Talk:Billy Yule

Max's Kansas City dates...sigh.
The article perpetuates the myth that the first set from Bridgid Polk's Max's Kansas City tapes are made up from two dates, July 26 and August 23, 1970. There has been a lot of debate over this, ever since 1970, but the fact of the matter is that The Velvet Underground did not play Max's on July 26. July 26, 1970, was a Monday, and the Velvets did not play on Mondays and Tuesdays during their long stretch at Max's that summer. Bridgid mislabeled a tape when she went to Max's with Andy Warhol and Bill Feldman on Monday, July 26, as featuring The Velvet Underground. Perhaps she expected the band to be there. She definitely went with her tape recorder (she was recording nearly everything in her life at the time, but the Velvets did not play Max's that night, as it was one of their nights off. As I said, there's been a lot of debate about whether both sets on the Max's tapes that made up the live album were from August 23, but all the research that's been put in over the past 40 years points to the fact that, yes, both sets were from August 23.  I could go into the reasons why, but that really shouldn't be the point of a Billy Yule article!  I suggest the references to the Max's recording dates just be taken out of this article, or made more less specific (i.e., just say they came from summer 1970 performances). --Leamanc (talk) 04:32, 6 January 2011 (UTC)