BigSurreal what was it like seeing these guys in person?

How stoned was the audience

How stoned was the crowd

@@andrew_omara5759 As stoned as the audience.

I'm a few years younger. I didn't move to Boston until 1982. Would have loved to have been at this, much less any John Cale shows. Mo just rules.

+VC1 maybe

+VC1 DEFO

I live through that 'era' in the sixties, most of these songs are esoteric all about living in NYC on drugs. Not passing judgment, some of the greatest rock and roll song from NYC to SFO were made this way

No. Most over-rated, yes

Definitely

I wasn't there but i heard first Velvet Underground with there Hit "White Light, White Heat" in L4D2 (Zombie Shooter Game) in a really cool Mission, i was fighting a Horde of Zombies inside the Templehall of the Gnome King on a Planet far away from Earth and this Song played during the Epic Battle!!! 🎶🥰👍🎶 PS: First i wasn't sure if this Song was English or French because im Austrian and speak German^^ ...

there was live at texas something in NY 1969 i was not there i was 14

apart from velvets transformer rock and roll animal coney island

who ever wants to rest in peace??? like lou himself said: "it always bothers me to see people writing 'rip' when a person dies. it just feels so insincere and like a cop-out. to me, 'rip' is the microwave dinner of posthumous honors." lou reed

Shit, let's cancel them! #WWLRD@@stichtingraspoetin8495

and yet the #1 song of that year was "Sugar" by The Archies.

@@AlmostReadyMovie Well, it was a pretty sweet year...

❤I was born the mid child a hermaphrodite of triplets girl and boy in August 1969. I am so fortunate! I know how many lovely people were making honest music and caring about one another and healing from war and sharing how feelings felt - I was passed around in love circles to be held by entertaining people who made their own clothing and jewelry and instruments and head to toe wanted better for the worlds and collective consciousness was a gift we used! I was lucky because my uncle was best friends with Lou reed and they felt Lu my and Nico babysat me and Warhol babysat me and Patti and my mom gave hand made bean bags to the factory and my dad helped explain how sound could be better and designing happened and movies were made and I drew and coloured and painted with these beautiful artists of The Factory where you could benefit each other and as a group and anyone really hip to that could have a part. When I see the other places I have the same feelings that I’m home . I travelled a bunch around this gorgeous planet ooh the trains in Russia and Germany and how many similarities and differences there are . I was trained from a few days on phone to use sign language and I talked and walked so early and I loved to help. To work is to create which God does the

@@CooManTunes 1955 better

Jorge Gomez i know exactly what u mean...cheerz

And your penance will be to watch twelve Andy Warhol films continuously, without a break. Seriously though, I am on a similar kick and am really into them. To think that some idiot on here thinks that Led Zep are better is beyond my thinking. It's not about rock 'n' roll, but art - but the r 'n' r is important as well.

I'm doing the same, man. I went from DEVO to this, lol

I've been listening to this band since 89 when I first heard Heroin and Sunday Morning and now all I do is dig out there rare stuff and all media. I still have my rolling stones magazine cover of Lou's RIP cover on my wall since he departed.

@@robertmurray4490 apples and oranges

luigigarcia64 This was when she was pregnant?

It is moe! This is not Billy Yule.

She didn't leave the group until 1970.

Oh, ok. Hmm, let's see. My "research" on "the group" indicates Moe Tucker took a sabbatical for her pregnancy/childbirth in 1970. This recording is from January 1969. Which is, like, a year before then. Pregnant or not, Maureen is (standing) behind the kit in this recording. Clear enough? Besides...if you think this sounds like anyone other than Moe Tucker on the drums, you've either got a tin ear...or you're trolling. It's the latter, isn't it?

Def Moe. Billy Yule did not play drums like this at all and had a dif kit then her im sure. this has her style all over it.

poser

@@Girlxfriend bad vibe guy.

If you were you were lucky music like this is rarely made now.

I was there with BOWIE POP RAMONE.and SMITH. Had dinner at HARVARD CLUB with WARHOL and EDIE - one of her grandfathers lettered for that college's gridiron squad, no kiddin'. WE had a real gud time together. WE laughed and shouted and danced TOGETHER.

@@ethanhill9460 Not true. Punk was afterwards, not 1967-1969. They was babies then.

The interplay between the guitars is phenomenal

stones ya ya 69 airplane bless its pointed little head 68 ther are a few more but can,t think of them now this is a good sounding tape i must admit,i do agree

No, the greatest bands of all time. Why? because in 4 albums they made very different music, but whatever style, always most outstanding, there is no single VU song which is same any other VU song. All unique masterpieces

@@bogotario I would not disagree with anything you said 👍.

well, who wants to rest in peace with a body of work lou reed wrote??? or like he said himself: "it always bothers me to see people writing 'rip' when a person dies. it just feels so insincere and like a cop-out. to me, 'rip' is the microwave dinner of posthumous honors." lou reed

@@stichtingraspoetin8495 Although I tend to agree that RIP and the equally ubiquitous "thoughts and prayers" are rather hollow and insincere, I don't think Lou will be bothered by my paying respect to him.

​@@1959markie1 sure no! but i presume, the problem with language in general is, words are getting hollowed out when they're getting 'too popular', just like it happened to the very word 'respect' in the last years, or like lou sang in his: 'standing on ceremony': "...can't you show some respect please / although you didn't in real life / your mother is dying / and I god damn well hope you're satisfied..." so probably people in general might need poets to give us this special awareness of all those specific words & their detailed meanings, to keep up with a certain differentiated 'honesty' maybe??? or just like bob dylan sang: "...goodbye's too good a word babe, so i'll just say fare thee well..." as i was told today, a recording of lou singing this bob song will be released now soon.... but maybe i'm just too much 'blabber 'n smoke' now??? but being bothered after dying seems an impossibility to me too......

jackal59 amen

jackal59 ...and then he made the ‘squeeze’ album.

he was solid. its a crime he was disregarded.

@@ms-iz9ye Squeeze is mostly a pretty good album as long as you dont expect it to be White Light White Heat

@@billlloyd4029 took some guts to even make it i'd say

Lucas Ferreira not even close

nobody ever came close to the velvets and never will.

the modern lovers kinda have a similar sound

no one close to the Velvets...but Pavement were sorta on the same general road

Les Rallizes Dénudés

Michael Horgan now it's like "wow $200 for a concert?"

Michael Horgan Right around t time of Murmur, REM played for $5 at a bar in t same block that I lived (where there was usually no cover). In my infinet wisdom, I decided to pass as $5 was too much to hear some band from Ga. playing Byrds licks

$9 to see the Beatles Hollywood Bowl, '64. Or maybe that was $4.50 apiece for me and my sister, don't remember. $3.50 to see Zeppelin in 1970. What I would lay out now to see these guys and Moe and Nico. Wouldn't be any question. I flew to Paris from LA just to see Margo Timmins and Cowboy Junkies. Worth every little bit of it.

good musicians deserve infinity but yeah its a lot of money for everyday people

You are blessed Sir, to have such memories. I'm envious. And I'm 53 yrs of age, haha... - Hope you're doing well.

Lol

Well played Sir. Nico was the original Uber Babe and only the Proto Waif Jane Birkin can trump her.

King Crimson Amen

King Crimson Stockhausen Mahler a wall of vibrations

True. I got into the Velvets years ago but it was thru their studio albums and the first live LP i heard (live at maxs kansas city) turned me a bit off live stuff because of its poor audio but 20 yrs later starved for something new velvets i tried some of the live stuff on youtube and it was mind blowing, yeah these cats could really jam live no doubt about it

New York Dolls

The Stooges

Stooges?

robert byers Lucky!

Ich auch

i can imagine lou came up to the stage and went straight "hello we're the velvet underground and here's a song about shooting heroin"

@@nabilaadeliaputri2893 😆😆 that’d definitely be a move he would do!

Might not be your cup of tea, but check out this artist by the name of King Krule. Look for the video for his song called "Octopus". He's really young and from the UK and he uses brass in several of his songs. He's actually quite amazing for a young fellow. He mixes electronic music with very minimalistic post-punk I'd say. He doesn't sing punkish though. He sounds more like a really drunk Randy Newman or Damon Albarn.

+MRLein93 hey in which song do the velvets go into a jazz jam?

+MRLein93 "I Can't Stand It"; set two from the Matrix. That may be the best late 60's jam I've ever heard. It's concise, and very British at the time vs. the San Fran Hippie bands. It was more Syd Barrett Floyd than the Dead. Modern Jam Bands are crap, except for Gov't Mule. Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green were the real jam band at the time, they made the Dead look like amateur hour. The Allmans' did the same after Green left Fleetwood Mac.

+creekandseminole he's one of the more interesting artists to come out of the UK in a while, but not heard anything from him in a long time. I'm hoping he comes up with something amazing after such a long absence. He's quite exploratory, and I like how he mixes his jazz influences with funk and some darker, trippier elements. He's more Bragg, Tom Waits and Mike Skinner I think, but the Randy Newman comparison is spot on. Imagine him doing "12 Songs..." I had almost forgotten about him, and the effect listening to "Neptune Estate" had. I hope to listen to to his album with fresh ears when the time is right.

PrizewinnersPaws I think he recently released a sort of Hip-Hop album with his brother under how own name. Haven't listened to it though, but I'd think he'd be pretty cool doing some grime stuff if that's what it is.