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Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71
Rolling Stone ^ | 10/27/13 | Jon Dolan

Posted on 10/27/2013 10:58:25 AM PDT by BunnySlippers

Lou Reed, a massively influential songwriter and guitarist who helped shape nearly fifty years of rock music, died today. The cause of his death has not yet been released, but Reed underwent a liver transplant in May.

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KEYWORDS: 2013obituaries; andywarhol; drugs; heroin; loureed; music; obituary; paleblueeyes; rock; rockandroll; rockmusic; velvetunderground; wastedliver
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To: BunnySlippers

Lou Reed dies at 71?

Got 40 more years then anyone expected


41 posted on 10/27/2013 11:26:43 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: BunnySlippers

Maybe it’s just me, but I always thought he was over-rated


42 posted on 10/27/2013 11:27:32 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: EnquiringMind

You are correct.


43 posted on 10/27/2013 11:29:00 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: dfwgator; discostu

A former Rolling Stone critic aid that he once called the record studio Reed recorded for and asked if there were any plans for a new and remastered edition of ‘Metal Machine Music’...there was some mild laughter on the other end of the line and the record company employee hung up...when the critic heard the dial tone he thought they were playing him the newly remastered edition of Metal Machine Music.


44 posted on 10/27/2013 11:30:04 AM PDT by Borges
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To: a fool in paradise
Well, at least Joey is still with us!


45 posted on 10/27/2013 11:30:10 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: BunnySlippers

Rock’n’Roll Animal is in my top five live albums, just a fantastic guitar driven frenzy of rock. Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter play duel lead guitar, and later went on to join the Alice Cooper band. I could never get into the Velvet era or his solo studio albums. Supposedly Velvet fans don’t dig it too much and Lou Reed himself came out and said he wasn’t a fan of it. Maybe it wasn’t whiny or brooding enough.

RIP

Freegards


46 posted on 10/27/2013 11:30:25 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Revolting cat!
Do the Ostrich in Lou Reed's memory (composition for Pickwick, first pairing with John Cale)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r998weOUiM (1964)

47 posted on 10/27/2013 11:31:18 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: BunnySlippers

Well, well, well, alcohol, drugs and rock ‘n roll. Always together, I’m surprised he made it to 71.

To paraphrase Katherine Hepburn in African Queen, ‘may he be judged not for his weaknesses but his strengths’.

I did love Walk on the wild side.


48 posted on 10/27/2013 11:31:38 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: BunnySlippers
I never saw Lou Reed, but I saw John Cale. He just sat on a stool, played guitar and sang.

This was at a venue in Atlanta (Metroplex) that was torn down for the Olympics.

49 posted on 10/27/2013 11:34:09 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Rock, paper, scissors, GUN. I win.)
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To: Slump Tester

Yes actually massively influential. David Bowie used to quip that while only a couple thousand people bought the first VU album when it came out all of them, including him, immediately formed bands. If the only influence Reed had was putting out the album that convinced Bowie there was an audience for his music (Bowie’s words) he’d be a huge influence. But he had a lot more influence than that, the whole depressing section of the rock catalog (aka “the good part”) has its roots in Reed.


50 posted on 10/27/2013 11:34:20 AM PDT by discostu (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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To: real saxophonist

Cale just died recently too?


51 posted on 10/27/2013 11:35:27 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BunnySlippers

As far as “covers” go, I’ve always thought the Cowboy Junkies doing “Sweet Jane” was the best of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRFZFmEq9o


52 posted on 10/27/2013 11:35:30 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: Zeneta
I love the way they put it to use in this AT&T Olympics commercial.
53 posted on 10/27/2013 11:37:28 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: BunnySlippers
"The Velvet Underground & Nico stands as a landmark on par with the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde."

Right..."Bigger than the Beatles." Typical Rolling Stone piece. Grotesquely overwritten, bordering on delusional.
54 posted on 10/27/2013 11:38:57 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: a fool in paradise

That is great, but I bet that it only “Bubbled Under the Top 100” of Billboard, where as I recall a log of great singles could be found at one time.


55 posted on 10/27/2013 11:39:00 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Joe 6-pack

The band he had for Rock N’ Roll Animal, especially Hunter and Wagner on guitars, was pretty good.


56 posted on 10/27/2013 11:39:37 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Texan5

I think that’s what happened the Harry Nilsson. I loved his music but he was a druggie and burned out way before his time. He began anti-gun when his friend John Lennon was shot. I think he actually make anti-gun commercials.


57 posted on 10/27/2013 11:41:42 AM PDT by gattaca ("Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Zeneta

Love it! So moody. I just put it up on Pinterest as well.

Looks like that band has been around for awhile!


58 posted on 10/27/2013 11:41:51 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: FreeReign

Love the guitar here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeL5RcbpiM8


59 posted on 10/27/2013 11:41:57 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: BunnySlippers

I was 15, and my boyfriend brought me a reel of quarter inch tape that had all the “Underground” music of the 60’s, which later evolved into the Rock of the 70’s.

I played that tape on my dad’s “Roberts” Reel-to-reel Tape recorder so many times it got all stretched out.

And yes, VU was well represented.


60 posted on 10/27/2013 11:42:01 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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