I listen this everytime i get lost. It sends me to a time I never lived in. And that calms me down. Cuz I can create it for myself. helps my anxiety. Due to this madness music/video. Forever in my heart.
I haven’t heard anything today so beautiful dialed in like this. Out of time. Timeless…. Ahead of,,.. damn perfect! I put this on repeat for my orchids. Swear they love it just as much. I feel blessed the velvets were such a big part of my adolescence.
Yes, drunken. Listen to the bass and imagine a drunken individual walking down the boulevard. I use it specifically because he's mainly playing a D note. He could be drunk, but knowing the band it might as well have been heroin.
Maybe but something that primitive and droning never would have occurred to you and I doubt anybody could have come up with a better foundation for their sound.
Although Reed is often credited as the sole songwriter on Velvet Underground originals, and was indisputably the primary composer in the band, it has been speculated that Morrison (and Cale) did more writing than is reflected in the credits. Morrison told author Victor Bockris: "Lou really did want to have a whole lot of credit for the songs, so on nearly all of the albums we gave it to him. It kept him happy. He got the rights to all the songs on Loaded so now he's credited for being the absolute and singular genius of the Underground, which is not true. There are a lot of songs I should have coauthorship on, and the same holds true for John Cale. The publishing company was called Three Prong because there were three of us involved. I'm the last person to deny Lou's immense contribution and he's the best songwriter of the three of us. But he wanted all the credit, he wanted it more than we did, and he got it, to keep the peace."
Thanks for the quote. Sucks that Lou was such a dick. And sucks that the other members didn’t get the credit and royalties they deserved. I think Sterling became a teacher. Sad that he didn’t spend most of his life making music like this. One of the best guitar players ever and he bailed out. Though I think he played with a local band some in Texas in his later years. Sterling said Lou asked him to be his guitar player when Lou quit the Velvets. Sterling told him no. And I don’t blame him, writing music and playing sweet guitar licks, just to see Lou take more credit for his work. I wonder how the royalties worked and hope that the other band members got at least something. I also remember Doug Yule relaying a story about Sterling calling him up years after the Velvets and Sterling informed him that Lou used some Velvets songs on his own albums and if Doug wanted to go sue along with him. Hopefully they got a bit back. The Velvets were at their best when Sterling was out front as their lead guitar.
It was John Cale who brought the drone sound and minimalism into rock music, rearranging Reed's songs, and to a large extent responsible for their groundbreaking sound. In an interview on The Prism Archive (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GpJgwPqqs1A.htmlfeature=shared) Moe said the band wasn't the same after John had left, they lost their lunacy factor. She further stated that Cale had a lot more to do with the sound and the end product than people credit him for. From a musical perspective I don't think Lou would have gotten very far without John, who underlined Lou's lyrics with the menacing and sinister soundscapes and arrangements those songs requiered to be fully authentic, as we can witness in the Ludlow Sessions: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-taCjAIWg36c.htmlfeature=shared
Awesome song! Reminds me on my own time from flashes and struggling...And Lou Reed and the Velvet..What a good time and what a rough time!!! Love you Lou Reed!!!
this song has a magnetic beat. The video with the images are perfectly linked, so much so that you have the feeling of a trip, very popular at the time
The guitars on Velvet Underground records were not strictly divided into lead and rhythm parts, although Reed probably took more of the frenzied lead parts than Morrison did. They were more like dual guitars that complemented each other, sometimes taking rhythm parts, sometimes taking lead lines. In general, Morrison had cleaner, bluesier, and more straightforward lines than Reed, who was more wont to improvise noisily. For the liner notes of Peel Slowly and See, Reed told David Fricke, "Sometimes I think his guitar playing is very much like his first name -- sterling. It's involved. And yet it has a grace and elegance to it, even in the fast-note runs. You could play me a hundred guitars, and I could spot Sterling."
that's a perfect and beautiful evocation of Sterling's style! My all time favorite Sterling guitar moment is around the 16:00 mark on Sister Ray where even Mo is lost in the swirl and suddenly Morrison gives that razor-sharp staccato rhythm and it's like a signal to bring it all back and everyone does, right then, Mo comes right in on beat and everything synchs up. For a moment at least, then it falls apart again and ends. But that one moment, man!!!
These guys literally embody the feelings that hard drugs can provide, in my opinion one of the more creative/introspective bands out there, they never would try to confine themselves to “music etiquette” and instead just create, that earns all my respect.
normally you say Hard drugs talking about opiates. but this music is directly influenced by Visionary plants and molecules. they are considered soft drugs. but yeah. you are right. you cannot imagine a jam of this type of bands in the 60's without someone in the room smoking a joint, or tripping balls on acid.
@@jaimitoelcartero5758 Well, according to Sterling, the medical drug stuff in the combinations and dosages that they took could at any time not allow them to wake up the next morning, so I have no idea what you're talking about
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oh boy is'nt it great that some people were able to capture some quality footage from such a great era for rock n roll, it must have been a great time to have experienced for our moms and dads, rest in piece lou and the rest of the velvet underground that are no longer with us,
@Underground If you do some research,and it's so easy with the internet these days , you will find that Lou Reed didn't do all the solos and other guitarists were frequently used, especially when playing live. Also lets not forget the role of Mo Tucker in keeping time in such tight and controlled a manner while everybody else cut loose. We'll not see such a combination again by serendipity and certainly not by deliberation.
@@johnschober1819 I don't think that's true. They were old neighborhood school friends. When Angus McLise crapped out right before a gig and they needed a drummer someone said, "doesn't Tucker's (Jim) kid sister play drums?" That is how she joined.
this intro is fucking genius, these first guitar notes...i'll never understand why the velvet underground are so underrated by public in general (i say 'public in general' because maybe the most influential band ever is in fact the velvet underground, if you look at how many bands are influenced by them. however, despite this recognition among VU fans, they are not recognized by media and public like beatles, rolling stones, led zeppelin, pink floyd, the doors, and others).
Because the Velvet is like shakespeare. The people think that is not for them too something, inteligent, droggy, or what they want. Is just talent, feeling and pleaser, life whith great music,
I absolutely cherish this video! Thanks for pacing such relevant images with the demo and the ideas Sterling, a very accomplished guitarist, and Lou as well, brought down in what appears something that just came out of the blue!!!! Doug Yule is definitely part of this story!!!! The Velvet was probably the most poignant band of the 60's, no matter what anybody would say, and this video does proper justice to their aesthetics!
Hey MAN?! This is my first time, listening to this track and i am blown away... like really blown! the proof is it's 4 AM and i'm jamming... and my neighbours are probably disturbed :D
@@bobnoens2186 I mean I'd rather have a neighbor blast good music and not trash. I wish my neighbors listened to stuff like this, and not blast 'take me to church dubstep remix' all hours of the day.
Absolutely. I can tell he dominated most of the lead parts in their self-titled album. Pale Blue Eyes and The Murder Mystery are excellent examples of that.
If you're not listening to this in a pastel sports car on cassette, top down doing over 100 on a cliff top highway wearing big shades, chewing on a cigarette with a velour bag full of cash on the passenger seat whilst being chased by police, then you're not hearing all the notes.
And... JESUS -- listen to the chords used around 1:55 by the rhythm guitar in the left speaker. First time I've ever, ever heard VU do something truly jazzy. That's insane -- mind was just blown by a very short few segments of recorded audio. Last thing I would ever have expected was to hear a little jazz changeup in a VU jam. Crazy world we live in, 'fraidies and lentilmen...
She continued to fondle the stones. Now they began to glow. Not a warm or red of molten rock but an uncanny, unsettling white light a cold light green-but-not-green and the light shone upwards and cast quivering dodging shadows which seemed to lurch forward and then shrink back into the treeline all the way around in a circle like flames or tongues of darkness summoned by or emanating from the stones.
Haha. I can respect that. I like most of their other work, but there's just something really cool and special about this one for me for some reason. I'm happy they were brave to do a little bit of everything even an odd extended jam like this one.
