Books on the Velvets, Edie Sedgwick, Factory, Andy Warhol etc???

I think I know what I'll be reading for the next while :)

I didn't realize Tod already mentioned this. Sorry.

£40 or nearest offer.

http://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/photo.goodreads.com/books/1217257710i/1087174._UY200_.jpg

reading this right now. i always have fun reading Warhol. IT IS SO GOOD! just got to 1965. loved this passage:

A lot of people thought that it was me everyone at the Factory was hanging around, that I was some kind of big attraction that everyone came to see, but that's absolutely backward: it was me who was hanging around everyone else. I just paid the rent, and the crowds came simply because the door was open. People weren't particularly interested in seeing me, they were interested in seeing each other. They came to see who came.

that seems about right, thee bits of 'verite' in various books have Gerard talking to Lou or Edie to etc, Warhol rarely involved, directly.

Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art is stunning. It washes away the stink of Julian Schnabel's biopic, too

There's been no mention of the Richie Unterberger VU day by day book or the Jim Derogatis large size one or 2 or 3 others that came out about 5 yrs ago.
I also have a book called POP on Warhol and the factory and a large coffee table book on the Factory that's mainly photos.

Also forgot to say that the great photos that made the original Uptight so great disappeared in some later editions. So you need to be aware when buying it. There has been at least one update since the reunion too. & I don't think the update I saw had the 60s photos complete.
Could be those shots are now all in the coffee table books. I don't know.

The Warhol Diaries [compiled and edited by Pat Hackett] is also pretty great read.

Read and enjoyed three: Victor Bockris's The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello's Holy Terror, and David Dalton/Tony Scherman's Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol. Haven't read anything by Warhol himself.

so the late 60s sounds like an amazing time especially if you are Andy Warhol. he is just a painter w some cool friends and he would make an amazing blogger, he invented that in a way, but of course it wasn't just him and he is the first to tell you that's why all of his art is about people he knows and the interesting characters floating on the fringes of the old-school Hollywood and a late-60s fringe/futurist/globalist/pan-sexual/pop mostly new york-oriented art network. at first he was just painting, and he was doing commercial art as well as a day job, and someone say some of his rough sketches and drawings, eventually he went more into the pop style, screenprinting, reacting to the deaths of marilyn monroe and jfk, cow wallpapers, silver pillows suspended by edie sedgwick and company, etc. he was bored of painting soon and was into movie and documenting the interesting people that hung out at his studio The Factory. he decided to quit painting and do films. basically it turned everything up even more, because now he wasn't just hanging with speed freaks and trans queens, they were parting with judy garland and tennessee williams, bob dylan was hanging out grabbing girls at their futurist disco parties, etc. it was all very space age. that was part of the pop philosophy because it was new and the clothes were all synthetic. they started managing the Velvet Underground and Nico. they were opening a number of experimental discotechques like the gymnasium. they got the first strobe lights and in this book Warhol claims he brought back the mirrored disco ball, which kind of makes sense. they did invent punk rock. they invented glam rock too. they invented so many things, they really were living in the future. they saw a man walk on the moon live! i haven't gotten that far yet - still in 1967 - but i'm sure Andy will say the moonwalk was very pop.

In the fall when Paul went back to rent the Dom, Stanley told him sorry, it was already rented. Al Grossman and Charlie Rothchild opened it as the Balloon Farm and asked the Velvets to play there anyway-upstairs-and they did, since they didn't have anything else to do. So even though it wasn't our place anymore, most people assumed it was a continuation of our Exploding Plastic Inevitable show from the spring.

In the basement there was a bar with a jukebox, and Paul managed that, off and on, into the next spring and charged admission.

Nico and Lou had a fight. ("I've had it with the dramatic bulls##t," he said. "Yeah, she looks great in high-contrast black and white photographs, but I've had it.") He said he wouldn't let her sing with them anymore and, moreover, that he was never going to play for her again, either. (That was actually the big problem right there-was she singing with them, or were they playing for her?) As a going-away present, Lou recorded the music she sang to on a cassette tape and handed it to her. Then she started being the chanteuse in the bar downstairs, trying to work a little cassette recorder. But it was pathetic to see this big, beautiful woman singing to music coming out of this cheap little cassette, and in between acts the tears would roll down her face because she just couldn't remember how the buttons worked. And Paul would try to help her-he even bribed the guitar players like Tim Buckley, Jackson Browne, Steve Noonan, Jack Elliot, Tim Hardin-promising them they could do a set alone if only they'd play a little for Nico while she sang. (Jackson Brown and Tim Hardin worked out the best, and Nico eventually recorded some of their songs on her first album, Chelsea Girl, which was released in July '67. But everybody wanted to be a star, and nobody really wanted to play backup for anybody, so Nico's problem wasn't solved until John Cale bought her a tiny little organ in '68 and she learned how to play it.) We looped a little 8-mm movie of a guy parachuting and we projected it behind her while she sang, and sometimes we'd show Kiss.

Kiss?

i haven't gotten that far yet - still in 1967

1968, uh, not quite so good for Andy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_%281963_film%29

lol tom

crazy that Warhol had been shot at while in the Factory twice before 1968 -- early in the Factory days someone randomly came in and shot through a stack of Marilyn paintings and a few year later someone accosted a him and some friends, forcing them to play Russian Roullette.

the book is really wonderful though. he has such a great eye for detail.

this was pretty good for an "artistic" overview of andy

http://www.amazon.com/Andy-Warhol-that-Sold-World/dp/0465002331

"Frigid people really make it": Classic or Dud?