How Lou and Sterling managed to hold the rhythm on the guitar for this long is pretty incredible.

one of the most epic and rockin jams ever captured on recording...and then when it ends, the echoing applause of what sounds like only five people in the audience. how amazing it would've been to be there, and be heard as that sixth person applauding his heart out.

Mo Tucker's underpinning rhythm stitches it all together. Simple, hypnotic and so effective.

Not a damn thing wrong with Doug Yule or his keyboards. This seriously rocks!

This is of historical quality in the world of Rock music. Timeless.

My VERY favorite VU song. I like the Val Valentin mix of the studio version best. Lou's singing on that breaks my heart every time. While the vocal melody is truncated here, this version has such intense guitars, it's almost incomprehensible. Sterling Morrison's wrist bones must have been laced with Adamantium. Ordinary humans can't just _do_ that. They'd hurt themselves!

1:01 That guitar has influence U2 for sure.

People like to moan about Doug Yule in the band, but just listen to how strong this sounds. It's a band at the height of their powers live. You know they just had to be on that stage at that moment doing that song. It's why I first picked up a guitar.

One of my fav velvet songs!

Better tempo and more balls than the studio version - the real inventors of punk!

Loving Mo here.

best of all time

How bout it this tune rocks..puts me in a good mood. Baby b good

So GOOD !!

Doug Yule killing it on the organ. version 1 has longer organ part, puts me in a kind of a trance

Mo Tucker...human metronome

Eran,lo maximo en rock and roll

Love the Bo Diddley in this song!!!

faaaaaaarrrrrr out! thanks much for posting

Mi favorita!!!!!

The Strokes led me to The Velvet Underground. I can hear it!

genial

Love this part 1:10

❤❤❤

far too short. I prefer the longer Version 1 which seems like it could go on forever because they're all in synch (and it's nice to listen to on repeat). this version feels like the warm up...

What's that longer version video with the psychedelic visuals and go-go dancers? It seems to be possibly a live performance but there was no crowd noise. They must have been mesmerized. Anyway, that one puts this version to shame. Mr. Yule's masterpiece performance was jaw dropping.

This songs so fuck'n amazing. This version is the epitome of 'speed'

Those are strings.....an d those are fingers. wow

you know it will b alright what could go wrong lol

cool as fuck

This............

a super classic ,,,,,,,,,is it a beatles cover or theirs

I have a question for serious VU fans. Which guitar is Lou and which is Sterling? In the right channel I can hear muted rhythm and in the left is more power cords. Any ideas? These are the things that keep me up at night.

Sore Wrist!

Live 69 got 2b 1 of the best albums recorded and the audience was minimal to put it mildly fuckingcriminal....what a band....🥁💉😵‍💫🎸🎻🎙️

[Verse 1]What goes on here in your mind? I think that I am falling down I think that I am upside down [Chorus]Lady, be good, do what you should You know it'll work alright You know it'll be alright [Verse 2]I'm going up, and I'm going down I'm going to fly from side to side See the bells up in the sky Somebody's cut the string in two [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3]One minute born, one minute doomed One minute up and one minute down

who's the 2nd guitarist then?

This seems a wee bit faster than the CD version... just sayin..

Punkowcy mieli od kogo ściągać ;)

Thought is was a weird Beatles cover...