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This link clicks thru to an eBay auction on one of the rarest pieces of rock and roll memorabilia in the world. Purchased at the Sunday fair in Chelsea for 75 cents, the unreleased acetate of Velvet Underground & Nico features an alternate sequence of the record and a series of alternate versions of the tracks on the album long thought to have been lost completely due to time and circumstance. Among those tracks are “European Son”, “Venus In Furs” and a completely different take of “Heroin” complete with some different lyrics and more primitive drums.
The listing for the item reprints details of the purchase from an article from Goldmine magazine entitled, “THE MYSTERY OF THE VELVET UNDERGROUND’S ‘REAL FIRST RECORD’ (AND HOW THE ONLY EXISTING COPY WAS BOUGHT FOR 75 CENTS)”. Details about the purchase and discovery are laid out in great detail in the article. As of this writing, it’s at $111,000 and climbing. The auction ends on December 8th, 2006.
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