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Maureen Ann "Moe" Tucker (born August 26, 1944, in Levittown, New York, United States) is a musician best known for having been the drummer for the rock group The Velvet Underground. August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ...
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Levittown is an unincorporated political subdivision of New York State located on Long Island in Nassau County, New York. ...
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Rock is a form of popular music from the mid 20th century which typically features a vocal melody (often with vocal harmony) that is supported by accompaniment of electric guitars, a bass guitar, and drums, often with a strong back beat. ...
A drummer at practice A drummer is a musician who plays the drums, particularly the drum kit, marching percussion, or hand drums. ...
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The Velvet Underground (sometimes abbreviated as The Velvets or VU) was an American rock band first active from 1965 to 1973. ...
August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ...
Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ...
Levittown is an unincorporated political subdivision of New York State located on Long Island in Nassau County, New York. ...
A drummer at practice A drummer is a musician who plays the drums, particularly the drum kit, marching percussion, or hand drums. ...
The Velvet Underground (sometimes abbreviated as The Velvets or VU) was an American rock band first active from 1965 to 1973. ...
Career
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Tucker first began playing the drums at age 19. When she was asked to join the Velvet Underground, Tucker was working for IBM as a keypunch operator. The band's original percussionist, Angus Maclise, had left in November 1965 because he refused to play before a paying audience, and Tucker was drafted because Velvets guitarist Sterling Morrison remembered that the younger sister of one of his college friends played the drums. The Velvet Underground (sometimes abbreviated as The Velvets or VU) was an American rock band first active from 1965 to 1973. ...
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Manual card punches (not keypunches) A key punch is a machine for manually entering data onto punch cards. ...
Angus MacLise (March 4, 1938 - June 21, 1979) was a percussionist, composer, mystic, shaman, poet, occultist and calligrapher. ...
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
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Holmes Sterling Morrison, Jr (East Meadow, New York, August 28, 1942 – August 30, 1995 in Poughkeepsie, NY) was one of the founding members of influential rock group The Velvet Underground, playing lead, rhythm and bass guitar and singing backing vocals. ...
Tucker's style of playing was unusual: she played standing up, rather than seated, using a simplified drum kit of tom toms, a snare drum and an upturned bass drum, playing with mallets rather than drumsticks and rarely using cymbals. A tom-tom (not to be confused with a tamtam) is a cylindrical drum with no snare. ...
The snare drum or side drum is a tubular drum made of wood or metal with skins, or heads, stretched over the top and bottom openings, and with a set of snares (cords) strethced across the bottom head. ...
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Apart from drumming, Tucker sang (co-)lead vocals on three Velvet Underground songs: the acoustic guitar number "After Hours" and the strange poem set to music "The Murder Mystery", both from 1969's The Velvet Underground album, as well as "I'm Sticking with You", a song recorded in 1969 but left (officially) unreleased until it appeared on the 1985 outtakes compilation VU. Lou Reed has said of "After Hours" that it was "so innocent and pure" that he could not possibly sing it himself. In the early days, Tucker also occasionally played the bass guitar during live gigs; the only released song that features her playing bass is a recording of "Melody Laughter" included on the 1995 box set Peel Slowly and See. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...
The Velvet Underground is the eponymous third album by The Velvet Underground, their first with Doug Yule, John Cales replacement. ...
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VU is an outtakes compilation album by The Velvet Underground. ...
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1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Peel Slowly and See is a five-disc box set of material by The Velvet Underground. ...
Tucker temporarily left the group when she became pregnant with her first child in early 1970. Because of her pregnancy, Tucker was not able to play on what turned out to be the band's last studio album with Lou Reed, Loaded. She was replaced for live gigs by Billy Yule, bassist Doug Yule's younger brother. On the album, Doug Yule played most of the drums. Lewis Allen Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ...
Loaded is The Velvet Undergrounds fourth album. ...
William Billy Yule is best known for having been a sit-in drummer for The Velvet Underground during 1970. ...
Douglas Alan Yule (born February 25, 1947) is an American musician and singer, most notable for being a member of The Velvet Underground from 1968 to 1973. ...
Tucker returned to the band in late 1970, by which time Reed had left the group and Doug Yule had assumed leadership. She toured North America (United States and Canada) and Europe (United Kingdom and the Netherlands) with the band during 1970 and 1971, then quit the band and the music business to raise her family. World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
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Solo career and Velvets reunion After raising her family, Tucker started recording and touring again on a small scale in the 1980s. She released a number of albums on small, independent labels that feature her singing and playing guitar, fronting her own band. This band at times included former Velvets colleague Sterling Morrison. Tucker also participated in the 1992-1993 Velvet Underground reunion, touring Europe and releasing the double album Live MCMXCIII. The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ...
Apart from releasing her own records, Tucker has made guest performances on a number of others' records, including producing Fire in the Sky (1990) for Half Japanese, whose guitarist, John Sluggett, plays drums on her own recordings. In Jeff Feuerzeig's documentary about Half Japanese, The Band That Would Be King, Tucker performs and is interviewed extensively. Also, she has guested with Magnet and former Velvet Underground band members Lou Reed (New York) and John Cale (Walking on Locusts). In the early 80s, while living in Arizona, Tucker played drums in the short-lived Paris 1942 with Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls. [1] Tucker also played drums on and produced the album "The Lives of Charles Douglas" by eccentric indie-rocker and novelist Charles Douglas in 1999. She played bass drum, wrote songs, and sang with the New York /Memphis punk Delta group, The Kropotkins, with Lorette Velvette and Dave Soldier in 1999-2003, recording "Five Points Crawl". Half Japanese is a seminal punk rock band formed by brothers Jad and David Fair in their Uniontown, Maryland bedroom around 1975 - 1977. ...
New York is a 1989 album by Lou Reed. ...
John Davies Cale (born December 4, 1942) is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. ...
Since 1984, the Sun City Girls trio have recorded over 26 critically acclaimed albums from their home base of Sun City, Arizona. ...
Charles Douglas is an indie-rock musician from Dayton, Ohio, born in 1977. ...
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Tucker now lives in Douglas, Georgia, where she has worked for the Wal-Mart Corporation. [2] Douglas is a city located in Coffee County, Georgia. ...
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Albums discography
With The Velvet Underground † Although Tucker did not appear on the original release of the band's 1970 album Loaded, a 1997 2CD re-issue by Rhino Records subtitled Fully Loaded Edition includes two late 1969/early 1970 demos, "I Found a Reason" and another take on "I'm Sticking with You", which feature her on drums and vocals, respectively. The Velvet Underground and Nico was The Velvet Undergrounds influential 1967 debut album. ...
White Light/White Heat is The Velvet Undergrounds second album. ...
The Velvet Underground is the eponymous third album by The Velvet Underground, their first with Doug Yule, John Cales replacement. ...
VU is an outtakes compilation album by The Velvet Underground. ...
Another View is an outtakes compilation album by The Velvet Underground. ...
Live MCMXCIII is a live album by The Velvet Underground. ...
Peel Slowly and See is a five-disc box set of material by The Velvet Underground. ...
Loaded is The Velvet Undergrounds fourth album. ...
Final V.U. 1971-1973 is a live box set consisting of recordings of lineups billed at the time as The Velvet Underground. ...
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Rhino Entertainment is a specialty record label originally known for releasing retrospectives of famous comedy performers, including Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, and Spike Jones. ...
A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. ...
With The Kropotkins
Solo Albums: EPs: Playin Possum is the 1981 debut solo album by Maureen Tucker of The Velvet Underground. ...
Life in Exile after Abdication is the 1989 sophomore album by Maureen Tucker. ...
I Spent a Week There the Other Night is the third album by Maureen Tucker. ...
Oh No, Theyre Recording This Show is a 1992 live solo album by Maureen Tucker. ...
Dogs Under Stress is the fourth studio album by Maureen Tucker. ...
Waiting for My Men is a 1998 compilation album comprised of the solo efforts of Maureen Tucker. ...
Moe Rocks Terrastock is the second live album released by Maureen Tucker. ...
Singles Another View is a five track EP by Maureen Tucker. ...
Moejadkatebarry is a 1987 EP by Maureen Tucker. ...
GRL-GRUP is a 1997 EP by Maureen Tucker. ...
Modern Pop Classics is a 1980 split single featuring the songs Im Sticking With You by Maureen Tucker & Friends and Of Yesterday by Count Viglione & Lady Carolyn. ...
Around and Around / Will You Love Me Tomorrow? is a single by Maureen Tucker featuring two covers; Around and Around by Chuck Berry and Will You Love Me Tomorrow? by The Shirelles. ...
Hey Mersh! is a 1989 single by Maureen Tucker from the album Life in Exile After Abdication. ...
Too Shy is a 1991 single by Maureen Tucker from I Spent a Week There the Other Night. ...
Im Sticking With You / After Hours is a 2002 CD single by Maureen Moe Tucker that features two re-recorded songs originally by The Velvet Underground: Im Sticking With You (first released on VU in 1985) and After Hours (originally released on the bands self-titled 1969...
Trivia 1989 promo shot for the album Automatic The Jesus and Mary Chain were a British Indie rock band that revolved around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim Reid and William Reid. ...
Munki was the final album by Jesus And Mary Chain. ...
External links - Taj Moe Hal, Maureen's official website
- Discography
- Interview with drummergirl.com, conducted by Claudia Gonson
- Foggy Notion, a Velvet Underground web corner
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