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the velves from there to here | Reviewer: garage tech | 4/2/09
velvet underground,
as a kid in the 80s this kinda scared the living shit out of me and i LOVED it!
so dangerous! even though i didnt even know they had been around since the 60s.
Danger! LSD, dark mystery, blending medival sado masachism with allmost rockabilly, garagte, what became known as punk, rock and roll psychdelia, noise art, movie projections, fear, euphoria!
and yet those tender moments exploring vulnerability, transgenderism, love, and inner spiritual vison, no real attempt at impressiing, just a simple honesty that "this is how the trip feels today, like jesus, or like hell!"
yeh! an honest band! trying to keepo their spirits going throughout a lying time.
vietnam, the lie of the hippy woodstock, and enchraoaching mass produced plastic inevitable captured of course by andi worhols team, for all andy was slagged off about, he really did aide and abet and help platform and transform the velves into what we remember! and threw around them, exactly what they were seeming to be their own anti-dote against! plastic, and it worked, and how these clashes always worked for the velves! conflict, contradiction, anger, drugs, jesus, girls, boys, transgenderism!
and a girl whacking the most unconventionally set up drum kit yet to be seen in most well known rock and roll bands!
maureen didnt give a shit! she did it her own way.
bass drum set up on its back-side like a giant snare drum, and away she went, thumping with sticks at her bass drum where most drummers would tap-tap at a hihat or ride symbol. cool chick! and i thought she was a boy till i was 18 myself in mid 80s.
from the first schreechings, art rock and rock and roll of the banana one, through to the more counrty rockabilly of "rock and roll" yeh, they really did get from there, to here! in style, and of course! many of us became one of the many descended from the few who bought the records at all first ime round.
they certainly come round, and kicked ass all the way! thank f**k
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