Yep

😂

Sure is my friend

Yea he never wanted to do the same thing more than a few times. Even going as far as throwing out what made a song great on the record for a live performance. he was like a jazz player in that respect. sometimes he would strike gold and make it sound better than the record.

lol

yep but we all know he listened to the beatles and doors all day

He also said that the Beatles 'taught us how to write songs'

If you know anything about Lou Reed with interviewers, you'll know that he liked to troll and bullshit them all the time.

Well I mean this is the only song by them worth a damn. This, Norwegian Wood, Day in the Life, While my Guitar Weeps, I am the Walrus are pretty good songs by them. I'm not a huge fan, matter of fact I think Beatles suck, but those are some good songs by them.

agreed

VU is way better than the Beatles. Well, anyone is.

yer just a hater man. Turn off your mind relax and drift downstream.

@@rcpmac It is not dying

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They would have liked Revolver too I think, Cale picked She Said She Said on his desert island discs

@@newdawnfades5725 yeah, in The Velvet Underground doco he talks about how crazy the lyrics of She Said were at the time to him

startervisions tuning two strings together. Completely makes sense of Run Run Run plus Delmore S

o yeah. its cool because you can hear Lou's guitar start to wash with effects, then he starts going crazy on the solo, just off the damn rails. But then, they land on the 4 at some point...the solo kinda calls for a second listen

Primal core of rock-'n'-roll!

So, the V.U.'s Third and Fourth Albums do not exist, then? According to your Pronouncement, Then? I'm sure that they do. But people only hear, what they want, and dis-regard Social Science and any facts of the matter.

nice trolling

Lou didn't write Heroin in Jan 1964. Probably still at Syracuse Univ. Rubber Soul was a pot album released in DEC 1965. I think the Beatles recording Tomorrow Never Knows in April 1966 - more around Lou's Velvet days

@@darrell6800 lol Velvet Underground basically began with Lou playing Heroin for John in 1964

the beatles and the velvet underground weren't as far away lyric wise as many think, in 1966 the beatle recorded revolver while the velvet underground was recording "The Velvet Underground and Nico" and they hold a lot of lyrical similarities. Doctor Robert was about a person John Lennon was buying drugs from similar to I'm waiting for my man. She said She said is about an acid trip when somebody explained what it was like to die to john, tomorrow never knows is inspired from the book the Tibetan book of the dead. People like to think the beatles and the underground were years apart but they forget that the beatles love song period was from around 1962-1965 I'd say ending with Rubber Soul.

What's so funny? When the VU were writing Femme Fatale the Beatles were writing Tomorrow never knows. Beat that ...

What are you talking about they didn't steal it from watch your step because that riff isn't in watch your step. He plays a blues lick which sounds like the riff played really fast but it's just a blues lick.

@@jaydenwhitlen1489 lol hurt Beatles fan here ✅

I agree man. He did not like the Beatles - he was adamant about that. I believe you speak the truth. Those British groups stole so much from the Americans just like Lou said...

@@clc-gl4jn I like The Beatles, The Velvet Underground and Bobby Parker I'm not just a Beatles fan. I'm just saying the riff from Daytripper is an arpeggiated blues lick that Watch Your Step happened to use once in it's opening. It's that simple.

@@clc-gl4jn If you really think that Lou Reed actually hated The Beatles then you seem to miss Lou Reed's sarcastic personality entirely. He loved to mess with reporters/interviewers and would lie to and say contradictive/controversial things just to get a reaction out of them.

cale will probably be playing bass, as he tended to most the time, like on waiting for the man

Dickey Betts actually punched Lou in the face as i read in the somewhat recent biography about lou. At some type of party fundraiser thing. no clue if lou was able to get one in on him lol

@@natetheannihilnater1886 Never heard about that! :-)

Nope

lol i mean the intro riff was. then they did some raunchy blues instead. just how they were.

Marc Alan Di Martino has

+Denver Potts Yeah, it's Justin

is it really Justin Beaver?

Naw, Mayer looks more like his mother Nico

Yes.

no

I was thinking the same thing but then 4:07 no one could pull off such a solo

Fuck yes it is.

Brian Topolinski so true!

+coldironhands1 It's Justin Bieber

for sure it is.

its called the day tripper jam because of the three-second lick played at 0:00

+Raymantico They'd be the first to tell you they probably wouldn't have existed without The Beatles to inspire them.

+andyinoregon Actually Lou Reed said he despised all his contemporaries apart from Roger McGuinn. He also had a strong Bob Dylan influence as heard on the demo tapes.

but lou was famous for talking shite to journalists as well.

No, they definitely would have existed without them. Lou brought early rock and roll/doo-wop, pop and Dylan influence, with an experimental bent, and Cale brought the avant-garde/way more experiemental part, Mo the minimalist drumming, Sterling the master guitar work. Other than that few seconds of guitar, I don't think there's much Beatles influence in their work. They stand head and shoulders above the Beatles.

+andyinoregon Lou Reed and John Cale invented everything they did. No influence besides some doowop and free jazz.

So what happened?

Maybe your band was better when the VU were just screwing around. But I seriously doubt you and your pals came up with anything like "Sister Ray."

Then where are your hit records at bud?

@simondeun9692 🤣

John Lennon definitely could’ve done something similar to this. Matter of fact, check out Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s song “Why” off the Album Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band.