I would have loved to have seen the first two Velvets tours.
I have an older friend who saw The Velvets in 1969 in a little bar in Dallas called The End. He said it was the loudest thing he’d ever heard. Maureen was standing there bashing her drums, Lou was thrashing the guitar, and Sterling was playing a cacophony of notes. He said it blew his teenage mind… He quit listening to psychedelic music and went out and bought first The Stooges album, all The Velvets albums, Mother of Invention, and Beefheart, etc…

Poster from aforementioned gig…