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Live At Max's Kansas City [Live] [Original recording remastered] [Extra tracks]

~ Velvet Underground
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  • Audio CD (2 Aug 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Live, Original recording remastered, Extra tracks
  • Label: Atlantic/Rhino
  • ASIN: B0002BK9GW
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,650 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. I'm Waiting For The Man (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 5:50£0.69
Listen  2. White Light White Heat (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 6:07£0.69
Listen  3. I'm Set Free (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 5:33£0.69
Listen  4. Sweet Jane (Version 1) (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 6:18£0.69
Listen  5. Lonesome Cowboy Bill (Version 1) (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 4:41£0.69
Listen  6. New Age (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 6:44£0.69
Listen  7. Beginning To See The Light (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 5:50£0.69
Listen  8. Who Loves The Sun (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 2:17£0.69
Listen  9. Sweet Jane (Version 2) (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 5:58£0.69
Listen10. I'll Be Your Mirror (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 3:02£0.69
Listen11. Pale Blue Eyes (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 7:10£0.69
Listen12. Candy Says (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 5:48£0.69
Listen13. Sunday Morning (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 3:48£0.69
Listen14. After Hours (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 2:50£0.69
Listen15. Femme Fatale (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 4:07£0.69
Listen16. Some Kinda Love (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970)11:22Album Only
Listen17. Lonesome Cowboy Bill (Version 2) (Live @ Max's Kansas City in NYC Summer 1970) 4:57£0.69
Listen18. Atlantic Release Promo (Hidden Track)0:49£0.69

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A far cry from the fervour of the seminal LIVE 1969, this live recording, though it was made only a year later, is the swan song of the Velvet Underground. Velvets fan/friend Brigid Polk brought her home cassette machine to this gig at oneof the band's favourite NY haunts to record it for herself.Though it was cleaned up upon its eventuation to album format, it still bears the lo-fi marks of it's origin, adding tothe gritty, you-were-there feeling.
The band had lost idiosyncratic, minimalist drummer Mo Tucker by this time, and were performing material from what's arguably their least memorable album (LOADED), so there's none of their previous live fireworks to be found here. By this time, it was undisputedly Reed's show, so just think of this as the first great live Lou Reed album. The band is at their most polished here,but the amateur sound quality provides a serendipitously ragged edge to the proceedings. The first half of the album isfilled with bracing rockers, mostly from LOADED, while the second contains the band's most affecting ballads, largely from their earlier albums. Get 1969 first, then explore this album's subtler charms.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Live and loud, 22 Jul 2005
By E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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It seems appropriate that rocker-muse Bebe Buell once wrote and sang, "Cut my teeth at Max's Kansas City/My soul is pure rock." It was the original rock'n'roll club, with drag queens, actors, hit singers and underground hits in the same room. It had Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger and then-waittress Debbie Harry hanging out in the same place.

Alas, there hasn't really been a place like Max's Kansas City since. So it seems appropriate that a momentous rock occasion took place there: Lou Reed did his final show with the Velvet Underground. Fortunately, a pal named Brigid Polk taped the whole thing, and this "legitimate bootleg" is a rough-cut little slice of what that night was all about.

It opens with drums being clattered, instruments being tested, and a lot of background chatter. Then Reed offers a dignified intro ("you're allowed to dance, in case you don't know"), before launching into several songs that are primarily from "Loaded" and "White Light/White Heat," with stage chatter between songs.

Apparently Reed unexpectedly changed the second set (on the second disc), including material from the "Nico days," early in the band's existance, including a spare, stripped-down version of "I'll Be Your Mirror," a gentle "Candy Says," a suitably hungover-sounding "Sunday Morning," and the way-too-long "Some Kinda Love."

The album is bootleg quality, especially since they didn't have digital recording then, and Polk used a tape. So it's very fuzzy around the edges, a little incoherent here and there; "Femme Fatale" is downright murky. But it's all in remarkably good shape when one considers that it is from 1970.

And to some degree, its rough quality can be seen as a blessing. People like me -- who were born way after Max's Kansas City faded away -- can get a brief taste of what the nightlife at Max's was like, when fashion, art and pop all collided. So the background voices and clattery tuneups just add to the "you are there" quality.

It's also noteworthy because the songs included are among their best, and because Reed delivers them with so much emotion. There's a certain poignancy to his introduction when one realizes that it would be his last show with the Velvets. And it gives a bit of extra oomph to certain songs like "I'll Be Your Mirror."

"Live At Max's Kansas City" is not the best-quality live album there is. But it is a small slice of the psychedelic nightlife for anyone who wasn't lucky enough to actually go there.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Nothing new, 30 Oct 2004
It is of course a great album as we already knew. One of my favorite albums of the velvet underground. on this new release there are only 5 new songs, including candy says. onfortunately there are people talking during candy says, and you can actually hear what they are talking about. So nothing new on this album but a must have for the real velvet fan.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must have, 17 Dec 2004
By MARTIN ROACH (LONDON United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This is a real must for VU addicts. Some very funky stuff - brilliant version of New Age (what is that guitar bit about at the end? It's cooler than you or I can ever hope to be.) - all live - and no, it does not detract. If at first you are not convinced, listen again. It's more evidence they were the coolest band ever to wear shades.
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