The concept that evolved into the Exploding Plastic Inevitable sprang from the minds of Warhol and Paul Morrissey in the late 1960s. Thus, the Exploding Plastic Inevitable was born: an avant-garde art collective defined by the clash of music, dance and provocative performance art that placed the Velvets, curated in Warhol’s vision, centre stage. Looking back on the years that the Velvets performed with and as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Cale described the live shows as utter chaos. The Exploding Plastic Inevitable continued performing primarily in New York City for several months, while travelling across the United States and Canada, but the chaos soon caught up, and the collective had its last hurrah at New York’s The Scene Club in May of 1967. Two months prior, as they blazed on, The Velvet Underground & Nico was unleashed, a definitive marker that the Velvets, while under Warhol’s production, were destined to grow beyond the Exploding Plastic Inevitable.