The Rare Music Curator presents
Crushed Velvet: Velvet Underground and solo work by Reed, Cale and Nico.

1. The Roughnecks/ You’re Driving Me Insane
A 1965 single by a pre-Velvets Lou Reed group released on Pickwick.

2.Velvet Underground/ Ferryboat Bill
From the legendary “guitar mix” bootleg where the mic was supposedly in Lou’s amp. Vocals are so non existent it could be an instrumental.Maybe it is. Approx 1969.

3. Velvet Underground/ Heroin
An early unreleased version from 1966 acetate.

4.Nico/ Femme Fatale
From the bootleg “Live In New York” with Dead Boys guitarist, Cheetah Chrome.
30 August 1980

5. Lou Reed/ Ocean
Unreleased 1970 acoustic version for a song that appears on his first solo LP.

6. John Cale/ Buffalo Ballet
With guitarist Chris Spedding, live in Chicago 1987.

7. Lou Reed/ Vicious
Live in Sydney, Australia 1974

8. Lou Reed/ Sweet Jane
1976,live, location unknown. Has Don Cherry on some tracks of this bootleg but can’t hear him here.

9. John Cale/ Paris 1919
9 June 1992 live recording with strings and pedal steel player, BJ Cole.

10. Nico/ Ari’s Song
With Tangerine Dream at Cathedrale Notre Dame, Reims, France 13 Dec 1974
This song is about Nico’s son, Ari. Backup keys by Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke, Peter Baumann.
The Tangerine Dream backing seems very sparse on this song. Its higher on other songs on the source disc.

11. Lou Reed/ Sword Of Damocles
From “The Start” bootleg, Milan , Italy 23 Jan 1992
With Mike Rathjke: guitar

12. Lou Reed/ Rock And Roll
From “The Start” bootleg , disc 2
Also includes Rob Wasserman, bass

13. Lou Reed/ Straw Man
Hammersmith Odeon, London 23 March 1992

14. Lou Reed/ Dirty Boulevard
Hollywood, 7 June 2000

15. Nico/ StripTease
Demo recording written by Serge Gainsbourg from 1962

Here’s a fine unreleased jazz set from The Henri Texier Trio from 2001.

photo: Henri Texier

Live from Pizza Express, London 5/9/01
First set
Henri Texier: bass
Sebastien Texier: alto saxophone, clarinet
Tony Rabeson: drums

This edition of The Rare Music Curator presents, features the phenomenal Eric Boeren Quartet from a 2002 performance at The Vortex in Stoke, Newington London. This is the full set from that date.
Inspired greatly by the classic Ornette Coleman Quartet of the 60s, Boeren updates this sound with a fiery performance and great support by American Michael Moore on alto and the great Dutch rhythm section of De Joode and Bennink.

Eric Boeren: cornet
Michal Moore: alto sax
Wilbert De Joode: bass
Han Bennink: drums

The Rare Music Curator presents podcast #29
Random Rock: Because I Feel Like it.

When putting this show together I had no grand theme or concept like I usually do. I just started grabbing tunes I wanted to hear and one thing lead to another. These are mainly big name rock bands but all the material is unreleased. Crank it up and enjoy the spirit.

1. Jeff Beck Group
27 June 1995,Concord Pavillion, Concord, CA
Jeff Beck: guitar
Tony Hymas: bass
Terry Bozzio: drums

2. AC/DC “Highway To Hell”
Year unknown, Paris, France

3. Beastie Boys
22 May 1992, City Gardens, Trenton, New Jersey

4. Rory Gallagher
1978, San Francisco CA

5. Rolling Stones “Hand Of Fate”
4 June 1976 Paris

6. Radiohead
9 June 2001, Live BBC TV

7. Rage Against The Machine “Bombtrack”
Year and location unknown

8. Jimi Hendrix “Lover Man” from Unsurpassed Studio Takes

9. Smashing Pumpkins “Cherub Rock”
24 March 1996, Milano Italy

10. Morphine “Gonna Burn”
Year and location unknown

11. Lou Reed “the Blue Mask”
7 June 2000, Hollywood CA

12. U2 “All Along The Watchtower”
31 December 1989 Dublin, Ireland

13. Jefferson Airplane “Jam”
31 December 1967, San Francisco CA

14. Focus “Hocus Pocus”
1973, Paris

15. Harvey Mandel
1994, San Rafael, CA

The Rare Music Curator presents podcast #28
Where’s My Drink? The music of John Fahey

This month’s feature is on guitarist John Fahey, ( 1939-2001) purveyor of solo acoustic guitar. This program was sourced from two separate concerts and basically alternates between them. There are a couple of notable glitches and rough spots including a very loud start to the second song and a digital glitching that made me fade out song #6 early. Fahey himself tunes up during the songs at times.
As always this program is for the personal use of enthusiasts only and never to be sold. If you do not own any John Fahey recordings I suggest you obtain some of his commercially available recordings. There are lots of good ones to choose from.

1. University of California at Riverside California
“The Barn” 6 November 1976

2 & 3. Great Midwestern Hall
Louisville, KY 13 December 1977

4. UC Riverside

5. Louisville, KY

6. UCRiverside

7. Louisville, KY

8. UCRiverside