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Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed dies at 71, report says
FOXnews.com ^ | October 27, 2013 | Foxnews

Posted on 10/27/2013 12:00:36 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg

Lou Reed, the frontman of the rock band the Velvet Underground, has died at age 71, according to a report from Rolling Stone magazine.

The Velvet Underground became one of the most influential bands in rock music by fusing art and music through its collaboration with Andy Warhol in the 1960s, Reuters reports. The magazine did not say how Reed died and his representatives could not immediately be reached.

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KEYWORDS: andywarhol; heroin; loureed; obituary; paleblueeyes; thecoloredgirlssay; velvetunderground
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

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.


21 posted on 10/27/2013 1:07:47 PM PDT by BCrago66
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To: SamAdams76
Not sure if that counts as being homosexual if they were coming on to him as girls and he was treating them as girls

it is homosexual if they are not real girls.

22 posted on 10/27/2013 1:08:47 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: SamAdams76

Check yourself....Bruce Hornsby’s NOT dead yet.


23 posted on 10/27/2013 1:09:43 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: SamAdams76

The guy who played sax for Springsteen was Clarence Clemons


24 posted on 10/27/2013 1:11:12 PM PDT by Gefn (More Cowbell)
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To: lee martell

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.


25 posted on 10/27/2013 1:14:18 PM PDT by Gefn (More Cowbell)
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To: hoagy62

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.


26 posted on 10/27/2013 1:18:33 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Mad Dawgg

Rest in peace, Lou Reed.


27 posted on 10/27/2013 1:18:46 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: SamAdams76

Correction: McFadden and Whitehead are both gone. Whitehead was murdered and McFadden died a few years ago (natural causes I believe).


28 posted on 10/27/2013 1:28:42 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: SamAdams76
...When will the madness end?...

When they are all dead. Or you.

29 posted on 10/27/2013 1:28:52 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Stupidity is not a crime, so you're free to go.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

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.


30 posted on 10/27/2013 1:40:25 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Mad Dawgg

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.


31 posted on 10/27/2013 1:40:54 PM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Mad Dawgg
Sweet Jane    (7:58 HQ)

RIP .. that one alone was enough for a legacy.

32 posted on 10/27/2013 1:51:23 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

read that some parent just sold their daughter knowing it was to harvest her organs.
in some places human life is cheep


33 posted on 10/27/2013 1:59:26 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
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To: Mad Dawgg

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.


34 posted on 10/27/2013 2:11:16 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: matt1234

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.)


35 posted on 10/27/2013 2:14:03 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: BeadCounter
> Metal Machine Music, best I could describe it is white noise,... I wonder if anyone else has here has hear it,

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.

36 posted on 10/27/2013 2:16:37 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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To: lee martell

“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.


37 posted on 10/27/2013 2:17:00 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: ADemocratNoMore

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.


38 posted on 10/27/2013 2:18:26 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: SamAdams76
"Then you have the saxophone playing guy from the E Street Band"

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"...!

39 posted on 10/27/2013 2:22:53 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: BeadCounter
It gets even better - I just found this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlLbiMAOG1s

4 guitars and 4 amp & speaker stacks - cross modulation !

40 posted on 10/27/2013 2:35:35 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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