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-[[File:The Velvet Underground.jpg|500px|thumb|right|The Velvet Underground. From left to right: Nico, Andy Warhol, Maureen Tucker, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and John Cale.]]
+[[File:The Velvet Underground.jpg|700px|thumb|right|The Velvet Underground. From left to right: Nico, Andy Warhol, Maureen Tucker, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and John Cale.]]
-'''The Velvet Underground''' was an American rock band formed in New York City.  Active from 1965 to 1973, their best-known members were [[Lou Reed]] and [[John Cale]], who both went on to find success as solo artists. The group was produced by [[Tom Wilson]] and [[Andy Warhol]], who also designed the cover of their first album, ''[[The Velvet Underground & Nico]] (1967)''.
+'''The Velvet Underground''' was an American rock band formed in New York City. They started out as a pet project of painter [[Andy Warhol]] who, together with [[Tom Wilson]], co-produced their first album, ''[[The Velvet Underground & Nico]]'' (1967). The Velvet Underground consisted of [[Lou Reed]] (vocals, guitar), [[John Cale]] (vocals, bass, violin, organ), Sterling Morrison (guitar, bass) and Moe Tucker (drums). On their debut album, German singer Nico also recorded. In 1969, Cale left the group and was replaced by Doug Yule. By 1970, the band has mostly fallen apart and the two records released by their label are widely written out of their canon.
 They should not be confused with [[The Velvets]].
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 On October 23, 1967, in New York, singer Nico sang with The Velvet Underground. Chris Darrow of the magazine ''"Kaleidoscope"'' recalled: ''"The opening night was very crowded and Zappa and members of the Mothers of Invention showed up to show their support. (...) Nico's delivery of her material was very flat, deadpan, and expressionless, and she played as though all of her songs were dirges. She seemed as though she was trying to resurrect the ennui and decadence of Weimar, pre-Hitler Germany. Her icy, Nordic image also added to the detachment of her delivery. (...) The audience was on her side, as she was in her element and the Warhol contingent was very prominent that night. However, what happened next is what sticks in my mind the most from that night. In between sets, Frank Zappa got up from his seat and walked up on the stage and sat behind the keyboard of Nico's B-3 organ. He proceeded to place his hands indiscriminately on the keyboard in a total, atonal fashion and screamed at the top of his lungs, doing a caricature of Nico's set, the one he had just seen. The words to his impromptu song were the names of [[vegetables]] like broccolli, cabbage, [[asparagus]]... This "song" kept going for about a minute or so and then suddenly stopped. He walked off the stage and the show moved on. It was one of the greatest pieces of rock 'n roll theater that I have ever seen."'' <ref>White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day by Day, Richie Unterberger, Jawbone Press, ISBN: 978-1-906002-22-0</ref>
-On the original LP version of ''[[We're Only In It For The Money]] (1968)'' [[Gary Kellgren]] spoke the line: ''"I get to work with the Velvet Underground, which is as shitty a group as Frank Zappa's group."'' On the CD release this line was cut.  "Sweet Jane", on the Velvets' 1970 album ''Loaded'', included the line, "Well there's even some evil mothers/They're gonna tell you that everything is just dirt."
+On the original LP version of ''[[We're Only In It For The Money]] (1968)'' [[Gary Kellgren]] spoke the line: ''"I get to work with the Velvet Underground, which is as shitty a group as Frank Zappa's group."'' On the CD release this line was cut.  "Sweet Jane", on the Velvet Underground's  1970 album ''Loaded'', included the line, "Well there's even some evil mothers/They're gonna tell you that everything is just dirt."
 In an [[Frank Kofsky interviews FZ|interview with Frank Kofsky for Jazz & Pop Magazine, October 1967]], Zappa claimed he liked the first Velvet Underground album. ''"I liked that album. I think that [[Tom Wilson]] deserves a lot of credit for making that album, because it's folk music. It's electric folk music, in the sense that what they're saying comes right out of their environment."'' And in 1980 during the ''[[Star Special]]'' radio special on BBC Radio 1 Zappa selected a song by The Velvet Underground as one of his personal favorites: ''"[[All Tomorrow's Parties]]".'' Another song he liked was ''"Femme Fatale".''

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 * UNTERBERGER, Richie,'' "White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day By Day",'' Jawbone, 2008, pages 33, 57, 94, 117, 164, 167, 168, 224, 252, 273, 299, 348.
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 On October 23, 1967, in New York, singer Nico sang with The Velvet Underground. Chris Darrow of the magazine ''"Kaleidoscope"'' recalled: ''"The opening night was very crowded and Zappa and members of the Mothers of Invention showed up to show their support. (...) Nico's delivery of her material was very flat, deadpan, and expressionless, and she played as though all of her songs were dirges. She seemed as though she was trying to resurrect the ennui and decadence of Weimar, pre-Hitler Germany. Her icy, Nordic image also added to the detachment of her delivery. (...) The audience was on her side, as she was in her element and the Warhol contingent was very prominent that night. However, what happened next is what sticks in my mind the most from that night. In between sets, Frank Zappa got up from his seat and walked up on the stage and sat behind the keyboard of Nico's B-3 organ. He proceeded to place his hands indiscriminately on the keyboard in a total, atonal fashion and screamed at the top of his lungs, doing a caricature of Nico's set, the one he had just seen. The words to his impromptu song were the names of [[vegetables]] like broccolli, cabbage, [[asparagus]]... This "song" kept going for about a minute or so and then suddenly stopped. He walked off the stage and the show moved on. It was one of the greatest pieces of rock 'n roll theater that I have ever seen."'' <ref>White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day by Day, Richie Unterberger, Jawbone Press, ISBN: 978-1-906002-22-0</ref>
-On the original LP version of ''[[We're Only In It For The Money]] (1968)'' [[Gary Kellgren]] spoke the line: ''"I get to work with the Velvet Underground, which is as shitty a group as Frank Zappa's group."'' On the CD release this line was cut.
+On the original LP version of ''[[We're Only In It For The Money]] (1968)'' [[Gary Kellgren]] spoke the line: ''"I get to work with the Velvet Underground, which is as shitty a group as Frank Zappa's group."'' On the CD release this line was cut.  "Sweet Jane", on the Velvets' 1970 album ''Loaded'', included the line, "Well there's even some evil mothers/They're gonna tell you that everything is just dirt."
 In an [[Frank Kofsky interviews FZ|interview with Frank Kofsky for Jazz & Pop Magazine, October 1967]], Zappa claimed he liked the first Velvet Underground album. ''"I liked that album. I think that [[Tom Wilson]] deserves a lot of credit for making that album, because it's folk music. It's electric folk music, in the sense that what they're saying comes right out of their environment."'' And in 1980 during the ''[[Star Special]]'' radio special on BBC Radio 1 Zappa selected a song by The Velvet Underground as one of his personal favorites: ''"[[All Tomorrow's Parties]]".'' Another song he liked was ''"Femme Fatale".''

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 In an [[Frank Kofsky interviews FZ|interview with Frank Kofsky for Jazz & Pop Magazine, October 1967]], Zappa claimed he liked the first Velvet Underground album. ''"I liked that album. I think that [[Tom Wilson]] deserves a lot of credit for making that album, because it's folk music. It's electric folk music, in the sense that what they're saying comes right out of their environment."'' And in 1980 during the ''[[Star Special]]'' radio special on BBC Radio 1 Zappa selected a song by The Velvet Underground as one of his personal favorites: ''"[[All Tomorrow's Parties]]".'' Another song he liked was ''"Femme Fatale".''
-Interviewed by Mojo Magazine [[Lou Reed]] revealed that during the recording of The Velvet Underground's album ''White Light/White Heat (1968)'' Zappa and the Mothers were recording at the same studio. Reed said that the sound effect of a knife stabbing through the protagonist's skull in the song ''The Gift'' from that album was actually suggested by Frank Zappa: ''"You'll get a better sound if you do it this way."'', he said. According to Reed Zappa also said: ''"You know, I’m really surprised by how much I like your album."'' <ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-velvet-undergrounds-white-light-white-heat-10-things-you-didnt-know-205478/</ref>
+Interviewed by Mojo Magazine [[Lou Reed]] revealed that during the recording of The Velvet Underground's album ''[[White Light/White Heat]] (1968)'' Zappa and the Mothers were recording at the same studio. Reed said that the sound effect of a knife stabbing through the protagonist's skull in the song ''The Gift'' from that album was actually suggested by Frank Zappa: ''"You'll get a better sound if you do it this way."'', he said. According to Reed Zappa also said: ''"You know, I’m really surprised by how much I like your album."'' <ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-velvet-undergrounds-white-light-white-heat-10-things-you-didnt-know-205478/</ref>
 When Zappa visited [[Czechoslovakia]] in 1990 he discovered that his music and that of The Velvet Underground and [[The Rolling Stones]] were illegal under the communist government because of their rebellious nature.

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	When Zappa visited [[Czechoslovakia]] in 1990 he discovered that his music and that of The Velvet Underground and [[The Rolling Stones]] were illegal under the communist government because of their rebellious nature.		When Zappa visited [[Czechoslovakia]] in 1990 he discovered that his music and that of The Velvet Underground and [[The Rolling Stones]] were illegal under the communist government because of their rebellious nature.
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 * [[Wikipedia:The Velvet Underground]]

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	When Zappa visited [[Czechoslovakia]] in 1990 he discovered that his music and that of The Velvet Underground and [[The Rolling Stones]] were illegal under the communist government because of their rebellious nature.		When Zappa visited [[Czechoslovakia]] in 1990 he discovered that his music and that of The Velvet Underground and [[The Rolling Stones]] were illegal under the communist government because of their rebellious nature.

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	'''The Velvet Underground''' was an American rock band formed in New York City. Active from 1965 to 1973, their best-known members were [[Lou Reed]] and [[John Cale]], who both went on to find success as solo artists. The group was produced by [[Tom Wilson]] and [[Andy Warhol]], who also designed the cover of their first album, ''[[The Velvet Underground & Nico]] (1967)''.		'''The Velvet Underground''' was an American rock band formed in New York City. Active from 1965 to 1973, their best-known members were [[Lou Reed]] and [[John Cale]], who both went on to find success as solo artists. The group was produced by [[Tom Wilson]] and [[Andy Warhol]], who also designed the cover of their first album, ''[[The Velvet Underground & Nico]] (1967)''.

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	'''The Velvet Underground''' was an American rock band formed in New York City. Active from 1965 to 1973, their best-known members were [[Lou Reed]] and [[John Cale]], who both went on to find success as solo artists. The group was produced by [[Tom Wilson]] and [[Andy Warhol]], who also designed the cover of their first album, ''[[The Velvet Underground & Nico]] (1967)''.		'''The Velvet Underground''' was an American rock band formed in New York City. Active from 1965 to 1973, their best-known members were [[Lou Reed]] and [[John Cale]], who both went on to find success as solo artists. The group was produced by [[Tom Wilson]] and [[Andy Warhol]], who also designed the cover of their first album, ''[[The Velvet Underground & Nico]] (1967)''.