Sterling plays on all the Velvet Underground records with the exception of Squeeze. See The Velvet Underground Web Page for a detailed Velvet Underground discography

Sterling plays for rythm guitar and bass guitar and shares the writing credits on European Son.

Sterling says: "I love the 'Banana album' so much. It's so innocent. Everybody was saying this is the vision of all-time evil and I always said well, we're not going to lie. It's pretty. 'Venus in Furs' is a beautiful song. It was the closest we ever came in my mind to being exactly what I thought we could be. Always on other songs I'm hearing what I'm hearing but I'm also hearing what I wish I were hearing."

Sterling is credited for vocals, guitar, bass guitar and co-credited for writing music on The Gift, Here She Comes Now, and Sister Ray.

Sterling says: "No producer could over-ride our taste. We'd do a whole lot of takes, and then there would be a big brawl over which one to use. Of course everyone would opt for the take where they sounded best. It was a tremendous hassle, so on 'Sister Ray', which we knew was going to be a major eftort, we stared at each other and said, 'This is going to be one take. So whatever you want to do, you better do it now'. And that explains what is going on in the mix. There is a musical struggle - everyone's trying to do what he wants to do every second, and nobody's backing off. I think it's great the way the organ comes in. Cale starts to try and play a solo. He's totally buried and there's a sort of surge and then he's pulling out all the stops until he just rises out of the pack. He was able to get louder than Lou and I were. The drums are almost totally drowned out."

Sterling is credited for vocals, guitar, co-vocal on The Murder Mystery.

Sterling says: "We did the third album deliberately as anti-production. It sounds like it was done in a closet - it's flat, and that's the way we wanted it. The songs are all very quiet and it's kind of insane. I like the album."

Sterling is credited for lead & rythm guitars & song composition.

Sterling says: "The album came out okay, as far as production it's the best, but it would have been better if it had real good Lou vocals on all the tracks."

Sterling is credited for lead & rythm guitars.

Sterling says: "The thing I've said in the past about the live at Max's album, is that it's unfortunate that Brigid was down there on a weeknight, maybe it made for a better tape, but it seems quiet, that's because she didn't have any kind of mike to pick up background noise. It seems to me that she was there for the first set on a tuesday night, or something. It's certainly not a weekend."

Sterling says: "Well, I don't like it, and I like it less because I don't get royalties for it, because I signed them all away. I was deceived by a number of people. I hope it sold very poorly. I hope nobody likes it.

Sterling plays on:

• Blue, All The Way To Canada (12 string)
• Too Shy (lead guitar)
• I'm Not (rhythm guitar)

Recorded Live at l'Ubu, Rennes, France, on Feb. 23, 1992. Sterling plays on all the tracks.

Sterling plays on:

• Me, Myself & I (guitar fills)
• I Don't Understand (rhythm guitar, first half of guitar solo)
• Danny Boy (electric sitar)
• Little Girl (guitar fills)
• I Wanna (lead guitar)

Sterling plays on the 4 tracks.

Sterling plays and co-writes Chelsea Girls with Lou Reed.

Sterling plays guitar on Buddhists On Fire.

Sterling plays electric guitar on Friendly Advice and Great Jones Street.

Includes Great Jones Street by Dean Wareham and Sterling Morrison.

Film soundtrack. Sterling plays guitar on People Who Died, written by Jim Carroll.

Third disc in the New York in the 1960s series produced from archival recordings by Tony Conrad. Sterling plays guitar on Stainless Steel Gamelan (mid-1960s) and At About This Time Mozart Was Dead And Joseph Conrad Was Sailing the Seven Seas Learning English (May 1967).

See The Velvet Underground Web Page for a detailed Velvet Underground bootleg discography.

Sterling overdubs guitar in September 1985 on a 1984 live version of I'm Waiting For The Man performed by John Cale solo on piano. Originally from Spanish/Catalonian Arsenal TV show, 1986.

Sterling and Lou Reed join in with John Cale on two tracks recorded at New York University on Dec. 5, 1992 - Style It Takes and Forever Changed

The Warrior Heart Of The Velvet Underground
Another Rolling Stone Records ARSR-0002-1/2 MONO, Japan, 2006
Another Rolling Stone Records ARSR-0002-1/2 STEREO, Japan, 2006

Cover compilation of The Velvet Underground played by Japanese bands. Track 8 on disc 2 is 10:10 of Sterling Morrison playing guitar for the Arsenal Catalan TV documentary.

By Olivier Landemaine
Last updated: March 22, 2007.