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

"all the time he shows up late.."

"so do you, Lou!"

I remember hearing the "fuck Radio Ethiopia this is Radio Brooklyn" line way back in the past, but weirdly, I cannot remember hearing anything else from this album.

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/6761/bomp1979issue20january1.jpg

Haha amazing

He looks like somebody else in that picture, The Big Ragu maybe.

i love lou's "i wear a lou reed t-shirt onstage" phase

For some reason this was one of my first Lou solo albums - it made a big impression on me, it sounded so alien and chaotic.
Around the same time I bought the first New York Dolls too and I spent a lot of time fantasizing about this dirty, dangerous, all in grainy black and white 70's New York.

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa72/vulcangascompany1969/rnranimal.jpg

i think i'm gonna poll that lou reed take no prisoners ad

i love lou's "i wear a lou reed t-shirt onstage" phase

indeed!

if you write as good as you talk, nobody read ya

also this is hilarious (altho much earlier):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2pF5oMdP4&feature=related

Lou is the funniest motherfucker

this radio show from early '79 is a great companion to take no prisoners. further christgau baiting.
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/43079765584/fuck-radio-ethiopia-this-is-radio-brooklyn-my

lol wow thx!!

"there's more to life than aerosmith" rofl

this is great

i swear, the first 15 seconds of this dion and the belmonts song he played sounded like VU, actually the guitar and drums on the whole thing kinda do

yeah there's lots of that kind of thing -- the solo on the crazy elephant track there at the beginning is a dead ringer for lou's VU style too.
also awesome when lou talks about critics saying his lead guitar playing is inept. "i never said it was ept!"

"so I only know four or five notes"

Lou's "pro-sex"/disco riff also awesome

haha, yeah.
happy for lou's health and everything but drunk lou was a lot more fun than sober lou.

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...