"The album notes state right there it's a marriage between the Marquis de Sade and Bob Dylan lyrically. Jay Reege is a self-described Velvet Underground obsessive and record collector who lives near Boston. It's that combination of sonic experimentation and basic rock 'n' roll that most fans cite as the triumph of The Velvet's debut album. They opened the set at Summit High with another song that would end up on the first album, a more conventional pop tune called "There She Goes Again." Not everything the Velvets did was confrontational. I mean, we went through loudspeakers faster than shoes."
Anybody listening to a bass guitar and a regular guitar coming out of the same amp, it couldn't have been a really great listening experience. The key elements of The Velvet Underground's sound were in place at Summit High: Tucker's minimal drumming, the screeching guitars of Reed and Sterling Morrison and the bass and electric viola of Welshman John Davis Cale. "Heroin" would become one of the most influential songs on the band's debut album. In fact, probably half the kids didn't even come into the auditorium till the other band came on."īut the ones who ventured in to see The Velvet Underground heard Louis Reed, the front man, literally singing the praises of heroin. And there was no booing as I recall, but there was no cheering, either. "So the kids wanted to see them, of course. She and her three band mates, all dressed in black, had driven from New York City to the New Jersey suburbs to play on a bill with a local band, the Myddle Class. "Yeah, they didn't like us too much," remembers Maureen Tucker, better known as Moe, was playing her first gig as The Velvet Underground's drummer on the night of November 11th, 1965. Like a lot of people seeing The Velvet Underground for the first time, the kids at Summit High School basically had no idea what hit them.
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