It's amazing what you can find on YouTube. I found a song by The Jades featuring Lou Reed on vocals and guitar. Now Lou Reed became famous in 1967 as leader of the super influential band The Velvet Underground

Recordings you might not have heard. The Quine tapes! He brought a little tape recorder and sat at a table recording these shows. "Ermine furs adorn the imperious" A song about Edie... and in

Maybe one of the most important bands in the history of bands I love! I don’t throw em on often but clearly influenced everything I do love so let’s give some love to this classic record

Ein Tribut an… Velvet Underground von Jonathan Richman #nowplaying #share2steem #velvetunderground #spotify #music External Link : Velvet Underground Velvet Underground, a song by Jonathan Richman on Spotify

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We have our March Rockstar! I tried to find a replacement...but most rockstars born in March are still alive, surprisingly. So I justified being a week late for our next rockstar's birthday because if

well not directly a street performance, but a raw warehouse performance none the less. now all we need is a live audience. Inspired by the sound of the velvet underground's SYMPHONY OF SOUND recording

Lou Reed This is Part 2 of the "Lou Reed, Memorable Lyrics"  anthology. For Part 1, right-click here. (Part 1 includes a short biography of Lou and an introduction to his career.) 29 – Cascading slowly,

Lou Reed, 1942–2013. A short bio.       Lou Reed was one of the preeminent figures in rock’n’roll from the 1960s to the 2010s.     His career started in high school, when his interest in rock’n’roll and

(This is the final post in this series of Lou Reed Lyrics. Soon, I will compile posts #1 – #55 in one complete anthology. I hope you've enjoyed this series, and learned some interesting and relevant facts

In certain ways, Lou Reed was seen as the classic rock star, living a life of decadence and debauchery, creating avant-garde art, and even having a Top-40 hit.   Living, experiencing, creating ...

Impressive.  Here, we have the poet of the streets, the godfather of punk, speaking out in favor of social justice.     Truly impressive and inspiring.   Quote during Interview,

Lou said this in a speech, just a few months before he passed away in 2013. Rock’n’roll for idiots  Way back in 1975, in the liner notes for Metal Machine Music, he had been quite pessimistic about

This is from the title track to Lou’s 18th solo album, on which Lou wrote about his personal relationships and his marriages.     Solitude, with entertainment  In this final verse of

This sounds remarkably like the Lou of the 1960s and early 1970s.     Fear in hell  Or, more accurately, it sounds like a wiser man depicting a character living on the sordid underside

How to produce fine art, and produce a great artist …  Here again we have the voice of Andy Warhol, presented through Lou’s poetry. For the supreme pop artist, what is necessary is style. Andy had

We’ve come a long way since “Venus in Furs” and “Walk on the Wild Side.”   Songs of experience, songs of innocence After decades in which Lou wrote primarily “songs of experience,” the older (and

The song “Open House” is from the album “Songs for Drella,” which featured a song cycle that Lou and John Cale wrote about their late mentor Andy Warhol. It’s a quiet, melancholy track.    Home

That short lyric by Lou says it all. 'Nuff said. No further comment.   Strawman, Lou Reed … Lou Reed, Anthology of Memorable Lyrics. Images sourced from Google Images

After the First World War, the great Irish poet William Butler Yeats wrote an almost perfect poem called “The Second Coming.”  It’s essentially an apocalyptic vision of war and other horrors of modernity,