The Velvet Forum

I was just reading the Sterling Morrison interview posted here:

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lo ... erl69.html

and I came across something interesting:

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I thought some of the new songs you played last night have the potential to be good hits.

Everything, if perhaps not a hit, could be distributed. Most of our singles were never distributed. However where they appeared on jukeboxes, people have really liked them. "White Light/White Heat" as a single is nice. that single was banned every place. When it was banned in San Francisco, we said, the hell with it. That's as far as it ever got.

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Why would WL/WH be banned?

Candy Velvet wrote:Why would WL/WH be banned?

the song is an advert for speed

these words aren't totally right but can you imagine this coming on the radio after 'California Dreamin'?

White light, go on messing up my mind
Don't you know it's gonna make me go blind?
White heat, it tickles me down to my toes
Have mercy, white light, have it, goodness knows

White light, go on messing up my brain
White light, it's gonna drive me insane
White heat, it tickles me down to my toes
White light I said now, goodness knows, do it

I surely do love to watch that stuff shooting itself in
Watch that side, watch that side, don't you know, gonna be dead and bright
Yeah, foxy mama, watch her walking down the street
Come upside, your head's gonna make a dead end on your street

White light, move in me and drain my brain
White heat, it tickles me down to my toes
White light, I said now, goodness knows

White light is lighting up my eyes
Don't you know it fills me up with surprise?
White heat, tickle me down to my toes
White light, I tell you now, goodness knows

Oh, she surely do move, speed
Watch that speed freak, watch that speed freak,
everybody gonna make it every week
Sputter mutter, everbody's gonna kill their mother
Here she comes, here she comes, everybody get it, gonna make me run, do it

We might as well close this thread. That about sums it up. haha Great post!