After Hours
Posted on August 24, 2010
After reading an e-mail from a former student who'd suggested some new bands for me to check out, I was browsing YouTube so that I could return the favor by sending links to Lou Reed's Street Hassle and Patti Smith's Piss Factory.
Along the way, I stumbled across a video somebody had done for the live-version of AFTER HOURS that appears on The Velvet Underground Live at Max's Kansas City, reported to have been the final performance of The Velvet Underground.
If the information along with the video is accurate, yesterday (August 23, 2010) was the 40th anniversary of that performance.
Legend has it that the performance was recorded on a portable cassette-machine by poet Jim Carroll (People Who Died, etc.).
It may be considered a minor work by a major band, but this was one of those recordings that changed my life. So much that has been written and said about The Velvet Underground focuses on all that "flowers of evil" nonsense.
Listen to Lou Reed's vocals--the joy, the fun, the humor.
Forty years ago.
"Drink a toast to Never."
Makes me want to run out and thank somebody.
Along the way, I stumbled across a video somebody had done for the live-version of AFTER HOURS that appears on The Velvet Underground Live at Max's Kansas City, reported to have been the final performance of The Velvet Underground.
If the information along with the video is accurate, yesterday (August 23, 2010) was the 40th anniversary of that performance.
Legend has it that the performance was recorded on a portable cassette-machine by poet Jim Carroll (People Who Died, etc.).
It may be considered a minor work by a major band, but this was one of those recordings that changed my life. So much that has been written and said about The Velvet Underground focuses on all that "flowers of evil" nonsense.
Listen to Lou Reed's vocals--the joy, the fun, the humor.
Forty years ago.
"Drink a toast to Never."
Makes me want to run out and thank somebody.