Gerard Malanga,Victor Bockris

Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story

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  • Sergio Avtushenkohas quoted6 years ago
    Tony Conrad, who had by now become a film-maker, did a thing called Flicker.
  • Sergio Avtushenkohas quoted6 years ago
    There are unfortunately no Velvet Underground videos although there are four films (apart from Warhol’s) that are known to exist, though shown rarely, if at all:
  • Sergio Avtushenkohas quoted6 years ago
    Some of the music we really like is records by The El Doradoes or The Harpchords, all the really very nice old, old records. The El Chords, The Starlighters, ‘Valerie’, Alicia and The Rockaways, Buster Brown, Bo Diddley.
  • Sergio Avtushenkohas quoted6 years ago
    . Everybody was wearing like balloon-sleeve Tom Jones shirts, necklaces, high boots.
  • Sergio Avtushenkohas quoted6 years ago
    good as ever.
    MORRISON: “Everybody thought we’d be a flop without Lou but we were great. We just had to work a lot harder. In fact, we were held over for a second week, which was at least as successful as the first. We had a lot of fun there: Gerard and I went to a beach in Winnetka, an affluent suburb of Chicago, and were run off by the police (Gerard was wearing a novel Rudi Gernreich bikini which exposed the top 3 inches of his ass, and plunged even lower in the front); while I was staying at the Commonwealth Hotel I met a dwarf in the elevator who said he had a gun and would kill me with it if I ever got in there with him again. Is it because I’m tall, I wondered, or because I look happy? I later met
  • Sergio Avtushenkohas quoted6 years ago
    I met a dwarf in the elevator who said he had a gun and would kill me with it if I ever got in there with him again. Is it because I’m tall, I wondered, or because I look happy? I
  • Sergio Avtushenkohas quoted6 years ago
    met another dwarf in Boston and he, too, had a gun that he said he would kill me with. I don’t know what the pattern is to all this, but I’m still working on it.
  • Sergio Avtushenkohas quoted6 years ago
    Fugs, The Holy Modal Rounder
  • Sergio Avtushenkohas quoted6 years ago
    Goes Round The Roses’ by The Jaynettes was his favourite song, he played it non-stop
  • Sergio Avtushenkohas quoted6 years ago
    The great ‘Sally
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