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The Velvet Underground Pt III

No Dogs in Space

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The Velvet Underpants - Fuck the Mothers of Invention

"The Velvet Underground was really pretty lame by contrast. The mothers of invention sounded positively delightful merely because they brought the tempos up a bit from a dirge to a funeral march," he says. "I can see partly where these guys are coming from, in the Velvet's,. people like Bill Graham and Ralph Gleason, they saw one thing, heroin." He adds: "Once heroin enters the scene, it's fucking over. Don't do heroin. Just play heroin. Oh God. That's like a lame bumper sticker".

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