Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

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lars is the best

Lou and band will perform material from Reed’s entire cannon of songs ranging from the Velvet Underground to his recent Metallica collaborative album LULU.
what a radical concept -- he'll play his greatest hits and some songs from his latest album!

Last night's set in Amsterdam

Brandenburg Gate
Heroin
Waiting for the Man
Senselessly Cruel
The View
Mistress Dread
Street Hassle
Cremation
Think It Over
Walk On the Wild Side
Sad Song
Junior Dad
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Sweet Jane

It was awesome, except for it being a seated event (but then again, that's why I was able to take notes on the setlist). I've still not heard a single note from Lulu but based on last night I should remedy that asap (album was not available at the marketing booth when I arrived) - man I loved those songs, esp. "The View" (great delivery by Lou) and Junior Dad. Vocals very weak/false at the start, but they improved later on. Even though he can barely sing anymore, the power of his voice is at times impressive. Guitar skills were left to the 2/3 other guitarists (loved the band, Joan As Policewoman was in there too) and I got the feeling that they killed Lou's output at the mixing board at times. More bandleader than guitarplayer.

First four songs were half of the performance! Both "Heroin" and "Waiting.." went on for 20 odd minutes, didn't feel the former that much, the latter was fantastic. The sax player played a prepared saxophone that made some incredible artifical noises which I didn't really like most of the time but I was so impressed by his stamina during "Waiting.." during which he played the same two-bar riff the piano/keyboard does throughout the song. 20 minutes!

"Street Hassle" opened the second section of the show, which was way more 'easy on the ears' than the first (as you can guess from the setlist) and for which most of the audience probably came (a few people left during the first hour and I saw quite some people being shocked/not able to process the Lulu stuff). "Street Hassle", "Cremation", "Sad Song" and "Junior Dad" were the highlights of the second hour. Fun night! Lou had fun too. And loved us, he said.

sounds awesome, wish he'd consider taking this show to the states

There's probably some sort of Hal Wilner/Lulu/guest vocalist live-collab performance thingy on the way, I was told over the weekend (while in Amsterdam, as it happens). Won't be for a few months yet, though.

i would love to witness the power of lulu live

Depends on who they get to be the table.

Senselessly Cruel

hilarious deep cut to pull out - awesome

Mistress Dread
Street Hassle

This is a brilliant one-two punch!

yeah that's really brilliant.

man i wish i could have seen this!

There's some pretty good footage from the Luxembourg show from a couple of days ago on Youtube, eg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGDea3ZZ9zM

sax!

oh shiitttttttt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4_37MROrSg
lou is doing tai chi during this song. rules.

wtf is Lou wearing

also who is that band that is not metallica

3:37 KARATE PUNCH

different/more lyrics too

fireworks!

why do they applaud for the line "stars that never last forever/stars that burn out and disappear"? (other than the fact that lou rules)

i think because of the fireworks? not sure if that's the videographer being clever or whether the fireworks actually went off at that point. lou was probably like "whoa did i just create a new planetary system again?!"

I keep hoping this gets bumped due to the announcement of a sequel.

RE-LOU

Electric BoogaLULU

i had a weird thought when this got bumped, speculating what the interviews w/ metallica members are going to be like when lou dies

i was just wondering what they're going to be like when they have a new record to promote and every interviewer inevitably asks "sooooo what was up w/ Lulu." I imagine the answer will be something vague along the lines of "it was a great experience." and then a soundbite about how the new record is the best thing they've ever done.

here's another clue for you lames
the table was james

lol

hahaha

da croupier wins the internet today

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LouYe?

Lou looking a bit like Cale there.

Songs for Yella

oh i did "iced honey" at karaoke a few months ago. it ruled

You went to a Karaoke bar that had LULU tracks on file?

UR1NE

Brad that is amazing

I wish I got to curate an ATP, the first thing I would do is get Loutallica doing LULU in its entirety

You went to a Karaoke bar that had LULU tracks on file?

yep! place in midtown manhattan with a really unique book, every song from speak now, an unusual amount of radiohead b-sides, major stratovarius collection, etc.

new york city, city of dreams

Lulu karaoke....and ppl say this isn't the greatest country in the world anymore

Kind of upset by these purges of Lulu in the Democratic Party's platform this year.

No shit, maybe obamas saving it for when romney asks ”are you better off than you were 4 years ago?”

SMALL TOWN GIRLLLL

Romney: Are we better off than we were 4 years ago?
Obama: I want to see your suicide, I want to see you give it up, give it up, your life of reason

Ryan: I guess I would just put the onus and the burden on them to explain why they did all this, these purges of God.
Biden: The liquid exchange of our heart. Are we both dead now?

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Hoverhanding Lars.

JAMEZ: Damn, guys. Just got off the phone. Lou died this morning.

ROBT: Oh man! That old guy was really cool!

LARZ: His pontification in the studio about what matters when musicians record together is something I'm always going to remember and cherish and treasure, much like those pieces of art up there on the wall [points at wall]. He was a talented man who wrote many songs the world knows, and I can only hope that he feels no pain any longer.

ROBT: yeah.

JAMEZ: yeah.

KIRK: yeah.

[silence]

KIRK: Yeah, so um. Who was this Lou guy again?

i had a weird thought when this got bumped, speculating what the interviews w/ metallica members are going to be like when lou dies

― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:37 PM

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