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."
the whole Factory/Warhol scene was no good, even though velvet underground is prolly one of the best rock bands of all time
Her drumming is pretty great actually, big part of Velvets sound IMO.
i just can't get on board with that at all. sometimes her being bad works to the benefit of the songs (defo on heroin) but mostly not
i like minimalist playing but it's just real bad minimalist playing
Yes, that is the main thing that would have fried the brains of someone in Velvet Underground.
Is every famous goddamned person problematic?
If they weren't bad, they wouldn't be able to be or allowed to be famous.
oh boy you think that's bad, don't look up Nico's opinions on jews and black people
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The Velvet Underground wasnt a group of good people.
I had no idea.
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.
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
Yup. Rolling Stones writer contacted him for an interview and it went that way.
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.
there was a biography released a few years ago that said he was extremely violent towards his girlfriends and wives
Ah shit, I should've guessed that but I still had hope for some reason. Thanks for letting me know
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
Actually yeah, for being an absolute madman I can't really think of Ozzy having done anything like, actually bad.
lol I just started listening to some Velvet Underground songs, well she was just the drummer or whatever, it was basically Lou Reed's project anyways.
edit so it turns out Lou Reed was a piece of shit too, well not surprising since they came out of the Andy Warhol circle of artists, Warhol was Capitalist art.
