1966 Andy Warhol, Up-Tight notice

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, Feb. 10, 1966

 

* Andy Warhol, Up-Tight notice

* First Warhol-Velvet Underground collaboration

* First performance with Nico - factory scene
* Early Bob Dylan concert advertisement
* American folk singer & songwriter World tour
* Island Garden - West Hempstead, Long Island
* Last local appearance before near-fatal motorcycle accident
 

 

Page 22 has a 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inch advertisement for a "ANDY WARHOL, UP-TIGHT" at the Film-makers' Cinematheque theater. (see image)

source: Boo-Hooray: Notice for Andy Warhol’s Up-Tight, a historic multimedia show and performance with The Velvet Underground -- the first public performance by The Velvet Underground with Nico; the first collaboration between Warhol and the Velvet Underground, which would later become The Exploding Plastic Inevitable; and the first time More Milk, Yvette, starring Mario Montez and The Velvet Underground, was ever screened.

Warhol projected films and The Velvet Underground performed in the shadows while various superstars and guests, including Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Donald Lyons, Barbara Rubin, Bob Neuwirth, Paul Morrissey, and Billy Linich danced around the stage or otherwise contributed to the show.

An extremely scarce document from one of the most critical moments in the Factory scene, and the history of the Velvet Underground.

Page 17 has a 3 x 2 inch advertisement for Bob Dylan's concert at Island Garden Arena in West Hempstead on Long Island. (see image) Dylan would be involved in a near-fatal motorcycle accident just a few months later in which he would end his touring until 1974.
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because their was really no reason to save it at the time.

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Complete with 32 pages, tabloid size, one fold along the center, nice condition.

 

Provenance note: This issue comes from The Village Voice's own archives, part of their in-house collection used to create their digital archive. Rare as such.

 

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