Logically enough, as Nico was not a member of the group the album’s title was “ The Velvet Underground & Nico. Warhol offered the album to Columbia Records, who turned it down! Then through the Andy Warhol association Verve Records agreed to release it.
Wilson was a staff producer for Columbia (and later Verve) Records and had produced three of Bob Dylan‘s early albums (“ Another Side of Bob Dylan“, “ The Times They Are A’Changin’“, four tracks on “T he Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan“, “ Bringing It All Back Home“) including the hit single “ Like a Rolling Stone“. For unknown reasons some songs were rerecorded and some new songs recorded by producer Tom Wilson in Los Angeles later that year.
Warhol insisted that chanteuse Nico (real name Christa Päffgen) sing on the album and she sang on three songs. In 1965 Andy Warhol became The Velvet Underground‘s manager and he booked them into New York’s Scepter Studios in April 1966 to record the group’s first album which was de facto produced by studio owner Norman Dolph rather than by Warhol. Elvis Presley’s “ Elvis Is Back!” from 1956 is said to be the first gatefold cover for a single LP and “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was not released until two months after the Velvets’ album. Gatefold covers had generally only been used for double albums. The cover provoked two lawsuits (more on those later). It is one of only two albums that I know of that names the cover designer rather than the band or the record’s title on the front (the other being Swedish band bob hund‘s 1996 LP “ Omslag: Martin Kann“.) b.
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We had the energy and the electronics, but we didn't know it couldn't be recorded.what we were trying to do was really fry the tracks.” Above all else, it was “consciously anti-beauty”, and those fans who made it through a full listen were all the stronger in their admiration for it.The album “ The Velvet Underground & Nico” is remarkable for many reasons–not least the music. Just do the best you can.’ And so the album is fuzzy, there's all that white noise.we wanted to do something electronic and energetic.
“Gary Kellgren, who is ultra-competent, told us repeatedly: ‘You can't do it – all the needles are on red.’ And we reacted as we always reacted: ‘Look, we don't know what goes on in there and we don't want to hear about it. “There was fantastic leakage 'cause everyone was playing so loud and we had so much electronic junk with us in the studio – all these fuzzers and compressors,” Sterling Morrison remembered of the album. Their departure from Warhol marked Nico’s split from the band, too, and in September 1967 they began recording White Light/White Heat without her – a heavily conceptual record which was more about volume, brash sounds and extended improvisation than the melodic pop records that had gone before. It was the worst thing he could think of." I never saw Andy mad, but I did that day. " do you want to just keep playing museums from now on, and the art festivals? Or do you want to start moving into other areas?" Reed once recalled. Nico left the band when they split from Andy WarholĪfter the slow-burning (read: limited) success of The Velvet Underground and Nico, the band severed their relationship with Andy Warhol.
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