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Sure, the Velvet Underground themselves were massively influenced by blues and soul music, as well, to an extent, by contemporaries like The Who and The Rolling Stones. This without counting the whole Theatre Of Eternal Music thing, and girl bands that were knocking around at the time.
You don't really hear much of an influence on their records in terms of, say, blues music, though, and that's because they had this idea that it was ridiculous for a band of white boys and girls to try out-bluesing the real deal.
They even had a rule in the band that said you'd get taxed if you tried to play blues bars on a VU song. At least that's what the legend says, and it was confirmed by themselves at the time of their reunion.
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