The Velvet Underground: One Of The Most Unique And Underappreciated Bands Of The 60s | Amplified
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- Rare musical performances never available before as well as obscure footage, rare interviews and private photographs of and with Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Sterling Morrison and John Cale.
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This is fantastic. I love Maureen’s story about stopping the drums in Heroin.
1:22:51 Nice sentiment at the end there too.
Funny
Me and my homies used to smoke the bong and listen to the Banana album everyday back in 82 - 83, we'd all be far to stoned to flip the vinyl over so we would argue until someone got up and done it, every song is a banger on that album, and btw great documentary.
It's a stoners album for sure.
I remember hearing Venus in Furs on a car ad in Britain and it absolutely blew me away. I was only a kid but I knew what I heard was amazing and became the biggest Velvet Underground fan. They were light years ahead of their time.
Wasn't it an advert for tyres? - yeah I just checked - Dunlop tyres.
As a Velvet Underground fan of about 36 years, I have to say I was pleasantly surprised as to how excellent this documentary is. A much broader, insightful scope than the Haynes doc. The non-members of the band are on point with their comments, and of course Moe Tucker is too. RIP Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, Andy Warhol and Nico.
Well said.
Wow you've managed to name all original members, and even mention Nico and Andy, but have left John Cale in the namedropping out. Some achievement, suppose it's to do with his minor contribution towards the band.
@@ForARide Wow, well now aren't you a bitter little pill?! Maybe your New Year's resolution should be to work on that. Good luck.
@@ForARide Wishing you a full recovery brother…. hang tough… better days are coming 🌅
@@Zepster77 cheers mate, wishing you all the best and stay safe in these diabolical times
I bought their first album in 1967 and loved it. I saw them live several times at the Boston Tea Party in 1968 and 1969. I was fortunate enough to live in the Boston area, and lucky enough to pick up their first album in a Cambridge record shop shortly after it was released (primarily because of curiosity when I saw Andy Warhol was involved). Lou Reed said Boston was his favorite place in the whole world to play.
They played a lot of frat parties in Boston in those early years. And they did a show at the Savoy Theater in Boston that I saw as part of the Boston premier of the movie "The Happening", which I thought was kind of odd, considering that the Supremes had a hit song with the theme of the movie, but the VU were great. They were so popular in Boston I didn't realize at the time that weren't yet nationally well known. I imagine there were probably a lot kids in New York who had the same experience.
You must of been younger then the rest ,as that photo of u u look young to say you was there (I'm not doubting you)
@@waynesilverman3048 Haha, I should update my photo. I'm 73 (74 in a few months), I was about 62 in that photo and using "Just for Men" in my beard and "Grecian Formula" in my hair!
@@ptournas lol.i did get the feeling it might of been someone else as some people use different names .photos ect not just hackers
You are very lucky to have seen them at that time. Based on the tapes kicking around those are awesome shows! They famously refused to play New York during those years, so Boston was kind of a second home for them.
@@hiraeth1340 Interesting, I knew they loved Boston, but I wasn't aware that they refused to play New York back then.
This is a great documentary on the Velvets.
The interviews are full of insight and tightly integrated with explaining their music.
Even though I thought I knew the band and the history, it was full of fresh perspectives from many associated people. I especially loved hearing Mo Tucker and Doug Yule's take all these years later.
Yes, although I winced at the omission of Cowboy Junkies’ cover of “Sweet Jane,” especially considering how it included the bridge of which Lou was so rightly proud.
@@austintrousdale2397 You are right. I saw the Cowboys Junkies live just after the Trinity Sessions and Lou would have undoubtedly been very proud. It gave me goosebumps!
I'm with you on that all the way, it's a great documentary. 😁
2:55 Nico was GERMAN, not hungarian. Born in Cologne, Germany (October 16, 1938).
unique? yes. Underappreciated? Not so much. At least not by critics - they are widely held as the most influential band of all time aside from the Beatles or something
I wouldnt' say they were THAT influential, but the kind of guys who went into rock music 'criticism' certainly laid on the love for them for decades. It would be better to say 'the most underappreciated by those other people.'
yeah, you can only be so underappreciated when you are at the top of every "greatest [...] of all time" list, have dozens of documentaries about you and have 3 million listeners on spotify.
they were maybe underappreciated in their time and later got praise, same with the Stooges both bands were ahead of their time
@@JonFrumTheFirst Arguably The Velvet Underground are the most influential band ever: Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Nico, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry, The Modern Lovers, Can, The Yardbirds, Roky Erickson (13th Floor Elevators), Mick Ronson, Suicide, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, Wrecless Eric, Motörhead, Throbbing Gristle, Sham 69, Talking Heads, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Fall, Echo & The Bunnymen, Sonic Youth, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Psychedelic Furs, Psychic TV, Violent Femmes, Half Japanese, The Birthday Party, Teardrop Explodes, Jim Carroll, Julian Cope, UK Subs, Television Personalities, Squeeze, Hüsker Dü, The Creatures, Spacemen 3, Gang Of Four, The Runaways, Loop, Clock DVA, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Simple Minds, Duran Duran, Dead Can Dance, Billy Idol, Cheap Trick, Blondie, Debbie Harry, Nina Hagen, Björk, Susanna Hoffs, The Black Crows, Marc & The Mambas (Marc Almond & Matt Johnson), Martin Gore, Japan, Les Rita Mitsouko, The Dandy Warhols, Beck, Opal, Mazzy Star, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nirvana, Melvins, Jane's Addiction, Swans, Christian Death, Slaughter & The Dogs, Sisters Of Mercy, Suzanne Vega, REM, U2, Hole, James, The Beat Farmers, Buffalo Tom, Suede, Screaming Trees, Kasabian, Jarvis Cocker, Edwyn Collins, Angry Samoans, Mark Lanegan, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, Oasis, Red Hot Chilly Peppers, Happy Mondays, Teenage Fanclub, Monster Magnet, Manic Street Preachers, Throwing Muses, Tom Tom Club, Tori Amos, Mercury Rev, The Wedding Present, Super Fury Animals, Galaxie 500, Radiohead, Hector Zazou, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Pearl Jam, Luna, Queens Of The Stone Age, The White Stripes, Metallica, Steel Pole Bathtub, Jesus Lizard, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Trash Palace, LCD Soundsystem, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, TV On The Radio, The Libertines, The Strokes, Girl In A Coma, Paz Lenchantin, Kula Shaker, Yo La Tengo, Art Brut, Franz Ferdinand, Beth Gibbons, Bettie Serveert, Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, Wilco, The Feelies, Arcade Fire, Adam Green, Melissa Auf der Mauer, Soap & Skin, Kurt Vile, Adam Green, Bobbie Gillespie, Crystal Stilts, The Black Angels, The Kills, The Killers, The Kooks, MGMT, Blind Melon, Saul Williams, Amanda Palmer, Belle & Sebastian, Miley Cyrus, David Sanborn, Mitch Ryder Madrugada, Barenaked Ladies, Babyshambles, The Primitives, Propaganda, Eater, Pulp, Emmanuelle Seigner, Vanessa Paradis, Cat Power, Ambulance LTD, Ultra Orange, Animal Collective, Fat White Family, Marissa Nadler, Kelly Owens, Andrew Bird, Matt Berninger (The National), Sharon Van Etten, St. Vincent, The Bootlegers, Thomas Bartlett, Fontaines D.C., King Princess, Matt Sweeney, Sky Ferreira, Chris Coco, Caroline Polachek, Courtney Barnett, Jeff Beck & Johnny Depp, Keith Richards and surely plenty plenty more could sing a song about how The Velvet's inspired them.
P.S.: for anybody doubting this list, all of these musicians have either covered songs of the Velvets, or their band members, collaborated with any of them, been produced by John Cale, cited them as an influence, or simply have adapted elements of their sound, such as the drone or the minimalistic use of instruments, such as Cale's repetetive piano hammering, or Moe Tucker's tribal drum patterns.
If you want to convince yourself here's a playlist of Velvet Underground covers that might astound you, that, as if "What, they covered the Velvets!"
So I hope there is something in there you will enjoy: th-cam.com/play/PLNINWcxxj9hEpLo4bVLlAMBn8uZ7Hwv0K.html&feature=shared
Hmmm, in their time they were pretty much ignored by the machine. Perhaps making a comment so out of context with what happened historically makes some feel a certain way. History is history. Very influential amongst musicians, unknown to the general audience. Research matters.
Mo Tucker deserved better than to end up working as a cashier at Walmart tho
for YEARS..you know it mustve been so frustrating, it sounds like what would happen to me if I ever hit the big time..it wouldnt last somehow and Id be back where I started.
@@joejones9520 Right? Except I’d have been waaayyy grumpier when they came to interview me about my drumming 40 years too late.
The day Lou Ree died, I went in to my bar job early, locked the basement venue, cranked up "Pale Blue Eyes," and cried for the duration of the song. Thank you Lou.
It was honestly the hardest celebrity death in my life so far at my age of 33. I started listening to VU when I was thirteen n 14 and beyond I’d get fucked up and listenin to them. My friends n I would reference people to lyrics in Lou Reed songs. I’d do dope to VU frequently. Was drunk as fuck, on my laptop, and just sad at home when I heard the news. It was like losing a dear friend.
My first exposure to the Velvets was "Who Loves The Sun" and then I got "The Velvet Underground" album. Doug Yule gets snubbed, but he was responsible for some of the better later tracks, and it was his voice on "Sun" and then on "Candy Says" that got me interested. I think Doug deserved to be in the HoF, but the rest of the original band had harsh feelings.
I heard Sterling wanted him to be there. The HoF is a sham anyway.........
@@Mandrake591 The so-called HoF really is bullsh^t . Lou was a brilliant musician but was kind of a douchebag, as great musicians often are.. Lou used Doug on a few of his solo albums, so it must be some personal crap that happened well after VU broke up between Lou and Doug. Music is the only thing that really matters.
He didn't do himself and favours when he toured as "The Velvet Underground" in 71 and 72, playing guitar and singing Lou's songs, and then releasing a 5th so-called "Velvets" album in 1973. He completely ruined his reputation with that opportunistic behaviour.
@@hiraeth1340 Wow - I remember the album, didn't know about the tour. The LP was weak, used similar artwork than "Loaded" for instant recognition. I get it, similar to some of the Badfingers and Bad Company's that were touring after the main members left.
@@hiraeth1340 I have a box set called Final VU which has 4 CDs from those tours.( Yule is very honest in the accompanying booklet about it all). Mo Tucker was in the band for 2 of them, so presumably you have the same negative opinion of her?
Moe is a national treasure.
I saw her perform at a small club in 1999, I was in awe but the rest of the crowd seemed distracted, chatting with each other and ignoring the music. Afterward I bought a cd and told her, "That was really cool." She signed my cd, I wanted to ask her all about everything but Im not a big talker with people I dont know. Amazing though that I spoke to someone who knew Jim Morrison, Nico, Warhol, etc, all the mythical people from that time Im sure she at least encountered.
All four of those albums are great. One for each season. Treasured in my collection. Lots of fun to listen to.
Man John Cale is a great bassist and violist and keys player
Absolutely. The Velvet's sound was mainly Cale's input and should have been co-credited for the music, but selfish Reed would have none of that.
I'm 72. Still a fan of Velvet Underground
You sir are a legend, long may you rock on. Hope you're still listening and discovering some of the amazing new bands too.
My mum loves them too and she's 75.
71 me to
74 fme
Unbelievably good. Great counterpoint to the Haynes documentary (which I also love). Moe and Doug are absolutely charming.
Lady Godivas Operation by VU is mindblowing.
Unquestionably one of the top ten bands of all time. Much respect and more love to all of them ✌️🕊️
those first two albums are really somethin else man
I would happily give away the rest of my years, to live one year of that 60's energy. It's totally seen in many of the bands of that time. That's when there was this do whatever and whenever. That whole time, you got The Doors going strong, Dylan, Velvet Underground, The Beatles, The Beach Boys dropping Pet Sounds. Just wow. Yup, if we ever start zipping around in time, that's where I'm gonna go, and break the travel vessel. Some of that stuff is timeless.
today, ten years without Lou Reed 🖤 Rest in peace
My Velvet addiction has started with „Live 69“…in 1984/85. This is the/my ultimate „lonely Island“ Record!
David Bowie got his hands on the acetate cut of the first record a couple months before it was out.
2023: This is wonderful. The best that I have seen about any band. Thank You. Sad that we lost Lou. RIP
Arguably The Velvet Underground are the most influential band ever: Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Nico, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry, The Modern Lovers, Can, The Yardbirds, Roky Erickson (13th Floor Elevators), Mick Ronson, Suicide, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, Plastic People Of The Universe, Wrecless Eric, Motörhead, Throbbing Gristle, Sham 69, Talking Heads, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Fall, Echo & The Bunnymen, Sonic Youth, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Psychedelic Furs, Psychic TV, Violent Femmes, Half Japanese, The Birthday Party, Teardrop Explodes, Jim Carroll, Julian Cope, UK Subs, Television Personalities, Squeeze, Hüsker Dü, The Creatures, Spacemen 3, Gang Of Four, The Runaways, Loop, Clock DVA, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Simple Minds, Duran Duran, Dead Can Dance, Billy Idol, Cheap Trick, Blondie, Debbie Harry, Nina Hagen, Björk, Susanna Hoffs, The Black Crows, Marc & The Mambas (Marc Almond & Matt Johnson), Martin Gore, Japan, Les Rita Mitsouko, The Dandy Warhols, Beck, Opal, Mazzy Star, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nirvana, Melvins, Jane's Addiction, Swans, Christian Death, Slaughter & The Dogs, Sisters Of Mercy, Suzanne Vega, REM, U2, Hole, James, The Beat Farmers, Buffalo Tom, Suede, Screaming Trees, Kasabian, Jarvis Cocker, Edwyn Collins, Angry Samoans, Mark Lanegan, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, Oasis, Red Hot Chilly Peppers, Happy Mondays, Teenage Fanclub, Monster Magnet, Manic Street Preachers, Throwing Muses, Tom Tom Club, Tori Amos, Mercury Rev, The Wedding Present, Super Fury Animals, Galaxie 500, Radiohead, Hector Zazou, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Pearl Jam, Luna, Queens Of The Stone Age, The White Stripes, Metallica, Steel Pole Bathtub, Jesus Lizard, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Trash Palace, LCD Soundsystem, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, TV On The Radio, The Libertines, The Strokes, Girl In A Coma, Paz Lenchantin, Kula Shaker, Yo La Tengo, Art Brut, Franz Ferdinand, Beth Gibbons, Bettie Serveert, Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, Wilco, The Feelies, Arcade Fire, Adam Green, Melissa Auf der Mauer, Soap & Skin, Kurt Vile, Adam Green, Bobbie Gillespie, Crystal Stilts, The Black Angels, The Kills, The Killers, The Kooks, MGMT, Blind Melon, Saul Williams, Amanda Palmer, Belle & Sebastian, Miley Cyrus, David Sanborn, Mitch Ryder Madrugada, Barenaked Ladies, Babyshambles, The Primitives, Propaganda, Eater, Pulp, Emmanuelle Seigner, Vanessa Paradis, Cat Power, Ambulance LTD, Ultra Orange, Animal Collective, Fat White Family, Marissa Nadler, Kelly Owens, Andrew Bird, Matt Berninger (The National), Sharon Van Etten, St. Vincent, The Bootlegers, Thomas Bartlett, Fontaines D.C., King Princess, Matt Sweeney, Sky Ferreira, Chris Coco, Caroline Polachek, Courtney Barnett, Jeff Beck & Johnny Depp, Keith Richards and surely plenty plenty more could sing a song about how The Velvet's inspired them.
P.S.: for anybody doubting this list, all of these musicians have either covered songs of the Velvets, or their band members, collaborated with any of them, been produced by John Cale, cited them as an influence, or simply have adapted elements of their sound, such as the drone or the minimalistic use of instruments, such as Cale's repetetive piano hammering, or Moe Tucker's tribal drum patterns.
If you want to convince yourself here's a playlist of Velvet Underground covers that might astound you, that, as if "What, they covered the Velvets!"
So I hope there is something in there you will enjoy: th-cam.com/play/PLNINWcxxj9hEpLo4bVLlAMBn8uZ7Hwv0K.html&feature=shared
good work
I was just checking out the Bettie Serveert VU covers 😎
😎
@@BruceWalther-s2l cheers
I always considered Venus in Furs more folk with touches of the medieval and modernist.
Nico was Geman
Music blew my mind "STONE COLD SOBER." Bought "Velvet Underground and Nico" on my 18th Birthday.
Nico was from middle-west Germany Aken. The city from Karel De Grote, just one hour from my place in The Netherlands.
Even now im post Soviet time it's a total different world inbetween Hongaria. But im kindly thankfull with this documentary:)
couldn't you fit maureen tucker there in the description? she was also in interviews and pictures.
Listen to all their demos, bootlegs, and alternate recordings to get the big picture
Also early Lou stuff -
Sneaky Pete , The Ostrich et al
I love The Velvet Underground. My old band Xaos played a cover of "Femme Fatale" :)
gutsy, bold, gritty, daring, unflinching and unafraid ... how many bands can you say check all or even a few of these boxes? they took music to the bounds of incomprehensible.
Louis Reed was his real name?? I dig the fact you tell, here, about Velvet boicotting N.Y.. & only doing concerts in Boston! New Yorks got everything! And it was in Boston where it all began! So, this was good news, guys!!!!! Thank you so much for this Documentary video! Its so informing!
In that book punk book please kill me theirs some embarrassing stuff wrote about him by the author who interviewed reed
I think he had a Jewish name did reed like Bob Dylan had a different name
@@waynesilverman3048 Lou Rabinowitz
Now that I think about it, why was wasn't Sunday Morning a hit? Did it suffer from poor promotion and indifference on the side of the record company? In late '66-'67 it would've fit just fine on AM radio alongside The Mamas and Papas, The Beach Boys, and The Lovin' Spoonful etc. I can't believe I just wrote that but hey, it's perfectly true.
Joel
Hold on, stop the universe!! I always thought Nico sang Sunday Morning!! 😮😮😮
I hate it when people say someone had no choice. Nico was 100 percent empowered to carve out her path. Unfortunately we cannot control the consequences.
How in the world can you call what is probably the most lauded, influential and universally adored band in the entire history of indie music “underappreciated”?? Perhaps some artists are just so good and so important that no matter how popular they get and no matter how much adoration they receive, it will still just never really be enough. VU could definitely fit that category at least…
Hindsight is 20/20. They were definitely under appreciated at the time. In spite of Warhol’s stamp of cool approval, VU albums didn’t appeal to the mainstream. They didn’t sell.
Their mindset was 180 degrees diametrically opposed to the peace and love, flower power movement of the late sixties. It was the complete antithesis of what was safe, acceptable and popular. If you listened to their music, you were considered weird and iconoclastic by the normies who were digging the latest Beatles album. Even The Doors, with all of their mainstream pop success, were thought of as “dark and subversive” by a large segment of the record buying public. It’s really kind of quaint when you think about what was lurking just around the corner, musically and culturally.
The same can be said of seminal bands like The Stooges and The New York Dolls. They were so far ahead of the curve that they became victims of their own foresight (and copious amounts of drugs and alcohol). Too much too soon, indeed.
oh that thumbnail is EVIL. Why would you not use a pic of John Cale? so evil!
You say:"They hated their Band!" And I know why; when one consumes drugs, the Love- Vibration sinks, gets slow vibration, low vibe, which leaves a human open and ready for negative feelings, instead of Natural, Positivity!! So, Brothers & Sisters on our beloved Planet, Stay healthy!! Say ;"NO, THANKS!" when You're offered drugs. Ofcourse, there were no "Users información" on strooong, good drugs, before, so: so VERY Many just took it, because it made us feel invinceble, really high, and when mixing Horse & Coke, we became as we UNDERSTOOD JUST EVERYTHING..and THIS was reflected in the songs and the instrumentals and melodies, ofcourse!!!
"I LOVE YOU" is mye favorite.. "I guess but I just don't know!" Is a 100% honest song, written & performed by Mr. Lou Reed... Who I realy Love.. Cos of his HONESTY.. HIS MUSIC, WHICH LIVED IN ALL HIS CELLS... THE POETRY THAT POURED OUT OF HIM. MR. LOU REED WAS THE MAN WHO MADE VELVET FAMOUS. .+ The song:"we're gonna have a real good time together!' and: The day John Kennedy died... And "Heavenly Arms"
Lots of my dearest pals have died of heroin o.d. so I know how dangerous it is!!p.d. both marihuana and alcohol are heavy braindestructable drugs also... But worst of all are TOBACCO. SO, Why do the Countries still sell this poison; TOBACCO?
Uh...huh? WTF...
A lot of bands that have huge success and record sales with a couple of hit songs,T V U have a lot of songs considered jewels that are so important to the music industry that s difficult at least for me to understand why doesn t get the proper recognizement in the days they where made.so many bands copy the V U some even don t know it.i listened other huge bands from the 60-70 era and i think V U is really superior to all of them.V U are the U S band to get the BEATLES-STONES level and that is an accomplishment!!!
The first song I heard from them was heroin, since then they're one of my favourites
If Astrology did nothing else, it got Doug Yule in The Velvet Underground which I can't imagine the last 2 albums of their classic period without Doug's voice.
Among the many great things about this doc is hearing from Yule about the details of his joining the VU and the wonderful commentary from others about how that changed the Velvets but didn’t diminish them. Cale? Yule? Yes to both, of course!
I see comments that this person or another was underrated but it’s clear that they all were including Doug Yule .
Nico was from Cologne not Hungary.
I've got the first album for a good amountnt In 1998. $22 dollars. She wanted $5 but I only had $22. Kirkwood Missouri btw.
Nico liked them young...
Rejected LC's very best Bogart and bedded a very young CJB.
I know about 16 year old Jackson Brown, but who is LC? And CJB? This fan would love to know. Saw her at the Whiskey in the 80's and she was astounding.
I agree with you, who are they? And why the cryptic clues?
Nico was German
There is no such thing as "most unique" or "least unique". "Unique" is an absolute. Substitute "one of a kind" and you'll grasp the idea. "Most one of a kind" sounds absurd; no one would ever make such a mistake.
Heroin addiction is good It gives stucture and meaning to existence. How much does that TV set weigh?.
Best and longest concert I ever saw
Very unfortunate not to have seen John Cale and Lou Reed. Thank you for restoring Sterling Morrison's true place within the group. As for Maureen, irreplaceable... The final part with Doug Yule is not of much interest. The Velvet Underground will remain one of the 4 or 5 monumental groups in two albums.
Nico was Slovakian and Spanish..her parents were..she was born in Germany though.
I saw their first performance at Summit High School ( Summit NJ). They opened up for a band called The Middle Class. Totally off the wall, out of key, & not at all anything that I could appreciate. The only song I liked was Sunday morning that I heard much later on when Nico was with the band and sang it. Respectfully, only one man's opinion of moon light.
Wow! Congrats on being at that landmark show! Nico doesn't sing Sunday Morning on the album...did they let her sing it at other early live shows?
Commercial?
Mo looked a lot better than niko or what ever her name was MO was cute AF!
It's not possible to be "(one of) the most unique".
Correct. You're either unique or not...
Nico is German, not Hungarian
Andrew Warhola Jr. aka Andy Warhol had Austria-Hungarian origins though - his parents being emigrants from the town Miko, now called Mikova, located in today’s northeastern Slovakia.
@@indigenousnorwegianeuropa4145 Austria-Hungary ceased to exist in 1918...
Born in Berlin and very much German was Nico.
and died in ibuza...and make a commercial for spanish brandy...riding a white horse...what a goddess...rip
Maureen's drums are what make Heroin the impressionist thing it is. The heart beating in arhythmia...
I never thought of that, and I should have; I have a heart condition. Thank you for pointing it out. The heart beating in arhythmia. I will remember that.
JAMES
@@Eoraptor1 Yeah, I have always thought that Maureen's drums represented an overdose, which many of my contemporaries considered a hip emblem. Ho hum, such is life.
Kind of ironic one of the early names for the VU in 1965 was the Warlocks, which they shared at the same time with another very influential, sometimes looked down upon SF Bay area band who played the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests sponsored by Ken Kesey. Eventually both bands changed their names due to a third band called The Warlocks with a record contract, so the West Coast band changed their name in Dec 1965 to the Grateful Dead which is another chapter in rock history.
Lou HATED the Dead too haha....but I love them both!
@@fmellish71 this is the way
Damn I did not know that
@@fmellish71 this is the way but VU better
What’s ironic about that?
2:56
Nico wasn't Hungarian.
She was German.
Indeed. Scrolled down to make this point myself. She´s from Köln
Heritage fail
then to outside of Berlin to escape the bombing. she was a Kriegskinder, or child of war. she must have witnessed death early on, and probably played in the ruins.
@@kalevala29
She was born in Cologne.
@@HenningDiesel I know, but she was taken to the outskirts of Berlin by her mother when she was two or three. she eventually became a model there; she probably didn't discuss her upbringing much. there was shame for many of her generation. and you have that putz lou reed who acted all tough and punk and streetwise. please. her shock therapy was war.
Nico is often overlooked when it comes to her career after TVU. Her first 4 albums as a solo artist are excellent.
Agree
I’m absolutely in love with her singing on her debut album
@@tvalles22 I like the following albums more than the debut
She is so fascinating. She could have coasted through life as a model yet seemed obsessed to live an artist's life of depth and expression instead of just image. Despite the self-destruction and addiction, she always seemed like a hugely courageous person.
Marble index and desertshore are so good
I first came across the VU in 1972, in a German compilation. By the time I started at Warwick University in 1974, quite a few of my friends had the banana album and the Warhol Coke cover double compilation, so they were far from obscure even that early on. Punk, of course, made them much more well known.
Bowie boosted Lou and Iggy . So did Alice Cooper .
@@mikehouser2518 Very true. I certainly hadn't heard of them before 72, and none of my music savvy fellow teenagers. It's a nice documentary, but there's far too much Doug Yule (he and Maureen being the survivors, I suppose). The recent film about the VU featured a lot of discussion with Cale and Reed, and got the balance right (Yule as foot note is appropriate, imho). It's good that Sterling M gets the credit he always deserved.
My first hearing of them was as an 18 yr old when “ Venus “ was being played on the pirate radio station - right amongst the police transmissions at 100 MHz - my being inside a scorching hot Tent and completely away on Acid at Stonehenge in 1982 . Very recognisable or unique & fantastic tune. 😁❤️
@@newforestpixie5297.......Hawkwind played there sometimes.
@@mippim8765'Hawkwind played there sometimes'... That's hilarious: an obtuse comment for sure.
Nico Hungarian? She was born in Cologne and brought up in Berlin.
Love The Velvet Underground music they were ahead of their time.
Looks like clickbait when it says underappreciated. Hardly. And then 3 minutes in, he calls Nico Hungarian. Is this worth watching? Doesn't seems accurate from the go.
Er, ‘Nico a beautiful Hungarian chanteuse’. She was from Germany.
been a Velvet fan since the first time I heard them in 1969. there was nothing like them then nor has there been anyone like them since. they were one great rock band
Probably the most important rock band EVER, along with The Beatles & The Who of course. US psychedelia, raga rock (Venus In Furs), avant garde, protopunk, noize (White Light / White Heat), dream pop (Sunday Morning). Jesus, all this elements in ONE band
Don't forget the Kinks, You Really Got Me from 1964 has such a great proto punk riff that had a massive influence on bands to follow. And back in the days The Kinks were always well respected men among us punks, which couldn't be said about a certain band you mentioned.
@@ForARide agreed The Who are a little lackluster imo
What about the Best of them All, the STONES?!
The Who are just awful. Never understood their appeal at all. Mediocre at best IMO
The Stones & The Kinks were the best British bands of the 1960's, their output from 1971 onwards never reached the same highs though. Black Sabbath are the best British band of the 1970's and the 1980's had the Stone Roses and Primal scream tied.
Just my opinion of course, others may disagree. The 1990's had a few great bands but Gomez, Oasis, Radiohead were the best. British guitar bands from 2000 onwards haven't had such a big impact and I can't think of any essential band from the time period to today. Greta van fleet are making some good music so all hope is not gone
Venus and furs is the Song from other plannet. Hello from Slovenia.
I don't believe that the Velvet Underground was simply copying and pasting from previous bands. They have a unique sound that never occurred previously and hasn't occurred since
Their sound on TVU&N and WL/WH was mainly created by John Cale who brought his expertise of avant-garde and classical structures and elements into the Velvets, such as the drone, or those repetetive piano chords that made their sound so unique and groundbreaking. Cale should have been co-credited for the music, but unfortunatly Reed's enormous ego got in the way.
@@ForARide all the band members contributed profoundly. Reed continued to make good music after the Velvets
NICO....Hungarian? DO SOME RESEARCH PEOPLE
The book, "Nico, the songs they don't play on the radio anymore".
Wasn’t Nico German? Anyway, one of the greatest bands of all time. I love them.
I thought that, she born in Cologne right?
Nothing about Hungary on her Wiki page.
She was German yes but her 1st language was French.
Born Cologne. No Hungarian connection that I know of (and I live in Hungary).
@@urbangorilla33 Thought so, I've read a few books about her and they never mention Hungry, part from when she was on tour and hadn't eaten
My neighbour who is 81 went to school with Cale in Wales. She is still well into The VU. So am I.
She was a great drummer , enough said .
I've been a drummer since 1964 and I agree with you. Also a wonderful person.
Man! This is an eye opening documentary. What an incredible group of talented musicians. Seems impossible to typecast their music. What a unigue group!
Today's highly irrelevant fun fact: John Cale was born seven days after Lou Reed was.
Nico Hungarian? She couldn't be looking more German, even to people who obviously never heard for her or VU, yet are doing a documentary.
An excellent documentary, only missing a contribution from the Welsh maestro himself.
Love all the people ” Nico German not Hungarian...” *insert faux outrage*, failing completely to listen that they were just quoting how Warhol introduced her, and he was never that bothered by fact if it got in the way of the story.
how can i enjoy this documentary when nico is called hungarian in minute 3. how many more errors will be there?
Contrary to what most believe, I hold the debut as far and away their best, so much so that I rarely listen to the others, certainly not as one complete listening experience of track 1 through to the final track.
The only BAND that DIDN'T Want to be the BEATLES
Underappreciated? More like over-rated. Nobody bloody shuts up about them and its borderline unlistenable.
Ok, shut up YOU!
Cale"s replacement bassist, sorry I forgot his name .. his goatee is off centre and I can't unsee it
Sterling Morrison=Guitar Hero:)
Sister Ray - One of the coolest songs in existence. When it comes in at the end of 'Brick' (great film) it's so great.
Regardless of music they are some of the coolest figures of that era, moe is a legend
Second time watching this in two days. One of the best looks at the Velvets that I’ve seen, though I need to see the recent doc. This one is incredibly well done, and Mo Tucker is a vital force of life -as a drummer, a person, and a savvy historical spokesperson for rock and roll.
Nico a true icon of mid 60s..RIP X
I just realized the Cowboy Junkies used that bridge in their version of 'Sweet Jane'. Mind blown....
Excellent documentary but I wish it had included interviews with Reed, Cale and Morrison as well.
Oh c'mon Guys this can't be a coincidence! Anyway another well put together video of a superb band Now have you heard of a New York duo called Suicide?. Nice work and 'ave a good holiday
A Suicide doc would be pretty cool
GREAT video but i think TVU are appreciated by millions of people. they're like the biggest cult band ever. :)
Outstanding doc. I remember back in the 70's hearing this band on an exceptional radio station in SA TX and seeing them in the rock mags. I had wished that I could get to where they were performing but a penniless kid had very few to no options. This sort of makes up for it. Makes me ache to go back in time when music didn't all sound the same, before emptyV.
I was born, raised, and still live in san Antonio. Im 44 years old, what radio station was that was it, an a.m. station?
John Cale is a Pisces as well.
Isn't that how all drugs are in the beginning seductive than turning horrifying.
Read something once that said "the velvet underground didn't sell that many records , but every one they sold, resulted in a another band.