Velvet Underground - Unripened: The Norman Dolph Acetate - Run Run Run

From The Velvet Underground’s 1st studio session, recorded over 4 days in April 1966. This acetate copy of the final mixes originally belonged to studio owner Norman Dolph, and was famously found at a yard sale for 75 cents and then sold for over $25,000. Several different versions have appeared in various dark corners of the internet over the past few years; this one, from the bootleg CD “Unripened“, sounds best IMO. Perhaps “least awful“ is a more accurate description of the recording’s sound quality, but this is still an amazing artifact. Here are the liner notes: “ What you’re holding in your hand is what the first Velvet Underground album would have sounded like had it not been rejected by the powers that be. Andy Warhol’s intention was to capitalize on the buzz surrounding the band’s debut gigs under the guise of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows. A music-art-freak out-happening. Andy, wanting to keep the band’s abrasive sound and s