Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes

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{{Infobox album
| name = Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes
| type = live
| artist = [[the Velvet Underground]]
| cover = VUQuine.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|2001|10|16}}
| recorded = May, November–December 1969, [[St. Louis]] and [[San Francisco]], [[United States]]
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[rock music|Rock]]
| length = 230:03
| label =
* [[Polydor Records|Polydor]]
* [[Universal Music Group|Universal]]
| producer = [[The Velvet Underground]]
| prev_title = [[Final V.U. 1971–1973]]
| prev_year = 2001
| next_title = [[The Complete Matrix Tapes]]
| next_year = 2015
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r554973|first=Lindsay|last=Planer}}</ref>
| rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
| rev2score = A−<ref>[http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1560&name=The+Velvet+Underground Robert Christgau review]</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev3score = (9.4/10)<ref>[http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8435-bootleg-series-vol-1-the-quine-tapes/ Pitchfork Media review 26 November 2001]</ref>
}}

'''''Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes''''' is a triple [[live album]] by [[the Velvet Underground]]. It was released on October 16, 2001, by [[Polydor Records|Polydor]], the record label overseeing the band's [[UMG]] back catalogue. It was recorded by [[Robert Quine]], a fan of the band who would later become an influential guitarist, playing with [[Richard Hell]], [[Lou Reed]], and [[Lloyd Cole]].

==The Quine Tapes==
During 1969, the Velvet Underground toured the United States and Canada, playing well over 70 dates. By this time, the band had picked up a sizeable fan base and every now and then a fan would bring along, with consent of the band, recording equipment to record a set. Most of the time, this would mean relatively simple hand-held recorders resulting in [[lo-fi (audio)|lo-fi]] [[monaural|mono]] audience recordings, as with this set and the live album ''[[Live at Max's Kansas City]]'' (1972) (''[[1969: The Velvet Underground Live]]'' was the notable exception, using [[stereophonic sound|stereo]] [[soundboard recording]]s).

Robert Quine, an avid Velvet Underground fan, used to travel to as many concerts as possible. He became friends with the band and they allowed him to record sets from the audience, occasionally asking for playbacks. Quine recorded many concerts, but as his original [[musicassette]] tapes began to wear out, he compiled four [[open reel|reels]] of what he considered the best material. These "best-of" reels were ultimately released in 2001 as the present ''The Quine Tapes'' set. The original musicassettes from which the reels were compiled no longer exist.

Musically, ''The Quine Tapes'' finds the band in the same phase in their history as documented on ''1969''—the two sets even share a performance of "Rock and Roll", recorded at the same concert by both Quine and the [[The Matrix (club)|Matrix]] sound personnel. Quine's tapes, although lo-fi audience recordings, capture much more of the music's ambience, especially in the larger venues, such as [[Washington University in St. Louis]]. Additionally, ''The Quine Tapes'' contains songs that the band only rarely performed by this time, such as "Sunday Morning", "Venus in Furs" and "The Black Angel's Death Song", along with other obscurities such as "Over You", "Ride into the Sun", and "Follow the Leader", which had never even been bootlegged in its original form.

== The ''Bootleg'' series ==
''The Quine Tapes'' is, to date, the only entry in the ''Bootleg'' series. The second volume was to be a recording of an April 1967 show at the Gymnasium in New York City, which marked the live debut of "[[Sister Ray]]". Two songs from the show, "Guess I'm Falling in Love" and "Booker T", appeared on the box set ''[[Peel Slowly and See]]'' (1995), and the full show was released in December 2013 as part of the "Super Deluxe" reissue of ''[[White Light/White Heat]]''.

==Track listing==
{{track listing
| headline = Disc 1
| extra_column = Recording date and venue
| title1 = [[I'm Waiting for the Man]]
| extra1 = November 8, 1969, [[Chet Helms#Family Dog Productions|Family Dog Ballroom]]
| length1 = 7:46
| title2 = It's Just Too Much
| extra2 = November 8, 1969, Family Dog Ballroom
| length2 = 4:08
| title3 = [[What Goes On (Velvet Underground song)|What Goes On]]
| extra3 = November 8, 1969, Family Dog Ballroom
| length3 = 8:25
| title4 = I Can't Stand It
| extra4 = November 8, 1969, Family Dog Ballroom
| length4 = 6:20
| title5 = Some Kinda Love
| extra5 = November 8, 1969, Family Dog Ballroom
| length5 = 4:48
| title6 = Foggy Notion
| extra6 = November 8, 1969, Family Dog Ballroom
| writer6 = Reed, [[Sterling Morrison]], [[Doug Yule]], [[Moe Tucker|Maureen Tucker]], [[Hy Weiss]]
| length6 = 4:41
| title7 = [[Femme Fatale (The Velvet Underground song)|Femme Fatale]]
| extra7 = November 7, 1969, Family Dog Ballroom
| length7 = 3:14
| title8 = [[After Hours (The Velvet Underground song)|After Hours]]
| extra8 = November 8, 1969, Family Dog Ballroom
| length8 = 3:05
| title9 = I'm Sticking with You
| extra9 = November 8, 1969, Family Dog Ballroom
| length9 = 2:48
| title10 = [[Sunday Morning (The Velvet Underground song)|Sunday Morning]]
| extra10 = November 9, 1969, Family Dog Ballroom
| writer10 = Reed, [[John Cale]]
| length10 = 2:56
| title11 = [[Sister Ray]]
| extra11 = November 7, 1969, Family Dog Ballroom
| writer11 = Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker
| length11 = 24:03
| all_writing = Lou Reed, except where noted
}}

{{track listing
| headline = Disc 2
| extra_column = ...
| title1 = Follow the Leader
| extra1 = November 27, 1969, [[The Matrix (club)|The Matrix]]
| length1 = 17:05
| title2 = [[White Light/White Heat (song)|White Light/White Heat]]
| extra2 = December 1, 1969, The Matrix
| length2 = 10:03
| title3 = [[Venus in Furs (song)|Venus in Furs]]
| extra3 = December 1, 1969, The Matrix
| length3 = 5:14
| title4 = [[Heroin (The Velvet Underground song)|Heroin]]
| extra4 = November 23, 1969, The Matrix
| length4 = 8:11
| title5 = Sister Ray
| extra5 = December 3, 1969, The Matrix
| writer5 = Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker
| length5 = 38:00
}}

{{track listing
| headline = Disc 3
| extra_column = ...
| title1 = [[Rock & Roll (The Velvet Underground song)|Rock and Roll]]
| extra1 = November 25, 1969, The Matrix
| length1 = 6:49
| title2 = [[New Age (Velvet Underground song)|New Age]]
| extra2 = November 24, 1969, The Matrix
| length2 = 11:21
| title3 = Over You
| extra3 = November 25, 1969, The Matrix
| length3 = 2:41
| title4 = [[The Black Angel's Death Song]]
| extra4 = November 23, 1969, The Matrix
| writer4 = Reed, Cale
| length4 = 5:54
| title5 = I'm Waiting for the Man
| extra5 = November 27, 1969, The Matrix
| length5 = 11:37
| title6 = Ride into the Sun
| extra6 = November 24, 1969, The Matrix
| length6 = 11:11
| title7 = Sister Ray" / "Foggy Notion
| extra7 = May 11, 1969, [[Washington University in St. Louis|Washington University]]
| writer7 = Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker / Reed, Morrison, Yule, Tucker, Weiss
| length7 = 28:43
}}

==Personnel==
;The Velvet Underground
* [[Lou Reed]] – [[singing|vocals]], [[rhythm guitar|rhythm]] and [[lead guitar]]
* [[Sterling Morrison]] – lead and rhythm guitar, [[Backing vocalist|backing vocals]], bass
* [[Doug Yule]] – [[bass guitar]], [[organ (music)|organ]], backing vocals, lead vocal on "Ride into the Sun"
* [[Moe Tucker|Maureen Tucker]] – [[percussion instrument|percussion]], lead vocals on "After Hours" and "I'm Sticking with You"

;Technical staff
* [[Robert Quine]] – [[recording engineer]]
* The Velvet Underground – [[record producer|producers]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://members.aol.com/olandem/vu.html The Velvet Underground Web Page]
* [http://home.hetnet.nl/~macplurkis/vu/index.html Foggy Notion – a Velvet Underground Web Corner]

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