Posted on 10/27/2013 12:00:36 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg
He loved cigars, too. I once delivered a box of them outside his apartment door on West 13th St. in Greenwich Village. That couldn’t have helped.
it is homosexual if they are not real girls.
Check yourself....Bruce Hornsby’s NOT dead yet.
The guy who played sax for Springsteen was Clarence Clemons
Berlin was my favorite piece by Lou Reed as well. It got me through a few very dark nights of the soul, and for that I will be forever grateful. I liked the way Caroline says part 2 was a play on the Velvets Stephanie says.
Excellent news on Bruce Hornsby still being alive. Let’s get him encircled in bubble wrap so that he can be safe from danger and so that we can continue to benefit from his jazzy “jam-band” form of rock.
Rest in peace, Lou Reed.
Correction: McFadden and Whitehead are both gone. Whitehead was murdered and McFadden died a few years ago (natural causes I believe).
When they are all dead. Or you.
I was wondering the same thing, just for his age, let alone a “rock ‘n roll” “lifestyle”. From the wiki link in an above post, he was bisexual, and I bet that “lifestyle” didn’t have a positive effect on his health, particularly his liver.
Brooklyn baby.
For the past 2 months i’ve been listening to Sweet Jane and Rock n Roll on a daily basis. The original Velvet Underground versions.
RIP .. that one alone was enough for a legacy.
read that some parent just sold their daughter knowing it was to harvest her organs.
in some places human life is cheep
I liked Lou.
Bought ‘Transformer’ the day it was released. At that time, every album David Bowie touched turned to gold, and ‘Transformer’ was one of them. Mott the Hoople’s album (I forget the title) with “Sweet Jane’ was another.
I heard an interview with Lou a few years ago. He said he found it easier to write songs when somebody gave him “an assignment”, ie, “Hey Lou, why don’t you write a song about...”
RIP, Lou Reed
...And another piece of my youth.
I put in Lou in the same category as Elton John. Don’t approve of the lifestyle (however they didn’t ask my opinion about it and I consider it their business.) But they are talented Musicians (though Lou’s talent was more on the composing and writing side. But I still dig his vocals. He’s one of those singers that no one else sounds like.)
FWIW if you listen to it at half speed (or quarter speed, I forget which) it becomes apparent that Lou cranked up his stack of amps, set down his guitar in front of the speakers and just let things go from there, recording the resultant feedback and speeding up the tape. As someone who enjoys the odd bit of electronic musical strangeness I wouldn't exactly call it unlistenable, more like once a decade listenable for when I'm in a really strange mood. The modern equivalent is “zero input mixer” style although the little I've heard tends to be less noise based and more grounded in the early fart and whistle days of the genre.
“Satellite’s gone way up to Mars,
Soon it’ll be filled with Parking Cars”
Have to like those kinds of lyrics.
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/lou+reed/satellite+of+love_20085178.html
Didn’t know this, album of Lou Reed and Metallica.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/lulu-mw0002223324
Nay, I don’t like the cover and it’s things like that that turn me off. Whatever.
Guy wrote some good hooks in his songs, stuff I remember better than a lot of others.
Thanks so much for addressing this.
I was curious what others thought of it and wrote my post a little hastily, I see I stumbled my words a bit.
I’ll reflect on this more later. Good to know someone else has heard this.
Damn that one still hits home. The "Big Man" himself Clarence Clemens is a great loss. The guy could wail!
I always got a kick out of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure portraying Him and Fee Waybill and Martha Davis as the "Three Most Important People in the World"...!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlLbiMAOG1s
4 guitars and 4 amp & speaker stacks - cross modulation !
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