Nov 122015
“I would have been one long continuous bleep.” A kinder, gentler Lou talks about staying true to himself—and that other Lou Reed.
“I would have been one long continuous bleep.” A kinder, gentler Lou talks about staying true to himself—and that other Lou Reed.
Lou looks positively together and healthy in that clip. I didn’t get to weigh in on Lou’s death a couple of years ago, but I was kind of taken aback to hear of his passing at 71. I always considered him to be nearly-deathless survivor – one of those people who’d live until 103 years old while getting ever more cranky and irascible. In other words, more like Lou as we’ve always known him with each passing year.
He says something about I Wanna Be Black, so I guess this is about the time of Street Hassle. He was coming back from the depths then I think. It’s hard to understand what the Midnight Special people were thinking, but I wish they had filmed him and maybe not broadcast it so we’d have a record of how he was meant to sound.