#theprimitives

The Primitives, from left, Tony Conrad, Lou Reed, Walter De Maria and John Cale, in 1964-65

Todays playlist...all female fronted bands, C86, twee pop, jangle pop, indie pop or whatever you like to call it. What an era they existed...wished I was there to see the history in making. #theflatmates #shopassistants #blacktambourine #chinchin #theprimitives #theraincoats #velocitygirl #c86 #tweepop #janglepop #indiepop #recordcollection #records #nowplaying #vinylcollectionpost #vinyl #vinylporn #vinylcollection #vinyljunkie #vinylrecords #vinyladdict #vinyligclub #vinylcollector #vinylcommunity #vinyloftheday

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"When I first met Lou Reed a the beginning of 1965, he was a 22-year old songwriter at Pickwick Records in Long Island City, and I was a 22-year old avant-garde musician in La Monte Young's Theatre of Eternal Music. We were introduced by a Pickwick producer, Terry Phillips, who thought I was a pop musician because I had long hair. He asked me, Tony Conrad and a friend, the sculptor Walter de Maria, to form a band witht Lou called the Primitives. Phillips wanted to publicize a song had written and recorded in a back room and Pickwick has released as a single, 'The Ostrich', by a fictious band, the Primitives. The pop programme American Bandstand wanted them to perform this on on TV, so Phillips was forced to put out an appropriate-looking band together. We thought it would be fun, and as a lark spent a couple of weekends playing the TV show and a few other East Coast gigs. Even though the record bombed, the experience of being in a rock band, however ersatz, gave Lou and me the opportunity to connect." (John Cale)