The Feelies connection to the Velvet Underground goes long and deep. As gawky teenagers, Glenn Mercer and Bill Millions put VU on the same tier as the Beatles. Their jittery, drone-y, laconically delivered Crazy Rhythms sounded like no one else, except possibly the Velvets. The band covered “What Goes On” on their 1988 album Only Life, and, about the same time, got a chance to play a show with Loud Reed at the Orpheum Theatre in New York City. Reed himself once told Bill Millions that the Feelies were the only band that ever “got” the Velvet Underground.
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Can't wait for this one. I've been waiting years. I was there. Epic show!
Wow Rogue46! Would love to have been there too!Enjoy!And thanks so much for dropping by . . . . .
Can't wait for this one. I've been waiting years. I was there. Epic show!
ReplyDeleteWow Rogue46! Would love to have been there too!
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And thanks so much for dropping by . . . . .