4. The Velvet UndergroundLoaded
EC: I listened to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground a lot. This has ‘Rock & Roll’. ‘Sweet Jane’. Sterling Morrison’s solos! He’s fantastic. And the banana album, which came out in ninety-sixty…[counts] two, three, four, five, six, seven. Maureen Tucker is indie music, isn’t she? Her drums. Although Maureen Tucker is not on Loaded.
GM: It’s funny how one song on Johnnie Walker can lead you then down your investigation path, isn’t it?
EC: Yes. And you had to wait for things. Sometimes they were sold out.
GM: I worked in Woolworths in Argyll Street as a Saturday girl on the record counter, but Edwyn and his couple of pals who moved to Glasgow were investigating the development of the underground. For that, you would have needed to go to a specialist.
E: In Glasgow I remember the shop, Listen. An independent. I was there!
