The Velvet Underground: Reunion 15 6 1990
In June of 1990, the magic of the 1989 Velvet Revolution caused Lou Reed, John Cale and Prague underground band Půlnoc (formerly Plastic People of the Universe) all to share the stage in the garden of the Cartier Foundation Chateau near Paris on the occasion of the opening of an Andy Warhol exhibition. In conclusion, “maybe under the influence of the two Velvet Underground covers played by Půlnoc, Lou Reed suppressed the long-held animosity and to the surprise of everyone invited Sterling Morrison and Moe Tucker on stage to deliver an emotional rendering of Heroin,” the then manager of Půlnoc Ivo Pospíšil explains in a sleeve note. A recording of the event that had been hiding on tape for almost 30 years now takes on a form of a limited, not-for-sale edition on yellow vinyl. Its cover has been inspired both by the bootleg origin of the recording and the graphics of the simple Velvet Underground concert posters. A large yellow circle connects everything – the banana color of the vinyl comes through on the front and back. The artist and Warholophile, Michal Cihlář, who created a numbered serigraphy with the motif of a cassette, boots and whips for the record, noted that the cover looks like the designer did not work very hard on it.
2018 Zuzana Lednická
Production estimated up to 14 days, the possibility of printing sizes S to XL
price 400 CZK