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Posted: Sep 15, 2023 - 4:04am

 Steely_D wrote:


I figure every time I post something from that album you get to remind us that you were there. Fair.

D'oh!

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Posted: Sep 14, 2023 - 10:09pm

https://www.instagram.com/reel...
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Posted: Sep 14, 2023 - 9:56pm

 Steely_D wrote:
 Proclivities wrote:

I may have posted this before, but I'm pretty sure I was at that particular show.  As far as I remember, that album was recorded over 5 consecutive nights at The Bottom Line.  I think I went to the Saturday show - had to use my older friend's driver's license to get in since I was 16.  No photos on NYS licenses back then. 
I figure every time I post something from that album you get to remind us that you were there. Fair.
 
{#Drummer} Good one, Doc.
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Posted: Sep 14, 2023 - 4:50pm

goddammit
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Posted: Sep 14, 2023 - 3:22pm

 Steely_D wrote:


I figure every time I post something from that album you get to remind us that you were there. Fair.




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Posted: Sep 14, 2023 - 2:54pm

 Proclivities wrote:

I may have posted this before, but I'm pretty sure I was at that particular show.  As far as I remember, that album was recorded over 5 consecutive nights at The Bottom Line.  I think I went to the Saturday show - had to use my older friend's driver's license to get in since I was 16.  No photos on NYS licenses back then. 


I figure every time I post something from that album you get to remind us that you were there. Fair.
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Posted: Sep 13, 2023 - 6:46am

 Steely_D wrote:
...

I may have posted this before, but I'm pretty sure I was at that particular show.  As far as I remember, that album was recorded over 5 consecutive nights at The Bottom Line.  I think I went to the Saturday show - had to use my older friend's driver's license to get in since I was 16.  No photos on NYS licenses back then. 

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Posted: Sep 11, 2023 - 4:06pm


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Posted: Sep 11, 2023 - 12:30pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Very interesting. Now I have to put some of that on my dive list...
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Posted: Sep 11, 2023 - 12:22pm

“I still remember writing the intro to Sweet Jane sitting on a couch in my living room”: How a session guitar legend resurrected Lou Reed’s career with hard-rock lead heroics – and help from Blood Sweat & Tears’ Steve Katz

Not much in this article needed said, I guess. But the bit about it being his stock intro for various other performers ...wha?
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Posted: Nov 11, 2013 - 10:11am

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I find it rather spooky or perhaps just one of those strange, random synchronicities that this song is featured in a video game commercial which first aired a couple of weeks before his death and is still playing regularly.{#Eek}

 
It was startling to me to hear any of his tunes used in a TV commercial, but particularly odd that they chose that song.


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Posted: Nov 11, 2013 - 9:57am

 Lazy8 wrote:

Lou Reed, “Perfect Day”

Written by November 11th, 2013 at 10:40 am
 

 

 


 
I find it rather spooky or perhaps just one of those strange, random synchronicities that this song is featured in a video game commercial which first aired a couple of weeks before his death and is still playing regularly.{#Eek}


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Posted: Nov 11, 2013 - 9:29am

Lou Reed, “Perfect Day”

Written by November 11th, 2013 at 10:40 am
 

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Whenever a great musician dies, it’s customary for grieving fans to look back through the body of work left behind for something movingly elegiac in an effort to say a proper goodbye. But such a task was never going to be easy with Lou Reed, who passed away on October 27 at age 71, simply because Reed’s songs were always coming from way too many angles to snugly serve any single purpose.

The most obvious candidate, at least musically, would seem to be “Perfect Day”, the lush ballad that became one of Reed’s signature songs practically from the moment it appeared on his second solo album, 1972’s Transformer. Produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson and featuring Ronson’s swirling string arrangement and piano flourishes, it really is a gorgeous track on the surface.

Yet there’s something gently unsettling about it. Maybe it’s the eerie stillness that permeates the song or the dirge-like pace. Maybe it’s the way that Reed sings the line, “It’s such fun” as if he were being lobotomized. In any case, there’s always the feeling that this idyllic day is just a tiny oasis in a dark desert.

Still, the narrator manages to snap out of his stupor to thank the one with whom he’s spending this “Perfect Day.” “You made me forget myself,” Reed sings, slivers of emotion creeping into his voice. “I thought I was someone else, someone good.” With cutting simplicity, it’s clear that this day isn’t just a good time for this guy. It’s his temporary redemption.

As for the haunting refrain that Reed intones in the closing moments of the song, Bono spoke about its subversive nature in his tribute to Lou in the most recent edition of Rolling Stone. “It’s been sung by all manner of earnest voices, including mine and children’s choirs, since it was written in 1972,” Bono wrote. “It never fails to give me some kind of extra ache as they sing the last line, ‘You’re going to reap just what you sow,’ oblivious of the icy chill suggested.”

If you doubt the dark side of this seemingly benign song, check out the chilling way it was used in the 1996 film Trainspotting, director Danny Boyle’s portrait of young heroin users. Yet you could easily imagine it in a romantic comedy as the soundtrack to a sappy montage of a young couple enjoying a picturesque afternoon.

That’s the kind of dichotomy that was commonplace in the music of Lou Reed, so, come to think of it, maybe “Perfect Day” isn’t a bad summation of the man and his work after all. It’s beautiful, brutal, and impossible to pin down.


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Posted: Nov 8, 2013 - 5:45am

 Rod wrote:

There are some very cool Lou tributes popping up out there!

 

 
this reminds me of when Warren Zevon died...all sorts of tributes to an artist that touched many others, yet not a big commercial success...hope they do an album of Lou's songs like "enjoy every sandwich"
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Posted: Nov 6, 2013 - 7:34pm


There are some very cool Lou tributes popping up out there!

 
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Posted: Nov 1, 2013 - 11:19pm

I add my thanks to SFW for Laurie Anderson's writing on Lou's last days. {#Arrowd}.  I've thought for a long time that knowing how and then making a graceful exit is as important as anything one can do while living.  Lou and Laurie have helped me understand and for that I am grateful.

Edit: I read another loving account of living, loving and finally being with Lou at the end.   Also by Laurie Anderson.  Some people know how to live.. and how to die in grace.  VERY touching.


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Posted: Nov 1, 2013 - 9:55pm

 Antigone wrote:
{#Arrowd} Thanks, Scott.

 
Yes, what she said.{#Meditate}
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Posted: Nov 1, 2013 - 9:46pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

 
 
 
 
 
What a beautiful fall!
Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light.
Water surrounding us.

Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years,
and even though we’re city people this is our spiritual home.

Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital
and come home to Springs.
And we made it!

Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here
being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power
and softness of nature.
He died on Sunday morning
looking at the trees and doing
the famous 21 form of tai chi
with just his musician hands
moving through the air.

Lou was a prince
and a fighter
and I know his songs of the
pain and beauty in the world
will fill many people with the
incredible joy he felt for life.
Long live the beauty that comes down
and through and onto all of us.

— Laurie Anderson
his loving wife and eternal friend



 
 


 

 
...
Red_Dragon

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Posted: Nov 1, 2013 - 9:46pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

 
 
 
 
 
What a beautiful fall!
Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light.
Water surrounding us.

Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years,
and even though we’re city people this is our spiritual home.

Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital
and come home to Springs.
And we made it!

Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here
being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power
and softness of nature.
He died on Sunday morning
looking at the trees and doing
the famous 21 form of tai chi
with just his musician hands
moving through the air.

Lou was a prince
and a fighter
and I know his songs of the
pain and beauty in the world
will fill many people with the
incredible joy he felt for life.
Long live the beauty that comes down
and through and onto all of us.

— Laurie Anderson
his loving wife and eternal friend



 
 


 

 
...
Antigone

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Posted: Nov 1, 2013 - 6:01pm

{#Arrowd} Thanks, Scott.
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