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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: chaz on October 27, 2013, 07:55:56 pm
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So sad over this. Rip to one of my most favorite artists ever, hands down.
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absolutely... major bummer.... struggling for the words on this one...
I was majorly shocked even though I knew he'd had a liver transplant earlier this year...
when I saw him the last time at the club (my only time) I remember thinking he didn't look so great and he had a senior moment ......but I enjoyed the show.. of course I was in awe like "THAT IS LOU REED STANDING 10 feet away!"
people like Lou you grow up with them and they're like a part of your family..
I want to say Lou to me represents the seedy dark underbelly of life... in some ways the idea of Lou Reed is already kind of dead because of the way society has developed...but I won't cause I'm not sure it makes any sense..
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in the end I could not make the Sparks show....god I hate the early shows...
I'll be home spinning my Lou /VU records and watching the World Series..
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Wow, really wasn't expecting this one for some reason. He's been very active lately.
I bet more people saw lou live in his 60's than ever saw him in the 60's
Lou... NYC incarnate, gateway drug to the subversive and just so damn f'n cool.
I really never got deep into his solo stuff, but the 4 albums they he was a part of with VU have placed an indelible mark across my music appreciation.
Well, Transformer has never left the heavy rotation list either.
My introduction (besides WotWS) was in the early 90's. Close to 25 years after the music was recorded and I was in awe and really have never lost my reverence for those albums. It is a rare bird that can be so timeless. They do not sound one bit dated to me.
It wasn't until later I learned that nearly every one of the artists I'd liked for the last 30 years were all citing him as an influence.
I saw him at the 9:30 about 10 years ago and that had to be one of my favorite 9:30 experiences and just live music in general. He was rocking and just played all the songs I wanted to hear from VU and his solo stuff. Again, was so damn F'n cool up there in his 60's.
I do wish the whole VU crew mended their ways before people started dying.
A giant has fallen and all we have to look are his spectacular footprints
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in the end I could not make the Sparks show....god I hate the early shows...
I'll be home spinning my Lou /VU records and watching the World Series..
Heard the news right before Sparks went on.
Don't know if it tainted the show for me, but I would have rather been home doing the same.
'New York' does it for me.
That 9:30 show was way cool.
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Wow, really wasn't expecting this one for some reason. He's been very active lately.
what? we haven't heard a peep from him since his liver transplant in April!!!!!!!!!!
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I saw him at the 9:30 about 10 years ago and that had to be one of my favorite 9:30 experiences and just live music in general.
ah, I date myself, it was 1998 shortly after Fully Loaded was released.
the setlist was stellar Lou 930 98 (http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lou-reed/1998/930-club-washington-dc-63d0cac3.html)
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it was good what we did yesterday and I'd do it once again
the fact that we are married only proves you're my best friend
but its truly truly a sin
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VU catalog and Transformer were the gateway drugs. Dylan was the first rock poet. Lou Reed was the first rock fine artist.
First time I ever heard of Lou Reed was randomly watching Letterman back in 1986. Letterman introduced him as one of the legends in music history and then he played 'Mistrial'. I was 13 and into music and I couldn't believe this guy I never heard of playing this song was some kind of legend . . . but damn he seemed cool. My first VU phase started soon after
Saw Lou Reed at Merriweather on the New York tour in 1989. Amazing show. Dion opened. My friend and i snuck down to about the 10th row. He played played most of, if not all of New York then played the classics with excellent backing band. Wonderful night.
First show I ever went to at the new 9:30 Club was Lou Reed in 1996. Hearing the songs live again were like revisiting old friends. Another fantastic show with Lou in great spirits and a great vibe all around. It was fun to see a healthy and happy looking Lou Reed play Heroin and either before or after joked about the song 'I don't even smoke cigarettes anymore'.
Saw him one more time at the National in Richmond in 2008. A smoking show with his old guitarist from the Rock and Roll Animal era (forget his name) going off on every song. I had a shit-eating grin from start to finish.
R.I.P.
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In my top 20 shows of all time:
3/13/89 at the Warner
(New York tour)
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I was just listening to his early solo albums a few weeks ago. They're all sooo good! Lou was a one of a kind. R.I.P.
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I am so sad today! One of my favorite shows ever was seeing him in August of 1998 at the old Bohagers. I sat up in the balcony and he played Pale Blue Eyes.
So many good memories of driving around listening to his music with my friends.
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First show I ever saw at The National in RVA was Lou Reed. It was astonishing. I will always remember that encore with Pale Blue Eyes, it was worth the price of the ticket alone.
VU + Nico is maybe the best record ever. Sad news yesterday.
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He NEVER repeated himself. He never rested on his past works or achievements.
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i was going to say something mean about his liver and how . . . but i wont, because a man died. a great man. a man i worshipped. a man that mattered. a man that changed music. how many men can you say did that. how many men can you remember their name. how many men, just didnt give a fuck.
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?? they put him in a hospital where he received shock treatment as a kid. Apparently, he was at Syracuse University and was given this compulsory choice to either do gym or the Reserve Officers Training Corps. He claimed he couldn?t do gym because he?d break his neck and when he did ROTC he threatened to kill the instructor. Then he put his fist through a window or something, and so he was put in a mental hospital.?
? John Cale
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Mr. Reed wrote in the liner notes [to Metal Machine Music] that ?no one I know has listened to it all the way through, including myself.?
The composer Brian Eno, in an often-quoted interview from 1982, suggested that if the group?s first album, ?The Velvet Underground & Nico,? sold only 30,000 copies during its first five years, ?everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band.?
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I was a teenager in the 80's, so this was my introduction to Lou Reed:
http://youtu.be/lDLAM48TmJQ
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Mr. Reed wrote in the liner notes [to Metal Machine Music] that ?no one I know has listened to it all the way through, including myself.?
This was my problem with Lou...why put out an album you know no one will listen to after they buy it. Same thing about seeing him live. Why start your set 25 minutes late when you know you are taking away from someone else set. Anyway Velvet Undergrounds first album is one of the best of all time. Transformer is a great album. Nicos first album is amazing and he wrote some of the songs and played on it as well.
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Mr. Reed wrote in the liner notes [to Metal Machine Music] that ?no one I know has listened to it all the way through, including myself.?
This was my problem with Lou...why put out an album you know no one will listen to after they buy it. Same thing about seeing him live. Why start your set 25 minutes late when you know you are taking away from someone else set. Anyway Velvet Undergrounds first album is one of the best of all time. Transformer is a great album. Nicos first album is amazing and he wrote some of the songs and played on it as well.
classic tommy fresh baby! comes to the appreciation thread to tell us what he DOESN'T appreciate! happy monday folks!
but for real, metal machine music was a mistake, and lou said so himself. it probably has some roots with la mont young, and the avant garde/minimalist approach that surrounded his earlier influences. but who cares? he tried something new and failed.
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Moz on Lou Reed's passing:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/danmartin/read-morrisseys-moving-tribute-to-lou-reed?s=mobile
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Mr. Reed wrote in the liner notes [to Metal Machine Music] that ?no one I know has listened to it all the way through, including myself.?
This was my problem with Lou...why put out an album you know no one will listen to after they buy it. Same thing about seeing him live. Why start your set 25 minutes late when you know you are taking away from someone else set. Anyway Velvet Undergrounds first album is one of the best of all time. Transformer is a great album. Nicos first album is amazing and he wrote some of the songs and played on it as well.
classic tommy fresh baby! comes to the appreciation thread to tell us what he DOESN'T appreciate! happy monday folks!
but for real, metal machine music was a mistake, and lou said so himself. it probably has some roots with la mont young, and the avant garde/minimalist approach that surrounded his earlier influences. but who cares? he tried something new and failed.
I thought he released it because he was pissed off at his record company. I told you what I appreciate. Velvet debut, Nico solo and Transformer. I also like some of the stuff off the last Velvet Album and that song "Stephanie Says".
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I thought he released it because he was pissed off at his record company.
nah, it was so shitty a lot of people thought that was the case.
this got me interested, the wikipedia page has some good details and history about it. i personally haven't listened to it, but it sold 100,000 copies, which is kind of nuts.
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Every ad I ever post looking for band mates lists Lou and the VU as influences.
The man was an artist in the truest sense of the word. I don't know whether or not I wish I had seen him live (most of the later era live sets I've heard have been very speak-singy, heavy on the speak) but I know nine times out of ten when I need to reset myself musically there's about a half dozen Lou or VU albums I can throw on. Think I'll listen to Busload of Faith off of New York for starters. . .
An artist and a master for sure.
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what? we haven't heard a peep from him since his liver transplant in April!!!!!!!!!!
Except for that Yeezus review (http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/lou-reed), which I enjoyed.
Klosterman did a good obit. (http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9892086/remembering-lou-reed)
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i bet lou and andy . . . are bitching at each other, already.
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ah, I date myself, it was 1998 shortly after Fully Loaded was released.
the setlist was stellar Lou 930 98 (http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/lou-reed/1998/930-club-washington-dc-63d0cac3.html)
I saw this gig as well, and remember him playing Rock & Roll. Either way, it was a wonderful set.
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i bet lou and andy . . . are bitching at each other, already.
This makes me think of Songs for Drella's Open House.
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I like Metal Machine Music.
its kind of like a good head cleanser..
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I listened to half of that last night. It was around 1am when side 3 started so I gave up.
Love that album but totally see why it would have been considered awful back in the 70's.
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i bet lou and andy . . . are bitching at each other, already.
This makes me think of Songs for Drella's Open House.
yes, ill say it . . . one of the best things lou did, was that songs for drella album
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I love that this thread brought Thirsty Moore out of hiding.
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This from a friend of mine who created it - the Lou Reed Memorial Pumpkin:
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Awesome!
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way cool!
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i bet lou and andy . . . are bitching at each other, already.
This makes me think of Songs for Drella's Open House.
yes, ill say it . . . one of the best things lou did, was that songs for drella album
I love this record as well
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Also like Metal Machine Music. But that should come as no surprise to any regulars 'round these parts.
Love this (http://news.radio.com/2013/10/29/walking-the-walk-remembering-lou-reeds-political-action-at-occupy-wall-street/) on Lou/Occupy Wall St.
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"Fucking good riddance to bad rubbish. I don't give a fucking shit and nobody else does either. It's just fun to fake sympathy, that's all they're doing."
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?The Velvet Underground won?t replace anything . . . except maybe suicide.?
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/03/article-1224944-0079B1FF00000258-637_224x423.jpg)
Boring songs. Total a-hole as a person. Begat 30,000 shitty bands. Deep down did Lou Reed REALLY "change your life?" You like him in theory but given the choice your mind is telling you George Michael is a much greater artist in every respect. He's the Arcade Fire of his time. But no, please keep jerking off and telling yourself how deeply touched you were by "Pale Blues Eyes." Where shall I send the Tampax?
Brian
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oh great somebody spoke your name didn't they....
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To our neighbors:
What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.
Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we?re city people this is our spiritual home.
Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!
Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.
Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
? Laurie Anderson
his loving wife and eternal friend
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Never forget...
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i have a tough time reconciling the drug fiending asshole lou reed with the nature loving taichi lou reed
unfortunately i much prefer the former..in any case they are both dead.
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I just don't know.
http://youtu.be/QaMii34d044
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went to the ottobar haunted house last night....they take you through in groups...in our group was a dude with a sheet over his head and wearing mirroshades with the andy warhol banana attached...his costume was "Boo Reed" (turned out it was Nolan from Double Dagger / Pure Junk, etc)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m63PLuKIA2A&feature=youtu.be
Sweet Jane w/Sharon Jones also on vocals
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Patti Smith on Lou Reed:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2013/11/11/131111ta_talk_smith
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"New Sensations" will always be my favorite Lou record. The title song, plus "Doing the Things that We Want To" became my mantra for living in 1984, my first post-collegiate year in the real world. Lou showed me a way to see and be when I needed some good advice, and I will always remember and thank him for that.
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Love that guy.
went to the ottobar haunted house last night....they take you through in groups...in our group was a dude with a sheet over his head and wearing mirroshades with the andy warhol banana attached...his costume was "Boo Reed" (turned out it was Nolan from Double Dagger / Pure Junk, etc)
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Patti Smith on Lou Reed:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2013/11/11/131111ta_talk_smith
A pro of the me-eulogy.
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Patti Smith on Lou Reed:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2013/11/11/131111ta_talk_smith
A pro of the me-eulogy.
a very good point...
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perfect
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/laurie-andersons-farewell-to-lou-reed-a-rolling-stone-exclusive-20131106
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Just heard the the version of Smalltown on Animal Serenade. . . Really wish I had seen Lou. Fricking great. Some folks are just born with a purpose.