Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground: Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes

by Colin Fleming
July 12, 2004

A sprawling triple-disc album featuring over three and a half hours of music, The Quine Tapes is also an especially historic one. Despite two previously issued live albums, the Velvets' live legacy had suggested more than it revealed. 1969 was a fine, arresting document, but lacked both “Foggy Notion" and “Sister Ray," setlist cornerstones, the two numbers most purely evocative of the Velvets in their live setting. And then there is Live at Max's Kansas City , a lo-fi, low-key, ...

Doc: Velvet Underground, 2006

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 24, 2020

One of the most influential rock albums of the 1960s was The Velvet Underground & Nico. Recorded in 1966 and released in March 1967—three months before the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper—the album broke new ground and set the tone for multiple rock movements of the late 1960s and early '70s. Unlike the Beatles, who came out of the Liverpool poetry and music hall traditions, the Velvets surfaced as part of the New York pop art and trans-national avant-garde music scenes. The ...
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Sat Eye Candy: Velvet Underground

Source: JamBase
December 6, 2009

IF THEY'RE GOOD ENOUGH FOR PHISH, BECK AND THE CROWES THEN THEY'RE GOOD ENOUGH FOR US!

The Velvet Underground seems to be experiencing a bit of a resurgence these days, with indie bands returning to their brual/pretty template and big rock acts covering their tunes (sadly, no good video of “Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" or “Rock And Roll" readily available). They are one of the foundational acts to emerge from 1960s, and as with many great ideas, their power ...
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Glen Campbell Gives the Velvet Underground a Go

Source: Michael Ricci
August 19, 2008

GLEN CAMPBELL singing the music of Green Day and the Velvet Underground may not top the list of Great Moments in Pop Weirdness -- that'd go to Pat Boone's heavy metal phase a decade ago when he got hip to Metallica and Alice Cooper. But it's close. Meet Glen Campbell, arriving Tuesday, also lets the veteran singer and guitarist apply his signature soaring tenor and deeply twanging electric guitar to U2's “All I Want is You," the Replacements' “Sadly, Beautiful" ...
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