Andy Warhol was famously known as a leading practitioner of the Pop Art movement in the 60’s and as a constant admirer and pursuer of Celebrity/celebrities through the course of his life up until his death. Warhol was also interested in all kinds of art, namely, sculpture, painting, filmmaking and music.

All of these art forms were utilized by Warhol in an idea he had for a mixed media freakout event. Films would be projected onto walls, dancers and Warhol film actors and pulsating, colored lights and strobes would illuminate a performance space that was sonically assaulted by the cacophonic drones and feedback laced underground rock created by New York band, The Velvet Underground.

It was all a heady mix and very cool to observe but as you can hear from the accompanying soundtrack of the band, the recording is overdriven and drenched in distortion and isn’t the best way to judge the band live, if it is in fact a live recording or just a doctored studio recording with effects added.

We will take it for what it is, an amazing document of a free-wheeling freakout from times past!