Velvet Underground - Unripened: The Norman Dolph Acetate - Run Run Run

From The Velvet Underground’s 1st studio session, recorded over 4 days in April 1966. This acetate copy of the final mixes originally belonged to studio owner Norman Dolph, and was famously found at a yard sale for 75 cents and then sold for over $25,000. Several different versions have appeared in various dark corners of the internet over the past few years; this one, from the bootleg CD “Unripened“, sounds best IMO. Perhaps “least awful“ is a more accurate description of the recording’s sound quality, but