Summit High School footage & the Al Aronowitz Archive
Posted: 17 Jan 2025 12:22
It will be interested to see whether this gets released and if so whether it's a coherent piece of footage or just glimpses of the band through Rubin's experimental processes.
There is also a film of The Velvet Underground’s first concert appearance, which took place at Summit High School on Dec. 11, 1965. Aronowitz was managing the band at the time, and organized the show, which was headlined by Jersey garage-rock band The Myddle Class, whom Aronowitz managed as well.
There is no audio to it, Myles Aronowitz says, but there is some footage of The Velvet Underground. He adds that the film was made by Barbara Rubin, who died in 1980; he describes her as “an experimental filmmaker and close friend of the family.
“It’s an art film kind of thing, but it’s great. Most of it is The Myddle Class. But it’s double- and triple-exposed film. You know, a lot of those minutes are overlapping. Some of the fun stuff is, after the concert, there’s sort of this gathering backstage, with people milling about. It’s pretty great. Carole King and Gerry Goffin were partners with my father for The Myddle Class” — the husband-and-wife songwriting team wrote music for the band, and produced their singles — “and they were there, at the concert. They’re featured in this footage, too, as all the musicians are.”
https://www.njarts.net/al-aronowitzs-ba ... r-auction/
There is also a film of The Velvet Underground’s first concert appearance, which took place at Summit High School on Dec. 11, 1965. Aronowitz was managing the band at the time, and organized the show, which was headlined by Jersey garage-rock band The Myddle Class, whom Aronowitz managed as well.
There is no audio to it, Myles Aronowitz says, but there is some footage of The Velvet Underground. He adds that the film was made by Barbara Rubin, who died in 1980; he describes her as “an experimental filmmaker and close friend of the family.
“It’s an art film kind of thing, but it’s great. Most of it is The Myddle Class. But it’s double- and triple-exposed film. You know, a lot of those minutes are overlapping. Some of the fun stuff is, after the concert, there’s sort of this gathering backstage, with people milling about. It’s pretty great. Carole King and Gerry Goffin were partners with my father for The Myddle Class” — the husband-and-wife songwriting team wrote music for the band, and produced their singles — “and they were there, at the concert. They’re featured in this footage, too, as all the musicians are.”
https://www.njarts.net/al-aronowitzs-ba ... r-auction/
