FRAYED VELVET: Lou Reed has always bragged...

FRAYED VELVET: Lou Reed has always bragged that you’d never see the Velvet Underground get together again. Lou, babe-- never say never. It was no surprise to see Reed and John Cale on hand June 15 when the Cartier Foundation opened an Andy Warhol show and a Velvet Underground exhibition at a series of art museums 20 miles outside Paris. In fact, Reed and Cale performed a bunch of material from their recent “Songs for Drella” Warhol-tribute album. But it was a shock when surviving VU members Moe Tucker and Sterling Morrison joined Reed and Cale and performed a 15-minute version of “Heroin.” The reunion was such a success that Reed has recruited Tucker as a drummer when he plays a series of shows in Japan later this month. And Reed and Cale have agreed to do a “Songs for Drella” five-city tour this September, with a pair of L.A. dates tentatively scheduled for the Wiltern Theatre.