Had a few hours to kill today during a business trip to Pittsburgh and decided to check out the Warhol Museum. In one of the galleries they had an original poster promoting an event at Rutgers University featuring Andy Warhol, The Velvet Underground, Nico, Edie Sedgwick. Looks like it was in Scott Hall. Tickets were on sale at the ledge for $2. This was in 1966 I believe. Anyone on this board attend? I'd imagine it was probably a crazy event.
OT: Andy Warhol & Velvet Underground at RU
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In 1972, my soph year , I saw Lou Reed play an excellent show at the Rutgers student Center in a small auditorium room. For the song 'Heroin' (great song) he actually takes out a 'set of works' and wraps up his arm w a rubber tube as if he's about to shoot up.
I read recently, that Lou Reed was one of David Bowie's mentors and heroes. Bowie was actually named David Jones , but since the Monkees front man was more popular in the 60s in changed his name to Bowie, after seeing Fess Parker use a 'Bowie' knife in the TV show Davy Crockett, lol. He thought it was cool. Cool story,no ?
I read recently, that Lou Reed was one of David Bowie's mentors and heroes. Bowie was actually named David Jones , but since the Monkees front man was more popular in the 60s in changed his name to Bowie, after seeing Fess Parker use a 'Bowie' knife in the TV show Davy Crockett, lol. He thought it was cool. Cool story,no ?
I love that museum and the velvet underground and am old enough to have seen them in Greenwich village
Perhaps Warhols gymnasium, or the balloon farm
thank you for the memory jog
The Director of the Warhol Museum from 1996 to 2010 is an old grad school buddy of mine. Andy Warhol was a devout Catholic. Not really the guy he appeared to be.
Although a big fan of all of them a little too early for me to have attended we met Lou and Laurie Anderson and Ray Manzarek at the Gugg about 15 years ago with my ex and her kids on a trip back from Cali Lou did not want to be noticed so I walked up to Anderson and she let our 14 year old Velvet freak take pics and get autographs with all of them. He lives in Brooklyn now and says that day helped him make his decision to become a New Yorker.
