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From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: velvet underground name
Message-ID: <449@rti-sel.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 12:52:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 12:52:29 1985
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References: <313@g.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA>
Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
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Summary: 

In article <313@g.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> ckk@g.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Chris Koenigsberg) writes:

>The Velvet Underground got their name from a book by William Burroughs. His
>writings also spawned the term Heavy Metal, and Steely Dan. ...

Also Soft Machine. He also wrote a book called "Wild Boys" which
(coincidentally?) is the title of a song by Duran Duran. Terminal hot
metal junkie brain flashes from the end of time -- gangs of homosexual
roller skating wild boys waving knives and screaming death -- hair
crackling with electricity as the wild boys' legs kick out like
frogs -- "you like, meester?" 

Buy a copy of Cities Of The Red Night and give it to your mother for 
Christmas. :-)

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"Language is a virus from outer space"        
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                                         -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly