They started the group Fritz around 1967 when the Velvet Underground was bursting upon the scene mostly to apathy and travelled to California, and a godzillion little 'we can do that' type bands sprung up in their wake so it could be something about that, that inspiring thing the Velv Ugs did. They call Lou Reed the godfather of punk because the Velv Ugs were this really dark heroin junkie raw kind of a thing with Nico chanting with her European accent and a couple doing a whip dance (Gerard Menanga and Mary Waronov I think).
I can't say if this is what Nicks is referring to though, but the Velv Ugs did a song titled Run Run Run and had a line about 'gypsys after you'.
(I call them Velv Ugs for short, not sure anyone else does, Lou is still freaking God to me, Twilight Reeling was brilliant except for the one decadent evil nasty song, eww)
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