Search And Destroy: Lou Reed

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!

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.”