![]() But what fans they had turned up over and over again to their shows at a club called The Boston Tea Party, which had opened the same year. Not in person, anyway: last month we featured color footage from their 1969 Vietnam War protest concert, and we’ve previously offered opportunities to glimpse them playing a 1966 Warhol-filmed show that got broken up by the cops, composing “Sunday Morning,” the opening track from that same year’s album The Velvet Underground & Nico, and reuniting in 1972 to do an acoustic set on French television.īut what would it feel like to actually be at a Velvet Underground concert? The 1967 film above provides a view of the band performing, but even more so of their fans taking it in - not that they had many in those days. But few self-described Velvet Underground enthusiasts ever had the chance to see the group perform. ![]() The Velvet Underground, the band with which Lou Reed and John Cale achieved artistic and cultural stardom under the management of Andy Warhol, surely have more listeners now than they did when they were active in the 1960s and 70s. ![]()
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