Search And Destroy: Lou Reed

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!

ah of course she became a family therapist!

amazing pics in both of these

don't forget the big one at the very top of the article! january 1966, performing at a clinical psychiatry convention.

haha yeah, lou was probably seething at all of those psychiatrists.

alternate universe where lou became a scientologist because of his hatred of psychiatry

Wasn't that with the VU, with Andy & Co prowling the audience with mics asking the shrinks embarrassing questiosn?

Said Hey, Babe:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/transgender-icon-holly-woodlawn-fights-806919?utm_source=twitter

Hearing this one for the first time today. Late-period Lou with the Blind Boys of Alabama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-7CbhezVk8

Such a weird record iirc, put it on and sounds great then suddenly a lot of weird concept tracks that don't rock and makes you wanna skip. But it's been a while maybe should revisit. Cool enough song, it's a Luluish delivery... hmm a bit off to me though, as if he's reaching too much and not nearly as convincing as his more understated stuff.

Anyway the beginning of this thread sure has some crazy posts :P

i think i listen to the raven once a year thinking i'm going to suddenly love it, but there is a lot of kinda bad stuff on it. maybe i'll try again this month! spooooooky.

i'm pretty ok w/ calling both ecstasy and set the twilight reeling great albums though.

I second that emotion

Think I heard Twilight 7 times last weekend

hang on to that emotion!
yeah, was listening to set the twilight for the first time in a while last week, was digging the guitar sound.

Haha I will. Guitar sound is great on that album and Lou seems really confident in his playing too.

good lord

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/10/lou-reed-was-a-monster.html

“Ah, I needed something to rhyme with train. So I had to take poetic license.”

Awesome.

"Ah, I needed to be a complete prick to my sister and her husband. So I had to take poetic license."

Not that Lou wasn't a prick, but Sounes' Dylan bio is terrible. I'm waiting for the Will Hermes Lou bio for the definitive take.

Is any of this really a surprise

^^^

I haven't even read the linked article but even the "nice" songwriter of the velvets was kind of a monster

I mean I love john cale and I can't for the life of me find my (signed!) copy of his book, and I mentioned this in some velvets thread or other to such little response/corroboration that I feel almost gaslighted, but I swear he flatly describes an incident as horrific as shithead racist nico's assault on a black woman

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/movies/laurie-anderson-is-telling-stories-hers-and-ours.html?_r=0

Along with her own work, she has a legacy to tend: 800 hours of Mr. Reed’s old recordings, which she wants to make available online, as well as unpublished plays and photographs. “You learn so much about people when they’re gone, when their life is complete. I’ve just realized, too, that Lou was in the process of becoming an ancestor from being a person,” she said.

“As a human companion he’s gone, and that I really miss,” she said. “That was a conversation that was nonstop for 21 years. But then, I think, don’t be so selfish. Things end, and that’s how it is.”

800 hours!

haha, yeah... i wonder if that was just like Laurie's way of saying "there's a lot!" or if it is literally 800 hours.

And all of it is Live: Take No Prisoners outtakes. He riffs on Christgau for seventeen straight hours.

would buy
i've said it before, but i'd love a complete take no prisoners box set, with every note played, a la miles' live at the plugged nickel

Rumor has it there is a 2-week version of Like a Possum in the archives.

siiiick

799 hrs are metallica riffs from lulu

but i'd love a complete take no prisoners box set

this is a v v niche item but fuck yes

would be a lot -- i think they taped like a whole week of two-sets-a-night shows, but i'd be down.

40 minutes of "is that annoying?"

"Is That Annoying?". That's the title of the boxset right there.

Godfrey Diamond, Reed’s producer on Coney Island Baby, remembers an exchange late in his career. “Lou, all I want you to do is give me another ‘Sweet Jane’. You’re the master of writing songs about people,” Diamond remembered. “He looks at me and goes, ‘Godfrey, I try to write ‘Sweet Jane’ every day,’ in this deep, awful, mean, aggravated, upset voice. Clearly, that wasn’t the thing to say.”

Well, duh?

haha "all i want you to do..." -- genius production advice.

"Sweet Jane" everyday

can't help hearing this in the voice of Nate Dogg singing "Smoke weed every day"

it is weird to me that people who've been listening to and loving lou for as long as I have...don't feel like they kinda have enough

like, at the peak of my fanhood, thirty years ago, I hungrily gobbled up every bootleg I could find, had whole shows from that Bottom Line residency, etc, but...idk not trying to insult anybody but how does this dude's stuff not wear thin for those of who, like me, first got into it like 30+ years ago?