Lou Reed RIP

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).

I enjoyed it's trashiness but it just isn't well written

Only five hundred people attended EMP 2015, but every one of them managed to have a conversation with Will Hermes about his upcoming Lou Reed bio.

haha. is there a publication date for that thing or what? this year? next year?

was no more fraught
Oh, please. The next thing you are going to tell us is that his real name wasn't Louis 'Butch' Firbank.

Wasn't it?

Alex Skolnick from Testament has a good piece on LULU
http://alexskolnick.com/?p=2047

Finally saw that guy live last month after years of hearing about him. Interested to see what he has to say.

Set the Twilight Reeling is a great record

I was angry this morning, got the aggressions out through "Egg Cream" and then cooled off through "NYC Man" and now just enjoying all the small stories. I've a bit of aggression left for "Sex w/ parents". Some day I'll probably pay 70 euros for the vinyl.

"Sex w/ parents (motherfucker)" Lou was always hot on that one..

It's my favorite record b/w New Sensations and Ecstasy.

UNDAH THE WHEELS OF A CAR. ON CANAL STREET.

haha, gotta love his delivery