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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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Extinct Ludes

October 9, 2013 – 11:18 am

From a friend My favorite quaalude adventure took place @ the Hyatt Regency Hotel sunday afternoon tea dance in the gigantic lobby that had a fountain in the center w/a bench surrounding the pool of water. My 3 friends & I had taken quaaludes on our way to the dance and by the time we […]

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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE Lou Reed

August 8, 2013 – 9:56 pm
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