On my fourteenth = birthday May 29 1966 the Flimore West in San Francisco presented the Velvet Undergroundand and Mothers of Invention. I was a few weeks from graduating from the 8th Grade of a Catholic grammar school south of Boston. I was no hippie. I was 14. I wouldn't hear the Velvet Underground until 1968. ROCK AND ROLL. WBCN, the real rock station in Boston. On the couch making out with Janet, my high school sweetheart. I never saw them play. In 1970 I stole FREAK OUT from Zayre's Department Store in Fore River at which I was working in 1969. I got fired for that trespass. I still listen to Zappa's nihilistic HELP I'M A ROCK and WAITING FOR MY MAN still captures the raw rebellion of the Velvet Underground. Upon its release in 1967 the song was basically banned from the AM/FM radio for its honesty about a Harlem drug buy. The LP The Velvet Underground & Nico failed to chart, but has since become a legend of rock and Roll.
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