The Velvet Forum

Yes, it's the holiday season again and yet I'm at the office, bored as eff. So, another silly poll. Who is your favourite Velvet, and why?

yay, more polls. I'll take. uhhh....... I voted for Moe because she's so goddamn awesome. I just thought she was so cool, the way she played and looked and acted and everything. I idolize Moe for being a girl who plays the drums, which is still not a very common thing. Thinking to shows I've been to or played in the last couple of years, the very few women you see onstage are either singing, playing the keyboard or the bass. Never a guitar, only a couple of drummers (Like Young and Sally Music) and people still assume you're someone's girlfriend. I hear Omaha has a cool scene, Chicago's can get really repetitive.

I alos genuinely like the way she plays. When people talk about the Velvets, they talk about how "primitive" she. That is the case on a lot of VU&N but it's not nessisarily true for their other recorded stuff. I mean, sit down and try to mimick the drum part on "Heroin." You can't. Moe gets lost in the mix of WLWH, but if you listen closely, there is a lot of ride cymbal and tom fills. Her best stuff got cut out of the gray album to compliment the overall minimalism, stuff you can hear in VU and ANother View or the Quine Tapes or any post Cale bootleg. my favorite song of hers is "One of These Days." (if the stuff about overdubs on the eighties remixes are true, I will be very angry!) Moe herself has said some of her favorite songs were the girl group/phil spector things, and a lot of sixties pop substituted toms for cymbals. Crashes in pop music didn't really start appearing a lot until the seventies, kind of got less predominant with "electronic-y" music in the eighties, came back with nineties grunge and I think they're kind of on their way out again. A lot of people are being influenced by the eighties now.
I don't even know what I'm saying anymore, so MOE ROOLZ!!!!!!11!!!!one!!!

John Cale because he was really the experimentalist in the band. Lou Reed was too, an extent, but where Reed provided the rock, Cale provided the noise. They both were so wonderfully compatible and I know it's a touchy subject but, really, how can you say the last two albums were better than the first two?

Love them all (well ... most of them)

Gotta be Cale for me. Used to be Lou.
Lou has tarnished his legacy with me some by reading his songs off the teleprompter.

Would vote for Andy if he was on the list.
He was the guitarist right?

Sterl is my favourite because of his incredible guitar playing, his lack of bullshit (in contrast to ace bullshitters Reed and Cale) and because of his photo on the gatefold of the first LP.
I still think the moustache was a mistake, but I liked the hawaiian shirts.

simonm wrote:Sterl is my favourite because of his incredible guitar playing, his lack of bullshit (in contrast to ace bullshitters Reed and Cale)

I'll give you the incredible guitar playing twice over, but not sure about lack of bullshit. I love Sterl too but when you read or listen to his interviews he sure could get pretty bitchy

i'm gonna vote for moe because of the beat, the beat, the beat - she was the base f it all for me.

bill yule of course. because everybody forget about him ; )