Lou Reed RIP

Need it be added that the guy was also silent film-star handsome in his day.

And that his shade flickers through the aperture at screenings of Zelig?

Which just led me by a commodius vicus to this: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/115016/lou-reeds-rabbi-2?all=1

If that's too compare-and-contrast for you, you can just go directly here: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/74715/growing-pains

And then read the bio at the Poetry Foundation page: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/delmore-schwartz
and then this poem: http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/delmore-schwartz/tired-and-unhappy-you-think-of-houses/

And the bio over there as well: http://www.poemhunter.com/delmore-schwartz/biography/
OK, I'll stop. Sorry it took a while.

Hm. That last website is kind of cheesy. Some stuff on it though.

Basically what it seems to add up to was that the guy was a poet's poet's poet's poet.

Holy shit, just finished reading the princeton.edu re Broyard. I'd heard about some of that, but not in depth, incl.lingering questions (balanced by many accounts of the price he and others quite evidently paid). Leave it to Gates! I'll have to get his whole book, and see how this fits in. Thanks for all these links.

Sure. But Gates didn't write a book, just the article, as far as I know, Broyard's daughter wrote one pretty recently called One Drop. Believe she was annoyed that Gates wrote the article because she thought he was going to leave it to her to do it.

I took it as the one piece about Broyard in a collection of essays and/or profiles, since the site cites:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "The Passing of Anatole Broyard." In Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man. New York: Random House, 1997. Pp. 180-214.

Yeah, now I see references to O.J. and other subjects in its reviewers' descriptions---gotta get it.

Lou Reed Remembered will air at 9pm on BBC Four this Sunday (December 15) and will include contributions from Reed's former Velvet Underground bandmates Mo Tucker and Doug Yule plus Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore as well as Boy George and Debbie Harry.

Berlin guitarist Steve Hunter, novelist Paul Auster and photographer Mick Rock will also speak about Reed while Trash actress Holly Woodlawn, referenced in the opening lyric of The Velvet Underground's 'Walk on the Wild Side', will also appear.
Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/lou-reed/74328#PvwITO08ZC0xUx98.99

Can you spot what's wrong with the above? NME did not.

"Walk on the Wild Side" was by the Stooges

Paul Auster didn't play on Loaded

Yay, Doug Yule

Thurston Moore isn't in Sonic Youth?

*facepalm* got it now.

Still, a bit better than the Evening Standard having "Jerry Dammers sang about Nelson Mandela"

Lou Reed Remembered will air at 9pm on BBC Four this Sunday (December 15) and will include contributions from Reed's former Velvet Underground bandmates Mo Tucker and Doug Yule plus Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore as well as Boy George and Debbie Harry

Where was Doug Yule then? I was like, "... Dougie must be up next... is that him... when's Dougie coming on..." And Victor Fucking Bockris was on it! Almost blubbed at Mo's bit though, I must admit.

I missed the first half but was John Cale featured at all? Hope it gets repeated when I can see it.

No, didn't expect him to be on it anyway.

If you want Doug's take (from a few years ago), you really should read this. He went up a few in my estimation for this..

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/hate/2000/12/advent-calendar-of-filth11-doug-yule/

apparently Paul Simon sang "Pale Blue Eyes" at the memorial the other night

would've liked to hear that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ-FLp9YVd0

He introduced it with "Here's a song I wrote in tribute to Lou."

all the vids are compiled here:
http://www.daysofthecrazy-wild.com/?p=3166

awesome thx!

that simon clip is very sweet

bbc doc was fantastic. it's still on iplayer for 4 more days.

at that memorial, they played lou's original 1965 pickwick demo for "heroin" too! never bootlegged afaik.

WANT

PSSST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Wie9U7ggM&t=28m10s

Moe's looking old in that doc. Hadn't seen her since the VU reunion.

Can't stream the BBC doc in the US but found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZOoxCd43X8

you can break the region lockout on the BBC player with a Chrome add on called "Hola" - easy and works well

http://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/lou-reeds-estate-selling-lot-gear-ebay/

http://stores.ebay.com/Lou-Reed-Archive

this was interesting and very sad

https://medium.com/cuepoint/a-family-in-peril-lou-reed-s-sister-sets-the-record-straight-about-his-childhood-20e8399f84a3

that picture at the top is pretty chilling, when you read the caption for it (at the very bottom of the article), knowing his history

Pretty moving, poor Lou.

My mother came into my room and told me that they thought he might have schizophrenia. She said that the doctors told her it was because she had not picked him up enough as an infant, but had let him cry in his room. She sobbed. “The pediatrician told me to do that! He said that’s how you teach a baby to go to sleep.” It was a belief and a burden she took to her grave.

so sad, god that poor woman.

yeah, that jumped out at me too.

my dad was a social worker who dealt with a lot of schizophrenic teenagers and I remember him bitterly complaining about the shit shrinks dumped on the mothers of schizophrenics - and this was in the 80's, must have been much worse in the 60's.

I had no idea he'd gone through ECT or any of that. Sad.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/20/david-bowie-lou-reed-masterpiece-metallica-lulu

the problem is "reading" the lyrics

Will Hermes told me this weekend that according to a number of sources Reed's relationship with is dad was no more fraught than any father-son relationship and were actually quite close. When I saw the photo of his parents in that terrible Victor Bockris bio in the nineties, it seemed obvious to me from the body language that they were OK.

Twenty-five years from now, you’re going to have millions of people claiming they owned the record or loved it when it came out,

lol Lars

that Bockris bio is a mess even when the material is compelling. too bad Reed hasn't gotten a decent bio (probably never will at this point)

Hermes is writing one.

This article from Lou's ex-wife Kronstad was also mentioned over on ilm

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/bettye-kronstad-speaks-for-the-first-time-about-her-marriage-to-lou-reed-fame-is-a-fiend-it-turns-people-into-monsters-10166659.html

yeah, cautiously optimistic about the hermes Lou bio. bockris one is just lame in a lot of ways (even though i loved it when it came out).