The Velvet Underground 1990 (?) reunion

[DrugStabbingTime]

Pulnoc, nevermind.

[DrugStabbingTime]

What's the record Moe's holding at 1:58 when she hugs Lou?

[haduroboros]

VU and Půlnoc live in Jouy-en-Josas in 1990. Sterling Morrison playing my black 1988 Squier Bullet 1 with my purple guitar strap, bought to me by my mother! The drums belonged to our drummer Petr Kumandžas. Sterling wrote to me "Thanks for the guitar" and I gave Lou my music on a cassette after the gig. I have all the documents from exhibition in my archive, including original photos, that I made for Czech magazine Reflex. Thank you for the video, this is history!

[2711913]

Weird! The Velvets playing out in the daylight, Not the way I remember them. Met Lou & the band in about "68 in Chicago, little club called the Quiet Knight. What fun!

[bapyou]

Loooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­!

[ludvik199t]

lou look so aweful with that guitar and that hair XD

[Timmybear]

Wow - I never noticed before that Moe was carrying an album by Pulnoc towards the end. I have that recording on cassette, of all things. :)

[rodkeanie]

shit lou kind of ruined this by the looks of it

[perpitbla5]

Didn't they support U2 on the reunion tour? Blasphemy, U2 should have supported them.

[2711913]

@perpitbla5 How about when Hendrix opened for the Monkees?

[BipolarPics]

"wild noisy art"  Kurt Loder is such a tool

[PowerfulDragon]

lol... fuckin' lou reed's mullet.

[NinetiesYouth]

Pixies should have been there.

[pataphysician66]

True artists!

[perdurabo444]

This was in '93, and i was there! Saw them when they played at Roskilde. Needless to say it was one the most amazing performances I ever witnessed.

[kidcalabria]

This was in 1990, when they met at an Andy Warhol retrospective in France, where Reed & Cale were to perform Songs For Drella, & Morrison and Tucker happened to be there, as it's clear from this TV news broadcast. You are confusing it with the European Reunion tour 3 years later, in 1993, which they decided to do after this impromptu performance

[treetree761]

Fuck! LOU!!!! Achey Breaky Big Mistaky

[kidcalabria]

Thanks for posting this, what an amazing document of a film. They've not played together for almost 20 years & can still sound great. The Velvets, Lou, John, Sterling & Maureen, are to the alternative Rock fan what John, Paul, George & Ringo (The Beatles, of course; just for those who might not know them on a first name basis) are to everyone else. Someone once said (or wrote) that. Great stuff. Thank you so much.

[nri1969]

I remember seeing this on TV.  I thought I was hallucinating.

[moshe7158]

wish i was there,

[bobdada]

Even on Lou a mullet isn't cool

[richardleedrums]

Damn, I was there and it rocked! Thanks for posting.

[djboony]

oh you lucky bastard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bowiefanperson]

man u are so lucky. I was not even born when this happened.

[AladdinInsanity98]

warms my heart.

liek a fullstop at the end of their story.

but i have to agree with billroccajr..lou's hair is horrible lol.

[GregMcG1983]

wow, thanks

[jackhillty]

at least they got to do the european tour before sterling died - go out and get that cd!

[billroccajr]

nice neck-warming mullet Lou...I thought you were from Brooklyn, not western Kentucky...

[punkace]

The late 80s and early 90s where not a good time for lou reed fashion wise.

[glyniss]

yup.... it must have been surrealistic to be there.... really good video

[joeninety222]

excellent - thanks very much - great that they all got the monkey off their back

[morelly]

"in the absence of legal representatives"

you have to love that.

[tautavel]

This reunion took place on june 15th,90 ; 30 kms south of Paris part of Cartier's Andy Warhol Exposition at the period after John Cale and Lou Reed did the Songs for Drella album. They played in duet 3 or 4 numbers of the album and then invited Maureen Tucker and Sterling Morrison to perform Heroin. Assistance was about 700 people, mostly Rock and Roll VIP including Ari the son of Nico and Alain Delon

[anthony74]

wonderful

[spsp]

Very,very,very good!!!