Velvet Underground and Nico, The

This was never meant even as an experiment. It was meant as an item of wallpaper made for use behind the musical group as they set up and tuned their instruments. I had been using 5 different prints of silent footage, mainly screen tests, for simultaneous projection behind them. This was extremely effective while the music was played but in the long stretches between numbers when there was no sound coming from the stage, it was very boring.
I thought of recording the Velvets just making up sounds as they went along to have on film so I could turn both soundtracks up at the same time along with the other 3 silent films being projected. The cacophanous noise added a lot of energy to these boring sections and sounded a lot like the group itself.
The show put on for the group was certainly the first mixed media show of its kind, was extremely effective and I have never since seen such an interesting one even in this age of super-colossal rock concerts.
Paul Morrissey

Medverkande
Nico and the Velvet Underground (Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker, Lou Reed, John Cale): Producent
Andy Warhol: Foto
Paul Morrissey: Musik
The Velvet Underground: Talat språk
English