Doug Yule

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Douglas Alan Yule (born February 25, 1947 ) is an American rock musician. He gained fame as a member of the avant-garde band The Velvet Underground , of which he was a member from 1968 to 1973.

Career

Until 1973

In the 1960s, Doug Yule played in various bands in Boston , including The Grass Menagerie . This is how he met Hans Onsager, a roadie from The Velvet Underground, and became friends with him. After Lou Reed had kicked John Cale out of the band, Doug Yule became bassist for The Velvet Underground in September 1968 and made some appearances with them in October of the same year. In 1969, “ The Velvet Underground ” was the first studio album on which he can be heard on bass and organ. In the following months he increasingly took over the role of Lou Reed as a singer, as his voice suffered from the ongoing tours; on the album " Loaded ", released in 1970, he sang the three songs New Age , Who Loves The Sun and Oh! Sweet Nuthin ' and played other instruments, including drums , with his brother Billy temporarily supporting him, as Maureen Tucker had become pregnant.

Before the release of "Loaded" Lou Reed, who did not want to accept the loss of his leading role, left the band, but the three remaining band members decided to continue for the time being. Doug Yule took on the role of guitarist and brought in Walter Powers, with whom he had already played on The Grass Menagerie , as the new bass player . The line-up changed frequently as a result, with Maureen Tucker and Sterling Morrison , the last two founding members of The Velvet Underground left in 1971. In October 1972 Yule recorded the album Squeeze together with Ian Paice , the band, which Billy Yule again also belonged to, went on tour one last time, now dropped by their manager Steve Sesnick. In May 1973, however, a last concert followed under the name The Velvet Underground:

“We met someone who started booking us around New England . He was supposed to advertise us as being with me from The Velvet Underground , but he wasn't supposed to say it was The Velvet Underground. […] The last gig was at a ski resort in Vermont or somewhere, we drove there, saw 'The Velvet Underground' and said, 'That's enough!' "

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1973 to 1978

After the end of The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed contacted Doug Yule again and asked him to play bass on his planned solo album "Sally Can't Dance" (1974). On this album you can hear Doug Yule in the song Billy . Until August 1975 he accompanied Lou Reed on his European tour, another recording, Downtown Dirt , appeared only in 1992 on Lou Reed's album Between Thought and Expression .

In the fall of 1975 Doug Yule supported Elliott Murphy as a studio musician for his album Night Lights , in 1976 he joined the country rock band American Flyer as a drummer. On both of George Martin -produced albums of this band, American Flyer (1976) and Spirit of a Woman (1977), he has also heard with background vocals. After American Flyer was dissolved in 1978, Doug Yule retired from the music business and worked as a violin maker.

Since 1993

When The Velvet Underground reformed in 1993, Doug Yule was not asked to attend because of resistance from Lou Reed and John Cale; the renewed interest in The Velvet Underground and the release of "Peel Slowly and See" in 1995 tempted him to come back to the public. At first he limited himself to interviews. In the years that followed, he began playing the violin , and in 1997 he made the first demo recording since the demise of American Flyer with “Song Cycle” . In November 1998, the song Beginning To Get It , which appeared on the benefit compilation “A Place to Call Home”, was released as a solo artist for the first time. On May 25th, 2000 he took part in the joint concert Unloaded - An Homage to the work of the Velvet Underground with some The Velvet Underground pieces . From some appearances from 2000 the live album "Doug Yule Live In Seattle" was put together, which was released in Japan in 2002, he also supported Maureen Tucker at a concert on November 4, 2000, which was also released in 2002 as "Moe Rocks Terrastock" has been. In 2006 a short tour followed with the surf rock band The Weisstronauts, which he supported as a bassist.

Since 2007 Doug Yule has been a member of the roots rock trio RedDog , which released his debut album "Hard Times" in 2009.

Discography

solo

  • 2002: Doug Yule Live In Seattle

With The Velvet Underground

With American Flyer

  • 1976: American Flyer
  • 1977: Spirit of a Woman

With RedDog

  • 2009: Hard Times
  • 2011: Nine-Tail Cat

As a guest musician

  • 1974: Lou Reed : Sally Can't Dance
  • 1975: Lou Reed: Coney Island Baby (demo recording Downtown Dirt , released 1992)
  • 1975: Elliott Murphy : Night Lights
  • 2002: Maureen Tucker : Moe Rocks Terrastock
  • 2008: The Weisstronauts: Instro-tainment

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Velvet Underground - Live performances and rehearsals - 1971-73 , accessed May 28, 2009

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Web links



The Velvet Underground
Studio albums

The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) • White Light / White Heat (1968) • The Velvet Underground (1969) • Loaded (1970) • Squeeze (1973)

Live albums

Live at Max's Kansas City (1972) • 1969: The Velvet Underground Live (1974) • Live MCMXCIII (1993) • Final VU 1971–1973 (2001) • The Quine Tapes (2001) • The Complete Matrix Tapes (2015)

Singles

All Tomorrow's Parties (1966) • Sunday Morning (1966) • White Light / White Heat (1967) • What Goes On (1969) • Who Loves The Sun (1971) • Head Held High (1971) • I'm Waiting for the Man (1973) • Sweet Jane (1973) • Venus in Furs (1988) • Venus in Furs (Live) (1994) • Foggy Notion (2011)

personal data
SURNAME Yule, Doug
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yule, Douglas Alan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1947