Lou Reed - 1942-2013

[Guest]

It's been announced that Lou Reed has died, aged 71.
Too much to take in at the moment.

[Serial_Apologist]

Somehow I can't picture you as a Lou Reed fan, Anna.

[Anna]

Somehow I can't picture you as a Lou Reed fan, Anna.

Oh, but I am, I was. Berlin is my favourite album, I play it a lot. Meanwhile, here's something we all remember him by: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAfP5BMKgjc
Or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nGsUbZpCKM

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh, but I am, I was. Berlin is my favourite album, I play it a lot. Meanwhile, here's something we all remember him by: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAfP5BMKgjc

That track (playing it now) immediately brings back juke boxes in Scandinavian-restyled saloon bars on those hot mid-seventies summer evenings.

[Bryn]

Condolences to Laurie.

[Anna]

Condolences to Laurie.

Yes, must have been hard (not that I know her) but, he was genius at times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3k7a8ZXFY

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Who is Lou Reed?

[MrGongGong]

Condolences to Laurie.

And i'll be listening to this at high volume

[Serial_Apologist]

Who is Lou Reed?

Lead singer and moving spirit (I guess you could say) of The Velvet Underground, a psychedelic coke-(as opposed to dope)-fuelled NY rock band established in 1964 or 5, strongly associated (initially) with a famous artist said to have initiated the cult of celebrity by saying anyone can be famous for 15 minutes - not that Lou Reed was in any way to be blamed. .

[Bryn]

Who is Lou Reed?

An American composer, poet, singer and guitarist; late husband of the performance artist Laurie Anderson.

[umslopogaas]

Alas! That news got me running to my shelves. Who was (is) Lou Reed? Answer: the lead guitarist, piano player and vocalist in 'The Velvet Underground', for example, hear their album 'White Heat, White Light'. What a band! Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker. Maureen Tucker, a FEMALE drum basher? Oh yes! Bring back 1970. On second thoughts, dont bother, I would have been too stoned to remember it. But I've got the LP.

[johncorrigan]

Not many bands have been more influential on what came after them than the Velvets with Reed and Cale. The great thing, sometimes, about Reed was he never tried to stay the same. 'I'm Waiting for my man' remains one of the great guitar riffs.

[MrGongGong]

Who is Lou Reed?

You teach music and you need to ask this question ?
Blimey .......... where have you been ?

[Bryn]

Not many bands have been more influential on what came after them than the Velvets with Reed and Cage. The great thing, sometimes, about Reed was he never tried to stay the same. 'I'm Waiting for my man' remains one of the great guitar riffs.

I think you might mean Reed and someone who sounds a bit brassica.

[johncorrigan]

I think you might mean Reed and someone who sounds a bit brassica.

Thanks Bryn; I shall rectify.