sarramkrop

Sorry, you're right, that doesn't make sense. I was posting while tired and drunk.


It surprised me to find Reed riffing a Beatles song, so I was thinking to myself that perhaps the normal assumption by hardcore VU fans that there was major beef between the two bands is only based on the fact that Reed and his pretty large ego took spokesperson duty for the whole band and stressed that VU were the antithesis of ''Sgt. Pepper'' and that whole mainstream flower power explosion happening at that time, but I rarely came across the opinions of the other members of the band on The Beatles, so most books about VU take Reed's opinions as the sole proof for this supposed ''war'' between the two bands. Actually, I remember reading somewhere that Maureen Tucker was a casual fan of theirs before she was asked to play in the band. McCartney also offered to put their first record out at first, so it could be that the whole thing was just bitchiness.

I was also thinking that the first VU album is generally regarded as the ultimate anti-hippie, avant-rock album of the 60's together with ''Sister Ray'', yet the structure/melodies of a few songs on it (Sunday Morning/There She Goes/Femme Fatale for instance) isn't really all that different from pre-psychedelic era Beatles, save from some lyrical content, which was the work of Lou Reed alone, not the others.