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Originally Posted by simulated stereo
Just to add to this, I was reading an old issue of Mojo, the 101 Best Beatles Songs issue and came across this blurb by John Cale:
They were a driving force in the Velvets, and made us work harder and got us on our bikes. Rubber Soul was where you you were forced to deal with them as something other than a flash in the pan. It was rich in ideas and I loved the way George managed to find a way to include all those Indian instruments.
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Yeah, I tend to think Lou Reed's dismissal was quite disingenuous. I can appreciate the velvets not being into Sgt Peppers (which I think is really what he was referring to) but find it unlikely that they weren't at least slightly inspired by their earlier albums. Not necessarily in terms of the music they made but, as Cale says in that quote, making them think a lot more about what they were doing.