Lou Reed Solo

For me it scratches a certain itch, when I think of those songs I don't usually think of the RnR Anminal vers but it's cool to hear them in a different context.

I saw Jandek a few days after Lou passed and I really, really wanted him to come out and just do a note perfect vers of "Sweet Jane" from RnR Animal.

That, sadly, did not happen.

None other than Sterling Morrison himself nailed what the problem was with that album, more or less, saying something like "these guys use the same guitar tone on every single song from beginning to end, same tone, same volume, they never switch it up." Of course it doesn't help that it is a guitar tone I hate with the heat of a thousand suns.

lol at da croupier

i've kinda come around on the r&r animal band/arrangements, but i did hate it for a long time. some of it still makes me cringe.
speaking of weird eras, this show from 1986 has a totally weird band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv9ZlE3ymZY

i found a fernando saunders solo lp on the street for a buck a few months ago but still haven't gotten around to playing it

this one

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EXAYRBxibrs/TbCYdnk8CbI/AAAAAAAAA2k/Mkc0jZvXBos/s400/Fernando%2BSaunders%2B-%2BCashmere%2BDreams.gif

bah

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EXAYRBxibrs/TbCYdnk8CbI/AAAAAAAAA2k/Mkc0jZvXBos/s400/Fernando%2BSaunders%2B-%2BCashmere%2BDreams.gif

haha, man, if light in the attic put that out, people would be creaming over it a la this lewis dude.

the rare album to feature both s. porcaro and l. reed in the writing credits

Only thing I like about R&R is when it is name checked on Street Hassle.

Re: Fernando S. Sorry, but I never really learned to love the sound of fretless bass. For me it falls between two stools. Decide whether you want to play upright or electric, don't try to play both at once. Don't even mind if you double track. *Bows to Herbie Flowers*

also you gotta dig this

PRODUCED BY : FERNANDO SAUNDERS FOR FERNANDO'S HIDE-AWAY MUSIC, LTD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk_QrTTNkl8

allmusic review has some choice lines:

- "a highly listenable disc which contains flavors of Prince without a testosterone overdose"
- "Great album cover has Saunders in a dream state flowing into some otherworld"
- "The two songs produced by Toto keyboard player Steve Porcaro actually(!) have Jeff Porcaro on drums and Steve Lukather on guitar"
- "one of those records radio should be chastised for not seeking out and playing on its merits"
- "Perhaps this is where Paula Abdul got the idea for her hit of the same name, "Opposites Attract," which appeared just a year later."

an antidote to prince's rampant testosterone

i've kinda come around on the r&r animal band/arrangements, but i did hate it for a long time. some of it still makes me cringe.
speaking of weird eras, this show from 1986 has a totally weird band

I saw that band once in '86 (on the Amnesty Int'l tour). I was still relatively new to Lou, and I assumed it was de rigueur for 60s feedback monsters to eventually settle down with some nice session musicians (see also: Pete Townshend). The drumming was dull, I never got into the sound of fretless electric bass, and the saxophonist was awful, moreso in retrospect (Lou, remember how much you loved Ornette Coleman? Then why'd you hire Dave Koz?)

But not having Quine meant that Lou took the solos. In the set I saw, there was only one solo, at the end of "Video Violence," but holy fuck, it was mindblowing.

B-b-but is there enough estrogen?
(Xp)

I assume everyone here knows that Fernando Saunders' son represented Hungary at this year's Eurovision Song Contest?

the "street hassle" from that 1986 concert is fucking bizarre -- they seem to want to turn parts of it into a singalong: "Hit and Run! Hit and Run!" "Bad Luck! Bad Luck!"

Excellent post, Tarfumes, especially

Lou, remember how much you loved Ornette Coleman? Then why'd you hire Dave Koz?

FERNANDO SAUNDERS FOR FERNANDO'S HIDE-AWAY MUSIC, LTD

looooooool

If someone were to ask me which Marshall Crenshaw album was my least favorite I would have to say: the one with Fernando Saunders on it. Graham Maby runs rings around him.

Lou, remember how much you loved Ornette Coleman? Then why'd you hire Dave Koz?
heh heh, well, lou loved doo wop, he probably thought he was gettin' some honkin' sax action.

goddamn that is an impressive mullet on that sax player in the live show you posted

is that Dave Koz?

yeah it's kinda of funny how some of these guys wanted some hot horns in their tunes and thought they were gonna get some serious muscle and it just ended up like

http://38.media.tumblr.com/2aea9eda7522831e2243945859187f26/tumblr_mn0tbvWfum1s8nhhfo1_400.gif

xp it's apparently a dude named rick bell.
hilarious that the keyboard player is named Woody Smallwood

Hey Lou, at least your arch-rival Frank Zappa hired Don "Sugarcane" Harris.

lol @ Woody Smallwood.

Haim is covering that Fernando Sauders album in it entirety at the next All Tomorrow's Parties

hahahaha i am so about that fernando saunders record holy shit

alfred get in this thread and back me up

Fernandomania 2014 starts here

this is...interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMpWQ9L-Gcs

oh shit totally sick keytar solo on tell it to your heart. take it to the bank, smallwood!!!!!

this version of "jesus" is actually kind of good in a if bruce hornsby was krautrock kinda way

alfred get in this thread and back me up

Think we should keep addressing Lou directly on this thread until his revenant shows up to provide us with posthumous spilkes.

take it to the bank, smallwood!!!!!

dying over here

Maybe Lester Bangs will show up too

this version of "jesus" is actually kind of good in a if bruce hornsby was krautrock kinda way

― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 July 2014 17:22 (1 minute ago) Permalink

I am currently contemplating the sort of person whose taste falls in the Venn diagram of Bruce Hornsby & Krautrock

man, yeah, i kind of dig that saunders jesus duet. though i don't know, i am kind of replacing fernando's falsetto with bono's in my head. is that lou's final recording?

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_250/MI0002/095/MI0002095194.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

I am currently contemplating the sort of person whose taste falls in the Venn diagram of Bruce Hornsby & Krautrock
pretty sure we all just have to look in the mirror to see this person, right? i mean goddamn imagine a damo/hornsby collab. as good as lulu.

guilty as charged

I am currently contemplating the sort of person whose taste falls in the Venn diagram of Bruce Hornsby & Krautrock

Go over to the Introduce Yourselves! thread and find out.
(Ha, xp)

lol
"tell it to your heart" really is pretty sweet on that video, like some kind of jersey shore balearic power ballad.

bass solos are really the most useless thing in the history of music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW2TvdefIDg

It can be done well, but it is not really part of the job description.

Plus, general public impressed by any old nonsense. "Look he plays some stuff on those strings! Not everybody can do that!" When the truth is more like, nobody wants to hear it so a lot of guys just aren't allowed to do it.

Saunders justifies his presence in Lou's band with the "Waves of Fear" opening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vi9iLZ4vYs

He was better with Bohannon