Source/Title: FallingSpikes 1965 The text says: FALLING SPIKES LOU REED, JOHN CALE, STERLING MORRISON, ANGUS MACLISE IN 1965 A NEW YORK BAND CALLED THE PRIMITIVES CHANGED IT'S NAME TO THE WARLOCKS AND THEN TO THE FALLING SPIKES, LATER TO BECOME FAMOUS AS THE VELVET UNDERGROUND. THIS RARE RECORDING FROM 1965 IS THEIR ONLY RECORDED WORK. Actually: it's a tape copy of the "Live at the Boston Tea Party" LP (catalogue Velvet 1, UK, 1985) but the album Side One is the tape B-Side (and Side Two becomes the A-Side). Tracklist (not given on sleeve insert): A-Side B-Side Heroin What Goes On (the rest) Move Right In I Can't Stand It I'm Set Free Candy Says Run Run Run Beginning to See the Light Waiting for the Man White Light/White Heat What Goes On (part) Pale Blue Eyes After Hours Equivalent: Tape 3, VU LIVE - BOSTON TEA PARTY (JAN. 10, 1969) (but it's a loose equivalent). Sound: Bad to Average. Side B is too fast, like the album, with clicks and tape whirrs on "Candy Says" and is basically unlistenable. Side A is average at best. Notes: What a gem this would have been, but it's either a bad joke or a deliberate fraud. The sleeve insert is badly copied and hand-cut with blunt scissors, the text says "IT'S" when it should be "ITS", there is no Cale or Maclise and sloppy copying splits WGO over two sides needlessly with the first part lasting just a few seconds. Side B starts with five minutes of silence and I'm sure WTFM gets cut short. At least it presents the correct running order of the set, unlike the LP. There's an uncredited short jam between CS and BTSTL, as there is on the album, a few bars of rythmic "dum dum da-da dum dum daa" which could be a sound check or a warm up or anything else. Other Sources: LPs: Live at the Boston Tea Party VELVET 1 - all tracks Searchin' for my Mainline Fatman/Wild FATLP 2-3-4 & reissue Wild Records 101-2-3, BTSTL, ICSI Praise Ye the Lord VU 714 ISF, RRR The Boston Tea Party January 10th 1969 Spyglass SPY2LP3001 – all tracks CDs: Live at the Boston Tea Party Black Panther BPCD 012 – all tracks except WFTM A Tribute to Andy and Nico Wild Bird WBR CD 890903 – ISF, RRR, WGO, CS, BTSTL, WL/WH, PBE Concrete Dreams Teddy Bear TB 67 – ISF, RRR, WGO, CS, BTSTL, WL/WH, PBE Lou Reed's Velvet Underground DV More CD MTT 10.01 WL/WH, RRR, WGO, CS The Legendaly Guitar Amp Tapes Nothing Songs Limited NSCD-006/0/2 bonus CD-R, all tracks in a different running order WGO, ICSI, CS, BTSTL, WL/WH, PBE, H, MRI, ISF, WFTM Boston Tea Party 1969 Scorpio 1969 1/2/3/4 – all tracks except MRI The Boston Tea Party January 10th 1969 SPY2CD3001 – all tracks. Searchin' for my Mainline Too Much/Just Right Productions for Diamonds In Your Ear – ICSI, BTSL Live at the Boston Tea Party '68 and '69 Spyglass SPY8CDBOX1 - all tracks. Other Tapes: Boston Tea Party 10.1.69 (which does not include the short jam but does include Sister Ray) Dutch Radio 19.11.7 Plus Flexis and Rare for poor quality slowed-down versions of WGO, ICSI, CS, BTSTL, WL/WH, PBE.