows nightly 7pm 9pm". Reproduced in Andy Warhol - 365 Takes (take #43). Alternate green version also exists, reproduced in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue (p. 3). Photos: Bill Carner & Ron Spencer in Uptight, p. 68-71. |
April 7-8, 1967 Ad: in Village Voice, April 1967: "Andy Warhol Presents The Complete Spectrum Of Sound With The Velvet Underground, The Dick Hyman Trio & Tony Scott, One Of The World's Greatest Clarinetists; Every Fri & Sat" | |
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April 9, 1967 A Night Of Andy Warhol This date is documented by a letter from Paul Morrissey to Rick Aiere, reproduced in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue (p. 16) Ads: 4 different ads in Michigan Daily issue of April 1967 - two shows at 6:30 and 9:30. Flyer: 8½" x 11". Press articles:
Photos: 2 black and white photos in University of Michigan yearbook. [Special thanks to Frank Uhle] |
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April 11, 1967 An Imperial Happening For this event at the Cheetah nightclub in midtown Manhattan, Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground & Nico were booked with Tiny Tim for a benefit for radio station WBAI. Titled "An Imperial Happening", the event allegedly celebrated "the coronation of his Serene Highness, Prince Robert, first American Emperor of the Eastern Byzantine Roman Empire". Handbills: one on white stock which lists the performers and one on pink stock which does not. 8.5 x 11". Photos: by Billy Name. One available in Songs For Drella special edition CD, miscredited to Cafe Bizarre, November 1965.
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| April 11, 1967 Architecture School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan The Exploding Plastic Inevitable Mentioned in Uptight, p. 69 : "April 11th they returned to the scene of their first real triumph, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where they played for the Architecture School. At a party after the show a young man called Jim Osterberg a/k/a Iggy Pop, caught his first glimpse of The Velvets, Andy and Nico who was playing with them again." It's 99.99% certain that this was an error in Uptight. The show at the Architecture School was in '66 (March 12) - the writer probably got both the dates and locations confused. Frank Uhle looked at the microfilm of each day's University of Michigan college newspaper and they advertised the March 12 '66 and April 9 '67 shows heavily, and there would have been for sure an ad for an April 11 show if there was one. | |
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April 14-16, 21-23 & 28-30, 1967 Ad: for April 30 date, "A NEW HAPPENING DISCOTHEQUE JOINS THE SWINGING SIDE OF SINGLE NEW YORK" in New York Guide To The Swinging Side Of Single New York, vol. 1, issue 18, p. 3. Reproduced in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue p. 66. Photo:
Press article: by Howard Smith in The Village Voice, May 11, 1967. The Gymnasium soundboard tape(s):: First track to surface from the Gymnasium tape(s) was Guess I'm Falling In Love (supposedly listed as Fever In My Pocket on the original tape box), broadcasted on WPIX FM by John Cale on June 3, 1979. After playing this version he clearly states that it is from a tape he stumbled across. He definitely says "Gymnasium, April 1967". Cale also said in some interviews he owns the tape of the entire Gymnasium show, including Walk It As You Talk It with a really good guitar sound.
Sources: And So On LP, Everything You've Ever Heard... 3LP, Collector's Dream CD, The Psychopath's Rolling Stones CD, A True Rock 'n Roller CD, Ultra Rare Trax Vol.3 CD, Caught Between The Twisted Stars 4CD. Two others tracks surfaced in the 90s - Booker T. orginally appeared on the John Cale Paris S'Eveille CDEP in 1991 and was reissued (unfortunately with 8 seconds amputed at the beginning) on the Peel Slowly And See box set, along with an alternate version of Guess I'm Falling In Love. This version sounds clearly different as compared with the WPIX version and has some lyrics differences (the box set version begins with "I got fever..." while the 'old' version begins with "I got MY fever...").
Sources: Paris S'Eveille CDEP (2), Peel Slowly And See 5CD (1, 2), A True Rock 'n Roller CD (2). More material from the Gymnasium recordings is finally issued in February 2008 on the bootleg LP Live At The Gymnasium. According to a source claiming to have a DAT copy of the original tape, it has an additional instrumental version of The Gift (possibly the version of Booker T. released on the PSAS box set?) after Sister Ray.
Source: Live At The Gymnasium LP (1-5), Dispatches From The Dream Factory 3CD Disc 2 (1, 3-5). |
| April 1967 Marwick Theater (?), Ann Arbor, Michigan Tape: listed in WGO 1+2, 30 mins (incomplete), C+. | |
| May 1967 Steve Paul's Scene, New York City, New York Exploding Plastic Inevitable (last one) | |
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May 26-27, 1967 Last show with Nico. Flyers: two different. Some copies of the first flyer have even Nico's name crossed out. The second flyer - 8.5 x 11" - seems to have been printed after she was out. Artist is D. Arthur Hahn for the first flyer and unknown for the other. Both flyers are repoduced in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue p. 60 & 79. Tape: a BTP May '67 tape is listed in WGO 1+2, 50 mins, B. It could come from these shows. Setlists: there is a sheet of paper from May 26-27, 1967 on which the band wrote a setlist for two shows. This sheet was included in the Andy Warhol Museum exhibition 'All Tomorrow's Parties: Remembering The Velvet Underground'. See also Peel Slowly And See box booklet p. 56-57. Show 1:
Run Run -- 10
Venus -- 5
White Heat -- 5
Venus -- 10
I heard etc. -- 5
Walk & talk
Searchin -- 15
Show 2:
Run Run -- 10
Venus -- 5
Waiting for the Man -- 5
Black Angel -- 5
Here She Comes Now (crossed out) -- 5
Heroin -- 10
Searchin' -- 20
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Andrew Russ says in his review of the exhibition: "The numbers are approximate times. Venus twice in set 1 may be a mistake (or I wrote it down wrong). Searchin' is of course Sister Ray. I Heard Heard is probably I Heard Her Call My Name. The real surprise is Walk " Talk - did that song exist in 1967? Also somewhat funny is the placard next to the paper, which in that dry art museum formalism notes that this is work is executed in 'graphite on paper'." |
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June 9-10, 1967 With: Beacon Street Union. Flyer: 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inch. Artist is D. Arthur Hahn. Reproduced in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue p. 61. |
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July 3-6, 1967 A Happening Starring Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground With: The Ones. Posters:
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July 19-22 & 26-29, 1967 With: The Muffins, Beacon Street Union, The Wildflowers. Poster: by Karen Fritz. Reproduced in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue p. 68. Photo: Billy Name. One available at Getty Images. |
July 1967 Benefit for Merce Cunningham There's also another benefit for Merce Cunningham at the Brooklyn Academy of Music of New York mentionned in Fusion magazine, March 6, 1970, near the end of the Robert Greenfield article: "The chronology resumes. A Velvet Underground appearance at the BAM is also mentioned in the same issue at the end of the interview with Sterling Morrison. Photos: Stephen Shore. Film: there is an obscure little film, 498 3rd Ave by Klaus Wildenhahn, which documents the John Cage/Merce Cunningham dance piece performed during this benefit. The soundtrack includes live versions of Venus In Furs and Waiting For The Man (both cut and "ruined" by Merce Cunningham talking about his dance troup) which were apparently performed by the band off camera during the filming. Tape: film soundtrack, 3 mins, B.
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August 11-12, 1967 Be part of what's Happening Flyer: "Be part of what's Happening. Andy Warhol Underground Filmmaker comes to the Boston Tea Party this weekend to capture the people on films they explode to the sights and sounds of The Velvet Underground. You are the star. You are what's Happening. Be part of Boston's first authentic underground movie". Art: F. Murphy. Reproduced in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue p. 53. Poster: 14" wide x 17½" high. The poster is silk-screened blue & red on yellowish cardboard. © LIGHTSHIP PROD 67, Dolphin Design. Handbill: same design as the poster but it is red monochrome and there is no date of the venue mentioned. Film: Andy Warhol filmed this weekend in Boston. According to The Andy Warhol Museum, there are some film canisters labled Boston Tea Party but the film has not been seen. |
| August 24, 1967 The Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts Tape: listed in WGO 1+2, 60 mins, B-. Steve Nelson: "I think the 8/24/67 Tea Party date on the tape listed in WGO 1+2 is not correct. The tape referred to must have been mislabeled from the 8/11-12 gig. At that time the Tea Party was only open on Friday and Saturday nights, and the 24th was a Thursday. I remember the weekend of 8/25-26 vividly -- it was my very first weekend as manager of The Tea Party!" | |
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September 22-24, 1967 Boston's biggest entertainment buy of the season / 4 performances / 3 days only! Ad: in Sunday Herald Traveller, Sep. 17, 1967. Reprinted in What Goes On #3. Article: "Movie uses Underground" in The Tech, September 15, 1967, p. 9-10. |
| December 20, 1967 The Cinematheque Coffeehouse Palace of Pleasure, San Francisco, California Ad: for The Andy Warhol's "EPI" with The Velvet Underground in The San Francisco Oracle, 3" x 5 1/2". | |
Home Thanks to Steven Beck for the Boston Tea Party flyer scans, Ondrej Klepsa for the Gymnasium ad, Steve Nelson for his Boston Tea Party recollections, Frank Uhle for Ann Arbor stuff, Chris Van Tuyll for Boston Tea Party August handbill, Mark Sturdy, Marc Skobac, Nick Blakey, Alfredo Garcia. by Olivier Landemaine ©1996-2008 The Velvet Underground Web Page | |
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