![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() None of the three slumming avant-gardists in the Primitives harbored the pop ambitions Reed did. But this “mistake” set off a partnership that before long would lead Reed and Cale to form the Velvet Underground. All they ever really produced was a novelty dance single called “ The Ostrich” for a bargain record label. He’s describing the circumstances that brought together himself, the visual artist Walter De Maria, and the recent Welsh immigrant classical musician John Cale to back a druggy, ornery writer from the suburbs named Lou Reed in the early 1960s garage-rock group the Primitives. “It was an almost magical mistake.” That’s the late experimental composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad, heard via archival audio in director Todd Haynes’ new documentary.
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