Search And Destroy: Lou Reed

Obviously on a Lou Reed kick at the mo...just downloaded the Stockholm 74 boot...my god it's great...Lou backed by Funkadelic...love it...

Wait, what?

excellent piece alfred.

― (emphasis Treeship's) (Treeship),

thanks!

Listening to Metal Machine Music for the very first time at time moment. Way less scary, and perhaps even way more melodic, than I've been led to believe.

just don't play it for your dog.

Play it for someone else's.

my friend matt krefting is THE number one lou fan i know and this is really good and sweet:

http://kreftingmoondawn.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/how-do-you-think-it-feels-and-when-do-you-think-it-stops/

That's a good one indeed. Thanks for sharing it!

very nice, thanks scott

Krefting nailed it. Wonderful piece. He's easily the biggest Lou fan I know, and he was the first person I thought of when I heard of Lou's passing.

Lou backed by Funkadelic...love it...

Assuming this is hyperbole. I think there are a couple session guys (Prakash John?) who played for both Lou and Funkadelic in the 70s tho.

Yes, Prakash John played with both

listened to Set the Twilight Reeling today for the first time, it's really wonderful. like the sound of the band, and the songs are well built yet slightly eccentric.

Isn't it a good album? A shame the acclaim M&L got wasn't swapped for STTR's.

yeah it feels assured in a way...though he undercuts the autumnal feel of the album in a hilarious and very lou way by dropping sex with your parents (motherfucker) in the middle haha....but i really liked all the songs and the production (which has been a problem for post-peak lou) is really solid and not gimmicky in the least.

Yeah I was being slightly ironic but I don't remember 'Sweet Jane' being that funky and Michael Fanfara sounds like Bernie Worrell...a really great boot...

Went and looked up the setlist for the Bowery Ballroom show I saw. Yup, it was good.

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lou-reed/2003/bowery-ballroom-new-york-ny-2bd0c03a.html

matt's piece got huffpoed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-krefting/lou-reed_b_4178090.html

I saw that! So cool!

Woke up to this on Gawker just a bit ago.

I cried.

shit!

I wonder how much play "Halloween Parade" wil lget today... and if anyone else will get stopped by that "talkin' sp*c" line? Never heard that one on the street.

VV cover feature written by a bunch of anonymous newbies, but at least they reran their original review of VU&N:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/10/the_voice_1967_review_velvet_underground.php

there could even be some Lou costumes out tonight
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1002572_10152306206477729_1964649864_n.jpg

credit to Head Gardener at CaB

except that's tim curry? (i get the feeling i'm likely missing the point..)

Been re-listening to that WPIX show today. So great! I want Lou Reed to school me on doo-wop and early rock n roll.

Seeing as how that t-shirt of Hendrix with "Bob Marley" underneath it has proved to be a big seller, the new one with the pic of Iggy and "Lou Reed" underneath it is a shot to nowt, really.

http://s3.unlike.net/photos/0056/8649/kiss.jpg
http://www.roguemag.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Mumford-and-sons-logo.png

(Who has to die for this t-shirt to be a goer?)

is that a fake Ace Frehley?

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

In 1967, after a falling out with their mentor Andy Warhol, the Velvets moved their music to Boston, where they would play a hall on Berkeley Street called the Boston Tea Party. They’d do a few nights a week every couple months or so. You’d pay three bucks and hear them play two long sets. And almost no one came. There’d be maybe 40 people on a good night. And generally the same 40 people night after night, including one girl who always showed up in a wedding dress.

k-lassic interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z509KPb9cxE

Playing in front of a Syracuse University fraternity house in 1961 or 1962.
http://dailyorange.com/resize/602/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/11042013_N_LouReed_FilePhoto.jpg

From a recent article in the university's student newspaper, the Daily Orange. Favorite quote: “Lou was a prick."
http://dailyorange.com/2013/11/ill-be-your-mirror-lou-reeds-time-at-su-shapes-career-as-music-legend/

TBH I prefer:

"He’d be asleep under 300 pounds of pistachio nut shells, because Lou loved pistachios..."

in that PBS special Lou says "i played with terrible bands in school, we changed our name every month bcz no one would knowingly hire us twice"

Those Syracuse Alumni reminiscences are nice but they are not a patch on the pants of Tony the Bartender hanging out at the Boston Tea Party.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/167282687/rip-lou-reed-shirt-silver-shirt?utm_source=OpenGraph&utm_medium=PageTools&utm_campaign=Share

At least that appears to be intentional.

pretty good news i think -- i really loved Hermes' love goes to buildings book - http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/will-hermes-to-write-lou-reed-biography/?smid=nytimesarts

just heard him on NPR review the Peter Gabriel tribute album.

Thought I'd post this here, from Lou Reed's songwriting stint in the Pickwick label:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGzmAwK6iM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh6k88j4TxI

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2rY_cYub2bQ/UjCor_MKSJI/AAAAAAAAD1g/YMpfgTUEc6s/s1600/00501.jpg

Can someone get william h. Macy to perform Take No Prisoners as old lou plz

done

hmmm not convinced, but the second track is a vague possibility? http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_shades_is_this_mystery_acetate_lou_reeds_lost_first_recordings

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

yeah, very interesting. another account from another woman in lou's life: 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

lol great URL]

amazing pics in both of these
https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*WCToddDffYZRlJn97x4SjA.png
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article10167803.ece/alternates/w460/Bettye-Kronstad.jpg

His sister's article is interesting and it mostly confirms what I've always thought about Lou's childhood...tho massive lols at this quote

"In later years, Lou spoke of being beaten up routinely after school at Freeport Junior High School, which boasted a number of gangs at the time. However, our next door neighbor told me, years later, that Lou was challenging, unfriendly, provocative even, daring him to “cross that line onto my property and you’ll see what happens.”"

Lou was challenging, unfriendly, provocative even

why, this doesn't sound like Lou at all!