I spent my teenage years lugging The Velvet’s 1969 from house party to house party, trying to get someone to play it, but with little luck. Then in 1980 I met my buddy Dave. He was a few years older, and known as something of an intellectual; or at least he’d
Continue readingTag: Lou Reed
Montreal Simon: Lou Reed, My Dad, and the Tennis Racquet Guitar
There aren't too many artists who can bridge the generational divide, or the straight/gay divide, but one of them was Lou Reed. Lou Reed, the singer-songwriter whose darkly poetic recordings as frontman for the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist provided indispensable blueprints for punk, glam, noise rock and
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Coney Island And The Santa Monica Pier
Two amusement parks on the ocean at each end of America. Must have been weird to drive from one to the other seeing that Elmer Gantry, Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Jack Kerouac, Betsy Ross America pass by in the never stopping long winding days and happy/sad boozy neon nights of
Continue reading