Lou Reed at Crobar...

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...last night (4/5), from the stage:

"Why can't I be on the cover of Hip Hop magazine, I never sang a note! I was rapping back in '65."

Er, no you weren't Lou.

Still, a good show full of unexpected surprises: My House, Charley's Girl, The Blue Mask...

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Was Fernando Saunders there playing fretless?

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Yes, and singing in his girly voice.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

"My House" has awesome fretless harmonics.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

fretless electric bass is dorky.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

i can't hear--or see--a fretless electric bass without thinking of Michael Jackson's "Black or White"

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

lou refers to fernando's bass playing as "fernandizing". which makes me giggle for some reason.

anyway, lou should probably rehire Doug Yule. Isn't it about time?

― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Fretless bass is NOT dorky!!

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

yeah i'd go with geeky

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

"Why can't I be on the cover of Hip Hop magazine, I never sang a note! I was rapping back in '65."

Can anyone pinpoint at precisely what album Lou stopped singing and developed his current monotone speaking-in-song schtick? Cuz wherever it is that's pretty much the cut-off for me appreciating Lou as a "singer"... must've been in the 80s sometimes (there's all kinds of pretty singing on "Coney Island Baby", for example)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

(x-post)Wanky?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

**Can anyone pinpoint at precisely what album Lou stopped singing and developed his current monotone speaking-in-song schtick? **

New York is the culprit. But the tendency begins on The Blue Mask.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

I have a Fernando Saunders solo album from the late '80s ('Cashmere Dreams' or something). Smooth pop-soul with some great bass playing. I love his style--light, funky, and FRETLESS.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

did lou wear leather pants?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

This thread makes me ill for some reason.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 7 April 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

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