Live In Seattle is a real find for fans of The Velvet Underground, what with its onstage recordings from Doug Yule, the former instrumentalist who showed up on Lou Reed's brilliant 1975 tour prior to the release of Coney Island Baby. It's also a record which vindicates the artist whose Squeeze disc on Polydor would make a wonderful Frisbee if it wasn't so rare (Yule fronted VU after Reed left the band and put out that record, which was a commercial and critical flop). Fear not! These re-workings of Velvet Underground tunes are everything that was missing from the much vaunted reunion of the band in the 1990s which resulted in The Velvet Underground Live MCMXCIII (1993). Live in Seattle's four-page booklet, accompanied by an additional eight pages -- that's 12 total, folks! -- and liner notes in Japanese as well as English, clarify just how the two shows came to be. The recording quality is surprisingly good, and two renditions of Yule's new Beginning To Get It are certainly the son of Beginning To See The Light, or an existentialist extension of the philosophy espoused by Lou Reed on that nugget from the third Velvets LP. This record moves and grooves, Yule or one of the guitarists employing what sounds like an old echoplex unit adding a nice ambiance to everything. Two versions of What Goes On contain that wonderfully eerie bite present on these new takes, enhancing the more straightforward renditions of yore.

1		Candy Says
2		Beginning to Get It
3		What Goes On
4		Sweet Jane
5		After the Fall
6		Love Song
7		White Devils
8		Two More Hands
9		Rules
10		Purple Mountain Glory
11		Beginning to Get It
12		What Goes On

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