The Velvet Underground / Off The Record

アルバム"Songs For Drella"作成の過程でリードとケイルが再び仲違いし、1990年4月にようやくアルバム"Songs For Drella"がリリースされ、本当はそこで全てが終わるはずだったんでしょうが・・・。1990年6月15日、ヴェルヴェッツのオリジナル・メンバーの4人がたまたまフランスのジョイ・アン・ジョザで行われたアンディ・ウォーホル回顧展に招かれ、一緒に食事をすることになり、その場で演奏することが決まったそうです。もともとReedとCaleによる"Songs For Drella"からの演奏の予定でしたから、当然ヴェルヴェツとしてはリハーサルなし、モリソンがギターも持っていない状況で、決断はなんとステージの10分前だったそうです。

僕が知る限り、この海賊盤で初めてこの演奏が世に出ました。聴いたとき、この模様が録音されていたなんて奇跡だと思いました。それが今ではなんとYoutubeで無料で映像で見られるんですね・・・。

この歴史的な曲が、DとGの2コードしかないなんて、嘘のようです。

"Heroin"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYCLd5aUCKw

I don't know just where I'm going
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel just like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
I have made the big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
'Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death
And you can't help me now, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailor's suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I'm better off and dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really don't care anymore
About all the Jim-Jim's in this town
And all the politicians makin' crazy sounds
And everybody puttin' everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds
'Cause when the smack begins to flow
Then I really don't care anymore
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God that I'm as good as dead
Then thank your God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I just don't care
And I guess I just don't know
And I guess I just don't know