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Originally Posted by flashlight69
youst a question : what did john cale for the sound of the velvet underground. i guess some guitar tunings , but isnt it right that lou wrote all the songs ?i mean really all the songs ?and the singing...
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If you need to ask this question maybe you should listen to the first two records and a series of bootlegs more. Perhaps visit their forum (
www.thevelvetforum.tk ), everyone is pretty friendly and helpful on there. I agree that this notion that John Cale was the only experimental force in VU is grossly exagerated. A song like European Son was Reed's attempt at doing Ornette Coleman in a rock way. A failure by his own admission, but still. It's also been documented many times before that a number of those songs have been credited to Lou Reed but were in fact written by more than one member. And certainly if you have heard some of them in their stripped down versions you can hear for yourself that they sound very different from the official versions. Venus In Furs was an acoustic number initially.