Category Archives: Legend

WALK ON THE WILD SIDE – Lou Reed – Movie

October 27, 2013 – 6:30 pm
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METAL MACHINE MUSIC

October 27, 2013 – 3:09 pm

In 1975 RCA demanded an LP from Lou Reed and the ex-Velvet Underground frontman gave Clive Davis METAL MACHINE MUSIC. “I don’t see a single in this.” Clive Davis I doubt he listened to it all, but supposedly only the sound engineer accomplished that stygian feat. Rolling Stone’s review said METAL MACHINE MUSIC sounded like […]

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Lou Reed 71 RIP

October 27, 2013 – 2:44 pm

I never saw the Velvet Underground or heard Lou Reed live. Those gaps were added to missing Woodstock or opting to see Sha-Na-Na instead of David Bowie in 1971, but one spring night in 1970 I was lying on the sofa with my high school sweetheart. Kyla’s mother was out with her Portugese boyfriend and […]

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Sex Pistols In the Lone Star State

October 2, 2013 – 12:11 am

NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS by the Sex Pistols was released in late-October 1977 The LP was buoyed by the hit singles GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, PRETTY VACANT, and the hot HOLIDAY IN THE SUN and while rejected by the BBC and various UK record stores, the Sex Pistols’ album reached the # 1 spot without […]

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Lucky Me

August 21, 2013 – 8:34 pm

New Years Eve 1986. I was riding my Yamaha 650 through a snowstorm. Approaching Houston and 2nd Avenue the light changed to red. I skidded through the intersection excepting the worse. Cars crisscrossed my path. I stopped against the curb. A 9th Precinct cop said, “Damn you were lucky.” “That I was.” “Where you Headed?” […]

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