Live MCMXCIII
23 ( double CD) 15 (VHS / DVD)
Occupation
Lou Reed: guitar, vocals John Cale: Keyboards, viola, bass, vocals Sterling Morrison, guitar, bass, vocals Maureen Tucker: percussion, vocals
Under the name Live MCMXCIII ( Roman 1993), which this year takes place, short-term reunification of the American avant-garde rock band The Velvet Underground was documented.
Genesis
In 1971, The Velvet Underground was dissolved de facto: with Maureen Tucker and Sterling Morrison, the last two original members had disembarked. In the following years, John Cale and Lou Reed pursued first solo careers.
In the 1980s, the music of the early Velvet Underground had its renaissance; many artists from David Bowie to Bauhaus called the band as a source of inspiration. When Andy Warhol, former promoter of the band, had died in 1987, Reed and Cale first started work after 19 years again; In 1990 the song cycle Songs for Drella as a musical biography, which was also listed in the same year.
1990 since 1968, played all four original members attending a Warhol exhibition for the first time together in 1992 followed by two more appearances. From the recent collaboration of the proposal arose for a comeback in the "classical " occupation Reed, Cale, Morrison and Tucker. Doug Yule, who had replaced Cale in 1968 and took over the leadership of the band from 1970, was not included; later said this, he probably would have refused for family reasons anyway.
On the tour, some new compositions have been performed in addition to the old pieces, including Velvet Nursery Rhyme, which addressed the reunion of the band, and written by Reed and Cale Coyote.
The band members had repeatedly stressed in interviews that the tour should not be a basis for a new long-term cooperation. This was indeed short-lived, as the old disputes within the band flared up again soon; so called Reed's then wife Sylvia the other band members publicly as " Lou's backing band ." The last concert of the tour, which led for the first time in the history of the Velvet Underground through Europe, the band played on July 9, 1993 as the opening act for U2.
Formats
The recordings on Live MCMXCIII come from the first three concerts at the Olympia in Paris. There have been both audio and video recordings; former appeared as a single and a double CD and a double cassette. Video footage first appeared on VHS cassette; In 2006 they were re-released on DVD under the name Velvet Redux Live.
Track list
The single CD contains a selection of the pieces of the double CD, there are no differences between the songs on both CDs. The pieces contained on the single CD are marked below with *. The track list of the double - cassette corresponds to the double CD.
Audio
CD 1:
CD 2: