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"FacebookPinterest\n\nLast night's Velvet Underground reunion\u2014didn't feature the band playing any actual music. And original bassist/viola player (and longtime Lou Reed sparring partner) John Cale declined to take part. But the ninety-minute-long, David Fricke-moderated conversation with Reed, drummer Maureen Tucker, and post-Cale bass player Doug Yule\u2014which celebrated the release of the essential, holiday gift-worthy book Velvet Underground: New York Art (buy it right here)\u2014did serve to remind us just how groundbreaking and unstoppably cool the Velvets were, and how lasting their legacy is. Not to mention how wildly entertaining an interview with the prickly Reed can be. (Ed. note: We'll be posting audio from last night's event as soon as it's available.) In honor of that, and for your viewing and listening pleasure, one of Lou's most priceless assaults on the journalistic community, followed by some supremely stylish clips of the Velvet Underground in action. \n\n Sydney, Australia, 1974: \"Pardon the question, but are you a transvestite or a homosexual?\" \"Sometimes.\"\n\n Velvet Underground, \"Venus in Furs,\" live\n\n Velvet Underground with Nico, live\n\n Velvet Underground on TV, 1965\n\n \"I'm Waiting for My Man,\" Paris, 1972 \n\n New York, 1967: \"We want to make a tape that'll take up every minute of every hour of every day, of the entire year... I didn't bother to figure out exactly how many hours that is, but it'd just be one extremely long tape. It would fit into your wall.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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