In Praise Of...Lou Reed "Take No Prisoners"

"Give me an issue, I'll give you a tissue and you can wipe my ass with it"

I heard the version of Waiting For My Man on the radio at like 3 am when I was 15 or 16. It made a real deep impression.

Maybe it's just me but I always hated this backing group, sounds like a Top 40 cover band with delusions of grandeur and blaringly bad arrangements, like Lou was taking pointers from the E Street Band or more likely just being arrongant and lazy. As a comedy album it's okay but I can't imagine listening to it more than once or twice. Not terrible, just sorta mediocre (like Growing Up In Public) and when it comes to Lou Reed I'll take the perversely fascinating failures like Berlin or The Bells (every couple years or so).

The others I own: Metal Machine Music and the one with Vicious and Wildside and that.

my main problem with the last few Reed albums is his voice. he warbles too much; wish he'd go back to the flat, even toned sopkenness of New York.

and the pretension is hard to take. here's my interpretation of Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson (they're a couple as I presume you know) at home on a Saturday afternoon.

Lou: You're a genius
Laurie: No, you're genius
Lou: No baby, you're the genius
Laurie: No, YOU'RE a genius....

...on and on until infinity.

But it's not Lou, it's ACTORS! Steve Buscemi, et. al. So bad.

Anyway, back to Take No Prisoners...has a great version of Street Hassle.

Saw him live a year or two ago w/Antony & Johnsons opening. I found it all rather underwhelming.

Well I'm not up on these things enough to be able to name names but I do recall Fernando, and a lady violinist, and this karate expert guy doing these karate moves while the band played. The Fernando singing wasn't so great, either. I agree. It was just weird. The whole thing seemed designed to take the focus off of Lou and put it on other people. I don't think Lou was in a very good mood, either.

Heh. is Lou ever?

Anyone heard the "Tiger In My Tank" song?

I wanna be black.

There isn't much in the world that can happen to me in life where the version of "Waiting For My Man" from this album won't pull me out of the blues. I remember hearing that at 3AM in the dark on the radio when I was a teenager and I played it on my iPod just now as I walked outside. That shit has magical properties for me. It heals me on levels I can't explain. It is the ultimate go-to record for me when I'm down, only I don't tend to think of it as anywhere near the first thing to play in those moods. For those who haven't heard it, this is about 6 billion miles from the Velvet Underground version, we're not in Kansas anymore.

A recent girlfriend of mine pointed out to me that he & Laurie Anderson finally tied the knot in April.

Love Xgau's review:

Lou Reed Live: Take No Prisoners [Arista, 1978]
Partly because your humble servant is attacked by name (along with John Rockwell) on what is essentially a comedy record, a few colleagues have rushed in with Don Rickles analogies, but that's not fair. Lenny Bruce is the obvious influence. Me, I don't play my greatest comedy albums, not even the real Lenny Bruce ones, as much as I do Rock n Roll Animal. I've heard Lou do two very different concerts during his Arista period that I'd love to check out again--Palladium November '76 and Bottom Line May '77. I'm sorry this isn't either. And I thank Lou for pronouncing my name right. C+

Haha, OMG that's weak.

I've got just about all the Reed albums up 'til the mid 80s, and this is one of his worst. Excruciating. So was it the drugs that stopped his ability to sing? He did a bit on Coney Island, and then that was about it.

lou reed is such a dick

bahahaha

And I thank Lou for pronouncing my name right

This always confuses me: Doesn't Lou pronounce it "Crist-ow"? It's always sounded that way to me. But a coupla years ago Xgau did an open-question Q&A, and when I asked him if the "g" was silent, he said "no". Weird.

Bimble's right about this album. Probably my favorite versions of "Satellite of Love" and "Berlin." I did always think that Xgau/pronunciation line was a good one, though.

This record is totally dope and the band on it are awesome and tbh this and Metal Machine Music and the VU albums are all the Lou Reed I've ever needed.

lou reedchristgau is such a dick

responsible for the chuck eddys and the frank kogans of our time, r.i.p.

B-++

That's the second review I know of where he applauds an artist for pronouncing his name right (the other is for Sonic Youth's Kill Yr Idols). I wonder how many albums there are where his name is pronounced wrong. Hundreds? Two? None?

Listen to what he says about Xgau on "Walk On The Wild Side". That is classic.

XG's review, didn't it also say "Can you sue for being called a toe-fucker?" ?

HAHAHAAH I was trying to figure that out! I was like "what did he say? TOE-FUCKER? am I just drunk?" LOL

No, look, I just have to say...there are times when it's only Lou Reed that holds my soul together. Him, and ONLY him.

Maybe my favourite non-sequitur: "You ever put a quarter in those machines, man?
You know, like the bear that plays basketball?"

HAHAHAAH I was trying to figure that out! I was like "what did he say? TOE-FUCKER? am I just drunk?" LOL

No, Lou's drunk, not you

this is hilarious

man this is funny. I feel kinda sorry for his band but hey they were getting paid

I want to talk to that fcuking Reed man why did he throw a cup at his roadie

fuck radio ethiopia, this is radio brooklyn

what do I look like, Henny Youngman?

she gives good clerk

I do Lou Reed better than anybody, I thought I'd get in on it.

I know Einstein couldn't tie his shoe laces, but it's not like that

I'll sing when you shut the fuck up

I want to talk to that fcuking Reed man why did he throw a cup at his roadie

LOLz

One of the best stand-up albums ever. Or maybe it's a really raucous, vulgar proto-Laurie Anderson record.

*shrieking feedback*

is that annoying?

*more shrieking feedback*

LOL again, I thought he said "Isn't that annoying?"

i've always liked the groan of barely-concealed disgust one of the (presumably black?) backup singers emits during "i wanna be black" ...

Bimble otm about the weirdo version of Waiting For the Man tho, that is genuinely great.

in general the band is horrible tho, kinda get the feeling Lou hates them as much (if not more) than the audience

Most of this album I can live without, but "Satellite of Love" is epic.

You can really live without the version of "Street Hassle"?

Need a what?
Need a what?

"I need a boyfriend can't you hear?"

"The best lack all conviction
and the worst are filled with a passionate intensity
now you figure out where i am"

Lou Reed is my reason for living. Just saying.

I wrote a fairly pointless post about this album not too long ago. You can read it here.

Wow, thanks, Alex!

"they charge us for the towels here"

haha i just heard this again at friends house a couple weeks ago.

what an album!

I first heard this a few months ago when I was listening through the complete Lou oeuvre. This was a highlight amidst the dreariness of the landscapes of the other 70s albums.

"you ever put a quarter in, y'know, the wooden bear that plays basketball"

"like going to bed with a brontaurus man, it's outta style"

love this album

as good as any old Cosby album.

"it's not that we don't want to play your favorites, it's just that there's SO MANY to choose from"

haha, just put this on.
there should be a box set a la Live at the Plugged Nickel of this stuff. Liners from the reissue says every show (10 in all, 2 a night) was recorded.

"they charge us for the towels here"

hahahahahahaha oh man I haven't heard this in years.

here comes the condominium -- oh shit!

"pale blue eyes" is so weird on this -- I take it that weird droney sound is the "roland guitar synthesizer"?

sounds like one of those shitty children's air-pump organs

lol, during "waiting for the man" -- "you read too many movies ... "

I literally haven't heard this album in at least twenty years and still when I remember "here comes the condominium - oh, shit!" I can hear it down to the comma

"all the time he shows up late.."

"so do you, Lou!"

I remember hearing the "fuck Radio Ethiopia this is Radio Brooklyn" line way back in the past, but weirdly, I cannot remember hearing anything else from this album.

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/6761/bomp1979issue20january1.jpg

Haha amazing

He looks like somebody else in that picture, The Big Ragu maybe.

i love lou's "i wear a lou reed t-shirt onstage" phase

For some reason this was one of my first Lou solo albums - it made a big impression on me, it sounded so alien and chaotic.
Around the same time I bought the first New York Dolls too and I spent a lot of time fantasizing about this dirty, dangerous, all in grainy black and white 70's New York.

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa72/vulcangascompany1969/rnranimal.jpg

i think i'm gonna poll that lou reed take no prisoners ad

i love lou's "i wear a lou reed t-shirt onstage" phase

indeed!

if you write as good as you talk, nobody read ya

also this is hilarious (altho much earlier):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2pF5oMdP4&feature=related

Lou is the funniest motherfucker

this radio show from early '79 is a great companion to take no prisoners. further christgau baiting.
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/43079765584/fuck-radio-ethiopia-this-is-radio-brooklyn-my

lol wow thx!!

"there's more to life than aerosmith" rofl

this is great

i swear, the first 15 seconds of this dion and the belmonts song he played sounded like VU, actually the guitar and drums on the whole thing kinda do

yeah there's lots of that kind of thing -- the solo on the crazy elephant track there at the beginning is a dead ringer for lou's VU style too.
also awesome when lou talks about critics saying his lead guitar playing is inept. "i never said it was ept!"

"so I only know four or five notes"

Lou's "pro-sex"/disco riff also awesome

haha, yeah.
happy for lou's health and everything but drunk lou was a lot more fun than sober lou.

Tyler, my man, you've done it again!

It's always great to run into an old friend isn't? Maybe share a beer, tell a few jokes and swap stories about the old days, sharing those happy memories that never fail to put a smile on both your faces (by the way, is that a Christmas tree in the background?)

http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/image/43079765584

http://25.media.tumblr.com/9addb9d98d3d844534fda66626c8a72a/tumblr_mi4s3e8xqS1qzy30io1_1280.jpg

tyler, that sendspace link tried to install some horrible malware on my pc. just letting you know. 'easylife' or some shit.

Yeah, I packed it too.

sorry for the malware! sendspace kind of blows. it worked for other people i heard from... was the file that you ended up with a zip file called "WPIX"? Sendspace is weird -- it gives you a bunch of "Download" links, but the only one you want is the one that says: " Click here to start download from sendspace".

or try this? http://ow.ly/hKCRB

Yeah, I got the WPIX one.

bummerz. well, try the link i just posted?

"the Fonz, what is the Fonz?"

No, I mean I got it successfully. thanks anyway.

Kind of appropriate that Lou ca. 1979 would be trying to fuck with your computer

lol yes.
glad you got it. everyone in the world should hear this.
the live cale trax are amazing too -- i wonder if there's a whole recording of that show out there?
it is funny that cale and reed were on apparently pretty good terms at this point. maybe if they're not working together they can tolerate each other.

*malware attacks pc*

"Is that annoying?"

*more malware attacks pc*

metal machine malware

the live Cale tracks are kind of what I expected Cale's solo work to consist of. before I heard Church of Anthrax and Paris 1919 anyway. just full of angry howling.

this one is total proto-Velvets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in3c5t70C_s

(NOT Dion after all apparently?)

oh whoops, maybe not?
this one is interesting too -- proto-Antony, a Lou fave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMLjkIbDid8

recognized dude's voice from Hannah & Her Sisters tbh

oh is he in it? i don't know the dude. seems interesting, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3xumxEno8

hmm that's edited weird, not the complete scene he appears in

but yeah the club he was a regular at is the same club Woody Allen plays clarinet at every week

also btw how gay is this
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc187/boogiewoody/The%20Paragons%20meet%20The%20Jesters/Front.jpg

WPIX broadcast also discussed on these threads:
Search And Destroy: Lou Reed
John Cale S/D

Oops. I see the man himself posted the PIX link himself--I just put it in those other two unbeknownst of this one. Sorry!

Think this may have been the first time I heard "I Wonder Why" all those years ago. Awaiting the bizarre interchange with the caller discussed on the John Cale thread.

Funny how Lou was being more upfront about being gay ca 1979 and then, whoops, next thing you know, he's married! That's Lou for ya!

Everyone zinging Jimmy Carter in 1979 ;_;

Is there an open thread just for musician drop-ins to radio stations, taking calls & being kind of fun, pompy dickheads? <3 hearing these, especially the calls.

Funny how Lou was being more upfront about being gay ca 1979 and then, whoops, next thing you know, he's married! That's Lou for ya!

― Le petit chat est mort (Tom D.), Saturday, February 16, 2013 10:13 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Feel like he's just doing what he usually did, where he isn't saying "I'm gay/queer" but rather "So I was at this gay club dancing with a bunch of hunky sweaty guys all around me all of us appreciating each other's bodies and ..."

his future wife is there in the studio with him, too...

On another note, his name is Lewis Alan Reed, right? Where did the Louis "Butch" Firbank stuff come from?

Also, burning up precious minutes listening to this when I could be watching Hulu Criterions.

Ronald Firbank is a cult figure gay writer from the early 20th century, I assume he's just doing a hip namecheck there

"... that's what they say about disco - the lyrics are stupid and it's repetitious. Yeah, well, SO? What's wrong with that?"

Right on, Lou

Thought "DIsco Mystic" was ridiculous when I first heard it, but it has grown on me over the decades. Also something amusing about the fact that it doesn't really have a disco beat or a disco bass or guitar- the only thing that makes it disco is the words "disco mystic" being repeated over and over again.

It's like a throwback to his Pickwick Records days- "Hey, let me cash in on the disco craze."

"But don't spend too much effort writing the tune. We've got to record it fast and strike while the iron is hot. Time's a-wastin'"

Wait, do they actually have "The Jeweler" on this? I didn't hear it and see it in the listings.

Lou: "We were talking about Einstein's brain, E= what? Energy, mc². What did that mean? It didn't mean the MC5, kids. What did mc² mean, John?"
John: "Mike Curb."
Lou: "Mike Curb. He won. He won. And he banned me on my own label when I wasn't even there to defend myself."

Oh, it must have been before the guy started recording. Lou mentions it when reading emails right before "I Wonder Why."

"I'd like to send this one out to Wayne at the Sunoco gas station in New Jersey."

"I'm 15"

Is this the man who sung "lonesome cowboy bill"?

xxxpost
Lou's so far ahead of everything and everyone, reading emails in 1979 ;-)

The live version of "Leaving it up to you" is incendiary

xpost No, that was Doug.

Won't be buying Squeeze then

Ha. Αnd ha, I typed "emails." Probably thought it too. Listener phone-ins.

And you are otm about that version of "Leaving It Up To You"

Yeah i was mystified by the email bit

That whole Cale mini-set is awesome. So the band as announced is
Allen Lanier, Bruce Brody, Ritchie Fliegler, Ivan Krall, and Jessie Chamberlain. Who is playing bass? Was John playing it at that time? Or one of those guitar players

It's in very much in the vein of his live performances at the time, ummmmmm, untrammelled. Pretty sure Tyler has already provided the bootlegs to confirm it too!

Also are there any more of these WPIX-FM 'Radio Radio' shows floating around, David Johansen, maybe, or Lou's archenemy, Xgau?

OK, finally digging into Tyler's web page. There goes my day off. While probably have to subscribe to Hulu in the end to watch those Criterions. Anyway, slow Jam Fairport "Reno, Nevada" is awesome.

This guy says that the tapes went missing: http://www.smoe.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr?user=ivan%40stellysee.de&passw=&list=audities&extra=2007072/102%201&func=archive-get-part-clean

On Sunday nights Dan Neer
and John Ogle hosted "Radio Radio," an incredibly fun three hours during which
artists would stop by and guest DJ. One show I remember had guest jocks
Debbie Harry, Chris Stein and Clem Burke being joined later in the program by
David Johansen. Other guests were Ric Ocasek, Cindy Bullens, Rockpile, Squeeze,
the Police, the Ramones, etc. On one show Genya Ravan mixed a track on the air.
I wish I could track down some "Radio Radio" tapes. When management dropped
the format they locked the DJ's out of the building. So Neer and Ogle were
unable to retrieve any of the tapes.

But some cassette tapes made off the radio seem to be buried in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame James Brawley collection, along with some interesting live recordings the guy made: http://catalog.rockhall.com/catalog/ARC-0045

Which is perhaps the source of this show we have been listening to:
http://catalog.rockhall.com/catalog?page=2&q=%22Radio+radio%22&search_field=all_fields.
Maybe the David Byrne one will surface as well.

Look at this stuff the guy recorded:
http://catalog.rockhall.com/components?ead_id=ARC-0045&parent_ref=ref734

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Richard Lloyd Quartet, Club Mud, New York City, 1979 January 5
Location:Box: 9, Cassette: 41-43 (Audio)
Zappa, Frank, live on WNEW-FM, New York City, 1979 January 14
Location:Box: 9, Cassette: 44 (Audio)
Blondie with Rush at the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1979 January 21
Location:Box: 9, Cassette: 45-47 (Audio)
The Delinquents (Johnny Thunders) at Max's Kansas City, New York City, 1979 January 26
Location:Box: 9, Cassette: 48 (Audio)
The Heartbreakers, Max's Kansas City, New York City, 1979 February 8
Location:Box: 9, Cassette: 49-51 (Audio)
Cale, John, CBGB, New York City, 1979 February 14
Location:Box: 9, Cassette: 52-53 (Audio)
South East Asia Refugee Benefit at the Palladium, New York City, 1979 February 16
Location:Box: 9, Cassette: 54-58 (Audio)
The Clash, Palladium, New York City, 1979 February 17
Location:Box: 9, Cassette: 59 (Audio)
Nico with John Cale at CBGB's, New York City, 1979 February 19
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 1 (Audio)
Erasers with the Necessaries at the Rocker Room, New York City, 1979 February 24
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 2-3 (Audio)
Radio Radio, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 February 25
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 4-6 (Audio)
John Cale Group, My Father's Place, Roslyn, N.Y., 1979 March 1
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 7-8 (Audio)
Richard Lloyd Quartet, CBGB, New York City, 1979 March 4
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 9-11 (Audio)
Sappho and Birdland at Max's Kansas City, New York City, 1979 March 9
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 12 (Audio)
Nico, CBGB, New York City, 1979 March 10
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 13-15 (Audio)
Patti Smith Group, Stoneybrook, Long Island, N.Y., 1979 March 17
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 16-18 (Audio)
WKCR Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall, New York City, 1979 April 1
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 19-20 (Audio)
The Police, CBGB, New York City, 1979 April 8
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 21-23 (Audio)
Radio Radio, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 April 15
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 24-27 (Audio)
Soft White Underbelly at The Bottom Line, New York City, 1979 April 22
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 28-33 (Audio)
Angel, Jimmy, and the Wise at CBGB, New York City, 1979 May 3
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 34 (Audio)
Rock Against Racism, New York City, 1979 May 5
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 35-37 (Audio)
No Nukes Benefit, Washington D.C., 1979 May 6
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 38-40 (Audio)
Sainte-Marie, Buffy, at the Bottom Line, New York City, 1979 May 13
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 41 (Audio)
Radio Radio, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 May 13
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 42 (Audio)
The Necessaries, CBGB, New York City, 1979 May 18
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 43-44 (Audio)
Richard Lloyd Quartet, West 30 Club, New York City, 1979 May 19
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 45-47 (Audio)
Krystal, Hilly, radio interview, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 May 20
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 48 (Audio)
Patti Smith Group, CBGB, New York City, 1979 May 24
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 49-51 (Audio)
Richard Lloyd Quartet, CBGB, New York City, 1979 May 26
Location:Box: 10, Cassette: 52-54 (Audio)
Radio Radio featuring Lou Reed, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 May 27
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 1-2 (Audio)
The Necessaries, Max's Kansas City, New York City, 1979 June 2
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 3 (Audio)
Radio Radio featuring John Cale, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 June 3
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 4 (Audio)
The Dead Kennedys at Max's Kansas City, New York City, 1979 June 7
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 5 (Audio)
Ryder, Mitch, Club 57, New York City, 1979 June 8
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 6 (Audio)
John Cale Band, CBGB, New York City, 1979 June 14-16
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 7-13 (Audio)
Radio Radio, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 June 17
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 14-16 (Audio)
Shirts, CBGB, New York City, 1979 June 19
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 17-19 (Audio)
Voidoids, CBGB, New York, 1979 June 22
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 20-22 (Audio)
Radio Radio, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 July 1
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 23-25 (Audio)
Blondie, Convention Hall, Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1979 July 7
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 26-28 (Audio)
Blondie, Belmont Park, Queens, New York City, 1979 July 8
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 29 (Audio)
Radio Radio, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 July 8
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 30-31 (Audio)
Blondie, Wolman Rink, Central Park, New York City, 1979 July 9
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 32-33 (Audio)
Destroy All Monsters at CBGB, New York City, 1979 July 10
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 34 (Audio)
Radio Radio, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 July 15
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 35-37 (Audio)
Suicide, Club 57, New York City, 1979 July 21
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 38 (Audio)
Radio Radio, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 July 22
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 39-44 (Audio)
Murphy, Elliott, at Max's Kansas City, New York City, 1979 July 23
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 45 (Audio)
Shirts, CBGB, New York City, 1979 July 26
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 46-47 (Audio)
Nylon, Judy, CBGB, New York City, 1979 July 27
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 48 (Audio)
Chrome, Cheetah, and the Casualties at Max's Kansas City, New York City, 1979 July 31
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 49 (Audio)
WBAI Benefit, Club 57, New York City, 1979 August 2
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 50-52 (Audio)
Radio Radio, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 August 5
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 53-54 (Audio)
Blackwell, Otis, at Club Lorelei, New York City, 1979 August 9
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 55-56 (Audio)
Patti Smith Group, Calderone Concert Hall, Hempsted, New York, 1979 August 10
Location:Box: 11, Cassette: 57-60 (Audio)
Patti Smith Group, CBGB, New York City, 1979 August 11
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 1-3 (Audio)
Radio Radio, with David Byrne, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 August 12
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 4-6 (Audio)
The Cramps, Club 57, New York City, 1979 August 18
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 7-8 (Audio)
Fashion at Club 57, New York City, 1979 August 19
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 9 (Audio)
Radio Radio, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 August 19
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 10-11 (Audio)
VHF, Hurrah's, New York City, 1979 August 24
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 12-13 (Audio)
Laughing Dogs, Great Guildersleeves, New York City, 1979 August 25
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 14-15 (Audio)
Radio Radio, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 August 26
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 16-17 (Audio)
Rock Against Racism benefit, Max's Kansas City, New York City, 1979 August 26
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 18-19 (Audio)
The Buzzcocks, The The, and Gang of Four at Club 57, New York City, 1979 September 1
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 20-23 (Audio)
B-52's, Club 57, New York City, 1979 September 6
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 24 (Audio)
The Heartbreakers, Max's Kansas City, New York City, 1979 September 7
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 25-26 (Audio)
Radio Radio, WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 September 9
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 27-30 (Audio)
Mission of Burma at Hotel Diplomat, New York City, 1979 September 15
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 31 (Audio)
Lloyd, Richard, at CBGB, New York City, 1979 September 15
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 32-33 (Audio)
The Clash, Palladium, New York City, 1979 September 21
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 34-35 (Audio)
Helen Wheels Band, CBGB, New York City, 1979 September 21
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 36-37 (Audio)
Voidoids, CBGB, New York City, 1979 September 28
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 38 (Audio)
The Rattlers at Max's Kansas City, New York City, 1979 September 28
Location:Box: 12, Cassette: 39 (Audio)
WPIX-FM radio shows, New York City, 1979 October-1979 December
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 1-24 (Audio)
Box: 12, Cassette: 40-55 (Audio)
Flirt at Max's Kansas City, New York City, 1979 October 27
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 25 (Audio)
Pop, Iggy, My Father's Place, Roslyn, N.Y., 1979 November 4
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 26 (Audio)
Student Teachers, CBGB, New York City, 1979 November 10
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 27 (Audio)
Talking Heads, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, N.J., 1979 November 17
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 29-30 (Audio)
The Cramps, My Father's Place, Roslyn, N.Y., 1979 November 20
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 31-32 (Audio)
Zappa, Frank, DJ on WPIX-FM, New York City, 1979 November 22
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 33-38 (Audio)
The Lords at CBGB, New York City, 1979 November 28
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 39 (Audio)
The Contortions, Max's Kansas City, New York City, 1979 November 30
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 40 (Audio)
U.K. Subs at CBGB, New York City, 1979 December 2
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 41-42 (Audio)
Richard Lloyd Quartet, CBGB, New York City, 1979 December 9
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 43-46 (Audio)
Bad Brains at CBGB, New York City, 1979 December 25
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 47 (Audio)
Maroons at CBGB, New York City, 1979 December 25
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 48-49 (Audio)
John Cale Band, CBGB, New York City, 1979 December 28-1979 December 31
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 50-52 (Audio)
VHF, CBGB, New York City, 1979 November 16
Location:Box: 13, Cassette: 28 (Audio)
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ha, that looks like a good list. ...

LR: But anyway, I was, I was, John, I was telling them about Rolling Stone and my great concern for good reviews, as I'm sure, like, they panned my latest album.
(door squeaks)
JC: What, again?

funny to read lester bangs' bells review a couple months later:
Lou Reed is a prick and a jerkoff who regularly commits the ultimate sin of treating his audience with contempt. He's also a person with deep compassion for a great many other people about whom almost nobody else gives a shit. I won't say who they are, because I don't want to get too schmaltzy, except to emphasize that there's always been more to this than drugs and fashionable kinks, and to point out that suffering, loneliness and psychic/spiritual exile are great levelers.

The Bells isn't merely Lou Reed's best solo LP, it's great art. Everybody made a fuss over Street Hassle, but too many reviewers overlooked the fact that it was basically a sound album: brilliant layers of live and studio work in a deep wash of bass-obsessive noise. Most of the songs were old, and not very good, with a lot of the same old cheap shots.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-bells-19790614#ixzz2Lk3RYMOY
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People always turn the volume up when they lack songs. Look at jamc, mbv, sonic youth and southoaw grammar (moz having learnt the lesson of KU). I like noise if done right.

Wow, Tyler, thanks. And here I thought nobody liked The Bells until ILX decided to rescue it. A heretofore underacknowledged moment in the Lou/Lester brouhaha.

i still sorta struggle with the bells -- i think the songs and sounds are good, but lou's vocals are so strange on there.

I haven't listened to it in forever but man even when I was a Lou fiend and loved even Sally Can't Dance I still thought The Bells was garbage.

See what you are saying Tyler, but at least he still trying to sing a recognizable tune and mostly succeeding, unlike some of the formless bellowing he might indulge in with later efforts.

god this WPIX set is so awesome, if this was on an LP I would buy it

the comic from whence the cover of take no prisoners came from
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOU-REED-AND-THE-VELVET-UNDERGROUND-ROCK-COMIX-SPANISH-ORIGINAL-1976-/171041743722?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27d2e1e36a

wtf

man 14-year-old me is spitting into the future toward present-day me's face for not immediately buying that but little dude I don't really need it ok

http://24.media.tumblr.com/6c6ce56933a530ce207508ef5d6cd1b0/tumblr_mmwr8g1jKM1qzy30io1_500.png
haha it is pretty freaky

kind of crazy that that was produced in Spain, which just a year prior was still under the boot of Franco

and then all of a sudden the people of Spain were under the shiny leather boot of Lou

mmhmm

Warhol's diary, 23 Sept '79

I went to church and then went home. I glued myself together and Curley picked me up and we went to 42nd Street to the WPIX radio station for The John Ogle Show. I’d invited Walter Steding to play his magic violin on the air, he was good and he sounded intelligent when he was interviewed. Then Lou Reed rushed in and said how glad he was to see us. Lou told me one of his dachshunds had had an operation on his back. I told him to come down to the Mudd Club with us later because they were having a Dead Rock Stars Night, and he said he would go as himself, but I told him he looks too good for that now.

the original little dog?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hQTZryl_3Rk/USTS5pu-emI/AAAAAAAABIg/5-RS26-ApMw/s400/Lou_Doggie2.jpg

awww

singing softly: "My small dog he want what I got / Wants to run his tongue over my hot spot."

"all the time he shows up late.."

"so do you, Lou!"

Listening to this the other day, I don't think I'd never noticed this little exchange before (first bit is a line Lou decides to sing in "Waiting for My Man" btw)

Just saw one of those pictures of Sigourney Weaver in which I could swear she looks exactly like Lou Reed.

i am writing about this album for my EMP presentation, so i look forward to reading over this thread for non-jokey insight.

I'm afraid that will have to be punched in retroactively.

Get bent yr doing the Lord's work

yeahhhh excited to read your EMP piece!
still waiting for the complete bottom line 1978 take no prisoners sessions box set. i want it all.

getting reissued as part of this: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reeds-last-project-a-box-set-of-remastered-cds-due-this-fall-20160517

still waiting for the complete bottom line 1978 take no prisoners sessions box set. i want it all.

GIVE IT TO US!!!

was just informed that today is the anniversary of the first night of Take No Prisoner's recording at the Bottom Line in 1978. HAPPY TAKE NO PRISONERS DAY

http://ia601406.us.archive.org/25/items/LouReed1978-05-18BottomLineNYC/LouReed1978-05-18BottomLineNYC.mp3?cnt=0

Celebrate by insulting someone from Wyoming!

oh shit, here's that complete WPIX 1978 broadcast -- never heard it all before! GREAT LOU CONTENT. https://soundcloud.com/david-marin-7/lou-reed-w-joe-piasek-wpix-fm-interview-8-5-78

Wait with The Jeweler and all?

nah, this is a different, earlier WPIX broadcast. he plays sandy denny, of all thing!

alt version of "street hassle" he plays is a good argument for aforementioned Take No Prisoners: Radio Brooklyn Expanded Edition box set

Hello?
Yeah

classic.
with all the feeding back phones, they could've done an impromptu metal machine music.

ooh will have to listen to this later

pretty amazing german language cover of "walk on the wild side" included

Yes, and all binaurally recorded!
(xp)

i like how lou perks up when the caller starts talking about binaural stereo setups.

Right, exactly.

If one of the callers had really known some obscure doo wop trivia that would have been a distant second

That was the other radio show, some young kid said how much he likednthatvstuff..

Christmas has come early.

Yeh

So "Lou Reed: Live" (aka R&R Animal Pt.2) isn't in the set?

some have speculated that it is being folded into R&R Animal? which would make sense. no Live in Italy either, though that was always an import...

man Lou really liked "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin"

Me too. Guitar playing is pure Lou.

this radio recording sounds like it's ... kinda slow? Like the tape speed is not right? The Dion song and Gimme Gimme Good Lovin both sounded like they're slower/in a different key than they should be. (I'm just listening to this whole thing now).

i think the tape speed kinda wobbles a little bit throughout.
xp it really is! though i wouldn't have really realized it til i heard him playing it on the WPIX shows.

It's pretty much what I liked about "Gimme Gimme Some Good Times Good' Lovin'" the first time I heard it, which was not yesterday.

lol @ "I'm not a map"

Yes! That was Lou at his most Louist.

Go write a bible

Your mother, your father, your cocksucking brother, they don't mean shit to me

We were driving around the other wknd and "Walk On the Wild Side" from this came up on the 'pod. At abt the 11 minute point my wife stopped and said "Wait, is he still playing the same song? Wait has even played the song? This has been going on for 11 minutes?"

Different album but https://damienlove.com/writing/babe-im-on-fire-the-making-of-lou-reeds-street-hassle/

Thanks to tipsy mothra for link

no, sorry, lovebug coleman

I never said I was ept!

HI DERE

sorry we were late but we were just tuning

That’s pathetic

It's an elecric fire, man, you plug it in...

https://damienlove.com/writing/im-set-free-the-making-of-lou-reeds-take-no-prisoners-an-oral-history/

I'd like to send this one out to Lou and Rachel, and all the kids at P.S. 192.

you're almost as boring as you look, thanks

Great article just there btw

RELEASE THE TAPES!

yo the SECOND song on that '78 WFMU broadcast is the SECOND track i put on a mix a few days of "songs that sound like oh sweet nuthin" for that one thread

it's dion "your own back yard"

Cool.

I think John Cale's "The Jeweler" was played before that home tape was rolling, but haven't checked in a while.

Great article just there btw
That guy has some good stuff on his blog besides the two links posted here, including more Lou, like this one: https://damienlove.com/writing/through-the-ringer-lou-reeds-the-bells/

"Andre Previn!"
"Who?"
"He's French."

lol

Thread of missing Οὖτις

attn: lou-heads, i just started a bootleg Lou listening project today ... https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/619460181736161280/lou-reed-the-robinson-apartment-new-york-city