![]() ![]() Would be The Velvet Underground and Nico. The group, making it crystal clear that she was not a band member. Still, at his insistence the billing would distance Nico from To refuse - or perhaps, lacked enough confidence in himself as a In the end, it was too good a deal for the Velvets to turn down.Īccording to Nico, Reed agreed simply because he lacked the confidence There was of course the recognition that his patronage wouldīring. What changed Reed’s mind was theįact that Warhol was offering them an enticing management and recordingĭeal. Played them her single on the Immediate label, and according to him Reed The suggestion that Nico should join the bandĭidn’t go down too well with the Velvets, to put it mildly. Suggested someone who was already a part of the Warhol camp: Nico. That what the Velvets needed was a singer with “a bit of charisma”. Time, Morrissey also thought that Reed and Cale lacked presence, and Underground films to rock’n’roll, but that it was a purely commercialĭecision to work with the Velvets, rather than an artistic one. Paul Morrissey claims that it was his idea to marry “dazed and damaged” - according to Reed, Warhol saw them the night they Reed looked “pubescent”, and that the audience left the gig looking The Velvet Underground at Café Bizarre, Warhol liked the fact that Lou Rock band three years earlier, with LaMonte Young and Walter De Maria. To Victor Bockris), Warhol had actually contemplated forming his own Was actively looking for a rock band to play there. Island the plans would come to nothing (after seeing the Velvets, theĬlub owner hired The Young Rascals instead), but at this point Warhol Everyone just had this raging crush… he wasĪpproached to get involved with setting up a new discotheque in Long Him - me, Edie, Andy, everyone,” confessed Factory regular Dannyįields. The FactoryĬrowd also noticed Reed as well. Song others would suggest a title or a story situation. Odd situations, and Reed would write down in a notebook fragments of Everywhere they turned there were odd characters and With “new things happening every day” for Lou Reed it was “like John Cale, Andy Warhol’s Factory was like entering a fountain of ideas, Provided a fertile cross-pollination of ideas and personalities, whilst ![]() In addition, Warhol’sįactory, populated by an enormous range of people of varying talents, Meeting Andy Warhol, the Velvets acquired what few fledgling bands haveīeen lucky enough to achieve: a wealthy patron. ![]()
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