The Velvet Underground: 'Venus in Furs' live January 1966

[costumbresdeagua]

jojojojojo

[dejahthoris]

fucking awesome clip

[maxone67]

the music i like!

[mervyn95]

I believe the camera man was as drunk as Lou Reed...

[jetsetsc]

Wow. This was the day I was born (in Australia, but still). January 13, 1966. Wish there was more of this footage.

[beepmotherfuckerbeep]

Everything about this is perfect.

[TheSnyth]

Thank you msturdy! Great footage and thoughtful addition of the audio (Obvs Venus in Furs) I only wish I could have been there!

[TheSnyth]

Thank you msturdy! Fabulous footage and thoughtful addition of the audio - Obviously Venus in Furs as you point out... I only wish I could have been there!

[BananaJSSI]

Very cool

[bigdunk9]

Just look at the fucking date - January 1966! Ridiculously ahead of its time, so ridiculously ahead of its time.

[sekhmetraptah]

@bigdunk9 Not really, considering it's a homage to a novella written in 1870. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's story revolves around an un-named man who confides in Severin von Kusiemski of his infactuation of his anointed Venus, Wanda von Dunajew.

The un-named's fascination with Wanda is so out there that he is willing to be subjugated to unlimited depths by this woman of his fantasies.

Politics & literature were '60's poetically popular; & the book & song made all the college psych rounds.

[MowgliX]

@bigdunk9 Yes, you are absolutely right! So far ahead of anything.

[dejahthoris]

@MowgliX far ahead insinuates the future is or will be better. far ahead is fucking bullshit.

[MowgliX]

@dejahthoris No it isn't. ;)

[MowgliX]

It was about this time Edie, so gorgeous in this clip, wanted to play bigger part in the band. According to Gerard Malanga, she was not happy with being just a go-go dancer: she wanted to be center stage, a singer in the band. Steve Sesnick, manager for The Velvets, said she, along with himself, Danny Williams and Andy Warhol, held meetings to plan the multimedia events for the Exploding Plastic Inevitable: music, dancing, films, lighting effects, etc. She was more than a go-go dancer.

[streckenplan]

@MowgliX

"Steve Sesnick, manager for The Velvets, said she, along with himself, Danny Williams and Andy Warhol, held meetings to plan the multimedia events for the Exploding Plastic Inevitable..."

Where did Steve Sesnick say this? He wasn't even the VU manager till AFTER they fired Wharol. Plus he was from the Boston scene at the time, as far as I know he never had a part in the Wharol scene, especially after during that first year the Velvets were part of the factory (1996). Please explain.

[MowgliX]

@streckenplan Just look for the interview with Sesnick at Warholstars. It's pretty easy to find.

[satanasculebra]

genial wn

[infinitalocura]

this is cool*

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

This is the night Edie tried to sing according to Nico and Gerard, but apparently it was evident she didn't have a voice. I wonder if that's what she's doing at the end of the video.

[affresko]

oddioooooooooooooooo superrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr­rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr­rrr

[San5a]

oh great post! they're so rare lives..

[markthatsastupididea]

too surreal

[jojolovejoy]

what a meeting of the minds, the velvets and the society for clinical psychiatry? this is where the term 'leather and lace' must have been coined..i can only hope that plenty of psychotropic drugs were on hand for the band as well as the attendees..was this event called 'the speed ball'?

[punkace]

The Psychiatrists loved it actually- they knew what they were seeing and most of them appreciated it; I think the groups were closer than you would think.

[luthander]

this article seems to point more towards the fact they didn't like it at all

not saying the full phychiatrist groups opinion is represented but the few quoted seems unhappy with the velvets

they were ahead of their time

[moongika]

toooo muchchhhh psychedeleekkkk!!!##*

[Murderermarv]

This is the famous psychiatrist convention, the last party edie officially attended with warhol.

[Ledvolta]

who is edie?

[Murderermarv]

Edie Sedgwick, warhol muse. she died at 28

[waynealarsen]

the psyc convention nyc

[groundfloor88]

Great work msturdy. There is something so captivatingly evil about this song. It is just beautiful.

[tHeStArRoVeR]

Sensational msturdy, well done, getting really tired of looking for footage or videos of bands only to find peoples whimsical self indulgence as film makers, that's fine but not what I'm looking for, this however fits the bill v.nicely.

[pvtjoker86]

THIS. IS. MADNESS!!!!!!!!!

[punkace]

No- this is the Velvet Underground.

[particleplease]

so cool

[xSusieQ]

The girl at the end... is that Warhols' muse Edie Sedgwick? Great piece of film! :D

[punkace]

its either her or Ingrid Superstar... I forget.

[xSusieQ]

Isn't Ingrid Superstar the character Edie played in...what was it again..Ciao!Manhattan..? Anyways, this footage is nice :D

[punkace]

Nope- there was an Igrid Superstar. Warhol talks about her in "Popism"

[Murderermarv]

Yep, this is right before she left the factory.

[drylaundry]

The Exploding Plastic

[the0scarlet0piper]

Inevitable

[MCFpresent]

WOW!!!

[Dx11]

Thank you! Your exhaustive reworking of this footage has not gone unnoticed.(And you correctly deduced (from silent footage)the song the VU are playing is "Venus In Furs". Great job!

[punkace]

this is amazing.

[jisasyuholem]

where did you get this!?

[msturdy]

See the 'About this video' section over to the side there!

[peelslowlyandseevu]

That was fucking great!

[BellAnna]

Awesome.

[NinetiesYouth]

Can't believe I'm watching this

[lopezau]

probably the best "venus in furs" video by the vu on youtube.

[badassbear]

that was frikkin awesome dude