RIP Lou Reed

[liv2ski]

great piece that Laurie, especially on a Rolling Stone

Or as Lou would have said.
And ya, a great looking couple together.
I hope she is ok.

[Benny Profane]

Ha. Just watching a special Later with Jules Holland, and he replayed a live performance of Reed and Metallica doing White Light, White Heat. Awesome. Reed looks like shit, I assume he was dying, slowly.

Great show, if you have Palladium, check this segment out. Greatest hits from last decade.

[Harry]

great piece by Laurie on them in Rolling Stone here

Wow. Missed this when Tye1on first posted this. What a beautiful description of love.

[creaky fossil]

I don't know, she's was kinda cute in her day.

I'm old enough to agree, also I thought her Mister Heartbreak and Big Science albums were interesting enough in their time to make her more attractive.

As a music listener I give full props to Lou Reed, VU tunes are durable, interesting on the whole and some really killer, absurdly bizarre, strangely annoying stuff in there too. His solo albums didn't do a lot for me, kinda liked his mellowed visions in New York though it was clear he'd become a yuppie version of himself by then. Huge talent, true proof that good music isn't about having a crooner or wailer or growler's voice alone... hell you could half-talk the shit and it's still good. So many wide impacts. I'm not a musician so I don't know if musicians feel his impacts as much as I do from the listener's spot. But as a listener I think we could do a massive YouTube cascade of VU influenced music, it could run for 10+ pages easily.

I never understood. Perhaps because he was before my time. Was it what he stood for (a la Dylan), cause it sure wasn't his voice.

It probably depends on what kinds of music you have listened to in your lifetime, where you fall on the listener's scale (from casual/background to the OCD extreme), and whether listening for influences (or hearing common threads) is part of why/how you enjoy music. I've never read anyone's history of VU influence, but I can say that I didn't discover them until the year I graduated from college, I got one CD and just after 3 or 4 listens to that CD I could trace back sounds from bands that had arisen in the 15-20 years after the songs on VU were made. Of course the members of VU were influenced by what each of them listened to in their own lives. Music is a living chain that way.

[Benny Profane]

I'm old enough to agree, also I thought her Mister Heartbreak and Big Science albums were interesting enough in their time to make her more attractive.

I fell in love with her when a friend dragged me to a show of hers at the Beacon Theatre in the third row back in the 90s. Got intensely toasted beforehand. Memorable.

[BaNosser]

RIP Lou... thanks

[schindlerpiste]

Forgot to post this the other day:

[iceman]

Keep seeing this ad lately. Not quite sure what I think. Obviously it's way too late to get upset about the use of music in ads in general, but this ad for this product? hm.

[Marshall Tucker]

new sensations nice. LOVED that album, and blue mask, but these were early college for me.

if your father is freebasin,
and your mother, turnin tricks.
taht's still no reason, you should have a rip.
cuase I'm the one who loves ya....you can always give me a call....

(one end of a dolla...)

[Marshall Tucker]

what was the other one I'm rememberin?

and his father beats him 'cause he's too tired to beg...
It's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs
pedro dreams of getting older and killing the old man,
but that's a slim chance....he's goin out to the Blvd.

sorta drab....didn't he get booed at the R&R HOF induction over that one?

[Self Jupiter]

Mullet era

[dookeyXXX]

“Only a thousand people bought the Velvet Underground’s debut, but they all started bands” - Brian Eno

Fact check:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/01/velvet/


FWIW, I saw Lou Reed on his New York tour where he had The Feelies open, then they were his backing band. Stellar.

There was also a great interview with either Lou or Laurie from back in the day where they revealed that Reed would go to the local record store every month and purchase new music based solely on the cover art and/or band name. That was how he kept abreast of and discovered new music. I always thought that was cool...

[yeahman]

what was the other one I'm rememberin?

and his father beats him 'cause he's too tired to beg...
It's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs
pedro dreams of getting older and killing the old man,
but that's a slim chance....he's goin out to the Blvd.

sorta drab....didn't he get booed at the R&R HOF induction over that one?

Dirty Boulevard. I like this live version.

[Cono Este]

This sucks


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[EWG]

I've seen a helluvalota concerts, and a huge number of amazing ones, but the single best show I EVER saw was Lou Reed's concert in DC for his Magic and Loss tour. He played the entire album straight through for his first set. It was like a recital. I think he even had a white jacket he wore for the first set. And considering the subject matter it was incredibly intense.

Then for his second set he ditched the jacket and played the rest of the catalog. But I could barely even concentrate on it after what had just happened.

Something I will never forget - that first set.

I think this is from that tour

[schindlerpiste]

I saw Lou twice in NYC in the '80s. Once at The Ritz (Best time ever) and Columbia University