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

Warhol's diary, 23 Sept '79

I went to church and then went home. I glued myself together and Curley picked me up and we went to 42nd Street to the WPIX radio station for The John Ogle Show. I’d invited Walter Steding to play his magic violin on the air, he was good and he sounded intelligent when he was interviewed. Then Lou Reed rushed in and said how glad he was to see us. Lou told me one of his dachshunds had had an operation on his back. I told him to come down to the Mudd Club with us later because they were having a Dead Rock Stars Night, and he said he would go as himself, but I told him he looks too good for that now.

the original little dog?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hQTZryl_3Rk/USTS5pu-emI/AAAAAAAABIg/5-RS26-ApMw/s400/Lou_Doggie2.jpg

awww

singing softly: "My small dog he want what I got / Wants to run his tongue over my hot spot."

"all the time he shows up late.."

"so do you, Lou!"

Listening to this the other day, I don't think I'd never noticed this little exchange before (first bit is a line Lou decides to sing in "Waiting for My Man" btw)

Just saw one of those pictures of Sigourney Weaver in which I could swear she looks exactly like Lou Reed.

i am writing about this album for my EMP presentation, so i look forward to reading over this thread for non-jokey insight.

I'm afraid that will have to be punched in retroactively.

Get bent yr doing the Lord's work

yeahhhh excited to read your EMP piece!
still waiting for the complete bottom line 1978 take no prisoners sessions box set. i want it all.

getting reissued as part of this: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reeds-last-project-a-box-set-of-remastered-cds-due-this-fall-20160517

still waiting for the complete bottom line 1978 take no prisoners sessions box set. i want it all.

GIVE IT TO US!!!

was just informed that today is the anniversary of the first night of Take No Prisoner's recording at the Bottom Line in 1978. HAPPY TAKE NO PRISONERS DAY

http://ia601406.us.archive.org/25/items/LouReed1978-05-18BottomLineNYC/LouReed1978-05-18BottomLineNYC.mp3?cnt=0

Celebrate by insulting someone from Wyoming!

oh shit, here's that complete WPIX 1978 broadcast -- never heard it all before! GREAT LOU CONTENT. https://soundcloud.com/david-marin-7/lou-reed-w-joe-piasek-wpix-fm-interview-8-5-78

Wait with The Jeweler and all?

nah, this is a different, earlier WPIX broadcast. he plays sandy denny, of all thing!

alt version of "street hassle" he plays is a good argument for aforementioned Take No Prisoners: Radio Brooklyn Expanded Edition box set

Hello?
Yeah

classic.
with all the feeding back phones, they could've done an impromptu metal machine music.

ooh will have to listen to this later

pretty amazing german language cover of "walk on the wild side" included

Yes, and all binaurally recorded!
(xp)

i like how lou perks up when the caller starts talking about binaural stereo setups.

Right, exactly.

If one of the callers had really known some obscure doo wop trivia that would have been a distant second

That was the other radio show, some young kid said how much he likednthatvstuff..

Christmas has come early.

Yeh

So "Lou Reed: Live" (aka R&R Animal Pt.2) isn't in the set?

some have speculated that it is being folded into R&R Animal? which would make sense. no Live in Italy either, though that was always an import...

man Lou really liked "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin"

Me too. Guitar playing is pure Lou.

this radio recording sounds like it's ... kinda slow? Like the tape speed is not right? The Dion song and Gimme Gimme Good Lovin both sounded like they're slower/in a different key than they should be. (I'm just listening to this whole thing now).

i think the tape speed kinda wobbles a little bit throughout.
xp it really is! though i wouldn't have really realized it til i heard him playing it on the WPIX shows.

It's pretty much what I liked about "Gimme Gimme Some Good Times Good' Lovin'" the first time I heard it, which was not yesterday.

lol @ "I'm not a map"

Yes! That was Lou at his most Louist.

Go write a bible

Your mother, your father, your cocksucking brother, they don't mean shit to me

We were driving around the other wknd and "Walk On the Wild Side" from this came up on the 'pod. At abt the 11 minute point my wife stopped and said "Wait, is he still playing the same song? Wait has even played the song? This has been going on for 11 minutes?"

Different album but https://damienlove.com/writing/babe-im-on-fire-the-making-of-lou-reeds-street-hassle/

Thanks to tipsy mothra for link

no, sorry, lovebug coleman

I never said I was ept!

HI DERE

sorry we were late but we were just tuning

That’s pathetic

It's an elecric fire, man, you plug it in...

https://damienlove.com/writing/im-set-free-the-making-of-lou-reeds-take-no-prisoners-an-oral-history/