The Andy Warhol Museum has unearthed rare master tapes of the Velvet Underground's debut album:
The recordings were made by the Velvet Underground at Scepter Studios in 1966.Master Tapes for the Velvet Underground at Scepter Studios, 1966, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Andy Warhol was a hoarder. Following his death in 1987, hundreds of cardboard boxes were transported from his New York townhouse to his hometown of Pittsburgh where they now sit in the archives of the museum bearing his name. Methodically sifting through the more than 500,000 objects the pop artist kept forms a key part of the Andy Warhol Museum’s mission and recently, the institution’s staff discovered a gem: the master tapes of the Velvet Underground’s debut album.
The tapes, monophonic reel-to-reel 1/4”, offer a unique insight into the Velvet Underground’s development in the late 1960s, and include alternate versions and mixes of songs that later appeared on the group’s eponymous 1967 record. “The tapes were discovered while processing a large donation of Warhol’s personal archive from his estate,” Matt Gray, Manager of Archives at, told Artnet News. “It wasn’t until after the lockdown phase of the pandemic that we properly identified the tapes as being the masters from the Scepter Studios sessions.”
A year after the band formed in 1964, Warhol saw the Velvet Underground playing at a Greenwich Village café and offered to be their producer. So began one of the most iconic artist-musician collaborations in modern history. Warhol, already a giant of the
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