Ongoing History Daily: How to get out of a bad record deal
It’s easy, really. Just deliberately turn in a bad, bad album.
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It’s easy, really. Just deliberately turn in a bad, bad album.
In 2010, Lou Reed performed his album Machine Metal Music at the Junction as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations
There were at least three Lou Reeds. First and most enduring was the front man of the Velvet Underground, the greaser poet from Long Island who had a cabbie’s voice and a knack for writing songs about drugs and sex and salvation that sounded like the gutter side of 1960s rock. Then came Reed the freelance auteur, churning out spotty solo albums and delivering gnomic anti-interviews to the press. (This same Reed licensed songs to The Simpsons and Beverly Hills 90210, and appeared in ads for Ameri
Legendary battles with Lester Bangs in Creem revealed the depth of Reed's ennui by Patrick Vecchio For several years in the 1970s, I was a fan of Lou Reed, who died Sunday at age 71. When I learned he had died, the first thing I thought of was his 1974 album Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal.…
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