STERLING MORRISON
Take a walk down Guadalupe Street in Austin, Texas and you’ll find record stores with the Velvet Underground’s albums among their selections, not to mention T-shirt shops where that familiar Warhol banana hangs alongside more recent R.E.M. and Violent Femmes designs.
STERLING MORRISON
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Thomas Anderson
Take a walk down Guadalupe Street in Austin, Texas and you’ll find record stores with the Velvet Underground’s albums among their selections, not to mention T-shirt shops where that familiar Warhol banana hangs alongside more recent R.E.M. and Violent Femmes designs. In the bars, local bands slog out versions of “Sweet Jane,” “Heroin,” and the other classics. If former Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison came to this town hoping to leave the past behind him, one wonders if he ever regrets his choice.