“I have a healthy resentment for him”: John Cale’s brutal dismantling of Frank Zappa’s music
If you can’t beat them, join them.
Velvet Undergound
The Pickwick days: Lou Reed’s early career as the poor man’s Carole King
Laid the groundwork for The Velvet Underground.
The surprising Velvet Underground song Johnny Marr called “simple and perfect”
A fairly obscure nugget from a legendary band.
The band that split opinions among Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention
Zappa “just couldn’t tolerate” these unwelcome visitors from back East.
