Danny Says Page #3

someone who can stand

the spotlight

and continue to surprise

and delight her audiences.

I mean she always attracted

and was attracted

to the most brilliant

and crazy people.

And a lot of these people were

probably mostly gay,

but they were in love with her.

- I mean.

- Seriously in love with her.

- Andy was in love with her.

- Woman:
Really?

Oh, yeah, definitely,

he was as in love with her

as any man can be

with any woman.

Whoever you were, next to her,

you were strong in a way.

'Cause she was so weak

in so many ways,

and she was so strong

in so many ways.

- I don't know,

- people are just born,

They just keep turning up

in every generation.

So Paul came down and...

It was his first night ever

at The Factory and Andy was...

Had the camera pointed at

the center of

this group of people and...

he said to Paul, "Oh, you know

anything about movies?"

And, "Oh, I can't get

all these people in the picture.

I don't know what to do."

- And Paul said, "Well, there's.

- The thing called a pan,

And you, very slowly,

you know...

move the eye piece, whatever,

what you're looking through,

- until you get.

- All the people in."

"Wow, we didn't really

think you could really do that.

I've always seen it in movies,

but I didn't know how to do it.

Oh, thank you."

And this is how he learned

to make movies

as if he made movies,

This is a good metaphor

for everything, we just

pretended there was no...

known way of doing it,

and maybe someone knew

a known way of doing it,

and admit what we don't know.

And be proud

of what we don't know.

- And make a virtue.

- Of what we don't know.

And...

turn a lack of expertise,

lack of virtuosity, into...

an asset.

- ("All Tomorrow's Parties" by.

- The Velvet Underground plays)

- Man:
(over phone)

- So I was wondering,

- When was the first time.

- You ran into Cale or Reed?

- Danny:
It was when the.

- Velvet Underground was playing.

At the Caf Bizarre.

They were terrific and very

strange and wonderful.

They immediately became

my favorite band.

John was very intense

and poetic and Welsh.

Lou was very arrogant

and difficult,

- and you must remember,

- everybody in New York.

Was in love with Lou Reed.

That crush on Lou

was an energy that

fueled a great deal of what

went on in and around the band.

It became...

corrupted...

- by the presence of a lot of.

- Extraneous elements,

Like a psychedelic light show.

I really think that's the reason

that the band didn't go

- the route of.

- Rock 'n' roll success.

John and Lou and Nico who were

so intense and incredible,

were covered over

with flashing polka dots.

- I used to tell Lou and John.

- All the time,

"Why don't you get rid

of that f***ing light show?"

- Man:

- And what was their response?

Danny:
They shrugged.

- That was their response.

- To anything.

- If someone said that to me,

- I woulda shrugged too.

Andy was inspirational in

conveying to him

the importance of work.

- And I think Lou.

- Would tell you this himself,

I don't mean to put words

in his mouth, but he would say,

- "How many songs.

- Did you write today, Lou?"

And Lou would say, "Six."

- Andy would say,

- "Ooh, that's not enough.

You have to work harder."

- It was difficult.

- To prove your legitimacy.

- Everyone was a freak if you were.

- Associated with Andy Warhol.

Unless you were Andy himself,

then you were just considered

some underground drug trash.

Erase these bananas

and whip dancers from your mind,

and listen to songs

from one of the greatest

songwriters of all time.

Then there was an ad

in The New York Times,

"Expanding Teen Magazine

seeks writer/editor.

Young, hip, knowledge of

pop scene, some experience."

I thought he meant

the pop art scene.

So I wrote a letter

to the box at The Times.

It was all about how I believed

in great, beautiful people,

and I loved kids.

- And also I dropped.

- A lot of names like.

Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick,

I thought that's what he meant.

- So I went in.

- For an interview and.

- I turned his head around,

- I guess.

- Interviewer:

- How did you feel once you were.

- Right in the middle of pop.

- Music?

Hey! What? To go see a band,

five cute boys at once?

As Pat Hartley used to say,

"You bet your f***ing ass

I'm a groupie!"

- ("Boys"

- by The Shirelles plays)

So I thought, well, you know,

"Hey,

The Velvet Underground,

my favorite band.

I know all about it.

What do you have to know?"

Of course back then,

- you really didn't have.

- To know very much.

It was the year that everything

wonderful was happening.

It was '65, '66, which was.

The Doors' first album, the.

Mamas and Papas' first album,

Aftermath from the Stones,

I never liked the Beatles,

- but they had some album,

- and that was okay, Revolver.

There was all these first

albums, or watershed albums,

that didn't sound like

anything else in the world.

You just knew

this is the place to be!

Everything that you get

in the music business is,

when you first get in,

- is just given to you.

- By press agents.

The first one I met

was a woman named Connie DeNave.

Her assistant took me to,

guess where, Brooklyn!

These three women came out

in bright yellow dresses,

and I went crazy.

That was my first maybe

rock 'n' roll-go-crazy moment,

like, I lifted off my seat.

Whenever I'm with him

Something inside's

Still burning

And I'm filled with desire

Could it be a devil in me

Or is this the way

love's supposed to be?

It's like a heat wave

Burning in my heart

I can't keep from crying

It's tearing me apart...

Danny:
I was earthquaked

by Martha and the Vandellas.

- Boy, if that's what.

- This is about,

t's gonna be a fun business.

The Rolling Stones were giving

a press party

in the form of a boat ride.

I got there late.

My photographer

was the reason I was late

'cause he arrived with no film

and we missed the f***ing boat!

A limo pulled up

and Gloria Stavers got out.

She was my archrival then,

she was like way number one

in the field.

- This guy in a rowboat.

- Came up and said,

"You two guys want a ride

to that boat?"

It'll be...

- $20.

- (cash register rings)

- I said,

- "Gloria, you wanna go in it?"

- She said,

- "I wouldn't pay 20 cents.

- For the f***ing.

- Rolling Stones,".

And got back in her car

and drove away.

The boat docked.

- A beautiful girl got off,

- carrying a camera.

It was Linda Eastman,

her photographs were so great.

And we became best friends.

She had this quality that...

I find in...

In Libra females.

- It's that men have a tendency.

- To dance for them,

To please them.

She always had that quality,

she took the best pictures

of pretty people.

And I wanted to write

a lot about The Byrds.

And Cass Elliot and.

The Velvet Underground.

The publisher was very canny,

and he investigated.

London literary agencies,

and bought a bunch of interviews

that Maureen Cleave,

- a journalist and.

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