Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!steve From: steve@ucbvax.ARPA (Steven Sekiguchi) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: velvet underground name Message-ID: <10591@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 04:40:24 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10591 Posted: Wed Oct 9 04:40:24 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Oct-85 13:29:29 EDT References: <313@g.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> <449@rti-sel.UUCP> Reply-To: steve@ucbvax.UUCP (Steven Sekiguchi) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 12 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. ... A slight correction The Velvet Undergroud was written by Michael Leigh. It was published in 1963 and purported to "...shock and amaze you. But as a documentary on the sexual corruption of our age." "This Roman Meal Bakerey thought you'd like to know..." steven sekiguchi u.c. berkeley.