Tag: velvet underground
The Stubborn Mysteries of Lou Reed
On the Velvet Underground official bootleg “Live at Max’s Kansas City,” recorded on August 23, 1970, you can, at one point, hear the author and downtown face Jim Carroll, in the audience, asking someone to go fetch him a “double Pernod,” and then interacting with a passing drug dealer. “You got a down?” he says. “What is it? A Tuinal? Gimme it immediately.” That night, the band’s set list included songs called “New Age” and “Beginning to See the Light,”
Trump’s Inevitability Problem – The Atlantic
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There’s Donald Trump, and there’s everyone else. At the moment, the former president of the United States appears unbeatable in the 2024 Republican primary race. But perhaps inevitable is a trickier word than it seems.
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic
The Misunderstood Voice of Nico
In October, 1966, the singer Nico began a residency at a bar in the East Village. She wore a white pantsuit and wielded a tambourine; her drawn vowels hung in the smoky air. She was still playing occasional shows with the Velvet Underground, whose first album would be released the following year. But, to Nico’s dismay, the band’s leader, Lou Reed, refused to play guitar at her solo shows, and barred the rest of the group from joining her. Onstage,