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Title: Uptight: The Story of the Velvet Underground by Bockriss, Victor Bockris, Victor Backriss, Gerard Malanga ISBN: 071195223X Publisher: Omnibus Pub. Date: June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5

Rating: 5
Summary: Great history and biography of the early Velvets
Comment: This is a fantastic book! It covers alot of the early formative years, and is worth getting just for that.

I do think that it starts to lose its depth when it comes to the later years, their last two studio albums (which are highly under-rated in comparison to the first two experimental albums). But what this book covers concerning the formation and first two albums is an excellent piece of rock n roll history! Highly Recommended!

Rating: 5
Summary: Intelligent & entertaining approach
Comment: An intelligent and entertaining approach to one of the most influential (read: they didn't sell a lot of records in their heyday)rock bands ever. Great pix too. The Velvets epitomized a time when artists didn't feel narrowly compelled to practise any ONE discipline, but rather people were less afraid to combine ideas, cross genres and disciplines. The spirit of the time, to me, suggests Possibility. Yes, Warhol et al. could drift into pretention, but that's the price (and it's really not such a costly one) you pay for being daring. You may go too far sometimes, and by today's (stupid?) standards, perhaps some of the VU "happenings" might appear contrived. But I don't think so! Altogether, VU rules. Way ahead of their time, and before it too. And beside it.

Buy this book, but more importantly, buy into the Underground.

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