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Lou Reed?
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Passinwind
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Go back to back with Pat Metheny's Zero Tolerance For Silence. Go ahead, I dare you!No, I actually enjoy the change of pace.
And say, Neil Young's Weld ...Go back to back with Pat Metheny's Zero Tolerance For Silence. Go ahead, I dare you!
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There is a clear defining line in the strata that currently comprises of my life that one can see. Below that line is everything before I discovered Lou Reed.
Lou Reed’s music to me was an artistic and cultural bomb going off. It helped me look at and changed my mind about a great many things.
Lou Reed’s music to me was an artistic and cultural bomb going off. It helped me look at and changed my mind about a great many things.
Yes, I like reading on the toilet...why do you ask?! 
I was just digging the title track from New Sensations last week, Fernando Saunders' snaky fretless line is full of surprises, as are the lyrics. When Lou was great he was the best of the best, when he wasn't....
I am eternally appreciative of the Velvet Underground for helping me find what's really important in music after a disastrous stint in music school.
I was just digging the title track from New Sensations last week, Fernando Saunders' snaky fretless line is full of surprises, as are the lyrics. When Lou was great he was the best of the best, when he wasn't....
I am eternally appreciative of the Velvet Underground for helping me find what's really important in music after a disastrous stint in music school.
Truth. I first heard ‘New York’ between Theory III & Vocal Jazz rehearsal.
Two great songs but I like the Mitch Ryder and Mott the Hoople cover versions better than the originals.
Lou is right up there with Neil Young and Bob Dylan in confounding me by constantly changing his approach and getting lost in the weeds more often than not.
My introduction to Lou was when my brother brought “Transformer” home (he also played me the Mitch Ryder record). I didn't actually hear the VU until repressings of the first two LPs showed up in the bargain bins. I like both of them but “Sunday Morning”, “Run Run Run” and ‘The Gift” are all low spots. I prefer the cranked up noise aspects the most and I liked Nico’s vocals enough to buy a bunch of her solo albums which John Cale had a strong hand in.
Of the solo Lou albums, after Transformer, Berlin and Rock and Roll Animal are my favorites. That’s funny because they are all so different.
I stopped following Lou in the 80s and only recently bought a CD comp which covers that period.
This is one of my desert island albums
Other than this masterpiece (IMO) I am not a fan of Mr. Reed's music, apart from a select few VU-era songs.
Other than this masterpiece (IMO) I am not a fan of Mr. Reed's music, apart from a select few VU-era songs.
Oh yeah, big VU fan and I like lots of Lou's solo work too. The Rock 'n Roll live album was my main introduction to his material. I got it around 1982, and I still love it. I think Live in Italy is fantastic too, largely due to the incomparable Robert Quine on guitar. New York was big for me at the time, but I don't listen to it much anymore. Eventually, I got more into VU than Lou's solo work.
Tomorrow afternoon, one of my bands is playing "Venus in Furs" at an outdoor show. We do it like the Raveonettes' version, and jam on it for awhile at the end. Our guitarists crush it. I had wanted to play this track in a band for about 40 years.
Any and all Lou/VU fans should check out I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground, which has some amazing VU covers.
Tomorrow afternoon, one of my bands is playing "Venus in Furs" at an outdoor show. We do it like the Raveonettes' version, and jam on it for awhile at the end. Our guitarists crush it. I had wanted to play this track in a band for about 40 years.
Any and all Lou/VU fans should check out I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground, which has some amazing VU covers.
Checking that out now. So far not really my cup of coffee, but we'll see. Jazz on speed, acid, and dodging getting poked in the eye? Then again, some people felt like MMM was basically all heroin, acid, and getting beat with a cudgel.Go back to back with Pat Metheny's Zero Tolerance For Silence. Go ahead, I dare you!
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I have it on CD, a "friend" gave it to me after one listen, I think.
I tend to prefer my sonic abuse the old fashioned way: scronking atonal horns, and elbows out on the piano.
My introduction was "Take a Walk on the Wild Side". Sometimes I like other artists' covers of Lou's songs, but I've yet to hear a cover that touches the versions on R&R Animal (assuming you're really into intense rock rather than experimental stuff). Now those are fun to jam along with.
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I'm planning on working up a few of the R&R A arrangements on guitar now that I've got my electric back in action. We did a few in my mid 80s Seattle jam band, oddly enough, and they always went over well.
Rock and roll animal is one of my favorite albums OF ALL TIME.
I dug that Detroit album when it came out, it was produced by Bob Ezrin and the guitarist was Steve Hunter, kinda a template for.their later work with Lou Reed and Alice Cooper. The Mott album is a classic!
I would have bought it if all it had was Intro.
