But during that same period at the Boston Tea Party-a psychedelic club housed in a former Unitarian church in Boston’s South End-they played forty-three times. Walsh points out in his excellent new book about Boston in the ’60s, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968, the Velvet Underground played only three proper shows in New York between 19. What I didn’t know then was that our liturgical attitude toward the Velvets was rooted firmly in a local tradition. Bands covering “Sweet Jane” might as well have been shouting “I don’t get it!” into the mic.) (The fourth album, Loaded, served to separate true acolytes from false. WHEN MY FRIENDS and I started a band in 1980s Boston, we weren’t just influenced by the Velvet Underground-we studied their first three albums like a code to be cracked.
© David Bieber Archives David Bieber ArchivesĪstral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968, by Ryan H. Poster for the Velvet Underground at The Boston Tea Party, 1968.
0 kommentar(er)
