2/5 Charles H. 5 years ago on Google • 11 reviews
On
the
heels
of
DAVID
BOWIE
IS
(Bowie
of
course
having
been
greatly
influenced
by
the
VU
and
having
collaborated
with
Lou
Reed)
this
was
a
huge
disappointment.
Now
obviously
the
Velvets
didn’t
dress
up
as
Ziggy
or
Aladdin
Sane
or
The
Thin
White
Duke,
but
some
period
artifacts
beyond
photos,
records
and
magazines
should
have
been
included.
This
lack
of
memorabilia
is
made
painfully
evident
both
by
the
large
wall
of
“establishing”
photos
featuring
1960s
New
York
and
notable
personalities
of
the
time
like
James
Baldwin,
Malcolm
X,
Cassius
Clay
and
Marlon
Brando
-
none
of
whom
have
any
direct
link
to
the
VU
-
and
the
near-equal
billing
given
to
people
in
the
Velvets/Warhol
orbit
like
Edie
Sedgwick,
LaMonte
Young,
and
Candy
Darling.
As
another
commenter
mentioned,
there
are
a
startling
number
of
spelling
and
grammar
errors
in
the
accompanying
texts.
I
gather
this
show
originated
in
France,
sadly
it
reads
like
they
just
plugged
the
French
text
into
Google
Translate.
They
also
have
two
spellings
for
the
band’s
first
drummer:
was
it
McLise
or
MacLise?
And
did
anyone
ever
refer
to
the
band
as
“The
Velvet”?
Oy.
The
gift
shop
is
so
bereft
of
items
bearing
the
band’s
iconic
imagery
(no
album
covers,
not
even
a
banana
on
those
$29
iPhone
cases)
that
one
wonders
how
much
cooperation
the
show
got
from
the
living
band
members
and
the
estates
of
the
deceased
including
Reed
and
Warhol.
Having
been
launched
into
prominence
by
Warhol’s
Exploding
Plastic
Inevitiable,
the
Velvets
are
obviously
deserving
of
a
multimedia
retrospective.
Sadly,
this
wasn’t
it.
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