PAUL MORRISSEY: We performed at the Dom on St. Marks Place for about a month, then I went out to L.A. to set up this gig at a nightclub on Sunset Boulevard called the Trip, if you can imagine. Pathetic hippie crap. So we vacated the Dom because there was no air-conditioning and summer was coming up, and they all wanted to go to L.A. And it sounded fun. Then Bill Graham came from San Francisco, begging me to book the Velvet Underground into his toilet, the Fillmore—the Swillmore Vomitorium. Boy, was he a creep. They always talk about him as a saint. Ucch! I mean, he was really AWFUL! Just a
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