Velvet Underground VELVET UNDERGROUND

Personnel: Doug Yule (vocals, guitar, organ, keyboards, drums, background vocals); Lou Reed (vocals, guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Sterling Morrison (vocals, guitar); Maureen Tucker (vocals, drums, percussion).Recording information: TT & G Studios, Los Angeles, CA.Photographer: Billy Name.Unknown Contributor Roles: Doug Yule; Billy Name; Lou Reed; Maureen Tucker; Sterling Morrison.Arranger: The Velvet Underground.Velvet Underground's self-titled third album seemed like the debut of a new band. John Cale had left (replaced by Doug Yule) and the group became, for all intents and purposes, Lou Reed's back-up band. The songs actually sounded like rock music and John Cale's screeching musicality was reworked into songs that featured Sterling Morrison's most eloquent guitar accompaniment.Reed's songwriting moved beyond the armed-to-disarm approach of the previous two albums towards a spiritual level of empathy with the human race--a change that wouldn't go unnoticed. The man who