Lou Reed & John Cale :: Words & Music, May 1965 - Aquarium Drunkard

Lou Reed :: Words & Music, May 1965

Great piece on Lou Reed and John Cale's first collaborations and while credited to Lou it is no less a project affected by John quite as (more? sic). This from Aquarium Drinkard is an especially good read and by the ever fascinating  t wilcox

Words and Music - Cale and Reed - Aquarium Drunkard

Cale - not to forget . . . 

"Listening to this phenomenal collection of Velvet Underground prehistory, it’s fairly mind-boggling how fast Lou Reed and John Cale moved in the earliest stages of their creative partnership. Less than a year after these acoustic demos were made, the pair were in the studio recording the epochal Velvet Underground & Nico — an LP whose reverberations are still being felt today". t wilcox

Words & Music is credited to Reed, but it’s just as important a chapter in Cale’s story as well. Ultimately, this necessary set is a tribute to the wonders of happenstance. That these two oddballs from different worlds somehow found each other and managed (for a short time) to create such powerful art together was incredibly unlikely. But we’re all better off because of it