In an interview with Frank Kofsky for Jazz & Pop Magazine, October 1967, Zappa claimed he liked the first Velvet Underground album. 'Sweet Jane', on the Velvets' 1970 album Loaded, included the line, 'Well there's even some evil mothers/They're gonna tell you that everything is just dirt.'

On the original LP version of We're Only In It For The Money (1968) Gary Kellgren spoke the line: 'I get to work with the Velvet Underground, which is as shitty a group as Frank Zappa's group.' On the CD release this line was cut. It was one of the greatest pieces of rock 'n roll theater that I have ever seen.' He walked off the stage and the show moved on. This 'song' kept going for about a minute or so and then suddenly stopped. The words to his impromptu song were the names of vegetables like broccolli, cabbage, asparagus. He proceeded to place his hands indiscriminately on the keyboard in a total, atonal fashion and screamed at the top of his lungs, doing a caricature of Nico's set, the one he had just seen. In between sets, Frank Zappa got up from his seat and walked up on the stage and sat behind the keyboard of Nico's B-3 organ. However, what happened next is what sticks in my mind the most from that night. (.) The audience was on her side, as she was in her element and the Warhol contingent was very prominent that night. Her icy, Nordic image also added to the detachment of her delivery. She seemed as though she was trying to resurrect the ennui and decadence of Weimar, pre-Hitler Germany. (.) Nico's delivery of her material was very flat, deadpan, and expressionless, and she played as though all of her songs were dirges. Chris Darrow of the magazine 'Kaleidoscope' recalled: 'The opening night was very crowded and Zappa and members of the Mothers of Invention showed up to show their support. On October 23, 1967, in New York, singer Nico sang with The Velvet Underground. The thinking of the audiences was completely different than those from New York City. I especially thought that Moe was a very good drummer, because in those days I don't recall there being any other female drummers on the scene.

I thought that they were very good, especially Nico (whom I secretly fell in love with or was it lust?). I know that I didn't feel that way and neither did the rest of the Mothers. For what reasons I really don't know, except that they were junkies and Frank just couldn't tolerate any kind of drugs. Jimmy Carl Black recollections of The Velvet Underground: 'I don't remember Zappa actually putting them down on stage, but he might have. On at the Trip, Los Angeles The Mothers opened for The Velvet Underground. They should not be confused with The Velvets. The group was produced by Tom Wilson and Andy Warhol, who also designed the cover of their first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967). Active from 1965 to 1973, their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists. The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City. From left to right: Nico, Andy Warhol, Maureen Tucker, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and John Cale.

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