likely setlist: Waiting
For The Man; Spare Change; Some Kinds Love; White Light/White Heat;
Pretty Tree Climber; What Goes On;Cool It Down; Back On The Farm; Oh
Sweet Nuthin'; Sister Ray; After Hours; Dopey Joe; Rock n Roll
band line up
Velvet
Underground
Mo Tucker (drums) Doug Yule (guitar) Walter Powers (bass)
Willie Alexander (vocs/keys)
Gothic
Horizon
Andy Desmond Richard Garret
gig poster and flyer (click to
enlarge flyer)
ticket
memories
Willie
Alexander: "Sorry
dude, I don't remember shit"
Doug Yule:"Thanks
for thinking of me as someone who's memories might be interesting to
others. Unfortunately there is not a lot of specific information
that I can recall. My mind hangs on to music and pictures but has
never been good with indexing and filing. So while I have
recollections of that tour, they are random scenes and incidents and
I'm not even sure which countries they may have taken place in. If I
was standing in a bar and someone said 'you played here in such and
such a year' I might dredge up something but outside of that, I have
no way to know what's relevant
I expect to be in Europe this summer playing some
music but no plans for England or I would stop by in person and tell
some stories"
press cuttings
what happened next
Velvet Underground in this line up, only Tucker remained from the original band but not for long as
an even newer version of VU formed after this and toured, but ended in farce
with there being more than one version of the new line up touring. An album was
released in 1973 but generally disowned. The 'proper' line up of Reed, Cale,
Tucker and Morrison reunited and toured in 1992. Morrison died in 1995 and the
remaining three performed one last time in 1996. Doug Yule is
now a violin maker. Powers appears to have left the music business completely.
Willie Anderson is still performing today.
In December 2009, Reed, Yule and
Tucker got together in New York with Rolling Stone magazine to discuss their
career
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