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yeah, i dunno. i don't think you can split the velvets easily like that. both of 'em were the driving force(s.) it's not like reed was the strictly rock 'n' roll one and cale the ~avant garde~ one.
cale came from a more avant, classical (etc) background... but reed certainly wasn't in the dark about, y'know, the feedback/repetition/volume aspects cale often gets acredited with in early VU.
reed did their weird tuning, i think. ostrich tuning? it came about when he worked for this brill-building type songwriting company...
fucked if i know if he was the first person to ever tune all his guitar strings to the same note though. eh.
sterling + moe were crucial to their "sound" (whatever you'd like to call it) as well. they get downplayed in VU discussion a lot i reckon... aaaand people play up nico's tenure in the band a bit much...
wank wank
/incoherent rambling
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