Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story (2002) - Plot & Excerpts
The band were pretty much fed up playing there having been forced to work on Christmas Day and wanted to get fired, so when the manager told them that if they played ‘The Black Angel’s Death Song’ one more time they’d be asked to leave, they cranked out their best version ever. They were fired two days after they met Andy. At least Maureen gained tenure as a full-fledged member because, although the owners had refused to let them use drums saying they’d be too loud, the others had chosen to keep her on playing tambourine. TUCKER: “It was really a regression, but that’s when it became kind of apparent that I was in the band.” MORRISSEY: “After we met them they came to the Factory and right away I proposed that we would sign a contract with them, we’d manage them and give them a place to play. They said yes Andy immediately bought them some new amplifiers and they started rehearsing at the Factory.” New Year’s Eve 1965. The Velvets, Edie Sedgwick, her friend from Cambridge Donald Lyons, Andy and Gerard went to the Apollo Theater in Harlem to see James Brown.
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