Pittsburgh City Paper


A new exhibit at The Warhol Museum makes available for the first time the original master tapes for the band’s debut album.

If you’re a Velvet Underground fan, you know how their debut album starts: a string of bell-like celesta notes that draw you into Lou Reed’s husky vocals about a slow and hungover “Sunday Morning.” Devotees of the band will be surprised to find out that the original nine-track listing, from the band’s 1966 recordings at Scepter Studios in New York City, had “European Son,” the last track on the final album version, as the first song…