The Velvet Underground - Squeeze (1973)

Petur schreef:
Squeeze is het niet serieus te nemen resultaat (nooit op cd verschenen).

avdj schreef:
Onder een andere artiestnaam had het gemiddelde veel hoger gelegen volgens mij.

Toon1 schreef:
Zo slecht is het allemaal,

Toon1 schreef:


Hier bedoel ik eigenlijk "zo slecht is het allemaal NIET"...

Schizophrenia schreef:
Mwoa ik vind dit nog best wel te pruimen.
Soms doet het me zelfs wel wat denken Lou reed zijn solo carrière,
en soms lijkt het nog best wel wat op Loaded.
Niet heel erg diepgaande muziek maar dat is niet erg.
Gewoon een lekker plaatje voor tijdens het avond eten of als achtergrondmuziekje.

En hoezo zit hier geen Velvet Underground member in? Doug Yule doet hier mee en die zat hier voor al 2 albums bij de Velvets, dus ik vind dat ik hem wel mag beschouwen als een oorspronkelijk band lid.

avdj schreef:
Is het echt zo slecht dan? En zijn de andere VU platen wel de moeite? Ken alleen het debuut en nummer 3.

Stijn_Slayer schreef:

Achja, mocht ik hem ooit tegenkomen streep ik gewoon The Velvet Underground door en zet ik er Doug Yule boven en er niks aan de hand haha.

Yeah, it was kind of like... There were two things; one is; someone said to me, 'you can go into a studio and you can record your songs'. And I thought 'great, every songwriter's dream'. I don't care, I'll do it! The other thing was... the way Sesnick manages people is, he whispers into ears.

He whispers into one person's ear 'watch out for that person there, they're not too good for you, you're really good, and they're not gonna help you and they're out to get you anyway'. He whispers into the other person's ear the same thing. Basically everybody else got shipped back to the States (the album was recorded in England) and I was still there and he said 'go do this and no, Maureen's not gonna be part of this now'. I was like 'oh, ok'. You gotta understand I was 23 years old and I had lead a very sheltered life, I was not very world-wise. And did not have any skills in terms of confrontation. It would have been easy to go to Maureen and say 'Steve tells me I'm gonna do an album and your not gonna do it with me, why's that?' That would have been a perfectly logical thing for me to do, which I'd do now.

I would never even conceive if I was in a group now of doing an album without sitting down with the whole group and saying , 'now we're gonna do an album, what do you think about that?'. Anyway it happened and I was very much caught up in my own hubris at the time, I so full of 'Ok, here I am, I'm in England, I'm recording, I'm working with Ian Paice of Deep Purple'. It was like the blind leading the blind, me leading myself. That's what came out of it, I don't even have a copy of it. But it's kind of a nice memory for me and kind of an embarrassment at the same time. I wish I had my eyes wider open, but it was nice to get my name and my songs out there. A lot of that stuff is about Lou anyway... some of it about Maureen.