Velvet Underground facts
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Frank Zappa once got on stage during a Velvet Underground show, atonally played the keyboard, and shouted the names of random vegetables for a minute. Then he walked off stage and the show continued normally
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Macaulay Culkin has a band called The Pizza Underground, wherein they cover Velvet Underground songs and change the words to make the songs about pizza.
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what's velvet underground?
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The Velvet Underground was originally so unsuccessful that Lou Reed’s first job after leaving the band in 1970 was as a typist as his father’s accounting firm.
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The spider species, Loureedia annulipes, is one that is 'velvet' and lives 'underground'. It is named after Lou Reed, lead singer of The Velvet Underground.
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Andy Warhol managed Lou Reed's band called The Velvet Underground.
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Brian Eno made the statement about Velvet Underground, "that while the first album may have sold only 30,000 copies in its early years, everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band."
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The song Venus In Furs by The Velvet Underground was tuned in such a way that every string on the guitar was tuned to the same note, which was D. This is called the Ostrich Tuning
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The original drummer of The Velvet Underground, Angus MacLise, once showed up for a show a half hour after it started and played for a half hour after the rest of the band ended. He later quit the band after they took a paying gig because he considered that as selling out.
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The Grateful Dead, formed on the west coast, were originally called The Warlocks...while at the same time The Velvet Underground, formed on the east coast, were also called The Warlocks.
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There is a Velvet, Underground-dwelling spider named after Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed
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Lou Reed started off as a staff music writer & session musician for a record label that made compilation albums of generic cover versions of pop songs. He worked there with John Cale, leading to their founding the Velvet Underground.
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Macaulay Culkin had a Velvet Underground "cover" band that replaced the lyrics with pizza-related puns
Why did the velvet underground break up?
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The Velvet Underground's original acetate recordings of early The Velvet Underground & Nico sessions were found decades after the album's release, and were sold for $0.75.
Macaulay Culkin is in a band called The Pizza Underground. They mainly parody songs by the Velvet Underground with pizza-infused lyrics. - source
An item of importance in Final Fantasy VII was named after a Velvet Underground song.
Macaulay Culkin is in a pizza-themed velvet underground band called Pizza Underground, featuring songs like "Papa John Says," "I'm Waiting For Delivery Man," and "Take a Bite of the Wild Slice." - source
When did the velvet underground break up?
Vaclav Havel, the first democratically elected President of the Czech Republic, credited "The Velvet Underground&Nico" as one of the main reasons why he was able to overthrow the communist dictatorship and install a democracy.
Sterling Morrison of the Velvet Underground earned a PhD in medieval literature in 1986, writing a dissertation on the four signed poems of Cynewulf.
Home Alone actor Macaulay Culkin played in a band called The Pizza Underground. An American comedy rock band that would mainly parody songs by the Velvet Underground with pizza-themed song names and lyrics
MGM pulled The Velvet Underground and Nico out of distribution for 2 months due to the threat of a lawsuit over the back cover image. It was re-distributed in June 1967 around the same time as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and faced stiff competition.
After quitting The Velvet Underground, Reed got a job at his father’s tax accounting company. He earned $40 a week working as a typist for around a year.
David Bowie covered the Velvet Underground in 1967
