Talk:Steve Sesnick

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Although an article on the Velvet Underground's manager is welcome and long overdue, this will not do. It contains factual inaccuracies (Sesnick was their manager, not their record producer, to name but one, and a very elementary inaccuracy at that), some of which I have corrected, and statements that are very POV ("Sesnick convinced Lou Reed to get rid of John Cale", "The band failed without Reed's direction", "Sesnick is the main reason that The Velvet Underground disbanded") without further amplification. Furthermore, it states nothing beyond the bare basics, that he was the manager of the band and that he was a source of controversy. -- Curt Woyte 11:06, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree. The article does have a hostile feel towards Sesnick.

Nonetheless, the statement "the band failed with Reed" is considered to be true by most VU fans. The only post-Reed album, 'Squeeze' is rejected by almost all Velvet Underground fans. But it should be noted that The Velvet Underground released an album and a box set after Reed's departure, rendering the band failing to be somewhat untrue.

W. Ashwood Kavanna: I resent being referred to in this article as a "local" promoter, when, in fact, I was a "national" promoter presenting shows across New England, upstate New York and the mid-west. Steve was very diligent in pursuing me for bookings and I liked him. The poster that emerged in 2007 was at the "Whitney" (NYC) not the Guggenheim Museum, in an exhibition entitled "Summer of Love" and took place July 3-6, 1967 on Cape Cod, (Higgens Crawl Road in West Yarmouth, Mass). Andy came up to sit in, shaking a tamborine; so it is not true that he "severed all relationship" with the band after he left. An electrical power blackout occurred on July 3rd across the Cape, interrupting the concert and a riot ensued. The opening bands were The Ones and The J. Geils Blues Band (then calling themselves, The Hallucinations). Their drug use was very prevalent at that time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.190.203.185 (talk) 14:13, 3 May 2008 (UTC)