I'm waiting for my mannnnnnn

[Taverner]

Twenty six dollars in my hannnnnnd

[skooooo]

1. get me some too, ok?

[DAGDA56]

2. I KNEW IT...

...a previous discussion has prompted an Exer to pop in the Velvet Underground. I think I'll join you (3000 miles away).

[Taverner]

3. Yeah something about that banana album

Just works on a Friday night....

Proves the power of raw simplicity

So how did you end up leaving the paradise of Ukiah for Fla?

[DAGDA56]

4. Dad kept getting transferred...

...it was either Orlando or Towanda, PA (a no brainer there)...so off we went. I really miss the left coast...was in LA with a friend back in January, but it isn't quite the same.

[hatrack]

5. Hey white boy! What you doin' uptown?

Velvets rule time and space!!

[lucidmadman]

6. My VU story...

I try to tell this story every once and awhile and usually can’t quite pull it off. I did a real good version once but it got flushed down the cyber toilet. My girl has it I think. I’ll have to ask her.
It was a very chemical night in the fall of 1969 or 1968. It all gets pretty confused right around then.
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND was playing at the Avalon Ballroom. It was the Doug Yule Velvets not the John Cale Velvets. I’d seen/heard the John Cale VU the year before; whatever year it was. It was a Sunday afternoon show. Tim Buckley opened.. Lot’s of really pretty Pre-Raphaelite looking girls in a attendance. I guess his kid Jeff really brought the pretty girls in too. I haven’t heard that much of him.
I feel sorry about he way Tim Buckley died. No one deserves to die at Cher’s house…
Anyway…The Velvets had taken the stage on this other night a year later…Lou Reed had on a midnight blue velvet tuxedo, the whole deal, frilly ruffled white shirt underneath, black boots. He was playing a black Gretsch guitar with red foxes painted on it. Maximum rock and roll.
The band was milling around on stage and tuning up and Lou approached the microphone to do the “testing one two three” thing and suddenly a blue spark flashed between his lips and the mic. It blew him back a few steps. The rest of the band looked at him and those of us in the audience who were watching did too thinking that we might have just seen Lou Reed electrocuted.
The guy then steps back up to the mic and says in his lazy Long Island drawl, “ things like that don’t bother me anymore.”
Then he counts off and they launch into I’M WAITING FOR THE MAN.

[DAGDA56]

7. Great! The people, and the description...

...thanks to you, I'm there!

[Taverner]

8. OMG I LOVE IT

And that doesn't surprise me one bit.

Lou Reed WAS rock and roll...and the godfather of us X'ers...

[tigereye]

11. one of my bands used to cover that

didn't really think about what it meant until later on, but it is a fun song to play

I got to play rhythm guitar on it. That is a great album.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

9. sounds like you were actually there

Did you grow up in S. F.? How long were you there?
I grew up in the city and am curious as to who, like me, was there during the H.A. era and still holds the same values.


Although I am now much older, I still hold basically, the same values and see much of what I fought against happening in today's world. It's nice to see people from the same era, still working for the same causes.
Guess I'm just an old hippie. Proud of it though!

[lucidmadman]

10. Born in Hayward, '51...

...grew up mostly in Marin County. Fairfax, San Anselmo...'pictures of a gone world', man.
I miss it so much. I went to either the Fillmore, Avalon, Fillmore West or Winterland every week from about 1966-1974. And all the free concerts in Golden Gate Park. I remember stuff I can't even believe happened now. It's like it happened to somebody else.
It's made life since then a bit of a let-down, but one's gotta keep going.
Contrary to the 'if you remember the '60s then you weren't there' joke, I remember everything, it just seems like it happened to someone else.
:hi:

[Ramsey]

12. Bowie rocks on this songf

And does a really killer cover of White Light White Heat too.