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FOR THE KINGDOM
IF I CAN..
The Rare
April 1966
“Scepter Studios”
recordings
captured on
acetate disc
featuring early,
alternate versions
of
songs
later issued
on
The Velvet underground & Nico.
Norman Dolph's
original
acetate recording
of the
“Scepter Studios”
material
contains
several recordings
that would make it
onto the final album,
though many are
different mixes
of those recordings
and three are
different takes entirely.
The acetate was
cut on
April 25, 1966,
shortly after
the recording sessions.
The bulk of the songs
that would become
The Velvet Underground & Nico
were recorded in
mid-April, 1966,
during a
four-day stint at
“Scepter Studios”,
a recording studio
in New York City.
This recording session
was financed by
Warhol
and
Columbia Records'
sales executive
Norman Dolph,
who also acted as
an engineer
with
John Licata.
Though exact
total cost
of the project
is unknown,
estimates
vary from
$1,500 to $3,000.
Soon after recording,
Dolph sent an
acetate disc
of the
recordings to
Columbia in an
attempt to
interest them
in distributing
the album,
but they declined,
as did
Atlantic Records
and
Elektra Records.
Eventually,
the MGM
Records-owned
Verve Records
accepted the recordings
with the help of
Verve staff producer
Tom Wilson,
who had
recently moved
from a job at
Columbia.
With the affirmation
of a label,
three of the songs,
"I'm Waiting for the Man",
"Venus in Furs"
and
"Heroin",
were re-recorded
in two days at
T.T.G. Studios
during a stay
in Hollywood
later in 1966.
When the record's
release date
was postponed,
Wilson brought
the band into a
New York studio
in November 1966
to add a final song
to the track listing:
the single
"Sunday Morning".
Although ten songs
were recorded
during this session,
only nine appear
on the acetate cut.
Norman Dolph recalls
"There She Goes Again"
being the missing song
and, indeed,
the version of
"There She Goes Again"
that appears on
the final LP
is attributed to the
Scepter Studios session.
This only
acetate disc
would resurface
decades later
when it was bought by a
collector of
Montreal, Canada
in 2002
at a flea market
in the
Chelsea neighborhood
of New York City
for a few coins.
It was then
sold on
E-Bay
from that collector
for over
$25,200
(€18.322).
TRACK LIST
European Son
(Alternate Version)
Black Angel's Death Song
(Alternate Mix)
All Tomorrow's Parties
(Alternate Version)
I'll Be Your Mirror
(Alternate Version)
Heroin
(Alternate Version)
Femme Fatale
(Alternate Mix)
Venus In Furs
(Alternate Version)
I'm Waiting For The Man
(Alternate Version)
Run Run Run
(Alternate Mix)
BONUS
I'm Waiting For My Man
(Vocal Mix) [*]
Heroin
(Vocal Mix) [*]
I'll Be Your Mirror
(Vocal Mix) [*]
Venus In Furs
(Vocal Mix) [*]
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