| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6207 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just heard the news on the radio. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3304 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, big shock. I haven't been keeping up on Lou Reed (since I'm really just a VU fan) so I didn't know he had a liver transplant. Not sure I even knew that he'd been sober since the 1980s, though I'm glad he has. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6215 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm playing Rock 'n' Roll Animal right now. It was the first Lou Reed album I ever owned. A friend bought it (and Elvis Costello's King Of America) for me to say sorry for not being in touch. That was more than a quarter century ago and is still one of the best presents I ever got. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2539 Registered: 01-2005 |
I guess heroin is hard on the human liver. Liver cancer claimed both John Coltrane and Lou years after they licked. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2540 Registered: 01-2005 |
I meant kicked. Coltrane was 10 years removed from heroin when he died of liver cancer. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 235 Registered: 06-2005 |
Hooked a Sonos Play 5 up to my old Hi-Fi stereo components as I left my speakers behind when I moved house earlier this year...streaming can wait, christened it with Lou's "Transformer" on vinyl...sounded better than I've ever heard it which is probably why I left the last set on the wall! I must dig out Lou's "Stiff On His Legend" - Live in Sweden 1974 cassette for a blast - has a great version of "Oh Jim" on it. Saw Lou backed by Whipping Boy in the 90s and again at a Leonard Cohen tribute concert in the same venue, Dublin's Point Theatre, where he tore up The Stranger Song | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6257 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was at that show in the Point Peter. I thought Whipping Boy blew him away! |