It reminds me of the time I recorded a local band on my portable cassette machine.. The battery's were failing so the recording ended up sounding super distorted.. They were so impressed with how knarly it sounded they released a limited run of cassettes of the recording
This recording might just be the loudest, rawest and heaviest thing to ever come out of the 1960s. Still sounds incredibly powerful over 50 years later.
It's such a blindingly brilliant concept from the audience member. Just record as close as possible to Lou's amp. Outstanding. Best idea Warhol never had !
@fox pals well you have to consider that this recording is literally just the mic right next to lou's amp, so imagine a recording of ron asheton playing la blues with the recording just being the mic next to ron's guitar, i figure it'd be just as intense still both great though
First leed break....thats ( Lou )Ostritch Guitar. ( All strings tuned E ).....this is what I imagine Jonathan Richman meant...." Lou would rape his guitar...)
Sister Ray is in G. He isn't using ostrich tuning during this. This is probably tuned a half step down if anything, although it's probably just the old tape making it sound detuned.
they often took turns soloing, these recordings are directly from Lou's amp. Sterling's solos were usually bluesier while Lou's were a wall of sounds as heard here
