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Actually I lie, it’s Nico’s Desertshore or Marble Index.Absolutely. I have one of her LPs and it’s probably my favourite post-VU album by any of them.
I remember her being filmed for a vox pop at a Tea Party demo. as far as I know she raised her family in Georgia and had a job working at Wal Mart. she never saw much money in her life.Fascinating insight into what America does to people's minds in this tea-party era interview with her
Interview: Moe Tucker of the Velvet Underground Sets the Record Straight
In April 2009, WALB-TV aired a story about a Tea Party rally in nearby Tifton, Georgia. About two-and-a-half minutes...web.archive.org
not holding it against her or her music, it's genuinely just a bonkers read of that peak anti-Obama period.
I was sorry I missed that.i saw john cale a couple of years ago in the NCH and it was one of the most bizarrely inconsistent gigs i've seen. i got the impression his band were terrified of him.
one of the songs he played was called 'what is the legal status of ice?' which posed the question 'what is the legal status of ice?', repeatedly.
I should add an asterisk when I'm deliberately being ridiculous, so there's no room for this kind of dreadful misunderstandingThey invented everything???
If we're being ridiculous i'm going to go out here and stake the claim that they were just ripping of Bo Diddley and Joe Meek while James Brown was busy inventing funk. They only got the credit for it because they were in New York and wearing sunglasses.
I honestly don't know what my position on this kind of thing is. Is it better that everyone just accepts that there is no originality in this world so we can just get on with things, or is it too much fun to make claims to originality just to wind others up?? I can't decide.I should add an asterisk when I'm deliberately being ridiculous, so there's no room for this kind of dreadful misunderstanding
Interesting. I wasn't doing a windup there, clearly, just slapping a bit of hyperbolix under a good link. If this had been 20 years ago I might have enjoyed a good punchup to try and parse the DNA and heritage of the VU, and stick to my guns about their originality, maybe learn something on the way. The thought of doing it now though fills me with a nameless dread, both because I know less about music now, and I am small of brain. And, most importantly, because I am sick to my teeth of those kind of conversations. I'll say this much: Synthesis through one's own unique creative process is inevitably to some degree original, even if you're trying really hard not to be original. There's lots of originality in the world.I honestly don't know what my position on this kind of thing is. Is it better that everyone just accepts that there is no originality in this world so we can just get on with things, or is it too much fun to make claims to originality just to wind others up?? I can't decide
Absolutely. Like Burgerbarbaby's post above says.Can it not be derivative and original at the same time?
Eh... TLDR: he doesn't actually.Hook me up with some examples of Bo Diddley sounding like VU!
What I actually said was:Moe Tucker was a big Bo Diddley fan so ALL OF THEIR DRUMS
She was a massive Bo Diddley fan and based a lot of her percussion on that of the Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji:
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