Mirrors “How Could I” (1974)
“So influenced by the Velvet Underground it’s better than the Velvet Underground. The precise moment when a little-known band on the edges of the rock canon supersedes the VU happens at the 1:50 mark, when suddenly the tempo changes and a guitar hook kicks in that sets the song of in a whole new direction.”
(Paul Marotta)
”Straight away, we must accept the Mirrors’ Velvets metaphor or the band withers before your eyes.”
(Julian Cope)
“We saw the Velvets at LaCave. I saw God … and realizing that I needed only 2/3 of my vast musical knowledge to play ‘Heroin’, we were off … I studied the V.U. Sub-Moronic Easy Guitar Book… From the start, we rehearsed originals along with Velvets covers… aside from loving them, we did the Velvets because they were easy.”
(Paul Klimek - Mirrors)
“Necessary.”
(Grimmertown)
