A previously unreleased three-disc live album by the Velvet Underground will come out August 28, three decades after the influential rock group fizzled out.

Titled The Velvet Underground Bootleg Series, Volume 1: The Quine Tapes, the set consists of material taped in 1969 by Robert Quine, a founding member of Richard Hell and the Voidoids who later played guitar with VU co-founder Lou Reed, Tom Waits and Matthew Sweet. The songs were culled from three shows, two in San Francisco (at the Family Dog and The Matrix) and one in St. Louis (at Washington University), and were recorded on a portable Sony tape machine through a hand-held microphone.

The set features material from the Velvet Underground's first two albums, The Velvet Underground and Nico and White Light/White Heat, and includes "Heroin," "Femme Fatale," "Venus in Furs," "White Light/White Heat" and multiple versions of "Sister Ray," "Foggy Notion" and "I'm Waiting for the Man."

The only previously released recording from The Quine Tapes is "Rock & Roll," which appeared on 1969: Velvet Underground Live.

A year after Quine's recordings, the band released its fourth and final studio album with VU founding members, Loaded. Lou Reed quit shortly thereafter. His final appearance with the band was documented on the 1972 disc Live at Max's Kansas City, which was also recorded on a portable tape machine.

Universal plans to release other live Velvet Underground titles during the coming year.

The full track list of The Velvet Underground Bootleg Series, Volume 1: The Quine Tapes, according to the project's publicist:

Disc One

Disc Two

Disc Three