| has gloss | eng: Stephen Sesnick took over the management of The Velvet Underground following the departure of Andy Warhol after the bands first album. Formerly, he had been the manager and booker of the Boston Tea Party, the major rock venue in Boston at the time, where he discovered and presented most of the local artists that would go on to become significant recording artists, such as: Peter Wolf & the Hallucinations (who became the J. Geils Band), Edens Children, Lothar & the Hand People, The Ones, Orpheus, Beacon Street Union, The Lost, Chubby & the Turpikes (who became Trevarous),and many others. When he resigned at the Boston Tea party, its owner (Ray Reipen) hired Don Law, who became the major regional concert promoter, later founding "Live Nation" a national concert promotion organization. |