John Cale & Lou Reed - Heroin Live
The Velvet Underground remain one of my favourite bands of all time. I missed the reunion tour as I was skint at the time, and other than some silent and jam along Warhol reels, nothing of real worth of the band playing live exists in the video archive that I've seen before now.
However, in 1972, John Cale, Lou Reed and Nico had a one night get-together and strummed out a few Velvet's classics for an appreciative French audience at Le Bataclan in Paris. I've seen audio bootlegs of the set, and I've seen the Femme Fatale video from there as well. I've not seen this though - its the two main men doing a rendition of Heroin. It looks great, it sounds great, and it's as close as I'm likely to get to seeing them live from that era, albeit a few years after their prime. I'll follow this up with the Nico track, as that's stunning also.
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