Lou Reed chats Andy Warhol

we set out to make uh music and rock and roll songs in particular that uh were aimed at adults didn't have anything to do with the art world and we i wrote the material before we ever met andy warhol so it had nothing to do with that and a lot of our friends at the time were painters and movie makers we used to before we met andy we did a lot of work at the cinema tech where uh we would make tapes for their movies because they didn't have sound or we'd sit behind the movie screen and we did a lot of things like that before we met andy so you were quite aware of the visual effects before you met him so oh yeah sure but uh did any world influence your music in some ways no not at all no what was really nice was uh when we met andy who i i happen to personally like and admire um what we were doing musically fit very nicely what he was doing filmically filmically cinematically do you believe filmically jesus christ was uh what it matched what he was doing cinematically a lot of the people he was filming that he was interested in that he wanted to put in front of a camera who were all what you amateurs they just loved being in front of a camera everybody wanted to be in front of camera except us we didn't want to be in front of the camera we liked playing the music for it but we never wanted to be in front of the camera because we didn't see ourselves as those types of people but um that's i suppose when the art world kind of meshed with reality for a while in the 60s it was it was very very interesting but um the material i was writing just fit in with it perfectly i mean you would it seemed as though i'd written it for it or he'd filmed it for us but that it just happened happened to work out nice thing about andy is uh andy was just warhol that's all i mean there was never any pressure one way or the other you know it was a there's a group of people that when it was a group of people from 15 to 30 people on any given day all deciding what to do you know and we took care of the music and they took care of films they took care of lights and they took care of dancing different people and it would change sometimes so we had the music to ourselves we set out to make music and rock and roll songs in particular that uh were aimed at adults didn't have anything to do with the art world and uh and we i wrote the material before we ever met andy warhol so it had nothing to do with that and a lot of our friends at the time were painters and movie makers we used to before we met andy we did a lot of work at the cinema tech where uh we would make tapes for their movies because they didn't have sound or we'd sit behind the movie screen and uh we did a lot of things like that before we met andy so you were quite aware of the visual effects before you met him so oh yeah sure but did any world influence your music in some ways no not at all no what was really nice was when we met andy who i i happen to personally like and admire what we were doing musically fit very nicely what he was doing filmically filmically cinematically do you believe filmically jesus christ was uh what it matched what he was doing cinematically a lot of the people he was filming that he was interested in that he wanted to put in front of a camera who were all what you amateurs they just loved being in front of a camera everybody wanted to be in front of camera except us we didn't want to be in front of the camera we liked playing the music for it but we never wanted to be in front of the camera because we didn't see ourselves as those types of people but that's i suppose when the art world kind of meshed with reality for a while in the 60s it was it was very very interesting but um the material i was writing just fit in with it perfectly i mean you would it seemed as though i'd written it for it or he'd filmed it for us but that it just happened happened to work out nice thing about andy is uh andy was just warhol that's all i mean there was never any pressure one way or the other you know it was a there's a group of people that when it was a group of people from 15 to 30 people on any given day all deciding what to do you know and we took care of the music and they took care of films they took care of lights and they took care of dancing different people and it would change sometimes so we had the music to ourselves

Channel: Happy Mag

Views: 17,055

Keywords: lou reed, andy warhol, velvet underground, new york city, interview, rock, 60s, 70s, 80s

Id: LqoYi6LyFOk

Length: 5min 39sec (339 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 27 2020