The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray (Live At The Matrix, San Francisco / Audio)

[@mightyturkeyneck1349]

40 minutes of "Sister Ray". 3 fat spliffs. Time well spent. I'm investing in my FUTURE, dammit.

[@danialsanchez672]

Hy man

[@MrKlaymanTom]

you can easily just put this on in your kitchen while you make food and feel slinky and in the groove the whole time. You'll be done eating and then you can do dishes, all while feeling badass. Great atmospheric rendition of this great song.

[@chetcskes329]

hey !...great idea, I'm on it man !

[@versioncity1]

+Tom Lute thanks for handy hint of the day. how to feel groovy in suburbia

[@steveanderson7864]

Tom Lute I am refinishing chairs and a table right now grooving.

[@juancarlosariasrubio7627]

Tom Lute 1sdñgc v8i

[@romandogbird]

This was my breakfast, hearing this version for the very first time. thought about how fucking great it felt all day. read your comment and somehow I just know this isn't going to be a one-time thing.

[@versioncity1]

Lou Reed: (said of the lyrics) "'Sister Ray' was done as a joke-no, not as a joke-but it has eight characters in it and this guy gets killed and nobody does anything. It was built around this story that I wrote about this scene of total debauchery and decay. I like to think of ‘Sister Ray' as a transvestite smack dealer. The situation is a bunch of drag queens taking some sailors home with them, shooting up on smack and having this orgy when the police appear." fucking love lou reed.

[@Nerdz2]

I couldn't relate more to this comment if I wanted to

[@cirquedude123]

So I never thought about it until you said that, but it is a musical comedy! You're absolutely right! Lol

[@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631]

VC1 sounds tame.

[@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631]

Greg Perez-Greene the story behind the song sound tame. U could see the influence of Burroughs and genet.

[@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631]

Jacob Hutton sounds tame

[@monarch_4149]

time stamps of the various sections of this performance for academic purposes and because I'm autistic. I'm no music expert and this is by no means 100% accurate. After around 19:28 it becomes difficult to split this into clean sections but I did my best. If there are corrections to be made, let me know 0:00 - intro, first and second verse 4:15 - solo by Sterling Morrison 6:00 - Moe Tucker switches to double time 8:01 - interlude 10:29 - solo by Lou Reed 19:28 - interlude, third verse 23:50 - instrumental picks up in intensity 26:52 - organ riff, solo by Sterling Morrison 29:37 - Lou Reed joins in 33:14 - outro, fourth verse

[@thecasualfront7432]

Cool bro

[@christophersybil8109]

A true sweetheart

[@jackstraw6760]

Dam dude, Deadheads don't even breakdown a lengthy Dark Star like you did. Nice job.

[@rudorky]

thanks!

[@danw1086]

Thanks

[@Andrew-ri5qo]

You can never have too many versions of Sister Ray.

[@mavjimbo]

Each one a different experience

[@Ronin777z]

@@mavjimbo That’s what I love about the VU. Every performance of each song is different

[@loureed3015]

Love it,joy division lets go,its just like sister ray says,,,,one loaf,people get bready,f33d jah world,

[@loureed3015]

Fukin romans

[@Oldtanktapper]

Had a friend years ago who was a VU collector, he had some weird bootleg 12” vinyl which was just a collection of versions of Sister Ray.

[@bwoodpop]

When you talk about the Velvet underground on this form,They were beyond brilliant. Greatest band in history for me.

[@MathijnvanderHeijden]

they are the essence of what making music with others in the moment as one, there are just very few bands that i know off that just do it right (its hard to explain im no musician) i just love how things just evolve flow on with their interactions. I think they will always be special just looking at how it came to be and when that was where it was, and idk but its hard for me to imagine even that some1 so young wrote such 'wonderful' things during that era. I think this is probably one of the really few truelly timeless bands at least the first 3 albums where if u ask me. If it where released today it would still work, and always will most likely.

[@jasonwade6945]

They definitely opened my eyes and spirit. They always put me in check when I disagree with the Holy Spirit

[@jekylwhispy]

Queen is a better band

[@Ryguzapi]

@@jekylwhispy 💀

[@cedricmorelle4354]

Yes incroyable !!

[@garrettjosephsversacrum]

Only true punks can improv for 40 minutes just to piss off the band that played over their set time the previous night. If I remember correctly, Grateful dead went over their allotted time and VU played over theirs the next night to screw over Dead. Thus giving birth to them playing sister ray for 40 minutes multiple shows.

[@altdelet3778]

What a cool story

[@lucasherzog5358]

VU proving they were the superior Warlocks

[@jackstraw6760]

That's a great story. I never knew the VU and the Grateful Dead ever shared the same stage. The Grateful Dead was a true punk band masquerading around as a psychedelic country blue grass blues rock band. Sounds like the Dead taught Lou and VU how to jam. This is amazing. Dead Heads cross over bridges just to hear what's on the other side. From VU to Iggy to The Cure to Dr. John to Patti Smith to Emmy Lou Harris to the Talking Heads to Bob Marley.... we just love good music and this is good music.

[@jackstraw6760]

@@lucasherzog5358 Or The Good Ole Grateful Dead teaching VU how to chill and get along. I'll bet whatever Garcia and the boys did that night wasn't planned or on purpose to hurt VU.

[@Juuhazan_]

What a power move

[@RaoulFel]

Feast your ears upon the transition at 3:45 onward and tell me thats not rock and roll in it's purest, most raw form. orgasmic

[@joxford1951]

sounded the same to me - but at 4:20 yes.

A total masterpiece of Rock and Roll...!!! Avantgarde, atemporal.

[@tellahsage6477]

19:57 Tucker hits the drums VERY hard after the lyrics talk about the guy getting shot, scared the crap out of me lmao

[@mitchellcobb4826]

Lol he constantly shoots a bag

[@mavjimbo]

That's hilarious

[@3leggeddogofficialbandpage329]

one of the best grooves i've ever heard

[@gothic666-punk5]

yes, really very groovy :-D greetings :-)

[@nmax696]

I wonder what the Dollar was for? Seems important.

[@marshallemmet1366]

This performance of Sister Ray sounds like it was written for The 1969 Velvet Underground Record, really cool to hear my favorite Noise Rock song in a softer style.

[@lamestudiosinc418]

I kinda see where you're coming from but I don't think they would've put a 40 minute noise rock banger on that one 😂

[@jimmybuckets5863]

Yeah it has a similar vibe to “Some Kinda Love”

[@크리티컬닭둘기]

Love it.. I can smell the 60's punky stuffs

[@piratesfan1995able]

15 mins in, I've came 6 times already

[@KarmaMechanic988]

If this is all the music that there ever was.... I could still be happy.

[@frostyeverclear]

Second to none ❤️. Eternally underrated

[@JJONNYREPP]

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[@johnshirley5222]

A brilliant, brilliant version. LIke a stage play, a dramatization, and inspired musically.

[@jongriffinblues]

Mo is primal on this. Stunning.

[@hdub16bq]

All great songs may go on for half an hour or more! Splendid!

[@loudenblogger]

I always thought that this is one of the best songs around, especially the crescendo in the beginning - gives me chills every time. I listen to at least one version of this song every day. Each version is different than the rest as equally as wicked.

[@buena1968]

Me too, though more weekly than daily, though that would be hardly a hardship... Classic and somewhat genius song.

[@naranjojo]

Once a day, like a vitamin.

[@matiasbalboa4947]

I am fucking speechless. The art of music is absolutely present is this piece of complexity.

[@deweypug]

Indeed! Surreal, sublime and sonically sumptuous!!

[@kathyfrancis9229]

I just discovered this. I love it. Brilliant.

[@grahamchapple3552]

sukking on my ding dong wat a lyric mo on percussion

[@MegaCirse]

This is beautiful as the chance meeting of a dessert spoon impregnated with chocolate and a plastic bottle without a protective cap, on the edge of a devastated heath covered with weeds following a succession of bad weather caused by a depression coming from northern Europa 👏

[@lamecrowd9636]

Divine little jewel, pure masterpiece.............................................................

[@timothybernardi68]

The idea of animating a Velvets concert is brilliant. With or footage of an entire actual performance, and considering the power of CG, an animated performance is an intriguing concept.

[@mojorocketman]

Wow, I thought I found all the live recordings. They just keep inspiring me with every thing they did...

[@memofromessex]

I put this on when I am really struggling to do some complex tasks at work, it really helps.

[@darthjesus420]

MemoFromEssex I had it on at work today and I really did groove with it. Def relatable

[@almishti]

easily as helpful as listening to Bach innit. :)

[@chuckblack8227]

the velvets at their most crazed, two thumbs up for the upload!

[@Richierampage]

This is the best version of sister Ray I've heard

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

i would have to agree

[@grahamchapple3552]

ray davies the Kinks no wonder this does not get played on commercial radio the person on drums?

[@georgecampbellvideos3517]

Class tune. Not heard this song for ages. I almost forgot how good it was.

[@NickRowsell]

Ace clarity on this live masterwork from this the hardest of bands.

[@steveanderson7864]

This comments fucking kicks ass.

[@clc-gl4jn]

I'm so high right now listening to this gem 💫

[@-takyon6852]

You know, the Grateful Dead and the Velvet Underground both started with the name "the Warlocks " and I can't help but think with songs like this that they are the same band in alternate universe. Difference between NYC and SF, speed/ heroin and lsd, Andry Warhol and Owsley Stanley.

[@thepostapocalyptictrio4762]

In some ways the same. Long jams, substantial changes from the album version.

[@dianepeel7154]

there was lota of speed and heroin in SF. Don't believe Media myths about flower children. SF had hard drugs which is what ruined the scene. The Hells Angels dealt speed and the Blacks in the Fillmore District (SF) and Oakland dealt heroin (like Blacks in Harlem). The Angels also dealt acid in Haight-Ashbury and elsewhere. SF had a dark, seedy urban side which is always ignored by the Media and eclipsed by the Hippie scene.

[@krismichael1633]

@@dianepeel7154 Manson put the flower child myth to sleep along time ago.

[@Mr.DMcDee]

@@dianepeel7154 You're talking post summer of love. The hard drugs didn't infiltrate until then.

[@Mr.DMcDee]

I agree, but there's a big difference between Dark Star or St. Stephen and Heroin or Sister Ray.

[@geekfreaklover]

Such a fantastic piece of music and a millions miles ahead the recorded version.

[@deweypug]

Around 8:34, after the fast jam, one could almost imagine the Doors playing for a bit...

[@jpdewer8727]

This here is some killer late night cursing/road trip music not only this particular song but the whole VU: Matrix Live (1969) album. One of my favorites. RIP Lou

[@buena1968]

The Matrix Tapes is one of ~ if not the best ever live box sets ever released...

[@stripedhyenuh]

This is the most Can-ish VU recording I've ever heard.

[@goclbert]

stripedhyenuh CAN listened to plenty of VU.

[@startervisions]

really? dope

[@romandogbird]

Faust had surely eaten many a tab to the original SR when they wrote Rainy Day Sunshine Girl, this version just makes it more obvious how VU-informed much of the rockier Kraut acts actually were.

[@giomakyo]

Neu...

[@크리티컬닭둘기]

I agree

[@Mike-eq7fi]

Great music will always resurface

[@andrewfrancisco8048]

This is awesome!!! A buddy introduced me to Lou Reed when I was a teen. I've been listening ever since. It has always been fun. 🍌.

[@willscomix]

Sister Ray's just one of those tracks where every performance deserves to be different. That's what I think's so great about it, it's so simple so you have the opportunity to have more fun with it! Lou Reed always did this in his live performance career, and this is just like the template for that; here's the song, if you can play the chords that's great. What else you got?

[@Lasher500]

I love the album version but this gives it a run for its money.

[@deweypug]

Someone could earn a PhD examining the riffs in this song.

[@billbailey695]

I did. Spent it on records.

[@robertmiller532]

@@billbailey695 Now show us your work

[@joshuayoon7503]

I love how jazzy this version is. I get a shot of adrenaline every time I put this on while doing something else

[@grahamchapple3552]

could be about shoooting almost too much speed

[@emilianopierro]

made of gold.

[@TheeMikeForce]

Sister Ray really done it all and knew what would happen.

[@getstarted7168]

10:30 sh*t gets real, VU!

[@99slaya99]

This should have been on the Voyager Golden Disc...

[@boris3877]

Bach and sister Ray, that's humanity.

[@hippojuice23]

And you can see 2 aliens looking at the eachother like "what the fuck?"

[@numsiskit]

How about "Last Great American Whale", just to get human saltiness and cynicism across?

[@bamspam23]

According to Lou Reed quoted in Mojo article called "overloaded"... There was a real Sister Ray. "This black Queen," Reed says, "John and I were uptown, and up comes this person, very nice - but flaming." Reed wrote the words, a set of incidents and character studies, on a train ride from Conneticut after a bad Velvets show there. "It was a propos of nothing: 'duck and sally inside' - it was Selby, uptown. And the music was just a jam we had been working on" The provisional title was SEARCHING. Selby was an NY novelist /poet.

[@dugitomi]

Hubert Selby, Last Exit to Brooklyn, is one of the best books i've ever read. why isn't he recognized as one of the greatest writers in the english language of 20th century? it had as profound an impact on me as did Naked Lunch and Clockwork Orange, by Burroughts and Burgess, respectively.

[@nbcouch]

I've heard that the character "Sister Ray" was supposed to be Ray Davies - ?

[@brötzmannsax]

@@nbcouch Ray and Dave are both female to male trans like most of the British Invasion, and the song Two Sisters he wrote about them.

[@nbcouch]

@@brötzmannsax oh, dear....

[@brötzmannsax]

@@nbcouch I know it's a real mindblower, but if you look at the transvestigations on here you will see it's been around for centuries. All the decades we watched all those movies and great music and were totally deceived by male to female and female to male characters. Unfortunately, upon deep research it looks like we were duped by the Who, Beatles, Stones, Kinks, etc. and those who were knighted or Sir standout the most, including Billy Shepherd who has stood in for Paul all this time.

[@MarcoBeatles]

hands off the Velvet Underground, VEVO!

[@cocoygranada9403]

When ratio & proportion matters, The Velvet Underground wields & weld the nth power.

[@Jack_nnn_]

The part around 8:00 where it drops right down to the drums is my favorite

[@XsunslayerX]

jesus fuck this is a jam like I am not sure I've heard before. VU never ceases to amaze!

[@flukecentral5641]

How can this be SO much better than anything else the velvets did!?!? Don't get me wrong; I love the velvets all the way, but this is something entirely different

[@jameswestley5643]

just from the opening groove on sister ray, I can tell this is a great show.

[@guimact72]

I thought I had listened to everything from teh VU's.... WOW

[@ZeacorZeppelin]

This recording and version of sister Ray is just an amazing ride from beginning to end.

[@Burukop]

Holy shit, this is just incredible

[@je7647]

people don't seem to be aware that lou was a masterful guitar player

[@markcarey67]

Yeah but a good lot of that at this point was Sterling

[@renaudgarel1494]

No! Jeff Beck or Jimi Hendrix are!!!

[@je7647]

@@renaudgarel1494 john fahey is a better player than them both, just because I said lou reed was masterful, iT doesn't warrant a comparison

[@bluegreenface1193]

yes very underrated, he paved the way for so many players but still sound original

[@renaudgarel1494]

@@bluegreenface1193 who are thèses players ?

[@wilsonbeddingfield4860]

I am the man from The Bad Guitarist and I mean terrible podcast on Spotify and other platforms ! This inspires me I came up with something I use a mediation stone as a pick that comes up with a different sound on a guitar missing a string, this is inspiring to come up with a different sound even more and play the whole podcast just to do it ! I love VU, The Doors movie made me want to research them ! It is true if you listen to them you will attempt music big time !

[@cardinalsfan8182]

This version of “Ray” is absolutely mesmerizing-love it!!

[@rutgersfilmmaking]

This is perfection

[@ceye2673]

only the velvets could make a song 36 mins long.So many versions, all bloody good. Got into them through bowie (bless him) in 71, couldn't get stuff like this then. KZbin has done a good job.

[@Maki.1028]

マトリックスほんといいですヨ✨

[@Kosmikboogie]

This is pure gold. And now we have Endless Boogie for those who care bout heavy and long jams

[@artturnerjr]

Mesmerizing.

[@josephmessina3587]

Pretty hard to top this masterpiece.

[@GillesGALLON-fz8uf]

❤ Le Velvet « Éternel « à jamais !! Pure musique,absolue et tout bonnement géniale,magnifique et magique 🤩🙏🫶 LOVE

[@fredfat3128]

this is better than the album version - how is that even possible? and without Cale

[@Patryc]

10:20 i love how it just sounds like a dude hitting random notes but it somehow all feels by design. that slight atonal nonsense with the bass or organ, whichever that is 10:33 atonal organ or keys as well meanwhile all set over this sick distortion guitar riff with no clear motif. just kind of wheeling 11:37 again with this second guitar reminds me of some of the jamming mac demarco did when i saw him live at a super small concert before he gained all those tiktok followers

[@jamesmorris5401]

Smoking down to this is wicked. When the video blanks so do u when u come back from the nod

[@europainvicta3907]

This is just fantastic.

[@JJONNYREPP]

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[@juanadrianarquinegogomez3610]

best workout song ever

[@diana8259]

All the músic of velvet & lou is the soundtrack of mi life .. my english is a shit, but understand . I from canary , never study english

[@dowz1969]

Mo Tucker is my religion

[@annagationes753]

Banda maravilhosa!!!😍😍😍

[@monksally]

Not long enough.

[@mdf7215]

wow. amazing

[@brandonbutler8808]

Such talented players:)

[@TheBelse]

...lol...Thursday to Saturday ...my type of gig. Easing in the comedown Sunday.

[@parisfernalia]

don't know how i found this at a quarter to midnight......but I'm dry fucking my furniture its that bad-ass!

[@startervisions]

hahahahaha

[@alexbaisch7618]

All day

[@myrtledickerson4120]

It doesn't get much better

[@JCSAXON]

It’s just fucking gorgeous

[@gouvyrock]

that's rock'n roll baby !!!!!!

[@TheeMikeForce]

This song this version is like the apocalypse now available on the ground songs And I knew Nelson Slater

[@dereklaidlaw7292]

Pure top notch

[@JJONNYREPP]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5Lao5mZiJV4d9k

[@joshorange3087]

en vivo desde la matriz, genial !

[@johnkuthe1]

Absolutely brilliant! :-)

[@goaitsenvandervliet200]

Wow!

[@antacidchain3022]

Lmao this one version is almost as long as the entirety of the white light/ white heat record

[@frickpoo6644]

thank you.. ineeded this

[@ralphcarneymovies1919]

Perfection.

[@12Jerome21]

yes! such a good find.

[@albertovallsmulero8711]

I feel like I've been reborn.

[@miriaborgess]

Amazing!

[@Mario-u2y2g]

Sublime

[@lepustimidus1323]

this is live gig? strange its so much better quality than the album version! 16 minutes in and loving it :D

[@terrywalsh5460]

No....its how it should have ended up on the album....i mean it was , as was'' i heard her call my name'' , the dirtiest rock n roll of all time ...so pure and desperate ...fuck...how many producers stand up and announce to the band that ''i am going now, you can finish it off without me'... this is how and why no one can get near this band ...and never will. and you say strange? about quality being better on this live song.....in the studio when recording ''sister ray'' , by that time each member had cranked up the volume to capacity in order to be heard.....this was why the producer left, and why the album sounds as it does , and its the best album they did.

[@lepustimidus1323]

well i'd agree with all that, nicely put terry; that album is fucking raw and its exactly what makes it so compelling, you better believe i do love the crunch :D thank god for that lazy ass producer! i meant 'better quality' purely from a technical recording POV, didn't mean to infer i also meant 'more enjoyable' ;) though holy shit this version is very cool as well. Love how VU seem to take a fresh take on their songs every time they play them. real musicians at work!

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

What I find really upsetting is that there were all these guys hanging around in the Velvet Underground's circle, in the Factory & elsewhere, including Warhol himself...seemingly always with film cameras filming shit...and yet why do we have so very little actual film footage of the Velvets playing live or doing much of anything?

[@timothyfreeseman767]

skag

[@andreperkowski2082]

The 16mm Auricon Warhol was using that put a sound stripe along the film had very bad sound quality and was meant for newsreels, really... and nobody knew where to put the mic. Shame an obsessive with a Nagra or something wasn't around to capture better audio alongside stuff like Symphony of Sound, Live in Boston, or their Chelsea Girls and Hedy jams. The package of silent 3.5 minute portrait Bolex reels they'd screen alongside EPI shows is pretty interesting, I didn't realize how many reels of Cale/Reed/Tucker/Nico/Morrison he shot. Someone should do a reconstruction using those films and tour a live EXPLODING PLASTIC INEVITABLE. Dibs on organ.

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

@@andreperkowski2082 that would be fantastic to see, reserve me tickets in every city on the tour !

[@philhuw88]

Awesome..

[@menkekkoen]

Freak out, again hahaha thank you Velvet.....