“WE WERE A LITTLE BAND OF GYPSIES”
UNCUT: You saw The Velvet Underground play before you joined the band. What were they like live? DOUG YULE: The first time I saw them was at Harvard University. John was sick and so all I saw was Lou, Sterling and Maureen. They were playing in a dark room. I remember Lou was wearing black leather. They had presence – and substantial volume!
The first weekend we played together, I was trying to learn everything. “What chords for this song? What do I play, we were in a small studio with a tiny control room attached to it. That’s my memory. But it was probably much roomier than that.
