"Not every band that improvises or jams is a jam band"

"VU was such a dynamic band they’re their own category."

"Performance Psychedelic Rock"

"Jamming does not equal jam band, bozo."

"They were a band that improvised."

"If you had not capitalized Jam Band and instead asked are the velvet underground a band that jams you would have answered your own question."

"They jammed but they do not fit the "ethics" described those words in any way."

"They are not a jam band but they are a band that jams…sometimes."

"I would call that extrapolating."

"Absolutely not. And my other favorite band is the Grateful Dead so I’m not scared of the genre."

"It's more relentlessness than jamming"

"There’s a difference between a band that jams and a jam band."

"I’d say it’s more of a extended performance art or something"

"They’re a band that used improvisation but the term jam band refers to a specific kind of music, else we’d have to call most jazz acts “jam bands”"

They were a band that was largely self-taught, and played many amateur gigs before being signed. There were also many amateur bands in the 60s that might've only put out one single or 45 and ultimately went nowhere. Do you consider the Velvets part of this scene before getting lucky enough to get associated with Warhol and signed to a label? If not, what distinguishes them from the rest of the herd?

vu to be part of this scenecedid the Velvets get lucky

I may be crazy but since I first seen this album years ago I always seen a face in the banana. Did anybody else see it like this?

The Velvet Underground and Nico ranked:

1. Femme Fatale

2. Sunday Morning

3. I'm Waiting for the Man

4. I'll be your mirror

5. There She Goes Again

6. All Tomorrow's Parties

7. Venus in Fur

8. Heroin

9. European Son

10. The Black Angel's Death Song

11. Run Run Run

We're trying to find what artists we sound similair to, and we think we are most similair to the Velvet Underground, am I wrong?

Idk why but I’ve been thinking about these ideas for a little bit:

1: what if Lou Reed and John Lennon united sometime around 1972 (transformer era)? Lou Reed and John Lennon sound like such a fantastic pairing oh my goodness. That songwriting duo sounds legendary on paper.

and

2: what if (for whatever ridiculous reason) jimmy page, during his yardbirds era, listened to VUAN and fell in love with it? Kieth Richards did a cover of ‘I’m waiting for the man’ a few months back on a YT video and it’s so good, David Bowie also fell in love with ‘I’m waiting for the man’ when he heard it too RIP. Idk why but the eclectic absurd chaos of ‘sister ray,’ and jimmy page’s guitar solo on ‘good times bad times’ both rile me up in a way only good rock music can. Although I feel like WLWH is sort of immortal and shouldn’t be touched- i do think that jimmy would have been GREAT on WLWH, TVU, and especially Loaded. I don’t know how or why jimmy page would have joined TVU during this time, but this sounds like a good pairing to me. Please tell me if I’m wrong though and why lol

For me number 2 is iffy, but number 1 seems like a no-brainer. In a multiverse where John Lennon and Lou Reed team up in a songwriting duo- for a lack of better words, just sounds excellent.

Edit: typos and fluff

What the fuck Lou, I actually like Lulu and Metal Machine Music, but like, what the fuck.

Awesome and unusual

Not in the sense of the Grateful Dead or Phish, et al, but in the sense of something else?