the velvet underground & nico 45th anniversary

[65] "New Age" was changed as well: as originally recorded, its closing line ("It's the beginning of a new age" as sung by Yule) was repeated many more times. Because of the punishing lights, the band took to wearing sunglasses onstage. The Velvet Underground in 1966. At the ceremony, the band was inducted by Patti Smith, and the trio performed "Last Night I Said Goodbye to My Friend", written in tribute to Morrison. Nico moved on after the Velvets severed their relationship with Andy Warhol. "Sesnick had engineered Lou's leaving the group. [39] In September 1967, the Velvet Underground began recording their second album, White Light/White Heat, with Tom Wilson as producer. The foundations for what would become the Velvet Underground were laid in late-1964. [73] When asked about Squeeze, Yule hinted that band manager Steve Sesnick orchestrated the album purely as a money ploy. Also at these appearances, the band often played an extended jam they had dubbed "Booker T", after musician Booker T. Jones. Sterling Morrison was a professor for some time, teaching Medieval Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, then became a tugboat captain in Houston for several years. He saw no talent in Lou [Reed]. It must have been hard for Lou to hear that because he depended on him, so he quit. The band performed under a number of names before settling on The Velvet Underground … [86] They were ranked the 19th greatest artist by the same magazine[87] and the 24th greatest artist in a poll by VH1. "Sweet Jane" and "Rock and Roll". [69] In late May 1973, the band and the tour manager parted ways, thus bringing the Velvet Underground to an end until the classic line-up of Reed, Tucker, Morrison and Cale would reunite in the 1990s. Eleven songs showcased the Velvets' dynamic range, veering from the pounding attacks of "I'm Waiting for the Man" and "Run Run Run", the droning "Venus in Furs" and "Heroin", the chiming and celestial "Sunday Morning", to the quiet "Femme Fatale" and the tender "I'll Be Your Mirror", as well as Warhol's own favorite song of the group, "All Tomorrow's Parties". The condition of the jacket is VG+ with only slight ring wear and slight signs of handling. Or do you want to start moving into other areas? Read Full Biography. The rest of the recordings, as well as some alternative takes and instrumental tracks were later bundled on Another View which was released in 1986. Those who did remove the banana skin found a pink, peeled banana beneath. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed had performed with a few short-lived garage bands and had worked as a songwriter for Pickwick Records (Reed described his tenure there as being "a poor man's Carole King"). The band's debut, The Velvet Underground & Nico was produced by Warhol and released on Verve Records in March 1967. Despite these commercial setbacks, the band focused on performing live shows on the road, playing both re-worked songs from their past albums, and debuting new songs that would find their way onto the Loaded album, such as "New Age", "Rock and Roll", and "Sweet Jane". Lou, don't you think you should think about it?' [78] On September 16, 1998, at Havel's request, Reed performed in the White House at a state dinner in Havel's honor hosted by President Bill Clinton.[79]. The quintessential bohemian New York band of the '60s that fused art, rock, and poetry in a fashion that proved incalculably influential. A technique used on many songs was the "drone strum", an eighth-note rhythm guitar style used by Reed. While the band continued to do extended improvisations in their live shows, by 1969 they were focusing on tight live performances,[citation needed] and several of the live shows the band played during this period would end up released as live albums many years later. Warhol arranged for the band to get an endorsement deal with Vox to enable them to use Vox equipment, including special effects pedals and an organ, for free. The album was released by Verve Records the following year in March 1967. The band performed live often, and their performances became louder and harsher and often included extended improvisations. Their debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico (with German singer and model Nico), was released in 1967 to critical indifference and poor sales but has since become critically acclaimed; in 2003, Rolling Stone called it the "most prophetic rock album ever made."[5][6]. [51] Yule had first seen the Velvets perform at a student event at Harvard University in Cambridge in early 1968,[52] and when the band played at the Boston Tea Party later that year, the band stayed at Yule's apartment on River Street, which he happened to be renting from their road manager, Hans Onsager (who worked closely with their manager Steve Sesnick). Stephen Thomas Erlewine notes that the album received "uniformly terrible reviews" upon initial release,[72] and in the early 1970s, the NME Book of Rock counted it as "a Velvet Underground album in name only". [24] During a short period in September 1966, when Cale was ill, the avant-garde musician Henry Flynt and Reed's friend Richard Mishkin[25] took turns to cover for him.[26]. Reed once commented on their leaving Warhol: "He sat down and had a talk with me. MacLise still behaved eccentrically with time and commerce and went by his own clock: for instance, he showed up half an hour late to one show and carried on with a half-hour of drumming to compensate for his late arrival, long after the set had finished.[17]. The overall sound was propelled by Reed and Nico's deadpan vocals, Cale's droning viola, bass and keyboards, Reed's experimental avant-garde guitar, Morrison's often R&B- or country-influenced guitar, and Tucker's simple but steady and tribal-sounding beat with sparse use of cymbals. Just do the best you can." [according to whom?] [45] Along with brash songs like "Sister Ray" and "I Heard Her Call My Name", there was the darkly comic "The Gift", a short story written by Reed and narrated by Cale in his deadpan Welsh accent. [69], In May 1972, Atlantic released Live at Max's Kansas City, the recording of the Velvet Underground's final performance with Reed (also with Doug Yule, Morrison, and Billy Yule) made by a fan, Brigid Polk, on August 23, 1970. Cale sang most of the songs Nico had originally performed. In 1996 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. [89] AllMusic wrote that "Few rock groups can claim to have broken so much new territory, and maintain such consistent brilliance on record, as the Velvet Underground during their brief lifespan [...] the Velvets' innovations – which blended the energy of rock with the sonic adventurism of the avant-garde, and introduced a new degree of social realism and sexual kinkiness into rock lyrics – were too abrasive for the mainstream to handle. By 1969 the MGM and Verve record labels had been losing money for several years. Song Premiere: Hollis Brown, "Completed Fool", Rivers Cuomo on His Metal Roots and the Magic of Debut Albums, Marc Maron on Underrated Albums and Interviewing Difficult Musicians, New Releases Roundup: Week of December 10, 2013, David Fricke reflects on White Light/White Heat, Sad Song: Remembering Lou Reed, 1942-2013. Due to publicity around the release, and growing interest in the Velvet Underground in Europe, Sesnick was able to secure a single album deal with Polydor in the UK, and a handful of promotional shows were booked in the UK in November and December 1972. On October 27, 2013, Lou Reed died at his home in Southampton, New York, aged 71. Reed often said he was completely surprised when he saw Loaded in stores. Yule blamed Sesnick for Reed's departure. [15] According to Reed and Morrison, the group liked the name, considering it evocative of "underground cinema", and fitting, as Reed had already written "Venus in Furs", a song inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's book of the same name, which dealt with masochism. Sweet Nuthin". And so the album is fuzzy, there's all that white noise...we wanted to do something electronic and energetic. In a retrospective way I really enjoy it. The band performed under a number of names before settling on The Velvet Underground in 1965. In January 2012, the surviving members of the band initiated legal action against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts over unauthorised use of the debut album's banana design. The Velvet Underground fue una banda de rock estadounidense, activa entre 1964 y 1973, formada en Nueva York por Lou Reed y John Cale, quienes también alcanzaron el éxito como artistas solistas.. Aunque experimentando poco éxito comercial juntos, la banda es a menudo citada por muchos críticos como uno de los grupos más importantes e influyentes de la … During 1969 the band recorded on and off in the studio, creating a lot of promising material (both singles and one-offs) that were never officially released at the time due to disputes with their record label. MacLise was replaced by Maureen "Moe" Tucker, the younger sister of Morrison's friend Jim Tucker. Before any of this could come to fruition, Cale and Reed fell out again, breaking up the band once more.[13]. Cotillion Records (a subsidiary of Atlantic Records that specialized in blues and Southern soul) signed the Velvet Underground for what would be its final studio album with Lou Reed: Loaded. This brief lineup of the Velvet Underground consisted of Yule, guitarist Rob Norris (later of The Bongos), bassist George Kay (Krzyzewski), and drummer Mark Nauseef. Reed was perturbed about a verse being edited from the Loaded version of "Sweet Jane". He not only made an arrangement with them but actually signed as me and took the money. The cover photograph was taken by Billy Name. MacLise was replaced by Moe Tucker in 1965, who played on most of the band's recordings. Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison also joined John Cale for an encore at his show at New York University on December 5, 1992. The Velvet Underground continues to exist as a New York–based partnership managing the financial and back catalog aspects for the band members. As well as headlining (with Luna as the opening act), the Velvets performed as supporting act for five dates of U2's Zoo TV Tour. Moe Tucker raised a family before returning to small-scale gigging and recording in the 1980s; Morrison was in several touring bands, including Tucker's band. The drug or hippie-related bands were released from MGM; nonetheless MGM insisted on retaining ownership of all master tapes of their recordings and according to an MGM representative in a Rolling Stone article from 1970, "it wasn't eighteen groups, [Curb] was misquoted. "[75] The UK band Squeeze took their name from its title according to band member Chris Difford, who offered the following opinion of the album in a 2012 interview: "It's an odd record, but the name came from that, definitely. Before that, Cale and Nico had developed solo careers. The band released three more albums (White Light/White Heat (1968), The Velvet Underground (1969), and Loaded (1970), with Doug Yule replacing Cale for the final two, and with none performing up to the expectations of record labels or of Reed, the band's leader; the group functionally disbanded in 1971–1972 as everyone except Yule left the band. Two of the songs the Velvets recorded during this period were later used on film soundtracks: "Stephanie Says" was used in the 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums; "I'm Sticking With You" has a rare Moe Tucker–Lou Reed dual-lead vocal track, with Doug Yule accompanying on piano, and was included in the film Juno. While Reed had covered a vast range of lyrical subjects on the first two Velvet Underground albums, the lyrical themes of the third album were more "intimate" in nature. In his notes, Murphy described a scene 100 years in the future, with a student taking a class on "classical rock'n'roll" and listening to the Velvet Underground. 19 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 1965, after being introduced to the Velvet Underground by filmmaker Barbara Rubin,[23] Andy Warhol became the band's manager and suggested they use the German-born singer Nico (born Christa Päffgen) on several songs. Nothing ever came of this, but the demo was eventually released on the 1995 box set Peel Slowly and See. [12] Young's use of extended drones would be a profound influence on the band's early sound. [31] Although Cale was the band's usual bassist, if he switched to viola or keyboards, Morrison would normally play bass. 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[32][33] Conversely, some songs had Reed and Morrison playing their usual guitars with Cale on viola or keyboards, but with nobody playing bass. [88] Critic Robert Christgau considers them "the number three band of the '60s, after the Beatles and James Brown and His Famous Flames". More unreleased recordings of the band, some of them demos and unfinished tracks, were released in 1986 as Another View. [83] John Cale responded to Reed's passing by saying, "The world has lost a fine songwriter and poet…I've lost my 'school-yard buddy'". Their music was generally much more relaxed than it would later become: Cale described this era as reminiscent of beat poetry, with MacLise playing gentle "pitter and patter rhythms behind the drone".[16]. [35] Instead of compensating Emerson for damages, MGM Records canceled all distribution of the album for nearly two months until the legal problems were settled (by which time the record had lost its modest commercial momentum), and the still was airbrushed out of the remaining copies of the album. [9] In 2017, a study of AllMusic's catalog indicated the Velvet Underground as the fifth most frequently cited artist influence in its database. [69] Following a single show in Pennsylvania in early January 1972, the lineup of Yule, Tucker, Alexander and Powers disbanded. Tensions were growing: the group was tired of receiving little recognition for its work, and Reed and Cale were pulling the Velvet Underground in different directions. In a 2006 interview, Yule said Sesnick waited until one hour before the band was scheduled to take the stage the following night before notifying him that Reed was not coming. In 1985 Polydor released the album VU, which collected unreleased recordings that might have constituted the band's fourth album for MGM in 1969 but had never been released. [citation needed] A brief interlude in "Rock and Roll" was also removed. The album was re-distributed at nearly the same time as Sgt. Warhol included the band with his show in an effort to "use rock as a part of a larger, interdisciplinary-art work based around performance" (McDonald). [53] It was following this discussion that led to a phone call from Steve Sesnick inviting Yule to meet with the band at Max's Kansas City in New York City in October 1968 to discuss joining the Velvets before two upcoming shows in Cleveland, Ohio, at the club La Cave. Both Cale and Reed called Sesnick a "snake" in different interviews after leaving the band. On the other hand, Yule has pointed out that the album was for all intents and purposes finished when Reed left the band and that Reed had been aware of most, if not all, of the edits. During their stay with Andy Warhol, the band became part of his multimedia roadshow, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, which combined Warhol's films with the band's music, which made use of minimalist devices, such as drones. The album was recorded primarily in Scepter Studios in New York City during April 1966, but for reasons unclear, some songs were rerecorded at TTG Studios in Los Angeles, along with the new song "Sunday Morning", later in the year with Tom Wilson producing. 'You gotta decide what you want to do. It has often been reported that before Cale's departure (following White Light/White Heat) there was a struggle between his creative impulses and Reed's: Cale's experimentalist tendencies had contrasted with Reed's more conventional approach. The Velvet Underground; The Velvet Underground и Энди Уорхолл в 1966 году. Warhol's reputation helped the band gain a higher profile. Reed's last live performance with the band at Max's was informally recorded and was released two years later in 1972 as Live at Max's Kansas City, also on Atlantic Records. The Reed–Cale–Morrison–Tucker lineup officially reunited without Yule (whose inclusion had been championed by Morrison) in 1992,[13] commencing activities with a European tour beginning in Edinburgh on June 1, 1993, and including a performance at Glastonbury which appeared on an NME front cover. The live album 1969: The Velvet Underground Live (with Reed, Yule, Morrison & Tucker) was recorded in October 1969 but not released until 1974, on Mercury Records, at the urging of rock critic Paul Nelson, who worked in A&R for Mercury at the time. Her rhythms, at once simple and exotic (influenced by the likes of Babatunde Olatunji and Bo Diddley records), became a vital part of the group's music, despite Cale's initial objections to the presence of a female drummer. According to Michael Carlucci, a friend of Robert Quine, "Lou told Quine that the reason why he had to get rid of Cale in the band was Cale's ideas were just too out there. Despite his proficiency on the instrument, Morrison hated playing bass. Gary Kellgren, who is ultra-competent, told us repeatedly: "You can't do it—all the needles are on red." Though Morrison and Tucker had each worked with Reed and Cale since the Velvet Underground had broken up, Songs for Drella was the first time the pair had worked together in decades, and speculation about a reunion began to form, fueled by the one-off appearance by Reed, Cale, Morrison and Tucker to play "Heroin" as the encore to a brief Songs for Drella set in Jouy-en-Josas, France. "[citation needed][who?] "[64] While Loaded was finalized and mixed, it had yet to be mastered and was not set to be released by Atlantic until November of that year. The Velvet Underground Biography by Richie Unterberger + Follow Artist. Reed and Cale recruited Sterling Morrison — a college classmate of Reed's at Syracuse University — as a replacement for Walter De Maria, who had been a third member of the Primitives. It was during this brief period in the UK that Yule recorded the Polydor album (ultimately titled Squeeze) under the Velvet Underground name virtually by himself, with only the assistance of Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice and a few other session musicians in an unspecified London studio. [27] Early promo posters referred to the group as the "erupting plastic inevitable". After Sesnick reached out to Yule, a new Velvet Underground lineup was quickly assembled by Yule to do the UK shows. and we reacted as we always reacted: "Look, we don't know what goes on in there and we don't want to hear about it. With the success of the Velvet Underground's European reunion tour, a series of US tour dates were proposed, as was an MTV Unplugged broadcast, and possibly even some new studio recordings. Other drum parts were performed by engineer Adrian Barber, session musician Tommy Castanaro, and Billy Yule (Doug Yule's younger brother), who was still in high school at the time. [14] The Velvet Underground by Michael Leigh was a contemporary mass market paperback about the secret sexual subculture of the early 1960s; Cale's friend and Dream Syndicate associate Tony Conrad showed it to the group, and MacLise made a suggestion to adopt the title as the band's name. It has kind of a naivety about it."[76]. and Nico. In 1990, Reed and Cale released Songs for Drella, a song cycle about Andy Warhol, who had died in 1987. Read Full Biography. [11] Reed met John Cale, a Welshman who had moved to the United States to study classical music upon securing a Leonard Bernstein scholarship. Cale had worked with experimental composers John Cage, Cornelius Cardew and La Monte Young, and had performed with Young's Theatre of Eternal Music, though was also interested in rock music. Cale has said that while the debut had some moments of fragility and beauty, White Light/White Heat was "consciously anti-beauty". In ihrer Anfangsformation bestand sie aus Lou Reed (Gitarre, Gesang), John Cale (Bass, Viola, Keyboard und Gesang), Angus MacLise (Schlagzeug, Bongos, Handtrommeln) und Sterling Morrison (Gitarre). Though the record was not the smash hit the company had anticipated, it contains the most accessible pop the Velvet Underground had performed,[according to whom?] Another factor in the change of sound was the band's Vox amplifiers and assorted fuzzboxes were rumored to have been stolen from an airport while they were on tour and they obtained replacements by signing a new endorsement deal with Sunn. [30] Closing out the album was the avant-garde "The Black Angel's Death Song", followed by the lengthy, feedback-laden "European Son", which Reed dedicated to his Syracuse professor Delmore Schwartz. "[74], Despite the negative reviews of the album upon its initial release, in recent years the album has been revisited by both critics and musicians with more sympathetic and favorable reviews. The Velvet Underground & Nico, album di debutto della band, venne registrato negli Scepter Studios di New York durante l'aprile del 1966 e pubblicato dalla Verve Records nel marzo del 1967.Della produzione musicale del disco si occupò in larga misura il professionista di studio Tom Wilson, infatti Warhol era solo il produttore "nominale" delle sessioni e si limitò a … In July 1965, Reed, Cale and Morrison recorded a demo tape at their Ludlow Street loft without MacLise, because he refused to be tied down to a schedule and would turn up to band practice sessions only when he wanted.

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