The Velvet Underground
TV Appearances
December 31, 1965, Walter Cronkite Show, CBS The Making of an Underground Film about Piero Heliczer's film Venus In Furs, with the Velvet Underground performing Heroin, Heliczer joining in on saxophone. February 7, 1966, USA Artists, WNET-TV, NYC Show about Warhol, on the eve of Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Andy Warhol presents the Velvet Underground, and the band plays Heroin and Venus In Furs. This presentation is available in the Aussie What Goes On box set, and the songs appears on several bootlegs. Lou Reed - Rock And Roll Heart video/DVD offers also part of the WNET stuff. January 8 [& July 15?], 1967, Upbeat, Local TV show, Cleveland, Ohio Velvet Underground appearance with Guess I'm Falling In Love performance. The Cleveland TV Guide lists for January 8, 1967: "Upbeat - with Marvin Gaye & Tammie Terrel, The Music Explosion, Velvet Underground, 5th Estate and Donna Sears." In Psychotronic #33: The Velvet Underground (!) were on twice. Jamie Klimek (of the group Mirrors) saw them play many times. "In the period April 67 to March 69, The Velvets played Cleveland 7 times. After and appearance with the EPI at the Public Hall, they returned 5 times to play at La Cave. In early 67 they did Guess I'm Falling in Love (not on LP) on Upbeat! with Cale. On Oct 2 1968 [sic], the VU came in for another 3 day stand. This marked Doug Yule's first public appearance with the band. They played Run Run Run (from the first LP) with different lyric-live on Upbeat!" May 11, 1968, Upbeat, Channel 5, Cleveland, Ohio
In Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1968, Rob Baker says: "Channel 32's Upbeat show tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. features The Yardbirds, Bobby Goldsboro, Mary Wells, The Outsiders, Harumi, The McCoys, The Short Kuts, Kim Weston, Bob Francis, and The Velvet Underground." June [or July 15?], 1968, Upbeat, Local TV show, Cleveland, Ohio Velvet Underground appearance with Run Run Run performance at a local TV show in Cleveland. Tom Cramer says: "The Velvets performed live on the Upbeat TV show in June 1968 (not June 1967). Moreover, contrary to Sterling Morrison's recollection, they performed a blistering, buzzsaw version of Run Run Run. Their rendition of Run Run Run went beyond their alloted time: thus, Upbeat cut away to a commercial while the Velvets were engaged in feedback frenzy with Lou's back to the camera." June 10, 1972, Pop 2, Antenne 2, France 39 minutes, black & white. The show is presented by Patrice Blanc Francard and includes reports about Robert Wyatt's Matching Mole, Lewis Caroll and 23 minutes devoted to the Reed, Cale & Nico concert at Le Bataclan in Paris, on January 29, 1972. It offers 5 songs filmed by Claude Ventura (Berlin, I'm Waiting For The Man, Heroin, Ghost Story, Femme Fatale) intersected with French journalists discussing. The Pop 2 show has been re-broadcasted on Canal Jimmy cable TV on October 29, 1999 Spring 1986, Arsenal, Catalonian TV3, Spain Feed Back: The Velvet Underground Story documentary. April 27, 1986, South Bank Show (series 9, show 23), London Weekend Television, ITV, UK The Velvet Underground documentary. August 26, 1990, Canal+, France Nothing Special documentary. June 8, 1991, La Sept/FR3, France Songs For Drella video and a bonus: a 6:20 excerpt from Andy Warhol's The Velvet Underground And Nico - A Symphony Of Sound film. December 12, 1991, Culture Rock, M6, France Includes Heroin from Bataclan '72, B&W, 4 mins. February 2, 1992, Culture Rock, M6, France Includes Femme Fatale from Bataclan '72, B&W, 1 min. January 24, 1993, Macadam "Philippe Pascale", M6, France Includes I'm Waiting For The Man from Bataclan '72, 2 mins. 1993, CNN, USA 4-minute interview with the band just before it took off for its 1993 European tour. June 1993, 8 PM News, TF1, France Brief report (2:04) broadcasted during the 1993 reunion tour, before Paris concerts. It included brief history of the group, Factory era photographs, live excerpts from 1993 concert and interview with John Cale and Sterling Morrison. August 8, 1993, 120 Minutes, MTV 9 minutes report at the Glastonbury Festival on June 25, 1993. It includes 3-min excerpts of Sweet Jane and Some Kinda Love filmed live in Glastonbury intersected with an interview with Moe Tucker and Sterling Morrison. December 1993, Peel Slowly And See..., Channel 4, UK 8 hours TV show about the Velvet Underground. January 21, 1995, Velvet Jungle, Arte, France Curious documentary with french subtitles. 1996, The Week In Rock, MTV, USA Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame induction report with a brief bit of Last night I Said Goodbye To My Friend, the song deicated to the late Sterling Morrison (actually just the title and some music). May 27, 1997, Dancing In The Street, Canal Jimmy cable TV, 22:25, France French version of Dancing In The Street #7, co-produced in 1996 by BBC and WGBH. Home Thanks: Tom Cramer, Marck Skobac. by Olivier Landemaine ©1996-2008 The Velvet Underground Web Page |
In Angus MacLise's Brain Damage in Oklahoma City CD liner notes, Tony Conrad says: "On May 11 [1968], I tape the Velvet Underground actually appearing on TV--at noon on local Ch 5's "Upbeat" with the McCoys, Yarbirds, the Outsiders, and--Harami."