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Junk in the Trunk: Drives Daily Blog for Wednesday October 22

Published: October 22, 2014

Each day,Rich TerfryandRadio 2 Drivewraps up your day with music and stories about the interesting things going on in the world.

RICH'S PICK:"Everybody Eats When They Come To My House" by Cab Calloway

JUNK IN THE TRUNK:

Kid performs mind-blowing magic:

REAR-VIEW MIRROR:

Three times a week, Rich Terfry looks back in our Rear-view Mirror at a great song from the good ol days. Today, The Velvet Underground with "I'm Waiting ForThe Man".

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Heres the story of a record about drugs, prostitution and weird sex that was made byAndy Warhol, was inspired by the denizens of hisFactory,William S. Burroughsand theFluxusart movement, was released, ignored, thrown in the garbage, dug out by a guy from Montreal and sold on eBay for $25,000.

Andy Warhol, put up the money and gave the freedom to a band calledThe Velvet Undergroundto release their first album. The songs were written by Lou Reed. He studied English at Syracuse University and loved the works of writers like William S. Burroughs and Hubert Selby Jr. He thought that combining the gritty subject matter of that kind of literature with rock and roll was an obvious thing to do.

The experimental sound of the album was conceived byJohn Calewho was influenced by experimental musicians likeLa Monte Young,John Cageand the early Fluxus movement. He andLou Reedhacked their instruments and invented strange new tunings.

Andy Warhol designed the artwork for the album and, acting as the bands manager, began to seek a record deal for the outfit.

He was rejected by one label after another. After a long delay, the album was finally picked up by legendary jazz labelVerve: home ofBillie Holiday,Nat King Cole,Count BasieandElla Fitzgerald. Of all companies! But Verve barely supported the album at all. It was also banned from almost every radio station and record stores. Magazines wouldnt even run advertisements for the album. It was just too strange and dark for most tastes in 1967.

The original demo of the album that had been pressed to vinyl was discarded and was lost and forgotten about until 2002 when a record collector from Montreal named Warren Hill found it at a flea market and bought it for 75 cents. By that time, history had shed new light on the album. Critics now hail it as a masterpiece.Spin Magazineput it on their very short list of the most influential albums of all time andRolling Stonenamed it the most prophetic album ever made. When Warren Hill listed the album on eBay in 2006, it sold for a whopping $25,000.

Heres one of the songs that people ignored, hated or ran away from, screaming, in 1967, but that is now regarded as a revolutionary classic.The story of a drug score called Im Waiting for the Man by Velvet Underground.