Part 2 tomorrow? Hope so.
― dow, Saturday, 30 July 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
Okay, here's some more live--"Jesus" at the moment---and video: http://www.stereogum.com/1891393/watch-anohni-lee-ranaldo-ira-kaplan-more-perform-at-lou-reed-tribute/video/
― dow, Sunday, 31 July 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
this is so good
― woke-ing class zero (s.clover), Sunday, 31 July 2016 02:47 (seven years ago) link
Disco Mystic!!!!
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 31 July 2016 03:00 (seven years ago) link
second set way better than the first imho -- leans less heavily on velvets material, covers later albums more thoroughly.
― woke-ing class zero (s.clover), Sunday, 31 July 2016 03:53 (seven years ago) link
Evening (second ) set was billed as ballads, while afternoon first set was billed as rock and roll. I was in NY visiting and caught some of the afternoon first set (couldn't make evening one)--fun seeing Renaldo and Shelley from Sonic Youth with Yo La Tengo folks up there together; I liked Lenny Kaye's tribute to Lou and to Sandy Pearlman--"I'm Set Free"... David Johansen was ok; part of Bush Tetras doing "Run, Run, Run," Don Fleming leading band through some bootleg track. Paul Simon's son Harper was not that impressive. Maria Muldaur's daughter Jenni was alright.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 August 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
Also caught a few minutes of this-- A sound installation Lou Reed: Drones created from six of Reed’s guitars and amps in a feedback loop to produce an immersive sound environment
enjoyable for a few minutes but after that I had enough
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 August 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
11:30 am to 2 or whatever first set didn't have that big of an audience. Sky was gloomy and it rained a bit plus I guess 20 & 30 somethings not that into the old folks paying tribute to Lou I guess?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 August 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
Should be some posted here and there, now and then. I'd say look for xpost "Disco Mystic", esp. with the dayglo rainbow chorus line, chanting, "Di-isco, Dis-co Mystic", with various degrees of urgency, always firm about it---she's pointing at yew, citizen. Sax less prominent than original track, but ruggedly handsome guitar strata. Yes, Lenny Kaye delivered, especially "Rock N Roll", with all hands on deck, incl. Laurie with the glancing bow. Her inflections and timing were perfect in "Andy's Dream." Ditto the man and woman reading transcript of a Lou interview from an Australian tour. Also liked somebody reading "The Rock Minuet", if that's the title, and several other performers performing things I didn't recognize, which is good; as s.clover indicates, shouldn't just be the most obvious, VU etc. choices. Missed a lot, though; I'll have to look around.
― dow, Monday, 1 August 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
I'd say look for xpost "Disco Mystic", esp. with the dayglo rainbow chorus line, chanting, "Di-isco, Dis-co Mystic", with various degrees of urgency, always firm about it---she's pointing at yew, citizen.
so bummed this hasn't gotten onto youtube yet cuz I really want my wife to see it, she would love it
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 August 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
looked like a fun event! i bet there'll be rips of everything sooner or later ...
― tylerw, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
x-post--
The Lincoln Center security guards sure looked confused by the Disco Mystic dancers in their see-through but brightly colored outfits
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 August 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
here's some of it---no time to watch yet, although I saw some of "Sister Ray" this weekend (didn't seem that hot, though I came in toward the end). Looks like a decent selection, though some are excerpts (and one's already been removed, or did it just stop functioning):http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/watch-performances-lou-reed-tribute-concert-87565
― dow, Monday, 1 August 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link
Lou's Spotify playlists are kinda coolhttps://open.spotify.com/user/loureedofficial/playlist/1Pjh3fIfbzCHtVQ505QwZ3
― niels, Monday, 19 June 2017 10:11 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aNC8tcMBzA
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 31 March 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
You can get a NYC library card with Lou's Transformer image on it.
When it's scanned, it doesn't beep, it yells "Turn up the guitar!"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 April 2019 03:19 (five years ago) link
Except when R Quine checks something out it says “turn down the guitar”
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 1 April 2019 08:07 (five years ago) link
Lol
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 April 2019 08:58 (five years ago) link
Excerpt from Anthony DeCurtis bio, in large part about Berlin and some of Lou's more monstrous qualities in his first marriage
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/01/my-brilliant-troubled-friend-lou-reed-a-life-anthony-decurtis-berlin
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 July 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
I'm about 1
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
Oops...100 pages into the Victor Bockris book. Of all my favourite bands and singers--and the Velvet Underground are top three--I have less sense of Lou Reed as a person than anyone. He's a complete blank to me.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 12:47 (four years ago) link
lol that Bockris book is ... not good
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
there's a lot of good stories/anecdotes in it and some of the axes Bockris seems compelled to grind are amusing but his writing is pretty sloppy
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
Bockris book much more fun than the pompous DeCurtis bio or the risible Howard Sounes effort.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
sounds plausible
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
I read Bockris's Warhol book (ages ago) and liked that. I haven't been reading this one as reliable scholarship; I know Bockris's reputation isn't great, but the tone is agreeable--a little junky, but right now I'd rather have that than a serious analysis of Reed's work.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
Bio I’d really like to read is the Will Hermes one, assuming he ever finishes it.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
yeah, i've been wondering about that one — maybe they pushed it back after the decurtis one came out? haven't read a perfect lou bio, really. I thought the Decurtis one was OK, especially since he paid more attention to the later days, as opposed to just rehashing the old stuff.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
I thumbed through the DeCurtis one and looked up how he handled "Coney Island Baby", which was actually p interesting. He catalogued all the doo-wop references.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
interesting lou letter to delmore schwartz, circa 1965
Dear Delmore- it has been a very long summer and winter. I got out of school just in time to have hepatitis. it wasn’t a bad case though and after 2 odd months I was out of bed. then I became involved with a record company and worked at a job as a songwriter a performer and a musician. I helped make one of those cheap $1.98 albums that you see in supermarkets. We wrote 33 songs and sang, played and recorded them in 2 days. I commuted from the city to home from home to the city. worked 6-7 days a week from9 or 10 to anywhere from 11 to 3 in the morning not counting my lousy hour trips on the train to get to the studio. My first record came out. It was hysterically funny if you go for that kind of thing. We recruited a group to accompany me on promotional trips. One guy was from Wales. He got here on a Leonard Berstein scholarship, a starving viola player. the other was a violin player from harvard, who helped do the sound track for an “underground” film called Flaming Creatures by a gentleman named Jack Smith. The last showing drew the police of ny who arrested everyone insight, the projectionist, viewers, etc. -said the film was obscene. The third member of my tribe was an m.a. from u.c.l.a. who just had a showing at an art gallery that was a flop. There was trouble with the promo trips the audience loved us quite a lot, autographs, people knew us in a diner and thought we were ENGLISH. But I wasn’t up to it I’m afraid the way I would have been what seems like years ago. I quit my job (after first determining that I could work as long and as well as anyone there). But this bit wasn’t for me. Then (I was still under contacts of various sorts, they possessed 25% of nothing) my manager brought in this guy with lots of money who wanted to buy us instruments (we were one of the few bands in existence that had no instruments, they rented them for us on occasion) and book us in his nightclubs. I said no and quit the group. Meanwhile I had a folk album going for me. They loved me and my stuff but thought the lyrics were offensive (not dirty, just offensive) and would I change the lyrics and I said no and that was that. Interestingly enough a new record just came out which I had a hand in writing which is quite good and might stand a chance. One song of mine is in hollywood, another is in england where a longhaired group is mulling it over, and my manager has dug up some smaller but more liberal (?) folk record companies. Plus the record company I’m affiliated with now is interested in my making another record even though I don’t work there anymore and am not meant for promotion tours. So now I’m getting this job with the welfare department (because you don’t have to dress and its kind of a usefull job- you try to help people with 6 children and rats in one room apartments if that’s possible). Its a kind of ny peace corp with pay.
My harvard application has been sitting for awhile now because I didn’t know if I was ready to go to school anymore, or if i should anymore, at anytime. I was drafted and naturally ruled exempt, unacceptable for the obvious reasons. Thus I am free of the draft and slowly but surely people who depend on me for music or talent or advice or etc. I’ve had some strange experiences since returning to ny, sick but strange and fascinating and even, sometimes ultimately revealing, healing and helpful. The record industry is viscous as are most businesses, but this one a little more so. ny has so many sad, sick people and I have a knack for meeting them. they try to drag you down with them. If you’re weak ny has many outlets. Ican’t resist peering, probing, sometimes participating, othertimes going right to the edge before sidestepping. Finding viscousness in yourself and that fantastic killer urge and worse yet having the opportunity presented before you is certainly interesting, Interesting is not the word. You have to wait a few days to use it, but often you are truely cold. The easy ways of making money, group bravado, the rich johns on park ave who dig watching fornicating couples enough to pay $250, $500, $&700 prices up for group performances of 3 or more or the more esoteric sexual art forms, f*** f*** f***
I feel better myself. I am better. I needed no school. I have let 6 months go by without looking at anything I had written. I needed to be cool - I needed to be away from the writing so that I could look at it more coldly. I finally did that and I decided that I’m very very good and could be a good writer if i work and work. i know thatswhat ive got to do, no getting around it, but things had to get established. Maybe I will go to school again. maybe i’ll teach, maybe europe, who knows. But mainly it must be writing and I think I’m good enough to give it a run for its money. Hope my latest records a smash because I’ll be needing the money to be sure. I’m lucky though. It doesn’t take much of anything that has to do with money to keep me quiet or happy or mollified. Its the peripheral things round you that need bread. You’ll notice my spelling hasn’t improved.
HOW ARE YOU? I mean that, how are you? I hope very much that you are well. I also hope very much that you are my spiritual godfather, and I mean that quite a bit too.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
Lou as modest and self-deprecating as ever.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
He never said he was unself-deprecating!
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
awesome letter
― stan by me (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that's great
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
I can recommend the DeCurtis book -- he's a better journalist than critic.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
he's especially good covering the Anderson years. Didn't know Lou returned to drinking the occasional glass of red wine or two. I'm sure it didn't help his renal glands.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
decurtis is the kinda guy who i think of as showing up as a talking head rock critic in a million rock docs spouting received wisdom. but his lou book covers the right bases, doesn't shy away from unpleasant stuff, but doesn't revel in it either.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
NAMED AFTER HIS MOTHER’S late grandfather, Lewis Allan Reed was born on March 2, 1942, at Beth El Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.So the Butch Firbanks thing was made up after all?
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
He was a fan of Ronald Firbank and Butch Wilkins.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
Didn’t know about the lattter
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
The Chelsea Girls all loved Butch.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
In Brooklyn:
Late Brooklyn-born musician Lou Reed's memory is being honored with a celebration of his passion for Tai Chi. Ren Guang Yi, Reed's teacher for 12 years, and other teachers from different disciplines will lead a morning meditation in Central Library's Grand Lobby followed by demonstrations and classes that represent many forms of Tai Chi.
No experience is necessary to participate, in keeping with Reed's belief that everyone can benefit from the Chinese martial art.
In the week leading up to the event, patrons can also view Reed's library of Tai Chi books, video clips and some of his weapons.
Saturday, August 3 / 8:30 amCentral Library, Grand Lobby & Plaza
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/celebrate-inaugural-central-library-lobby-20190803
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
w/r/t Tai Chi, from Laurie's eulogy:
As meditators, we had prepared for this – how to move the energy up from the belly and into the heart and out through the head. I have never seen an expression as full of wonder as Lou’s as he died. His hands were doing the water-flowing 21-form of tai chi. His eyes were wide open. I was holding in my arms the person I loved the most in the world, and talking to him as he died. His heart stopped. He wasn’t afraid. I had gotten to walk with him to the end of the world. Life – so beautiful, painful and dazzling – does not get better than that. And death? I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
Kind of interesting and weird to find out Shelley’s last name and read her description of young Lou.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
Only two people lasted until the end of the Velvets’ legendary Summit High School gig, but one went on to co-found Mission of Burma and the other to play bass in The Bongos.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 23:37 (four years ago) link
Never listened to this Velvets-backed version of “I’ll Keep It With Mine,” which mostly sounds like “I’m Waiting for the Man.”
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 00:03 (four years ago) link
This doesn’t seem to have too many views, maybe it’s available somewhere else:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_7Zqx2_Ek
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 July 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
Reed’s own way of handling such situations was typically more blunt and frontal. At a birthday dinner for the novelist A. M. Homes at the Greenwich Village restaurant Il Cantinori, Reed noticed Anderson, seated across the table from him, enjoying a conversation with writer Lee Smith. Reed leaned across the table, glared at Smith, and challenged Anderson. “Who the fuck is this guy?” he asked. A devoted fan of Reed’s, Smith defused Reed’s anger by asking him about Delmore Schwartz.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 03:45 (four years ago) link
Anderson who(?)
― stan by me (morrisp), Friday, 12 July 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
Oh Laurie