Moe Tucker

When she was asked to join the Velvet Underground, Tucker had dropped out of Ithaca College and was working for IBM as a keypunch operator.

Is every famous goddamned person problematic?

Personal life

Tucker was married in the early 1970s, and divorced some time in the early 1980s. She has five children: Kerry, Keith, Austen, Kate, and Richard. Tucker lives in Douglas, Georgia, where she raised her family. In a 2010 interview, she said she had ceased making music several years prior, saying caring for her grandson was a "full-time job".

In April 2009, Tucker gave an interview at a Tea Party rally in Tifton, Georgia, to a WALB NBC news crew. She voiced support for the Tea Party movement and said she was "furious about the way we're being led towards socialism". On the official "Tea Party Patriots" website, Tucker stated: "I have come to believe (not just wonder) that Obama's plan is to destroy America from within."

  • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Somebody in this thread said...

    The Velvet Underground wasnt a group of good people.

    I had no idea.

    • Kaputnik [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Lou Reed was pretty cool though from what I know. Some of his stuff isn't up to the expectations of 2022 in terms of terminology, but it was pretty progressive for the 60s.

      EDIT: Nevermind

      I've never heard anything bad about John Cale either.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Lou "I'll let you interview me if you shit on my chest, or you could talk me down to me lying under a glass top table that you shit on" Reed

        • Kaputnik [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Is...is this referring to a specific incident? I'm scared to ask

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Yup. Rolling Stones writer contacted him for an interview and it went that way.

              • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                3 years ago

                I think he just really didn't want to do an interview and was fucking with her but still not a great way to turn down an interview.

      • heihachi [any]
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        3 years ago

        there was a biography released a few years ago that said he was extremely violent towards his girlfriends and wives

        • Kaputnik [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Ah shit, I should've guessed that but I still had hope for some reason. Thanks for letting me know

          • heihachi [any]
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            3 years ago

            no worries. it's always a big letdown innit. there's only really ozzy left of old rock guys i loved as a teenager, all the rest I've discovered were dangers

            neil young as well actually

            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              Actually yeah, for being an absolute madman I can't really think of Ozzy having done anything like, actually bad.