Obit - Lou Reed

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Lou Reed, rock legend.

 

R,I.P.

[Meg 368]

"Take a Walk on the Wild Side"

 

I'll leave it to you guys to find it on youtube.   It was fairly radical stuff for 1972.

[blade2k5 1,523]

He took a walk on the wild side and left a legacy in his passing.  RIP Lou.

[AcmeSigns 97]

The one major thing I've always admired about Lou was that I felt he wrote and performed songs for himself, never being concerned with putting out a 'top ten hit' just to put out a 'top ten hit'. Allot of today's music seems to only be 'sales' or dollar-driven (Miley Cyrus & Justin Beiber come to mind) pablum.

 

His voice will surely be missed.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Big fan of Velvet Undeground. Very sad with his passing.

[blade2k5 1,523]

The one major thing I've always admired about Lou was that I felt he wrote and performed songs for himself, never being concerned with putting out a 'top ten hit' just to put out a 'top ten hit'. Allot of today's music seems to only be 'sales' or dollar-driven (Miley Cyrus & Justin Beiber come to mind) pablum.

 

His voice will surely be missed.

 

That's been going on for decades and is nothing new.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

^ That's the whole point, perhaps, that there is nothing new.

 

There really has been no new music since the late 1960s.  All this raucous, over-amplified guitar noise isn't really anything new at all.  Les Paul said most of the last words in this genre.  It is time for something new, and I don't mean some foolish jerk wiggling his body in acrobatic ways.  Everything these days is derivative.

[dazza262 133]

The word 'genius' is thrown around all too easy these days.

 

In the case of Lou Reed, it fits perfectly.

 

R.I.P.

[AcmeSigns 97]

I found this quote from Lou in the article linked below.

I think it sums things up quite eloquently...

"I don't expect anything at all from anything and I never have," he said. "I'm not trying to change anybody's mind about anything. I'm not trying to win anybody over. I'm happy to get up in the morning. I can tie my shoelaces. I haven't got hit by a car. I just love the music and sound and wanted to make it better, so if someone else wanted to hear it, they'd get some bang for the buck."

 

http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20131028/DA9N01681.html

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

^ That about sums it up.  Lou didn't lust after fame and fortune, he just was Lou.

 

A lesson for the fame-chasing money grubbers of today.