Velvet Underground rarity surfaces! (or does it?)

 THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

UPBEAT 1967?

CLEVELAND TV

Guess I'm Falling In Love fake live version?

Well?

What do YOU think?

From 

doomandgloomfromthetomb:

The Velvet Underground - Upbeat, Cleveland, Ohio, 1967 (?) 

Just when you think you’ve heard it all … a new mystery emerges. Though it isn’t really that new — this recording has apparently been hiding in plain sight on YouTube since 2014. But it just started spreading around last week. Is this actually audio of the Velvets’ performance on the Cleveland music TV show Upbeat in the summer of 1967? Maybe! Maybe not. Some are suspicious that the teen cheers at the beginning have been tacked on after the fact. But to what end? Just to mess with me?! I’ve mused about this legendary lost performance previously, but assumed it was lost for good. 

One thing’s for certain — this is a previously unheard performance of “Guess I’m Falling In Love” … is it live? A solo Lou demo? (For the record, I think that’s Sterling Morrison taking the guitar solo, and that drums come in very faintly at some point). Having listened to a lot of live VU, Lou’s vocals sound “live” to me … But who knows. Maybe the actual video footage will turn up next! Stranger things have happened. Anyway, it’s cool to hear, whatever it is! There’s some deeper investigation on the Velvet Forum. 

(Reblogged from doomandgloomfromthetomb)Well it sounds pretty authentic to me . . . . . . I do believe the audience at the end is added and the mix not picking up any discernible sign of bass and drums is an issue but if it were recorded off a TV it works . . . . I have done worse myself! (didn't we all when we used to use a cassette tape player to get the latest charts and Top of The Pops why not some teen who was watching 'Upbeat' and recorded it!