Lou Reed

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• Lou Reed

  To see a Lou Reed show was to watch an artist that created the "Punk" ethos if not the music itself. This is a guy who, in the 60's, hung out with Warhol and all of the characters of the "Factory" scene. In the 70's he worked with David Bowie in crafting his most popular album and his biggest hit single, "Walk on the Wild Side."

  You knew a Lou Reed show would never suck - at least when I saw him late in his career. By that time he was sober and incredibly professional without being dull. No more fake shooting up smack on stage like the 70’s. In the 90’s and 00’s he did things like describe sounds from his guitar amps as sounding like "diamonds." Funny thing is, they kind of did.

  But Lou was never warm and fuzzy with the audience. He was workman like. He was also an infamously cranky bastard. You could tell his band knew this. He stuck to the setlist but he was never boring. Songs were never delivered in a phoned-in manner. Even at the very end of his career, he told stories around the writing and performing of "Sweet Jane" and seemed to have fun every time he played it.

  I'm sad Lou Reed is gone but I'm glad I got to see him. I saw him on a pier in Baltimore, a Bowling Alley in Dallas and at the 9:30 Club in Washington the night before he played the White House. Lou Reed made this small town kid from Nebraska feel like a citizen of New York City. Even in all of those places. Lou could do that. That’s how good he was.

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