I was rearranged by the Velvet Underground in 1967

How on earth were they making that sound? And Nico. Nico!

Ranted by Cary Tennis

Dec 19, 2002 | Cary Tennis considers life's most pressing questions in audio form most every week on Salon.

Struggling to recall who he saw the Velvet Underground with, he resorts to fictive revery. Which, if you ask him, he'll tell you is the memoirist's prerogative.

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