RIP Lou Reed

Lou Reed was great, and very influential. And yet, I think he's also overrated.

 

A1 of the NYT tomorrow or not?

 

Hardcore New York legend. I'd be very surprised if it isn't on A1.

 

Give me an issue, I'll give you a tissue. You can wipe my ass with it.

Great lyric. Great advice. I've kinda lived by it.

RIP, Louuuuuuuuuu.



I'd love to have watched his life ... from a safe distance.

 

When Cate Blanchett played Bob Dylan?

 

RIP to someone I always considered a poet more than a musician. A damn fine poet.

"I'm Waiting for the Man" is one of the first songs I learned to play on guitar, and its lyrics still ring true for junkies/tweakers today:

"I'm feeling good, I'm feeling oh so fine
Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time
I'm waiting for my man"

I always enjoyed his "New York" album, too ... another set of songs with stinging lyrics.

 

I think he'll be there too. Times Twitter feed was awash in Lou Reed links today.

 

On my way home from work in NYC one night there was a guy talking to my coworker and I about music. He says, "Yeah, I've been a Lou Reed fan all my life."

I asked him, "What do you think was better, Berlin or Transformer?"

He looks at me with a puzzled look and says, "Huh?"

"Look dude, don't say you've been a Lou Reed fan your whole life, you've never heard of Berlin or Transformer, so you don't know dick about Lou Reed.

Him: "Berlin? Transformer? Never heard of them."

 

The person who needs to see that will unfortunately never, ever click on this thread.

 

I never realized Laurie Anderson and Lou were married. Fascinating.

BTW, that Rolling Stone obit is a pretty nice piece of journalism on a man who died today.

 

RIP to a real original....take a walk on the wild side.....

One of my all-time fave live tracks from any artists (the intro alone makes it a classic)....turn this fucker up.....

 

He'd been sick.