| Jim on Lou Reed | |
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Jacqueline 11:33 am UTC 10/28/13 |
| Jim sent this email yesterday after hearing of Lou Reed's passing. I hope he won't mind me sharing it...Peace to you & Lou, Jacqueline I'm truly devastated by Lou Reed's death. He was an iconic "feral" poet, to me. I never met him, but feel more depressed than when "bigger" names died. He was "one of those who paved the way", at least IMHO. A great Lou Reed piece.......he had, in 1995, said that I "represented the future of rock n' roll"--he emphasized long almost classical styles, and I, to him, "great instinct for shaping and changing tempos." I saw hIm at a restaurant, Montrachet, where he was eating with Laurie Anderson. But I didn't ever approach him,:-( It's not well known that my FIRST choice for producer of BOOH was Bob Ezrin, based on what I saw as his brilliant work on Reed's BERLIN. But we couldn't "find him". Thus, Todd was "discovered"!O:-) "Away from the Factory, the Velvets and were all too ahead of their time, getting tossed out of clubs or having audience members walk out. The mainstream press, still seeking a handle on the Beatles and the Stones, was thrown entirely by the Velvet Underground. The New York Times at first couldn't find the words, calling the Velvets "Warhol's jazz band" in a January 1966 story and "a combination of rock 'n roll and Egyptian belly-dance music" just days later. The Velvets' appearance in a Warhol film, "More Milk, Yvette," only added to the dismay of Times critic Bosley Crowther. "Also on the bill is a performance by a group of rock 'n roll singers called the Velvet Underground," Crowther wrote. "They bang away at their electronic equipment, while random movies are thrown on the screen in back of them. When will somebody ennoble Mr. Warhol with an above-ground movie called 'For Crying Out Loud'?" YAYYYY! My song got mentioned by that old fart Bosley Crowther, Though it wasn't a song yet, and I had yet to write my first song which actually was "WHO NEEDS THE YOUNG". "For Crying Out Loud" came much later, in 1977........ | |
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