Velvet Underground & Nico Entry

The image behind the Velvet Underground & Nico is obviously Andy Warhol and his fabulous artistry. I like how Andy mixed music, film and art. I get this eccentric vibe when I’m watching the music behind the art. This makes for a new bread of artistic flow. I understand that this can also be very inspirational to many, not just as musicians but as artist. It’s nice to know that we can take things to different levels. Out of the ordinary, to me this is art. Art takes time and has to be crafted. I recall as an art student in school, my teacher told me that you cant mess up in art. “In some way I believe this is true.” It’s time to push past the boundary. Some believe without Warhol the band would have not made it as far. 

So the Velvet Underground consists of Lou Reed who is the main songwriter, singer and guitarist. Lou also likes photography. John Cale, collaborated deeply with Reed on the writing and musical aspects alike for the first two albums, The Velvet Underground & Nico and White Light/White Heat. John left the group after that for disagreements with Lou.

The bands main support besides it’s fans from the 60’s would be no other then Andy Warhol himself. Of course there were others. However, Andy wanted to put art with pop music. He thought that by combining the three elements discussed earlier we could change the way people think. In 1966 Warhol puts together this ‘action-underground-look-at-your-self-film project’ hosted at the psychiatry society’s 43^rd annual dinner at Delmonico’s Hotel. He referred to the group as apart of the multimedia road-show, Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Let’s not forget the contract Andy got for the group as their manager with MGM’s Verve Records. Tom Wilson was the producer of The Velvet Underground & Nico and White Light/White Heat.

As a professional I feel that the compositions are a little distorted but important to the world of music… It is nice to show that music has come a long way and that we can push the boundaries as we want!