![]() You couldn’t be a soft-rock band or you’d get your ass kicked. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupRock And Roll (Live) The Velvet UndergroundThe Velvet Underground 2014 The Velvet Underground, under license t. “You’d play the Eastown and it would be Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, the Stooges and the Who, for $4! The next weekend at the Grande it was MC5, Brownsville Station and Fleetwood Mac, or Savoy Brown or the Small Faces. “Detroit was Heavy Rock central then,” says Alice in a statement. It’s a solid nod from one gender-bending rock act to another. That said, he definitely errs on the side of bombastic ’70s arena rock like Kiss or Meat Loaf rather than his more aggressive and metallic side. Ma Rainey and Sister Rosetta, it continues to trailblazers Elvis and then the next generation of rockstars like The Velvet Underground and Janis Joplin. Free shipping for orders over 100 (250 for Non U.S.) Free shipping for orders over 100 (250 for Non U.S.). Now, Alice has released a cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Rock & Roll,” paying homage to the New York City genre-defiers with his own gritty take.Īs you’ll hear, Alice’s version of “Rock & Roll,” which is one of the tracks off of his upcoming covers album Detroit Stories, is a little louder and more hard rock than the jangling 1970 classic. This typography poster documents the history of the rock and roll genre. ![]() Every time she puts on the radio, There was nothing. Warhol had been asked to give a lecture but suggested screening a film instead. While plenty of other legendary rockers act like music begins and ends with them, the Motor City madman has been perpetually vocal about his love of the hard rock crews around whom his own star rose. Rock And Roll lyrics: Jenny said when she was just 5 years old, There was nothing happening at all. The Velvet Underground spent the second half of the 60s gleefully stomping conventional rock concepts to smithereens and fashioning the shards into something shockingly new. 1967 Preview The first show The Velvet Underground played under the management of Andy Warhol was in January 1966, at a psychiatrist’s convention in New York.You gotta give it to Alice Cooper - he’s always been supportive of the bands he came up with. ![]()
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