kids have 15 years old to 60-year-olds commenting on how much they were influenced by lou and the velvets. so it is far-reaching. did you have any idea at all, when people are phenomenons, famous, do something just amazing, have a huge television show, like carroll o connor did, like all in the family. did you have any idea back then, that we would be talking about this 50 years later, that velvet would be this iconic band. no, no, not at all. we all believed in the music and loved it. but, no. i don t think anybody who s doing something artistic, writing or painting or whatever, thinks well, in 20 years, i ll be famous.