Wikipedia: History of Velvet Underground

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Although never commercially successful, the Velvet Underground remain one the most influential bands of their time. (It was once said: "Only five thousand people ever bought a Velvet Underground album, but every single one of them started a band.") Whilst the West coast was undergoing the Summer of Love, psychedelia? and [flower power]? the typically East coast Velvets concerned themselves with darker subject matter: transvestites, heroin addiction and sado-masochism?. Also setting them apart from their contemporaries was their use of feedback and amplifier noise in a musical context, exemplified by the 17 minute "Sister Ray".

Although never commercially successful, the Velvet Underground remain one the most influential bands of their time. ("Only five thousand people ever bought a Velvet Underground album, but every single one of them started a band" -- or variation thereof -- is a common saying about them). Whilst the West coast was undergoing the Summer of Love, psychedelia? and [flower power]? the typically East coast Velvets concerned themselves with darker subject matter: transvestites, heroin addiction and sado-masochism?. Also setting them apart from their contemporaries was their use of feedback and amplifier noise in a musical context, exemplified by the 17 minute "Sister Ray".

	Revision 6 . . September 27, 2001 7:11 am by Paul Drye [The origin of the quote is lost in time....]
	Revision 5 . . September 27, 2001 5:27 am by RjLesch *[I don't know who said it, but it was once said.]**
	Revision 4 . . March 10, 2001 4:20 am by Gareth Owen [Jeez, I could not recall the word "hedonism"]