Velvet Underground and young'uns

[noise626]

...Just finished a recording session with a band I've been working with off and on for a few months now. Their genre is more electronic industrial, and they're good kids; maybe not the most musically inclined bunch, but their hearts are in the right spot and they work hard.

Anyway, they are much younger than I am, and we got to chatting about music. Jay, their vocalist, asked me what band made me want to seriously get into music. I told him that there were two: Pink Floyd and Velvet Underground. Now, Floyd they had heard of, but VU was spectacularly unfamiliar. So, I pulled out the VU Gold disc, cued up Heroin, and turn the monitors up to 11....

Oh....how their minds were BLOWN!!!!

There's hope yet, ya'll!

pax
ant

I don't know just where I'm going
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom if I can
'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
Then I tell you things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel just like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know

[bridgit]

1. cool...

:kick:

[gmoney]

2. What was the old saying...

Someone said something like "When it came out, the first Velvet Underground album was only bought by a couple hundred people... but every one of them ended up starting a band."

Hugely influential, but going on three generations back, so I'm sure a lot of todays kids don't know what they're about at all.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. I've heard of the Velvet Underground...

But I don't think I've actually listened to them. Perhaps I should.

[bbernardini]

4. Never been a big fan, but I like that tune R.E.M. did on the "Green" tour.

The name escapes me now, but it was the last song of the night. It's on "Tourfilm".

[sir_captain]

5. One of the greatest bands of all time

No question about it.

[wysi]

6. An understanding of modern music...

... is impossible without first appreciating VU's place in the universe. When I first heard them it finally all began to make sense.

[madrchsod]

7. only on vinyl

something about remixing to digits takes away from feel of the music. only on vinyl can ya get those pops and clicks of an album that`s been played over and over. album art and liner notes and of course the album size is just right to roll a joint on...

[blondeatlast]

8. What was it Brian Eno said:" Only 100 people bought their albums, but all

those 100 formed bands, and so on..."

Not an exact quote, but you get the gist.