This video isn’t great. The picture quality is off and there are some sound problems but in 1967 very few people thought to get video footage of the Velvet Underground, much less in color. They were a band that would strongly influence future generations of musicians and that would achieve a tremendous amount of success…
Early David Bowie Band ‘Riot Squad’ Cover the Velvet Underground (1967)
David Bowie’s music career goes back much farther than most people think. He joined his first band ‘the Konrads’ at the age of 15, in 1962, a full decade before Ziggy Stardust. After that there was ‘the King Bees’, then ‘the Manish Boys’, ‘the Lower Third’, ‘the Buzz’ and simultaneously ‘the Riot Squad’. While Bowie…