Lou Reed RIP

One Trick Pony is great

Not Bowie's finest hour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeL5RcbpiM8

You guys, please don't post that really cringeworthy Elvis Costello/Lou video...

I don't mind their "Queen Bitch" and WL-WH at all.

Bowie and Reed's that is

the lou/vu tracks i put on my podcast tonight. didn't expect this to go in such a sad direction. "adventurer" is happy tho i guess.

Lou Reed - Wind Coda
Lou Reed - Halloween Parade
Velvet Underground - Some Kinda Love
Lou Reed - Downtown Dirt
Lou Reed - Andy's Chest
Lou Reed - How Do You Think It Feels
Lou Reed - Kill Your Sons
Lou Reed - The Bells
Velvet Underground - Here She Comes Now
Lou Reed - Bottoming Out
Lou Reed - Ride Into The Sun
Lou Reed - Think It Over
Lou Reed - Adventurer
Velvet Underground - Foggy Notion (Quine Tapes/Family Dog version)

This is a Nico song about Andy performed by John, nothing to do with Lou, but perhaps everything to do with Lou:

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

He was very open, he would say, "Lars, I love you", and text me a heart.

aw

. Ten minutes before the crash on European Son, you can hear Reed signpost his love of Motown by opening There She Goes Again with a musical quotation from Martha and the Vandellas' Hitch Hike.

That means it is right then.

Admittedly, that would depend on which record Lou had, Marvin's or Martha's.

Maybe he got it from The Rolling Stones version, like Johnny Marr.

open letter from Laurie Anderson - http://easthamptonstar.com/Obituaries/20131031/Lou-Reed

Crying.

taken down?

I think the site's just being slammed.

yeah I imagine so

c/p?

Thinking the same thing, for the good of the intranetz.

For Lou Reed
| October 31, 2013 - 2:15pm

To our neighbors:

What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.

Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we’re city people this is our spiritual home.

Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!

Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.

Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.

— Laurie Anderson
his loving wife and eternal friend

Thanks M.

can hear her saying that

Lou's last public appearance...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di_2U23NA6A&feature=youtu.be

Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.

Sunday morning, praise the dawning
It's just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning, sunday morning
It's just the wasted years so close behind

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Sunday morning and I'm falling
I've got a feeling I don't want to know
Early dawning, sunday morning
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Sunday morning
Sunday morning
Sunday morning

A guy I know did this.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Pumpkin_Lou_zps30e3c13e.jpg

Aaaand I've got a new Facebook profile pic.

Some reminiscences of Lou by Hoboken musicians:

http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2013/10/progenitors_of_hobokens_music.html

I love the image of Lou doing tai chi on his last day

That obit is so simple & beautiful, man I'm getting sad all over again.

. Ten minutes before the crash on European Son, you can hear Reed signpost his love of Motown by opening There She Goes Again with a musical quotation from Martha and the Vandellas' Hitch Hike.

I always figured it was Marvin Gaye's Hitch-Hike by way of that Rolling Stones song that likewise nicked the same riff and whose name I am forgetting.

beautiful letter from laurie a.

The Rolling Stones song would be "Hitch hike". It's on Out of our Heads.

Only two bands ever heard the Rolling Stones' "Hitch Hike" but every one of them wrote a song that nicked the intro.

Should someone tip off this Etsy vulture trying to cash in on Lou's passing that something is very wrong with this shirt?

http://www.etsy.com/listing/167282687/rip-lou-reed-shirt-silver-shirt?ref=sr_gallery_5&ga_search_query=reed&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all

"Velvet Men" seems like a tipoff that it's maybe not genuinely accidental

Singles Jukebox reviews an unexpected miscellany of Lou tunes: http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=8234

I've always wondered about famous folk who get called tai chi masters or black belts or some other top level of something. So this is interesting:

http://www.examiner.com/article/lou-reed-a-highly-celebrated-tai-chi-practitioner-and-promoter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNSQ-R_HxTM

By the eighties people who liked music assumed you would have heard and liked the VU

By the nineties the VU were canonized. That's when I started seeing people actually owning their albums or their stuff on sale at Best Buy or Camelot.

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If we're talking about the critical canon, though, I'd say VU were firmly in it by the early eighties if not earlier. VU & Nico was already being included in lists of greatest/most important albums by then, and anyone looking for godparents of punk/new wave was pointed in their direction.

Watched the Transformer doc the other day and this clip transformed (sorry, I had to) the way I listen to 'Andy's Chest'. I've never really picked up on devotion of those lyrics. I'm gonna miss him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf4UItTOpZo

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/opinion/sunday/when-backstage-was-no-big-deal.html?_r=0

I've been listening to "The Bells" a lot, cos of Disco Mystic. Cool, weird album!

xp just another month at the Boston Tea Party:

http://www.allmanbrothersband.com/gallery/abb/stuff/memorabiliaposters/allmans%20boston%20tea%20party%2069.jpg

(incidentally I work just a block away from the building that used to house the BTP)

http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/uploadedImages/articles/277_The-VU-on-View411065.jpg

proto twee

proto twee

This must have been a mindmelter...
http://images.wolfgangsvault.com/the-velvet-underground/poster/memorabilia/BTP680322-PO.jpg

that May BTP calendar above is just unbelievable

And the shows were probably like 5 dollars at most.

depends what show

The Who were probably more expansive

"ehhh, I saw Led Zeppelin last night, gonna skip their 2nd night and save my money for the Velvet Underground"

i wondr if there were fans of both at the time...

Nico recorded with both Jimmy Page and the Velvet Underground, was she a fan of either?