![]() ![]() Plain-speaking, frail and small, the Yule-sung “Candy Says” made for a bravely muted opening track. Of course, the clues had been hiding in plain sight straight from the outset, with their debut album’s bruised, tender interludes “Sunday Morning” and “I’ll Be Your Mirror.” But when the third Velvets LP, matter-of-factly entitled The Velvet Underground, appeared in March 1969, it took this hushed vulnerability to the next level (downwards). It was time to reveal the fathomless depths beneath the shiny, shiny leather and peel-off bananas. The songwriter intuited that another album in the same distended vein would dilute the impact of both… besides which, the Velvets had been written off too often as mere sensationalists – a one-trick freak show. The conspicuously restrained songs that Reed brought to the table were deliberately at odds with White Light/White Heat’s static-flecked ozone of channeled chaos and cranked amps. Recordings for the third Velvets album began in Hollywood’s TTG Studios in November 1968. They needed a Pisces to balance it out.” Reveal the fathomless depths In an interview for the online music mag Perfect Sound Forever, Yule gnomically observed, “John a Pisces, Lou was a Pisces, Moe and Sterling were Virgos… and I was a Pisces. With Cale out of the picture, Yule was duly drafted into the Velvets to play bass and organ. Yule had been living in his band manager’s large apartment – sometimes frequented by various combinations of Velvets whenever they were passing through – and when Morrison happened upon Yule diligently practicing one fateful day, he passed a warm recommendation on to Lou Reed. Doug Yule, a soft-voiced guitarist from Boston, had been playing with The Glass Menagerie when his abilities came to the attention of Velvets guitarist Sterling Morrison. ![]()
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