The Velvet Underground - Sunday's Clown

Allegedly previously unheard in-room-recording of The Velvet Underground & Nico's live set at the Chrysler Art Museum in Provincetown, MA that formed part of the mythical Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour in 1966. Apparently the only pre-existing document of the performances were visual, and this record only now exists following a recent discovery of a tape machine recording made by a switched on journalist that found themselves in the right place at the right time. A little digging online suggests a few of these songs may have already surfaced on other fan-made bootlegs at some point (and of course, the bootleg economy for the Velvets is undoubtedly, shall we say, robust), which may or may not be true but is a moot point nonetheless. Another partly/mostly/entirely previously unheard document of the greatest band of all time in an early stage of their development is a nothing less than a blessing. Of course the fidelity is a little grimy, but if you've come here looking for production values I'd venture this might not be the record for you, which is fine but ultimately it's you that's missing out. In addition to the '66 recording, whoever has put this together (thank you!) has rounded out the set with a couple of tracks from the same year in Chicago but minus Lou, and a 1968 demo of 'Feeling Alone', a song I'm pretty sure can only otherwise be accessed by visiting the Lou Reed archive at the New York Public Library. If you needed another reason, there it is.