In Praise Of...Lou Reed "Take No Prisoners"

Tyler, my man, you've done it again!

It's always great to run into an old friend isn't? Maybe share a beer, tell a few jokes and swap stories about the old days, sharing those happy memories that never fail to put a smile on both your faces (by the way, is that a Christmas tree in the background?)

http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/image/43079765584

http://25.media.tumblr.com/9addb9d98d3d844534fda66626c8a72a/tumblr_mi4s3e8xqS1qzy30io1_1280.jpg

tyler, that sendspace link tried to install some horrible malware on my pc. just letting you know. 'easylife' or some shit.

Yeah, I packed it too.

sorry for the malware! sendspace kind of blows. it worked for other people i heard from... was the file that you ended up with a zip file called "WPIX"? Sendspace is weird -- it gives you a bunch of "Download" links, but the only one you want is the one that says: " Click here to start download from sendspace".

or try this? http://ow.ly/hKCRB

Yeah, I got the WPIX one.

bummerz. well, try the link i just posted?

"the Fonz, what is the Fonz?"

No, I mean I got it successfully. thanks anyway.

Kind of appropriate that Lou ca. 1979 would be trying to fuck with your computer

lol yes.
glad you got it. everyone in the world should hear this.
the live cale trax are amazing too -- i wonder if there's a whole recording of that show out there?
it is funny that cale and reed were on apparently pretty good terms at this point. maybe if they're not working together they can tolerate each other.

*malware attacks pc*

"Is that annoying?"

*more malware attacks pc*

metal machine malware

the live Cale tracks are kind of what I expected Cale's solo work to consist of. before I heard Church of Anthrax and Paris 1919 anyway. just full of angry howling.

this one is total proto-Velvets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in3c5t70C_s

(NOT Dion after all apparently?)

oh whoops, maybe not?
this one is interesting too -- proto-Antony, a Lou fave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMLjkIbDid8

recognized dude's voice from Hannah & Her Sisters tbh

oh is he in it? i don't know the dude. seems interesting, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3xumxEno8

hmm that's edited weird, not the complete scene he appears in

but yeah the club he was a regular at is the same club Woody Allen plays clarinet at every week

also btw how gay is this
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc187/boogiewoody/The%20Paragons%20meet%20The%20Jesters/Front.jpg

WPIX broadcast also discussed on these threads:
Search And Destroy: Lou Reed
John Cale S/D

Oops. I see the man himself posted the PIX link himself--I just put it in those other two unbeknownst of this one. Sorry!

Think this may have been the first time I heard "I Wonder Why" all those years ago. Awaiting the bizarre interchange with the caller discussed on the John Cale thread.

Funny how Lou was being more upfront about being gay ca 1979 and then, whoops, next thing you know, he's married! That's Lou for ya!

Everyone zinging Jimmy Carter in 1979 ;_;

Is there an open thread just for musician drop-ins to radio stations, taking calls & being kind of fun, pompy dickheads? <3 hearing these, especially the calls.

Funny how Lou was being more upfront about being gay ca 1979 and then, whoops, next thing you know, he's married! That's Lou for ya!

― Le petit chat est mort (Tom D.), Saturday, February 16, 2013 10:13 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Feel like he's just doing what he usually did, where he isn't saying "I'm gay/queer" but rather "So I was at this gay club dancing with a bunch of hunky sweaty guys all around me all of us appreciating each other's bodies and ..."

his future wife is there in the studio with him, too...

On another note, his name is Lewis Alan Reed, right? Where did the Louis "Butch" Firbank stuff come from?

Also, burning up precious minutes listening to this when I could be watching Hulu Criterions.

Ronald Firbank is a cult figure gay writer from the early 20th century, I assume he's just doing a hip namecheck there

"... that's what they say about disco - the lyrics are stupid and it's repetitious. Yeah, well, SO? What's wrong with that?"

Right on, Lou

Thought "DIsco Mystic" was ridiculous when I first heard it, but it has grown on me over the decades. Also something amusing about the fact that it doesn't really have a disco beat or a disco bass or guitar- the only thing that makes it disco is the words "disco mystic" being repeated over and over again.

It's like a throwback to his Pickwick Records days- "Hey, let me cash in on the disco craze."

"But don't spend too much effort writing the tune. We've got to record it fast and strike while the iron is hot. Time's a-wastin'"

Wait, do they actually have "The Jeweler" on this? I didn't hear it and see it in the listings.

Lou: "We were talking about Einstein's brain, E= what? Energy, mc². What did that mean? It didn't mean the MC5, kids. What did mc² mean, John?"
John: "Mike Curb."
Lou: "Mike Curb. He won. He won. And he banned me on my own label when I wasn't even there to defend myself."

Oh, it must have been before the guy started recording. Lou mentions it when reading emails right before "I Wonder Why."

"I'd like to send this one out to Wayne at the Sunoco gas station in New Jersey."

"I'm 15"

Is this the man who sung "lonesome cowboy bill"?

xxxpost
Lou's so far ahead of everything and everyone, reading emails in 1979 ;-)

The live version of "Leaving it up to you" is incendiary

xpost No, that was Doug.

Won't be buying Squeeze then

Ha. Αnd ha, I typed "emails." Probably thought it too. Listener phone-ins.

And you are otm about that version of "Leaving It Up To You"

Yeah i was mystified by the email bit

That whole Cale mini-set is awesome. So the band as announced is
Allen Lanier, Bruce Brody, Ritchie Fliegler, Ivan Krall, and Jessie Chamberlain. Who is playing bass? Was John playing it at that time? Or one of those guitar players

It's in very much in the vein of his live performances at the time, ummmmmm, untrammelled. Pretty sure Tyler has already provided the bootlegs to confirm it too!

Also are there any more of these WPIX-FM 'Radio Radio' shows floating around, David Johansen, maybe, or Lou's archenemy, Xgau?