A few post college friends have asked why so many posts about Lou Reed and his passing and what he meant to me. Here is what I told them with a few additional notes. 1984 post high school graduation. I went to U of M to visit some friends and make an, ahem, delivery. When I got to their dorm they werent there and I was greeted by their roommate. He told me to crash on one of the bunks, which I did, and he put an album (by which I mean vinyle! on) I had never heard before. It was an old 60s musician who had played in Ann Arbor the night before and the album was New Sensations. I loved every single song on the album and felt as though Id finally been exposed to real rock.I started really buying music after that. Lou Reed was with me ever after. When I got my first telephone answering machine I had Walk on the Wild side playing in the background of the greeting. Im sure many of my friends and family members remember it. He went with me to college and stayed with me ever since. His work affected almost every one of the friends I knew from that period of time. The rest of the world had The Beatles, and then maybe the Stones - phenomenal and yet still current pop music. We were more Underground. We, those of us who never felt like we fit with the mainstream, we had Lou, and David Bowie and Iggy Pop. Music that would be the backbone of what so many other musicians would later try to do, and yet their efforts on many levels would go unnoticed by the mainstream. Pretty much everybody could listen to and enjoy The Beatles Not so much the Velvet Underground. And if you got it; you got it. And when you met others who did as well, there was an unspoken bond. Such was the power of all three of them. Yesterday we lost a combination of John Lennon and Paul McCartney at one time. I dont know how else to say it.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:38:06 +0000
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