The Velvet Forum

Yeah thats the wbcn 3/3/69 interview with lou and doug. Richie Unterberger recently learned the identity of the host of that interview. His airname was Mississippi Harold Wilson, and real-life name is Joe Rogers. The fact that most iterations of the recording are incorrectly pitched threw the trail...

There is quite a bit more in the ebook version.

*The book of that name, that is.

Dynamite Hemorrhage online has published my interview with Richie Unterberger about his wonderful, essential Velvet Underground day-by-day book:

https://dynamitehemorrhage.com/2020/09/ ... hite-heat/

You know a drug is some bad shit when even Lou Reed steers you away from it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27kca1188Iw session photo courtesy Erik Lindgren (l-r): Jon Goward (ad man), Jim Fitts (ad man), Lou Reed (talent), unid'd. (recording eng.), Erik Lindgren (composer) http://www.songpoemmusic...

Lou sent a "shout-out" to Murphy in his WPIX guest-DJ appearance of Jan. (I think it was) '79.

FYI, the song Night Lights song "Crow" is about Patti Smith.

And there is a history of subjecting queer or otherwise different people to harsh psychiatric punishments.

Perhaps "Lady Godiva's Operation" was inspired by Lou's own experiences with "harsh psychiatric punishments."

I believe it’s Doug Yule’s notes to Willie Alexander.

* Is there a calendar of the VU's live performances that is unannotated (or, at least, scarcely annotated), so that one can read the simple data of date/city/venue at a glance? If not, would it be difficult to put one together from available sources? * Do the materials now exist to recreate 1969 Liv...

Even further under the radar, in 2008 the Banana album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, "to honor recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.": https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/hall-of-fame#v While looking into all this I also learned that in 2010 Cale was made an OB...

Ceremony performance (official): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehI9xGMMdPU
Ceremony performance (complete): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJfKjApBF1c