Lou Reed RIP

Lou Reed appeared at the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert at Madison Square Garden, October 16, 1992. Although "Tangled Up In Blue" was allegedly considered, Reed covered the relatively obscure "Foot Of Pride", a 1983 song finally released in 1991. It was widely praised as one of the highlights of the evening.

"I chose 'Foot Of Pride' because I just got back from an eight-month tour. Once a day I would listen to it and just fall down laughing. I always go out and get the latest Dylan album. Bob Dylan can turn a phrase, man. Like the album Down In The Groove, his choice of songs. 'Going Ninety Miles an Hour Down A Dead End Street' - I'd give anything if I could have written that. . .

"That was as much fun as I could ever have, as much fun as anyone could legally have."

yeah, lou's foot of pride is great. gives me chills. they should have done a duet at some point! ah, well.

punk magazine #1 interview w/ lou reed - worth hunting around for a copy of? i was surprised it wasn't easily locatable online

they were only a year apart age-wise. dylan a year older.

I was on that Tower autograph line too, Redd.

Did you go to the Film Forum later? Was that when it was still on Watts Street?

the byron coley obit is pretty good

heh i don't know, but it was. I got Iggy and the Ramones too, prob also at Tower. xp

that tatters clip is a+ thanks scott

This story is great: https://www.facebook.com/coveredwithstars/posts/10201200272501581

https://twitter.com/ValEKilmer/status/395030630586523648

late to the pile-on but Alfred that obit was fuckin lovely

If you have 75 minutes to spare...
Lou Reed - American Masters bio/doc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjPuF-CYuic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awKdDIw504E

late to the pile-on but Alfred that obit was fuckin lovely

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl

thanks!

By a "pointless" reunion tour, you obv meant bcz the VU didn't play New York.

or Hialeah.

I always thought Lou thought Dylan was the bee's knees like everyone else in the 60's. "What Goes On" in particular struck me as very Dylan-like. "Baby be good, do what you should" just imagine Bob Dylan singing that.

By a "pointless" reunion tour, you obv meant bcz the VU didn't play New York.

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't find the exact quote, but I seem to remember the only thing Cale and Reed agreed on for the US leg of the tour (which was obviously cancelled when they fell out again) was that they wouldn't play New York. Reed said something like, "Fuck that place; they didn't want us then, so they don't get to see us now."

Hey Lou, I wanna boogie wit choo, I wanna boogie wit choooaaooowwww

Baby be gooooood
Do watcha shouuuuuld

Well, at least they played in Kansas, that time..

(actually, srsly, Why is Max's called "Kansas City")

According to http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2009/03/maxs-kansas-city-new-yorks-celebrity.html?m=1

The mysterious name purportedly comes from one of Ruskin's more famous clients from the Ninth Circle, poet Joel Oppenheimer . According to a documentary on Max's Kansas City, Oppenheimer heard Ruskin wanted to open a steakhouse and claims, "When I was a kid, all the steakhouses had Kansas City on the menu because the best steak was Kansas City-cut, so I thought it should be 'something Kansas City.'"

Although people have suspected the 'Max' comes from fellow poet Max Finstein, Oppenheimer claims a more logical origin. "Wouldn't you eat at a place called Max's? I said, 'Mickey, believe me, it's Max's Kansas City.' Two days later, he called back again and said, 'I don't know why, but I mentioned the name to some people, and they all loved it.'"

Great promo photo of Lou rocking the back-to-front trousers look, a look that sadly never caught on afaik.

https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q73/s480x480/1236804_10151878793040953_858584813_n.jpg

http://s2.dmcdn.net/e0SE/160x120-0CT.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1ZzIx3X.jpg

http://www.maggiesfarm.it/talking156d.jpg

I wore back-to-front trousers one day in 1980. There were witnesses.

Reed said something like, "Fuck that place; they didn't want us then, so they don't get to see us now."

Too bad the pricks didn't know half the haters had died in the interim. Still I would've traveled to see em, maybe.

I don't understand the whole "asshole or not" thing when a star dies. I'm a big fan of many jerks, and a friend of mine has been in two of the worst movies I've ever seen.

my friend matt krefting is THE number one lou fan i know and this is really good and sweet:

http://kreftingmoondawn.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/how-do-you-think-it-feels-and-when-do-you-think-it-stops/

That Krefting-piece is beautiful. The Letterman-performance he mentions was incredible!

yeah, i esp enjoyed the pizza place coda. never read so many obits for the same person.

from the electrical audio boards:

"In the mid- and late-Nineties, my wife worked at a place owned by a guy named Tony. Tony is a famous artist, and is/was good friends with Lou Reed (as well as a wide variety of other personalities). Aside from being his master printer, my wife's responsibilities included answering the phone when Tony wasn't around. She was always terrified that it might be Lou Reed calling, as even Tony would say that Lou was a difficult person and hard to talk to.

So the phone rings and my wife answers. Long pause. "Is Tony there?"

"Sorry, he's not here. Can I take a message for him?"

Long pause.

"Yeah. This is Lou. Say, I just got my wife these doves. I dunno what to feed these fucking things. Does Tony know what I'm supposed to feed these fucking doves?"

"Hi Lou, I don't know, I'll ask Tony to call you when he gets in."

"Do you think they want some steak? I've got some meat. I'll see if they want some meat. Have Tony call me."

Lou bought Laurie some doves and then fed them meat.

Resquiat, sir."

I wanna talk to that Reed, man, he threw a dove at his Laurie.

Herbie Flowers on composing the "wild side" bass line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBXUP5GqYJs

^ blew my mind. I always assumed it was two overdubbed acoustic basses, not an acoustic and a Fender Jazz.

thats great.

I wonder what Herbie Flowers makes of Can I Kick It

So, older people, did "I Love You, Suzanne" and "No Money Down" get daytime MTV play?

MTV staged/taped for later airing a series of concert shows in '84-85 called "Rock Influences," and Reed headlined the show I saw on the New Sensations tour. NYC theme; openers included Jim Carroll, and Run-D.M.C., who got booed off the stage in about 10 minutes. (Passaic NJ, def not by the ppl who lived there)

Lou Bega insists that Lou Reed died, not Lou Bega

i do think there's a huge swath of people who think of lou reed as some guy who had one memorable ditty (walk on the wild side) once upon a time, like he was david essex or something.

listening to new york, remembering that WXRT played the shit out of this, deep cuts included, not just when it came out but for a few years after. in 93 I had a English professor who insisted upon playing songs from this and discussing them like poetry and the experience was so embarrassing that I never thought I'd come back to the album. it's not bad really.

there's this whole thing about lou being a prick to journalists but if you read his Invisible Jukebox in the wire he comes across as like this affable excitable nerd "omg this miles record!!" and it made me lose all sympathy for any interviewer that he ever treated like shit cause like, all he wanted to do was talk about records! And surely this was plain! and if you can't do that, you don't deserve the job.

yeah, he only got pissed off when people would ask questions about his public image, or how he felt about how certain of records were "perceived" by different sorts of audiences, etc. after forty-odd years journalists should have gotten the gist.

Also bristled at questions about his personal life. Presumably because he was smart enough to know that shit didnt matter.

i do think there's a huge swath of people who think of lou reed as some guy who had one memorable ditty (walk on the wild side) once upon a time, like he was david essex or something.

heh in the UK we used to have this carcrash called "the culture show" and I remember the host flirting w reed and basically asking tough questions like "why are you so great" and "why do your toes taste so nice" and at the end of the interview lou said "just so you know, there is now one english journalist I like". The scoundrel!

From earlier this year, and worth noting:

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/rachel_lou_reeds_transsexual_muse

but Redd, we're in New York.

I was just about to ask why is Rachel such a big unknown this far on.

thanks for that Ned