RIP Lou Reed

[gweimer]

Rolling Stone reports the passing of Lou Reed.  Like them or not, and I didn't particularly, you can't miss hearing the influence of The Velvet Underground on new music.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/27/lou-reed-dead_n_4167976.html

[Barklessdog]

I always liked Lou Reed, not a big fan of his personality, but certainly his talk singing. He knew how to sound himself with great musicians, Fernando Sanders was one of my favorite Lou Reed bands. I really liked Berlin as well.

[Highlander]

I came of age listening to his music, and Alice stealing that band...

I still do not understand to this (not so perfect) day how the BBC let Wild Side walk it's way into the playlists...

RIP Lou...

This kind of beautifully sums it all up...



... but remember what he left us to remember him by is just a...

[wellREDman]

rolling stone are full of it

http://en.mediamass.net/people/lou-reed/deathhoax.html

I once was lucky enough to get to watch a Lou Reed show from his guitar tech's station, there was an amazing transformation as he took the stage, backstage he came across as an old man, quite doddery in fact, but as he walked onstage he seemed to lose about 20 years suddenly he was vital and electric, it obviously took it out of him though as when he finished the show he seemed drained and even more feeble.
 

[gweimer]

I was, however, fond of The Bells.

[Hörnisse]

[Dave W]

rolling stone are full of it

http://en.mediamass.net/people/lou-reed/deathhoax.html

I once was lucky enough to get to watch a Lou Reed show from his guitar tech's station, there was an amazing transformation as he took the stage, backstage he came across as an old man, quite doddery in fact, but as he walked onstage he seemed to lose about 20 years suddenly he was vital and electric, it obviously took it out of him though as when he finished the show he seemed drained and even more feeble.
 

The article you link to looks like it's the hoax. Just look at their related Lou Reed links.

The New York Times thinks he has died, and their source is his literary agent.

[Highlander]

Not so dead after all, hmm...?

I think this deserves side four of Metal Machine Music, on vinyl, of course, as aficionados will know the reason why...

[gweimer]

Not so dead after all, hmm...?

I think this deserves side four of Metal Machine Music, on vinyl, of course, as aficionados will know the reason why...

You really are a cruel bastard.  LOL.  You have to give credit to Lou for having what many consider to be one of the finest albums in rock (Rock and Roll Animal) and then one of the worst (Metal Music Machine).  When I saw Alice Cooper, he had the recently liberated Lou Reed band, with Davey Johnstone on guitar.

[Highlander]

It was the minty-fresh version I saw with the WTMN show - they filmed my night and I can see my white denim (yes, sad but true) jacket, ten rows back, in some of the crowd shots...

A buddy of mine was a true Reed die-hard and made me listen to the whole LP just after he got it, and the run-off on side four with the infinity loop...   thankfully, beer and comestibles were included to ease the pain...

[nofi]

i saw the rock and roll animal tour. i always liked lou a lot. too bad.

[Highlander]

That was, by all reckoning I know, the tour to have seen...

[nofi]

from what i have heard metal machine music was a contract fulfillment record. quite by accident it became a template for all the coming noise/harsh electronic bands to follow.
merzbow, whitehouse, sunn o... 


i had mmm on 8 track.

[uwe]

Not everything he did I liked, but the man was never boring or playing to expectations. Hopefully, world-weary cynics go somewhere nice too.

[Highlander]

i had mmm on 8 track.

AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHNNNNNNUUUUUUUUHHHHHHNNNNNNNGGGGGGHHHHGHHHGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!
The eternal loop...