Posted on 07/23/2010 12:44:28 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
The live version of Sweet Jane from Lou Reed’s “Rock And Roll Animal” is one of the best things ever recorded.
Certainly has a sweet guitar duo to launch it. However, like everything else, it crashes as soon as Lou opens his mouth.
Who were the guitarists? I forget...
Funny...to read favorables about a progressive NYC pre-punk punk band from a Reaganite! Music is so cool that way.
Listen to the bass player. He holds the entire thing together. Who were the guitarists? I forget...
Not sure. I'll google that one.
Yeah, they usually do...
Hunter and Wagner. Same team who did Alice Cooper’s “Welcome To My Nightmare.”
WAAAAYYY ahead of their time. Even today, there are not many acts with that sound. Hard to believe it was 1967.
They (and Iggy & The Stooges) paved the way for Alternative Rock (Talking Heads) NY punk (Ramones), Glam Rock (NY Dolls), UK Punk (Sex Pistols, The Clash), and eventually California punk (punk’s downfall, IMO).
CBGB was closed by the time I was old enough to go. Bummer.
Thanks for posting.
We are taking a walk on the wild side over here!!!
They were an anti-hippy band.
Comparing "Heroin" - and its underlying message - to all the fruity, let's-all-hold-hands-and-get-high California pop of the time is fascinating.
It's like comparing Camus to Judy Blume.
Here you go:
Rock n Roll Animal is a live album by Lou Reed, released in 1974. In its original form, it features five songs from different periods of his creative career, including several songs by the Velvet Underground. The songs are all re-arranged into a powerful glam rock set. The musicians were Pentti Glan (drums) and Prakash John (bass) of the contemporary Alice Cooper band, Ray Colcord (keyboards), and Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter on guitars. The album was recorded live on December 21, 1973 (1973-12-21), at Howard Stein’s Academy of Music in New York.
In college, we had a Lou Reed poster with the caption: “WANTED. Lou Reed. For turning an entire generation of Americans into faggot junkies.”
Plenty of good stuff here:
http://www.tropicalglen.com/
Reed rocks out, but is a bit one-note overall. John Cale is just simply a genius. An unbelievably enthralling performer, on piano or guitar.
The one time I really loved Lou Reed was when I saw him at a singer/songwriter show at The Bottom Line. I sat in the very first row, and Reed was on the stage with Roseanne Cash, Luka Bloom and David Byrne. They each introduced one of their songs, told how/why they wrote it, and then performed it. The others would join in if they were moved. The last round, each of them had to pick a song by another writer and sing that. Lou was last, and with no introduction he just started singing "Tears of a Clown" a cappella. The crowd sang the chorus and Lou just stopped, said "Thank you all. Goodnight." and that was the end of the show. It was cool.
Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:27:04 PM by ConservativeStatement
Tuli Kupferberg, a founding member of the New York underground rockers the Fugs, has died at age 86.
Kupferberg died Monday in a Manhattan hospital, according to his friend and bandmate Ed Sanders. He had suffered several strokes in the past year.
Sanders, owner of the Peace Eye Bookstore in New York, joined with beat poet Kupferberg and drummer Ken Weaver to form the group in 1964.
They were among the first underground rock bands and paved the way for groups such as the Mothers of Invention and Velvet Underground. The Fugs were strong supporters of the anti-war and protest movements of the 1960s.
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thx.
I haven’t heard any of this since I was in college in the 80’s. Where do you get mp3’s of this metrial nowadays? I’m so out of touch with music at the moment. I gotta hear some of this early stuff...
I should know more about these guys. Wonder why I don't...
I got R&R Animal from Itunes for 99 cents
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