Lou Reed RIP

So, he directed this video without leaving NY, right?

was totally waiting for her to walk off the edge of that pier tbh

q: do artists have any control over releases a cover of a song they have written?

No, unless it's altered significantly. Unless the alteration is parody, which is covered by the laws of free speech.

ah right cheers.

i know tom waits has tried to suppress covers in the past, presumably even "straight" ones.

huh, really? i dunno, it seems like a weird thing to do -- having someone cover you song is easy money, right?

Yeah, but the particular cover that he blocked was for an advert.

Screaming Jay Hawkins did "Heartattack and Vine". It was still issued as a single tho.

Robert Smith blocked an e.p. by Terry Edwards, who did 3 cure songs with his trumpet.

I guess it was significantly different enough. Or maybe he was able to just be plain awkward to delay it coming out...

Tom Waits blocked Frito-Lay from having a fake Tom Waits do a fake Tom Waits song.

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yikes lou is looking old these days. also looking scary.

amphibian

also looks like my grandma!

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/1982_Blade_Runner/982BLR_Joe_Turkel_002.jpg

gollum with glasses

also: Show me some men who look like old lesbians!

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i guess she's doing another of lou's songs on this album?

i've been away from the board for the last week, but in case this hasn't been mentioned?
Exclusive: Metallica and Lou Reed Join Forces on New Album
It was an improbable match: Lou Reed's cutting-monotone voice and explicit stories of desire and despair, lashed to Metallica's apocalyptic charge. It is now a perfect fit. In a recent rapid series of sessions at Metallica's studio north of San Francisco, the New York king of avant-rock and the world's bestselling thrash-metal band have recorded a new studio album together that is unlike any either artist has made before. The record, not yet titled, features 10 songs composed by Reed with significant arrangement contributions by the band that suggest a raging union of his 1973 noir classic, Berlin, and Metallica's '86 crusher, Master of Puppets.


"A marriage made in heaven," Reed says in his first interview about the project, in the studio lounge during a break. "I knew it from the first day we played together: 'Oh, man, this is perfection, right in front of me.' "


"I don't think we've ever felt this free," Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich says, sitting next to Reed on a couch. "There's nothing that's totally outside of the boundary for us, nothing that feels like 'Oh, what happens if we go there?' The strength of us" – he gestures at Reed – "is it feels like we cannot land on a wrong place."


"They're bringing Metallica, with all that power," Reed confirms. "And because they're pretty sophisticated, wherever I go, they're still with me."


Reed and Metallica first played together in October 2009, at the 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts in New York. Ulrich, singer-guitarist James Hetfield, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo backed Reed on two of his classic songs. "We knew from then," Reed says, "that we were made for each other." He and the band first planned to cut an album of his older material, "fallen jewels that no one remembered," as Reed puts it. That changed a week before Reed showed up at Metallica's studio. He called the band, proposing a record of songs he'd written for Lulu, a theatrical production of stories by the German author Frank Wedekind, directed by Robert Wilson and currently running in Berlin.


"Lars and I listened to the stuff," Hetfield says of Reed's demos, "and it was like, 'Wow, this is very different.' It was scary at first, because the music was so open. But then I thought, 'This could go anywhere.' " Metallica started writing parts built from vocal rhythms and electronic patterns on the demos.


The result is at once unpredictable and viciously tight. "Pumping Blood" opens with a drone that breaks into a crunching march, goes into speed-metal gear and breaks into free-fall sections – all over seven minutes, cut live in one take. Another track, "Mistress Dread," features Reed singing across a relentless staccato riff played at manic velocity. "It doesn't feel like we're his backup band," Hammett claims. "It feels like we're a different band, in a situation we've never been in before." And, Trujillo notes, "it's making us a better band."


Metallica: Three Decades of Metal Mayhem

Ulrich says the album is "90 percent" finished. But there are no release plans yet. Reed does not have a record deal, and Metallica are no longer on Warner Bros. "We are free to go wherever," Ulrich says. "I'm obviously psyched for people to hear this, in whatever way we feel is right."


Hetfield has one condition. "I told Lou I want to be there when people hear it," he says, grinning. "I want to see their faces."

oh yeah, it was mentioned

this is just getting ridiculous with the revives now

Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

i've been away from the board for the last week, but in case this hasn't been mentioned?

(xpost obv)

Surprised PP didn't post Jackie Harvey image.

sorrrrry, i see it has been discussed extensively. anyway, RIP.

On that day no prisoners were taken

i wonder who's ass Lou Reed thinks he could kick

I have been made to understand that his music is infused with the New Yawk attitude.

So that's something to reckon with.

Plus his tai chi is fairly bad-ass at this point, if you ask the women from the Senior Center that he does push hands with

I notice he had a question and answer forum on his website - I wonder how long before he got so freakin sick of answering questions.
Plus no one can ever work with him for long before they have a falling out - whats his problem

Now, this may be sheer projection on my part, but I think he is still p.o.'ed about the, what's the word? oh yeah, "shit-ass" level of carbonation in his Diet Slice that he ordered in the early nineties at nathan's

were you the server or witness to this shitass declaration?

ok, i'm not sure how much personal detail i should go into, but remember that movie like water for chocolate, about the irascible pushing-forty mouse who becomes a godiva addict against the backdrop of an erotic thriller setting in bogota? well, it was like that but replace the magical realism sense of whimsy with garden variety despair in a friendly's restaurant circa '91. all the reeses pieces in the world are not going to make that sundae any brighter. lou was wearing a leather jacket. i can tell you that. with confidence. he had some generic brand of reeses pieces bedazzled onto the arms and shoulders iirc

Checked out Lou's Q&A page.

He answers with great forebearance from 2007 to 2008, but there's 6 pages after that to the current day without any answers.

I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time...

lol - he was like WTF this sucks why did I think tihs would be a good idea

dell - did you become erect?

i'm going to be honest with you-- after they had that sea-change in uniforms at friendly's circa early '89 i have never achieved tumescence in one of their restaurants, try as i might have

pizza hut is a different story i guess tho. something about the introduction of the "hand-tossed" concept just got my blood flowing

also it was around the same time they started adding msg to their oregano shakers, so you can likely guess what that added up to

AHA! SO Lou Reed was WORKING at Friendlies - that makes sense, he was hard up for cash that year

yeh he tried to introduce a "songs for drella" patty melt, but the mgmt weren't having any of it

"Song for Patty Melt" would have sold more copies

yeah, as likely as not

he did achieve some unsightly rash from standing too close to the steam coming out of the electronic dishwashers, though

Then he sued them for stealing his Sundae Morning idea, and that was the end of that.

pretty much, yeah

The person who made this Happy Ending had no pride:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.slashfood.com/media/2009/05/icecream5.jpg

HE did get the idea for "Egg Cream" there which was originally titled "Lookin' at the Shift Manager's Ass While I Make Sundaes"

yah could be just me but imho a comely derriere is fairly approximated by the just the right proportion of seltzer and chocolate syrup

If I recall Van Morrison also worked there at the time as the dishwasher and they would have argument allot and try to out-do each other. Morrison could never make a good enough "happy ending"

yeah well when you hand the job to the wrong fellow it just gets messy, like spilling an egg cream all over your distressed khaki jorts. truly, what can one do?

Have a Danish

one time lou lined up all these egg creams and then went around to all his co-workers, pointing to his handiwork and doing his best "mr. gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL" gipper impression

yes, Arle Gourndon was not pleased - she was the night manager - a woman in her 50's , led a life of many defeats, one divorce, and addicted to hostess Ding DOngs

smooth creamy filling . the urge. it's a disease, ppl just don't get it