Filmmaker Tony Jannelli was one of the few kids who remained in the audience of the concert. The majority walked out booing, saying it sounded like someone was killing a cat.
While on stage for merely 20 minutes, The Velvet Underground performed three songs, There She Goes, Venus in Furs, and Heroin. The Summit High School audience responded with, as one of the band recalled in 1983, a "murmur of surprise that greeted the band's appearance" that "increased to a roar of disbelief as the band started to play" which"swelled to a mighty howl of outrage and bewilderment..." Half the audience walked out.