I like this piece:
http://kreftingmoondawn.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/how-do-you-think-it-feels-and-when-do-you-think-it-stops/


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Here's some imagery to go along with this: Lou Reed and Nico at Scepter
> Studios, NYC, 1966:
> http://25.media.tumblr.com/**tumblr_ljcetzypnL1qbfoleo1_**500.jpg<http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljcetzypnL1qbfoleo1_500.jpg>
>
> This blog site has a link to download the "rare" VU acetate without the
> aggressive over-processing on the commercial release:
> http://fm-shades.blogspot.com/**2007/01/velvet-underground-**
> nico-april-1966.html<http://fm-shades.blogspot.com/2007/01/velvet-underground-nico-april-1966.html>
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "david goren" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:43 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Excellent Lou Reed rememberance
>
>
> It's been said that only 250 people bought the first Velvet Underground
>>> LP -- but every one of them went out and started a band.
>>>
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>> Actually, that stems from a 1982 quote from Brian Eno who said the VU's
>> first five records only sold 30,000 but everyone who bought one started a
>> band.
>>
>> http://blogs.wsj.com/**speakeasy/2013/10/29/how-many-**
>> albums-did-lou-reed-and-the-**velvet-underground-really-**sell/<http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/10/29/how-many-albums-did-lou-reed-and-the-velvet-underground-really-sell/>
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>> On Oct 29, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Paul Stamler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/28/2013 8:07 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
>>>
>>>> Marc Myers hits all the right points. Many obituary writers clearly
>>>> didn't understand Lou Reed, the NYC arts scene of the 60's through 80's,
>>>> and pretty much anything else that was hip and different. Lou Reed's
>>>> influence on a certain strain of rock music cannot be overstated. He may
>>>> also have influenced the fact that the Czech Republic is a stable
>>>> democracy today (one news report indicated that the Velvet Underground
>>>> strongly influenced a young Vaclav Havel to become a poet dissident).
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Peace,
>>> Paul
>>>
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