Mo Tucker Doug Yule Walter
Powers Willie Alexander
Willie
Alexander, writing
for the Friars Aylesbury website in 2010 said:
"Sorry
dude, I don't remember shit"
Doug
Yule, writing
for the Friars Aylesbury website in 2010 said:
"Thanks
for thinking of me as someone who's memories might be interesting to
others. Unfortunately there is not a lot of specific information that I
can recall. My mind hangs on to music and pictures but has never been good
with indexing and filing. So while I have recollections of that tour, they
are random scenes and incidents and I'm not even sure which countries they
may have taken place in. If I was standing in a bar and someone said 'you
played here in such and such a year' I might dredge up something but
outside of that, I have no way to know what's relevant.
I expect to be in Europe this summer playing some music but no plans for
England or I would stop by in person and tell some stories"
In this line up, only Tucker remained from
the original band but not for long as an even newer version of VU formed
after this and toured, but ended in farce with there being more than one
version of the new line up touring. An album was released in 1973 but
generally disowned. The 'proper' line up of Reed, Cale, Tucker and
Morrison reunited and toured in 1992. Morrison died in 1995 and the
remaining three performed one last time in 1996. Doug
Yule is now a violin maker. Powers appears to have left the music business
completely. Willie Anderson is still performing today.
In December 2009, Reed, Yule
and Tucker got together in New York with Rolling Stone magazine to discuss their
career.
