Editing Doug Yule (section)

===Early life===
Doug Yule was born in [[Mineola, New York|Mineola, Long Island, New York]], and grew up in [[Great Neck, New York|Great Neck]]<ref name=unterberger203>{{cite book|last1=Unterberger|first1=Richie|author-link=Richie Unterberger|title=White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day|date=2009|publisher=Jawbone Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-906002-22-0|page=203}}</ref> with five sisters and a younger brother. As a child he took piano and [[baritone horn]] lessons. He later said in an interview that he would have preferred violin lessons, but the violin had to be rented and the baritone horn was available free of charge.<ref name="prx">{{cite web|title=Doug Yule, From Rock Icon to Violin Craftsman|url=https://beta.prx.org/stories/27641|website=PRX|access-date=January 5, 2015|date=2008}}</ref>

In high school he played the tuba, as well as the guitar and the banjo, and sang in the church choir.<ref name="jovanovic122">{{cite book|last1=Jovanovic|first1=Rob|author-link=Rob Jovanovic|title=Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground|date=2012|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9781250000149|page=122|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVsdu300fq8C&pg=PA122}}</ref>

According to Yule he first got involved in music when at a show for the band [[The Barbarians (band)|The Barbarians]] and they didn't show up so him and his friends began jamming. "...In Boston, the Barbarians. And my roommate and I and a couple of other people got dragged down there, and the Barbarians didn’t show up, but we started playing with their instruments and eventually wound up in a band, and that’s kind of the way I got into rock and roll."<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Velvet Underground with Lou Reed, Maureen Moe Tucker, Doug Yule & David Fricke |url=https://www.nypl.org/node/66241 |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=The New York Public Library}}</ref>

In 1965–66 he attended [[Boston University]], where he studied acting.<ref name="popmatters">{{cite web|last1=LaPointe|first1=Andrew|title=Interview with Doug Yule|url=http://www.popmatters.com/feature/yule-doug-021105|website=PopMatters|access-date=January 5, 2015|date=2005}}</ref> In Boston he met [[Walter Powers (musician)|Walter Powers]] and [[Willie Alexander]] of the Grass Menagerie. In 1966–67, he played with the Grass Menagerie and other bands in New York, California, and Boston.<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|title=Doug Yule profile|first=Richie|last=Unterberger|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p140635|pure_url=yes}}|work=Allmusic.com|access-date=January 10, 2018}}</ref>