How Andy Discovered Lou Reed The Velvets and Nico...True Uncut Tales From the Factory People Archive
Monday, July 7, 2014 at 07:18PM 
True Uncut Tales From Andy Warhol's Factory People are films about life with Andy during the 1960s Silver Factory Era, Andy's most prolific period...making art, making movies, making music, making Stars of all shapes and sizes.
How Andy Discovered (and Lost) Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground and Nico takes us back to the very beginning in 1965 when filmmaker Jonas Mekas arranged and filmed the first public performance of the Velvets at a New York City psychiatrist's convention. Factory People Billy Name, Gerard Malanga, Mary Woronov and others tell the story in their own words as Warhol biographer Victor Bockris explains the beginning, middle and end of an amazing relationship between Lou Reed, The Velvets, and Andy. Of particular interest is the explanation of why Andy insisted that Lou add Nico to the group at the very beginning, and how a botched first album release, and an unsigned contract marked the very end of their relationship. This is a true ‘uncut’ tale. Length: 45+ Minutes
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There are now four films in the "How Andy" UnCut Series. "How Andy Made a Painting", "How Andy Made a Movie", "How Andy Discovered Lou Reed, the Velvet Underground and Nico", and "How Andy Discovered Edie Sedgwick and Created the Superstars". The UnCut Series was developed to release interview materials that were not broadcast standards compatible. They were culled from the 50-hour body of interviews we did to produce the original three-hour television series: "Andy Warhol's Factory People"
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Over the past seven years we have collected, filmed and researched in detail Andy Warhol and his Factory People era, and have created a Three Hour Television Series, a Feature Documentary, a 440 page book, and compiled the entire 50 hour Film Archive into a 12 DVD collection for colleges and universities. These films and books are now available for educators and consumers.
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More notes on Lou Reed
The Velvets’ debut album was a chart flop, and dismissed – or, worse, ignored – by the mainstream rock press. But, four decades on, it is acclaimed as one of the most innovative and influential rock records of all time. Reed was its chief architect, writing most of the songs alone.
And although three tracks were sung by Nico (deemed “tone deaf” by Cale), it was Reed who defined the Velvets’ dark aesthetic with his raw guitar style, deadpan vocals and deviant lyrics, illustrated on the love letter that was Heroin. Reed’s first shot was an avant-garde rock’n’roll masterpiece.