It doesn't matter which artist you believe was the original, inadvertent inventor of punk rock - The Stooges are right up there among them... The New York Dolls are among them, as are the MC5. Lou Reed is also credited with being one of punk's godfathers. So, let's go back to the Velvet Underground, and their wall of heavy distortion, feedback, loud guitars, fuzzy amps, low-band thumping, reliable chick drummers and the passing Teutonic chanteuse. Throw some Andy Warhol in there for art's sake and voila - another punk precursor possessing the harbinger elements that would influence the people who we would later call "punk rock." If you go but one step into the credits for so much of what is considered important in rock n roll, and in the progression that gave us punk rock, you will always see that John Cale was present in a most important way. As a producer, Cale guided the musical outcome of important punk rock and proto punk debut albums by The St...