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. (Sterling Morrison, circa 1980) ©1996-2021 The Velvet Underground … Lou, don't you think you should think about it?' This brief line-up of the band played several shows in the US and Canada in September 1971, and in October & November 1971 the band did several shows in England, Wales, and the Netherlands to support the 1971 European release of Loaded, some of which are collected on the 2001 box set Final V.U. L'influence du Velvet sur les générations suivantes est incontestable : le groupe inspirera le punk rock d… "Loop", a recording solely of pulsating audio feedback culminating in a locked groove, was "a precursor to [Reed's] Metal Machine Music", say Velvets archivists M.C. During this period the band played a series of shows in November 1969 at the Matrix and the Family Dog venues in San Francisco; recordings of these shows were released in 2001, as a triple live album, Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes, which included the line up of Reed, Yule, Morrison and Tucker. [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. The Velvet Underground est un groupe de rock américain, originaire de New York. 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). [36] Regarding MGM/Verve's delay in releasing the album, Warhol's business manager Paul Morrissey once offered the following: "Verve/MGM didn't know what to do with The Velvet Underground and Nico because it was so peculiar. On October 27, 2013, Lou Reed died at his home in Southampton, New York, aged 71. Reed's first group with Cale was the Primitives, a short-lived group assembled to issue budget-priced recordings and support an anti-dance single written by Reed, "The Ostrich", to which Cale added a viola passage. [69] Following a single show in Pennsylvania in early January 1972, the lineup of Yule, Tucker, Alexander and Powers disbanded. [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. 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. Cale sang most of the songs Nico had originally performed. An abortive UK tour with Yule as the band leader and with new musicians followed in 1973, and a final album released in the band's name, Squeeze (1973), consisting mostly of Yule with a few session musicians, marked the end of the band for some time. 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. The meditative "Here She Comes Now" was later covered by Galaxie 500, Cabaret Voltaire, and Nirvana, among others. The second (and more widely distributed) mix is the stereo mix done by MGM/Verve staff recording engineer Val Valentin. 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. I did a lot on Loaded. According to Morrison, MacLise is said to have regretted leaving the Velvet Underground and wanted to rejoin, but Reed specifically prohibited this and made it clear that this stint was only temporary. Le groupe livre un album plus apaisé, avec de nombreuses ballades comme Candy Says ou Pale Blue Eyes. Both Cale and Reed called Sesnick a "snake" in different interviews after leaving the band. Kostek and Phil Milstein in the book The Velvet Underground Companion. The Velvet Underground est un groupe américain de rock de la fin des années 1960, lié à l'aventure de la Factory d'Andy Warhol qui les produit. Formé au milieu des années 1960, il est lié à l'aventure de la Factory d'Andy Warhol qui les a produits. 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. [86] They were ranked the 19th greatest artist by the same magazine[87] and the 24th greatest artist in a poll by VH1. Though some attribute the name of the 1989 "Velvet Revolution", which ended more than 40 years of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, to the band, Reed pointed out that the name Velvet Revolution derives from its peaceful nature—that no one was "actually hurt" during those events. Tucker's playing style was rather unusual: she generally played standing up rather than seated and had an abbreviated drum setup of tom-toms, snare and an upturned bass drum, using mallets as often as drumsticks, and rarely using cymbals (she admits that she always hated cymbals). I, Selected Highlights From The 3-Cd Box Set The Velvet Underground Bootleg Series, Volume 1 - The Quine Tapes, White Light/White Heat / Here She Comes Now, My absolute favourite super-duper artists ever, “VH1’s Top 100 Greatest Artists In Rock ‘n’ Roll History”, Great music, Weird Music, Important Music, The Great Rock Discography Survey: Martin C Strong's Best Artists And Songs In 1995, Industrial Culture Handbook: Sordide Sentimental: Some Records/Pre-1976, Industrial Culture Handbook: Throbbing Gristle: Some Cassettes (Library of Genesis P-Orridge). I never got any money. I once gave a lecture on how the Velvets were more important than the Beatles - the latter created the pop music phenomenon, but the Velvets changed the paradigm of music forever mixing classical ability (Cale) with lack of traditional music ability of Reed. [22] The group earned a regular paying gig at the Café Bizarre and gained an early reputation as a promising ensemble. 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. The Velvet Underground est né. Reed called Morrison and Tucker to a meeting at the Riviera Cafe in the West Village without Cale's knowledge, and informed them that Cale was out of the band; when Morrison objected, Reed said it was either Cale was sacked or the Velvets were dissolved. [81][82] Forty-fifth anniversary box sets of the band's first four studio albums, including significantly expanded bonus material, appeared from 2012 to 2015; the live box set The Complete Matrix Tapes, comprising remixed and remastered versions of a series of professionally recorded 1969 performances, also appeared in 2015. After several months of shows in the US, the band swiftly recorded their third album The Velvet Underground in late 1968 at TTG Studios in Hollywood, California. Reed's songs and singing are subdued and confessional in nature,[according to whom?] Pop artist Andy Warhol became their manager in 1966, and they served as the house bandat Warhol's art collective … Ma… Profile: Famous rock'n roll group from New York. After her drums were stolen from one club, she replaced them with garbage cans brought in from outside. Some of these performances have been released as a bootleg; they remain the only record of MacLise with the Velvet Underground. La pochette de l'album "The Velvet Underground and Nico", sorti en 1967 et signée Andy Warhol, est devenue mythique. In 1966, MacLise temporarily rejoined the Velvet Underground for a few EPI shows when Reed was suffering from hepatitis and unable to perform. 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. Ce dernier a tiré son nom du titre de la chanson The Black Angel’s Death Song, présente sur le premier album du Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967). [28] Included in this issue of the "magazine", which retailed at $4 ($32 in 2019 dollars[20]) per copy and was packaged in a hinged box designed to look like Fab laundry detergent, were various leaflets and booklets, one of which was a commentary on rock and roll by Lou Reed, another an EPI promotional newspaper. Further, some songs the band had performed with Cale in concert, or that he had co-written, were not recorded until after he had left the group (such as "Walk It and Talk It", "Ride into the Sun", and "Countess from Hong Kong"). [7] In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the band No. The LP sleeve was designed by Dick Smith, then a staff artist at MGM/Verve. [57] The album has the experimental track "The Murder Mystery", which utilised all four band members (Reed, Yule, Tucker and Morrison) reading different lyrics, sometimes simultaneously, as well as the ballad "Pale Blue Eyes". The album was re-distributed at nearly the same time as Sgt. Well known for Andy Warhol's artwork and often cited as one of the most important and influential groups of their era. "[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 songs on the album are very varied in terms of style. 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. [11] Reed met John Cale, a Welshman who had moved to the United States to study classical music upon securing a Leonard Bernstein scholarship. "[36] In 1982, Brian Eno said that while the album sold only 30,000 copies in its early years, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band."[37]. 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. Profil: Famous rock'n roll group from New York. The quintessential bohemian New York band of the '60s that fused art, rock, and poetry in a fashion that proved incalculably influential. Because of the punishing lights, the band took to wearing sunglasses onstage. The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1964 by singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise. The personal tone of the album's subject matter resulted in Reed's desire to create a "closet" mix that boosted the vocals to the forefront, while reducing the album's instrumentation. 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