The Velvet Underground was a book about sadomasochism by Michael Leigh the group found left in the street. This quartet was first called The Warlocks, then The Falling Spikes.
Reed and Cale recruited Sterling Morrison - who'd already played with Reed a few times - to play guitar, and Angus MacLise joined on percussion. (Reed's first group with Cale was the short-lived The Primatives, assembled to support a Reed-penned single, "The Ostrich".) ( ) The pair rehearsed and performed together, and their partnership and shared interests steered the early direction of what would become the Velvet Underground. (Young's use of extended drones would be a profound influence on the early Velvet's sound). Cale had worked with John Cage and LaMonte Young, but was also interested in rock music. Reed met John Cale, a Welshman who had moved to the United States to study classical music. Lou Reed had performed with a few short-lived garage bands and had worked as a songwriter for Pickwick Records, a job Reed described as "a poor man's Carole King". The Velvet Underground formed in late 1964.
After the release of The Velvet Underground & Nico, knowing the power of which it was capable, the music could never be as innocent, as unselfconscious as before." ( ) Contents Critics Scott Isler and Ira Robbins argue that "The Velvet Underground marked a turning point in rock history.
Credited with establishing a genre known as ' anti-pop', the group's often raw sound would influence many later punk, noise rock, and alternative music performers, and singer Lou Reed's lyrics brought new levels of poetic sophistication and social realism to rock. The Velvet Underground were one of the first rock music groups to experiment with the form, and to incorporate avant-garde influences. This is certainly an overstatement, but it does demonstrate their massive influence and cult following that has outlasted the group's five-year existence. The Velvet Underground (abbreviated as The Velvets or V.U.) was an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s.Īlthough never commercially successful, The Velvet Underground remain one of the most influential bands of their time: a famous remark, often attributed to Brian Eno, is that while only a few thousand people bought a Velvet Underground record, almost every single one of them was inspired to start a band. The Velvet Underground and Nico in 1966 (from left to right: John Cale, Nico, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker)
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