nicism to yield music. Reed maintained a highly adversarial relationship with his audience. He would insult them one minute and challenge them the next. Reed's influence on others, good or bad, can be heard in the work of other rockers, such as David Bowie and The New York Dolls.
             Before there was Lou Reed as a solo artist, there was the Velvet Underground, a band that in the midst of the utopian, freedom-loving, feel-good 1960's, proffered apocalypse, addiction, and feel bad. The Velvet Underground left traditional rock and roll styles aside to experiment with new forms of expression. The Velvet Underground consisted of Lou Reed, Sterling Morrision, John Cale, who was later replaced by Doug Yale, and Maureen Tucker. Reed recited his poems to simple and repetitions melodies while Cale played a continuous, pulsating drone on his electric viola. True to the Style of the dada artists of the past, Maureen Tucker sometimes added trashcan lids to her drum set (Charlton, Rock Music, 205). The Velvet Underground met op with Andy Warhol who
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