![]() ![]() They were too hippy, she says: nothing ever changed because someone put flowers in their hair. There’s an enjoyably grouchy moment when Moe Tucker says they hated Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. And commercial success had nothing to do with their influence and impact. The Velvet Underground is currently available to stream with a subscription on Apple TV+ for 6.99 / month, after a 7-Day Free Trial. The energy between Reed and Cale was often destructive, but productive. Haynes also talks about the 12-part series about Sigmund Freud he. He raises some interesting questions about how culture works. Todd Haynes on ‘The Velvet Underground,’ Having the Music Lead the Experience, and His Peggy Lee Movie with Michelle Williams. We’re too cosy, he told The Guardian recently. He thinks we’ve lost the “spirit of revolt” that produced such a band. Haynes is interested in the heady madness of these times in New York. It’s pretty clear they didn’t help, but there were many contributing factors, lack of success being one. Reed eventually fired Cale, but he sent the guitarist Sterling Morrison to do it. To some extent, the VU followed the trajectories of rock ‘n’ roll cliche – a meteoric rise followed by an equally meteoric fall, fuelled by drugs and personality clashes. Maureen “Moe” Tucker joined when the original drummer refused on principle to turn up on time (which sounds like a drummer joke, but isn’t). After a formal musical education at Goldsmiths, University of London, he went to New York on a scholarship, where he worked with La Monte Young, who was experimenting with drone lines and advanced harmonics. ![]() Cale brought avant garde music theory to their sound, but with a taste for rock ‘n’ roll. Lou Reed’s earliest versions of some of the Velvet Underground’s greatest songs, including I’m Waiting for the Man and Heroin, have been unearthed and will be released in August. Principal is the Welsh musician John Cale who co-founded the group with Lou Reed in 1964, when they were called the Primitives (and they were). And the interviews are largely confined to people who were there, rather than those who weren’t but still have an opinion. Todd Haynes The Velvet Underground is a documentary (his first) by a man whose previous musical tributes. He slams all this together in split screen montages that stimulate the connections, like electrodes into the brain. Listening to The Velvet Underground can feel like walking into a small, late-night gathering with close friends: It’s warm, it’s fuzzy, it’s a little imprecise. Haynes has assembled lots of good material – old Warhol films of the extended circus, when they were house band at Warhol’s Factory hundreds of superb photographs, posters, playbills, lyric sheets and ephemera. ![]()
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