The Velvet Underground on Most Profound Album: 'Lou Was a Force of Nature' — rollingstone.com

When Maureen Tucker, the refreshingly frank former drummer of the Velvet Underground, looks back on the group's self-titled third album, released in 1969, she still remembers the trepidation she felt going into it. In late 1968, the band's moody singer-songwriter Lou Reed had kicked out violist John Cale, a founding member who seemed to act at the time as the band's artistic conscience. "I wasn't delighted," says the drummer, now age 70, with a bluntness that reveals her Long Island roots. "I was just wondering what was gonna happen, what we'd sound like. I was hoping we'd still stick together."

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