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1965-66
Dates in gray are uncertainEarly Spring 1965 Mentioned in Uptight - The Velvet Underground Story (p. 20). Mixed-media stage presentation organized by Piero Heliczer with Reed, Cale, MacLise and Morrison playing music behind the screen. Other similar performances took place during the summer of 1965. Heliczer taped music played during some of those performances. | |
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| November 1965 New York City, New York The Making of an Underground Film Making of Piero Heliczer's Venus In Furs movie, featuring Cale, Morrison and Reed playing Heroin, with Heliczer joining in on saxophone! This sound portion was used for the film. Film: for CBS News Walter Cronkite's show, broadcasted late December 1965. Short excerpts are available in Dancing In The Streets #9. Photos: by Adam Ritchie. The whole series remains unpublished but one is available in Les Inrockuptibles Hors Série - The Velvet Underground, p. 62-63. | |
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December 11, 1965 First show with the name "The Velvet Underground" and with Maureen Tucker. Triple bill with The Myddle Class as headliners and The Forty Fingers as co-support. This opening was offered by the legendary journalist Al Aronowitz who was also The Myddle Class manager. Setlist: There She Goes Again, Venus In Furs, Heroin. Poster: reproduced in What Goes On #5. Tape: by Al Aronowitz on a Wollensack tape recorder. Review: in I Was A Velveteen by Rob Norris in Kicks magazine. Sterling: At Summit we opened with "There She Goes Again", then played "Venus In Furs", and ended with "Heroin". The murmur of surprise that greeted our appearance as the curtain went up increased to a roar of disbelief once we started to play "Venus", and swelled to a mighty howl of outrage and bewilderment by the end of "Heroin". Al Aronowitz observed that we seemed to have an oddly stimulating and polarizing effect on audiences. (1983) Sterling: We played at Summit, it was our first gig with Maureen. We played 'There She Goes Again', 'Venus In Furs' and 'Heroin' - and half the people walked out. (Jun. 1990) |
Late December 1965 Residency gig acquired by Al Aronowitz. The group meets Andy Warhol via Barbara Rubin. Photos: by Adam Ritchie, available in:
There is also a photo by Billy Name, available in the special 'velvet' edition of Songs for Drella, where it's credited to "Cafe Bizarre, November 1965". However, in an interview given by Maureen Tucker and Sterling Morrison at the Warhol exposition in France in 1990, Moe discusses a photograph that supposedly shows the Velvets at the Cafe Bizarre. She says that this photograph could not have been from the Bizarre because the photo shows her behind a drum kit and she states that she was not allowed to play the drums at the Bizarre... (she had to play a tambourine). Actually the photo was shot on April 11, 1967 at Cheetah in New York City, NY. Sterling: We tried to get gigs in the Village that summer. It was supposed to be the avant-garde there - but the clubs didn't want us. But finally we got six nights a week at the Cafe Bizarre, some ungodly number of sets, 40 minutes on and 20 minutes off. We played some covers - 'Little Queenie', 'Bright Lights Big City'... the black R&B songs Lou and I liked - and many of our songs as we had. (Jun. 1990) Sterling: One night at the Café Bizarre we played 'The Black Angel's Death Song' and the owner came up and said, 'if you play that song one more time, you're fired.' So we started the next set with it, the all-time version, and got fired. (Apr. 1981) Sterling: At Christmas 1965 we were told we had to work New Year's Eve at the Cafe Bizarre, but we didn't want to, so we had to figured out a way to get fired. Around December 30, after a set, the lady who owned the cafe came up and said that if we played 'Black Angel's death Song one more time we were fired. So we led off the next set with it. A really good version too... (Jun. 1990) | |
January 3, 1966 Tape: recorded by Andy Warhol just a week after the German actress Nico had arrived in America. This tape features what may have been the first musical collaboration between her and the Velvet Underground. The tapes feature many casual moments of unstructured jamming common to rock band rehearsals. Most of this material falls in line with what can be assumed to be influences of the key members; Older Blues, R&B, Rockabilly etc. However, there is one time on the tapes when either Lou Reed or Sterling Morrison can be heard playing the lead intro to "Day Tripper" by the Beatles. While this may seem like a standard today, it was a 4 month old song when the tape was made. On Track two, Lou Reed can be heard teaching lyrics to Nico while the rest of the band plays in the background. The lyrics are to the song "Venus In Furs." Track 11 features the whole band with Nico attempting to sing the song "There She Goes Again." They try several times to find a key that suits Nico's voice. Nico tries many times to vocalize lyrics that prove to be too fast for her broken English to master. These problems evidently were never solved, as the song appears on the first album with Lou Reed singing lead - not Nico. Sources: All Tomorrow's Parties: Remembering the Velvet Underground CD (3-9, 12, 14-16), At Andy Warhol Museum CD (4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14-16), At The Factory - Warhol Tapes CD (3-9, 12, 14-16), Dispatches From The Dream Factory 3CD Disc 1 (3, 8, 12, 15, 16).
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January 13, 1966 First public appearance with Nico. Film: included in Scenes From The Life Of Andy Warhol by Jonas Mekas. The soundtrack has the Velvet Underground recorded live at The Dom, Spring 1966 (see below). Review: Syndromes Pop At Delmonico's by Grace Gluek in The New York Times, January 14, 1966. Photos: by Adam Ritchie, available in:
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February 6, 1966 Tape: from Andy Warhol's tapes. Sources: All Tomorrow's Parties: Remembering the Velvet Underground CD (2-4), At Andy Warhol Museum CD (2-4), , At The Factory - Warhol Tapes CD (2-4), Dispatches From The Dream Factory 3CD Disc 1 (3-4).
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February 7, 1966 TV: USA Artists TV show, on WNET, featuring Andy Warhol who introduces the Velvet Underground. Tape: from TV. Sources: What Goes On 3-CD (1), Searchin' For My Mainline 3-LP and 3-CD (1-3), A Symphony Of Sound 2-LP (1-3), Ultra Rare Trax Vol. 3 CD (1-3), Caught Between The Twisted Stars 4-CD (2, 3).
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February 8-13, 1966 Andy Warhol - Uptight Flyer: 1000 sent. Reproduced in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue p. 54 & 55. Tape: recorded by Andy Warhol (see above, Feb. 6 entry). Includes Venus in Furs, Heroin, European Son, and others (unfortunately not listed). This tape was dated "February 6" but it's probably a mistake since the flyer advertise for a February 8-13 engagement. Source: All Tomorrow's Parties: Remembering the Velvet Underground CD, At The Factory - Warhol Tapes CD. Reviews:
Photos: by Adam Ritchie, available in Les Inrockuptibles no.344, June 26-July 2, 2002, p. 47 (1 b&w photo). by Fred W. McDarrah, available in Up-tight, p. 10 (1b&w photo) and in MOJO 63, February 1999, p. 55 & 60 (2 b&w photos). |
March 7, 1966 Rehearsal before Exploding Plastic Inevitable Tape: recorded by Andy Warhol. Includes I'll Be Your Mirror, Femme Fatale, excerpts of My Generation and It's All Over Now. Moe Tucker wasn't there, but Nico was. Source: All Tomorrow's Parties: Remembering the Velvet Underground CD (1, 5), At Andy Warhol Museum CD (1, 5), At The Factory - Warhol Tapes CD (1, 5), Dispatches From The Dream Factory 3CD Disc 1 (1), Andy Warhol From Tapes CD: Rehearsal jam/Factory sounds [with speaker comments] (2:55); I'll Be Your Mirror (1:00).
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March 9, 1966 Rutgers Up-Tight Poster: "The Rutgers Film Society presents Andy Warhol's "Underground New York" featuring two films in color & double screen. "Vinyl" Staring Gerard Malanga & Edie Sedgwick Written by Ronnie Tavel. "Lupe" featuring Edie Sedgwick & Billy Linich. Plus onstage The Velvet Underground and Nico. "Rutgers Uptight" to be filmed in audience with Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Barbara Rubin, Gerard Malanga, Danny Williams, Billy Linch, Paul Morissey, the Velvet Underground. Wednesday March 9th at 8:00 & 10:00". Reproduced in Andy Warhol - 365 Takes (take #43). Review: reprinted in The Velvet Underground Scrapbook. Photos: two photos by Stephen Shore in Warhol's Factory - The Velvet Years 1965-67, p. 73. Sterling: "At Rutger's we were all dressed entirely in white. The effect, with all the films and lights projected on us, was invisibility." |
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March 12, 1966 Fourth Film Festival - Up-Tight with Andy Warhol Ads: in Michigan Daily, March 11 & 12, 1966. Photos: by Nat Finkelstein in Andy Warhol - The Factory Years 1964-1967 in the Invading the boonies - We were big in Ann Arbor chapter. This is a set of photos shot in the bus on the road to Ann Arbor and just before the EPI performance. Also in Uptight, p. 28-29, 37, 54. Review: Warhol: Neoprimitive Realism by Betsy Cohn, in Michigan Daily, March 13, 1966. Ingrid Superstar: "I remember in Ann Arbor part of the audience went a little berserk, and there were a few hecklers. They're all a bunch of immature punks. Like we have these problems with a very enthusiastic audience that yells and screams and throws fits and tantrums and rolls on the floor, usually at colleges and benefits like that for the younger people. So, anyway, the effect of the music on the audience is just too stunned to think or say anything or give any kind of opinion. But then later I asked a few people in Ann Arbor, who had come to see the show a couple of nights in a row, what they thought, and they formed an opinion slowly. They said that they thought the music was very way out and supersonic and fast and intensified, and the effect of the sound it produced vibrated all through the audience, and when they walked out onto the street they still had these vibrations in their ears for about 15-minutes, especially from that last piece "Nothing Song", which was just noise and feedback and screeches and groans from the amplifiers." [in Up-tight - The Velvet Underground Story, p. 29] |
March 1966 Paraphernalia was Pilgrim Clothes flagship store. They had decided to hired Betsey Johnson to design their line and Betsey hired Andy Warhol to make a party. Photos:
Film: excerpts (?) used in South Bank Show and Curious documentaries. | |
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March 31, 1966 April Fool Dance & Models Ball with the Fugs. Ad: East Village Other full-page newsprint advertisement, 11 x 17 inch. |
April 1966 20th anniversary party for George Plimpton's The Paris Review Steve Nelson: "I first saw them in April 1966 at the 20th anniversary party for George Plimpton's The Paris Review at The Village Gate in NYC. A lot of bands played all evening, and The Velvets were the last to come on, with Nico, and Gerard Malanga doing the whip dance. I never heard them introduced (if they were) and had no idea who they were, but I was totally blown away. There were a lot of celebrities at that event, and when Frank Sinatra came downstairs where The Velvets were playing, he took one look at them, and turned right around and went back upstairs." | |
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April 1 - April 30, 1966 Exploding Plastic Inevitable Photos:
Poster: reproduced in Peel Slowly And See booklet (p.32) and Andy Warhol - 365 Takes (take #43). Ads:
Tape: Jonas Mekas' Scenes From The Life Of Andy Warhol film soundtrack, B+, 28 minutes. Sources: New York Underground 68-72 DVD, Chelsea Girls RaroVideo DVD. Also: Searchin' For My Mainline 3-CD (3:50 excerpt of 2), Ostrich Hilltop CD (4:21 excerpt of 2), Caught Between The Twisted Stars 4-CD (2).
Review: A "High" School of Music and Art by John Wilcock, in Electric Village Other, Vol. 1, No. 10, April 15 - March 1, 1966. |
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April 26, 1966 NOW Festival Callie Angell: A performance event called "Linoleum" by Robert Rauschenberg "ended with an electronic bang when Pop Artist Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground, a rock and roll band from his New York night club, The Plastic Inevitable, turned the roller rink into a giant discotheque." (quote from Leroy F. Aarons, "New Theater's 'Happening' Amuses, Angers Audience," The Washington Post, April 27, 1966, p. B2.). So, despite the fact the Velvets were booked at the Dom all that month, they apparently weren't performing every night. | |
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April 27 (?), 1966 Callie Angell: Also, I have found some evidence, not entirely clear, that they performed at the Filmmaker's Cinematheque on April 27th (?), 1966, which would have been the very next night. The Cinematheque ads from the Village Voice for that date announce "A new film by Andy Warhol," and "BED by Andy Warhol, Based on a play by Bob Heide." But I found an article from the Fire Island News, June 4, 1966, by George English "The Worst is Yet to Come," which describes in great detail an evening at "the Film-Maker's Cinematheque this spring when they were showing Andy Warhol's 'Up-Tight Series." The dating of this is a little hard to figure out: I would have assumed he is describing the February "Up-Tight" show at the Cinematheque, since he mentions Edie Sedgwick, a "pregnant girl in a red dress going up and down the aisle" with a spotlight and camera filming people (Barbara Rubin?). But he does say, "this spring," and then he also describes -- in very convincing detail --- a screening of The Bed in double-screen followed by a screening of Outer and Inner Space in double screen, following by the Velvet Underground performing with Nico, Edie and probably Gerard dancing on stage, and "three movies going at the same time." As far as I know, The Bed was not shown at the Up-Tight shows in February (and was it announced in April as "a new film by Andy Warhol"). (It was actually made the previous fall). | |
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May 3-5, 1966 The engagement was from May 3rd to 18th, but the sheriff closed down the club after the third day. Radio ad: Press ads:
Poster: 14 x 22 inch. Artwork designed by Roy Lichtenstein. There would be only about 20 copies circulating... Photos:
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May 27-29, 1966 With: The Mothers of Invention. Poster: "Bill Graham presents", BG 8. Artist is Wes Wilson, also exists as flyer and postcard. However the postcards were printed at a later date. The first run of these items have a Union bug in the lower right hand corner. The handbills are also printed on other color papers and some are two sided with a reprint from the LA Times, May 5, 1966 on the backside. Tapes: listed in WGO 1+2, 27/5 (45 mins, B-); 29/5 (55 mins, B-). Press article: Conjuror's Dream From Pop World by John L. Wasserman in San Francisco Chronicle, May 23, 1966, reproduced in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue p. 27. Sterling: We actually built the light show at the Fillmore. Bill Graham didn't, nor did any San Francisco entrepreneur. When we showed up, Graham had a slide projector with a picture of the moon. We said, 'That's not a light show, Bill, sorry.' That's one of the reasons that Graham really hates us. (1983) Ralph J. Gleason: If this is what America's waiting for, we are all going to die of boredom, because this is a celebration of the silliness of cafe society... The Velvet Underground was really pretty lame... Camp plus con equals nothing. (The San Francisco Chronicles, 1966) Bill Graham get back to the EPI shows at Fillmore in Rock Palace King Cools It With Jazz, an article by Leonard Feather, in Los Angeles Times March 10(?), 1968. |
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June 21-26, 1966, held over July 3rd These shows were without Lou Reed who was at New York's Beth Israel Hospital for hepatitis, and without Nico who took off for Ibiza at the beginning of June. Angus MacLise was on drums, Maureen on bass, Sterling and John on lead vocals. Poster: reproduced in Andy Warhol - 365 Takes (take #43). Exists also as handbill but with white text on black. Setlist: reproduced in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue p. 32. Reviews:
June 23, 1966 Film: Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, by Ronald Nameth. The film soundtrack offers two songs recorded in Chicago. Tape: film soundtrack, B, 10 mins. Sources: Orange Disaster LP (1-2), Searchin' For My Mainline 3-LP and 3-CD (1-2), A Symphony Of Sound 2-LP (1-2), Ultra Rare Trax Vol. 3 CD (1-2), Caught Between The Twisted Stars 4-CD (1-2), Dispatches From The Dream Factory 3-CD Disc 1 (1-2).
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Summer/Fall 1966 Film: by Andy Warhol, 67 min, 2 reels, B/W. A video tape of 2nd reel circulates unofficialy. A pirate "audience" screener video (recorded during a film projection) also exists, and it has the complete film. The complete film is now available officialy on VHS (2002) and DVD (2004), released by RaroVideo Visioni Underground. Audio: film soundtrack, 53 min. Sources: A Symphony Of Sound 2-LP, Searchin' For My Mainline 3-CD, A Walk With The VU 5-CD (all those records have actually the 20 minutes of Velvet Underground music offered on reel two), A Symphony Of Sound LP.
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August 31-September 4, 1966 Posters: 2 different. One is reproduced in PSAS booklet (p. 77) and in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue (p. 5). The other one is b&w printing with "IT'S ANDY WARHOL'S EXPLOSION!" text (only 2 known copies to exist, one is at Chrysler Art Museum) Photo: Hugo (see back of The Velvet Underground And Nico LP) . |
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October 1966 The engagement may have begun late September - in a letter to her friend Edward K. Walsh, received September 27, 1966, Susan Pile writes: "Velvets are at Dom in East Village (with Nico Mary Paffgen)" Film. Ads:
Review: A Quiet Evening At The Balloon Farm by Richard Goldstein in New York Magazine, October 1966, reprinted in The Velvet Underground Scrapbook and in Uptight book.
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October 29, 1966 Documented in Up-tight - The Velvet Underground Story p. 63 with extracts from The Secret Diaries of Gerard Malanga. Invitation: to the ICA opening and show. Reproduced in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue p. 56-57.
Announcement: Warhol comes to town in The Tech, October 18, 1966 Review: Warhol creates optical rock in The Tech, November 1, 1966 | |
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October 30, 1966 Documented in Up-tight p.63. Poster: 14 x 22 inch cardboard poster. Reproduced in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue (p. 4). Two versions of this poster exist with only very minor differences (the figures around MOD are not present on alternate version). |
November 3, 1966 Reviews: Something Was Inevitable by Doug Snyder in WGO fanzine #5. Also in Cincinnati Sunday Pictorial Enquirer, Jan. 8, 1967: "THE SCENE: The room is huge, dark, crowded. Pinpoints of colored light dart from around the walls, reflected from a mosaic-mirrored ball that hangs from the ceiling. At the far side of the room, on stage, is the Velvet Underground, polka-dotted, pinstriped, booted, wide-belted, dark-spectacled musicians. With them, twisting, turning, leaping, getting the message, is dancer Gerard Malanga. Walking among the tables toward the stage is Nico, tall, casual, stunning in black velvet pea jacket and loose-legged lavender pants. THE SCREEN: Behind the Underground, three films are projected simultaneously on the same screen. Sharing the screen at various time, are members of the Underground sitting at tables and standing along a wall, a pair of lips, Nico's profile, Gerard's staring face, two men binding another to a chair, an ear. Like most home movies, the films are intimate, jerky from the hand-helded camera, and made up of disconnected images. Unlike most home movies, they are way out. THE SOUND: At first it is the amplified throb of single, disconnected guitar notes. Thirty minutes later these have been resolved to a rythm. Soon after come drummer, guitarist, singer and violinist, and the result is a resounding folk rock. MAKING IT HAPPEN: Feeling the beat, casting his gyrating shadow on the screen behind, giving off his own light flashes from a rhinestone necklace, making it all happen, is Gerard. He works with a bullwhip, sliding it along the floor, cracking it in the air with a choreographic frenzy. HAPPEN?: What happened at the happening was a high gear bombardment of sound, lights, movement, and constantly changing images. ...Whether anyone was turned on or off by the event, whether anything happened besides the happening itself is beside the point. Dig?" | |
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November 3, 1966 The Exploding Plastic Inevitable Flyer: made of plastic with clear lettering . Measures 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. It states that it is "designed by Brody". Reproduced in c/o The Velvet Underground catalogue p. 33. |
November 4, 1966 Review: Something Was Inevitable by Doug Snyder with photos by Al Brandenberger in WGO#5. Photos: by Al Brandenberger. 4 shots available in What Goes On #5. Tape: audience, 105 mins. Taped by Dick Felton. It also circulates under false pretenses as "Lawrence, Kansas, 1966" or "Cleveland, 4/11/66". The best source is the Move Back! 2-CD set which offers an unedited version of this legendary recording. Some versions of that tape have one minute edited out in the middle of Waiting For The Man. Also at the end of that song you can hear two barkings which are not on the original version. My opinion is that this version was dubbed "through the air" with a microphone in front of a speaker playing the original tape with some bonus noises: the barking dog... Doug Snyder: "This time one of us - Dick Felton - took a tape recorder. (...) Their equipment manager Dave Faison helped us with an extension cord for our mono recorder. (...) The tape Dick made of the concert ends with him saying, "I'm scared to play it back. I really am." Dick's tape has been bootlegged many times over the years - but never by him. The best known boot is Velvet Underground 1966, which was put out by Bernd Baierschmidt. The LP had Melody Laughter on one side, and The Nothing Song on the other - but were just called "side one" and "side two". Bernd's girlfriend was the mysterious cover girl. Bernd died as the result of a motorcycle crash a couple years later, so I can tell this about him. He had been the one to see the Velvets before the rest of us - probably before anyone else in Ohio, and for years was the cultural arbitrer of Cincinnati from his perch at Kidd's Books. (...) A few months after the EPI came to Ohio, Bernd Baierschmidt and Dick Felton took the Valleydale tape to New York. They called the Factory and asked for Andy. The voice said, "This Is Andy." They took Andy Warhol the tape, and he made a copy." John Cale: "We worked a huge place in Columbus, Ohio, filled with people drinking and talking. We tuned up for about ten minutes, tuning, fa-da-da, up, da-da-da down. There's a tape of it. Played a whole set to no applause, just silences." Sources: 1966 LP (1, 9), The Warlocks/The Falling Spikes LP (2-8), Legend LP (2, 3, 5, 6), Songs Of Cave CD (2-8), Down For You Is Up LP & CD (2-8), A Symphony Of Sound 2-LP (1 - excerpt), Live In Columbus CDs part 1 & 2 (1-9), EPI/1966 2-CD (1-9), Move Back! 2-CD (1-9), Caught Between The Twisted Stars 4-CD (1-9).
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November 5, 1966 Tape: listed in WGO 1+2, 15 mins (incomplete), C+. | |
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November 6, 1966 The Exploding Plastic Inevitable Ad: in The Plain Dealer, October 30, 1966: "Belkin Production presents in person Andy Warhol with his smash N.Y. scene The Exploding Plastic Inevitable Featuring The Velvet Underground & Nico As Featured In Life Magazine" |
November 12, 1966 Mentioned in Up-tight, p.65. Press article: Velvet Underground in Hamilton by Barry Lord in artscanada no.105, February 1967, 3-page article on the Velvet underground performing at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario Canada with 10 photos by Ian MacEachern of the EPI including Gerard Malanga, Nico and Sterling Morrison. The text was reprinted in Up-tight - The Velvet Underground Story (see p. 65). | |
November 14, 1966 Tape: listed in WGO 1+2, 35 mins (incomplete), B-. | |
November 17-20, 1966 Mentioned in Up-tight p. 65. Hosted by Dick Clark, the Velvet Underground played on the same bill with the Yardbirds. | |
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November 20, 1966 The World's First Mod Wedding Happening Poster: 17½x20". Reproduced in Peel Slowly And See booklet p. 23. Press article: on Mod Wedding in The Fifth Estate vol. 1 no. 18, Detroit, Nov. 1966. This show is also documented in the book Yardbirds by Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty. The book confirms that the Yardbirds covered Waiting For My Man on stage. |
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December 4, 1966 Handbill. Photos: by Tim Boxer - one available in MOJO 104, July 2002, p. 117. |
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December 10-11, 1966 Ad or poster(?): "A mixed-media discotheque complete with Andy Warhol and underground films. Review: Warhol 'Happening' Hits Like a Noisy Bomb by Judy Altman in Philadelphia Daily News, December 12, 1966 - with 2 photographs by Elwood P. Smith , one of Nico holding her son Ari. The article mentions shows in Washington, Boston, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Morgantown W. Va. Maureen: I remember one show in particular, at the Jewish YMCA at the Philadelphia Art Festival. Each artist was supposed to bring something representing his art. Everybody brought their two little pictures except Andy - he brought us, these 13 freaks. |
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