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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: velvet underground name
Message-ID: <671@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 17:11:49 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 12 17:11:49 1985
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References: <313@g.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> <622@tellab1.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
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Keywords: William S. Burroughs, Steely Dan

In article <622@tellab1.UUCP> barth@tellab1.UUCP (Barth Richards) writes:
>As I recall Steely Dan was a steam powered dildo. Maybe someone who is more
>familiar with the Burroughs novel in question could back me up on this (or
>correct me...which ever).

Yes... in "Naked Lunch".  Fagin & Becker used the phrase in a song ("Soul
Ram", a pre-SD demo) before selecting it as a band name.

BTW, the VU's original name was the Warlocks... sound familiar, Deadheads?

AWR