mosquito3 30 Report post Posted October 27, 2013 This is a sad day for me....another great musician has gone RIP Lou Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zigzag 335 Report post Posted October 27, 2013 Yep. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
feldkeen4 13 Report post Posted October 27, 2013 I didn't realize he was that old. He sure was great. I love his quote in the article I just read. "One chord is fine," he once said, alluding to his bare-bones guitar style. "Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dennis G 319 Report post Posted October 27, 2013 RIP Lou, and thanks for all of the goodies over the years. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
milod 665 Report post Posted October 27, 2013 I never was a real fan, but there was some decent material there. As for age... yup, Reed was even older than I am. As for the chord comment thing... It's actually kind of how Pete Seeger described working with a lotta old time fiddlers (as I did.) They didn't care to do too many chord changes, although a lotta the pieces could do more than a few "extra" chords if desired. But even so, if you didn't know many chords, a lotta old time fiddlers would be perfectly happy with you just beating out an open G or A with no chord changes at all if you kept rhythm. Been there, done that. As far as "more and you're into jazz," I think not. I've heard some folks do "st james infimary" with what amounts to just an Am chord... some adding an E and/or F/Dm or... m Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charlie brown 775 Report post Posted October 27, 2013 Well, R.I.P. Lou..."Walk on the Wild Side," for all of us! CB Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
milod 665 Report post Posted October 27, 2013 CB... <grin> Yupper and that song had more than one chord, too. More than 3. Assuming, of course, one might make both heads and tails of it. <chortle> m Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
darling67 127 Report post Posted October 27, 2013 R.I.P. to a true musical artist and pioneer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveinspain 387 Report post Posted October 27, 2013 Part of Rock and Roll History... RIP Lou Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Izzy 215 Report post Posted October 27, 2013 "One chord is fine," he once said, alluding to his bare-bones guitar style. "Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." Love that quote. I can't claim to be a big fan. I discovered him through NIN when he went backstage and hung out with the band in a documentary. I asked myself, "who's the old dude?" I found out, alright. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Karloff 521 Report post Posted October 27, 2013 real shame to hear ... RIP Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
retrorod 93 Report post Posted October 28, 2013 RIP......Lou Reed.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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PingPongBob 30 Report post Posted October 28, 2013 “Sha la la, man...” Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
milod 665 Report post Posted October 28, 2013 Thing is, some 50 years later you're doggone nearly forgotten - or worse, judged by the standards of the era. Reed's line in "Walk on the wild side" about "the colored girls" already has been hit for being racist which I'll wager was not exactly what had been in mind. It's unfair without knowing the linguistic ethos in which he was writing. It's interesting too how basically the 3-minute miracle is expected in current "popular" music if it's to get much air or cable tv play. So... will Reed be judged by standards of the 1900s or 2100s? Against what other combination lyric and tune writers? I dunno. And all of that will at best be in relatively "academic" circumstances. What 25-year-old music pro or even weekend warrior today can tell you much about differences in arrangement concepts in the swing era and what that might have to do with current rock or country arranging? Or the poetry of material from the late 30s into the '50s in Swing that others might not get into? Reed's dead; we all will be. Regardless he may have nudged a piece of the body musical (the musical version of "the body politic), in 50 years? Then what? No one might today claim to know, but I'll wager it'll be something of a footnote rather than a headline. He was too late to be on Sullivan's TV show or on radio or television's Hit Parade. ...Too late for general recognition of his material beyond some perspectives of cultural change that may or may not be seen as "progressive" for culture in 50 years. It also was pretty much "urban" music in foundation, a different "genus" rather than "genre" when it comes to any sort of "pop" music or any other sort of art when compared to the entire stream across genre in all arts at a given period of time. m Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quapman 152 Report post Posted October 28, 2013 Holy crap. Was out of town all weekend and this is the first I heard of it. This one hurts. Enjoy the wild side Lou. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charlie brown 775 Report post Posted October 28, 2013 OK, then...how about "Welcome, Lou, to the other, and "Wilder", side!" CB Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SweetMarie 4 Report post Posted October 28, 2013 Some people like to go out dancing And some people, they got to work And there's even some evil mothers They're gonna tell ya that everything is just dirt... That women never really faint And that villains always blink their eyes And that children are the only ones that blush And that life is just to die... "Sweet Jane" I've spent my life avoiding those evil mothers...the best advice ever dispensed in a rock song. Dammit I'll miss having him in the world... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jaxson50 641 Report post Posted October 28, 2013 I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did, he lived life balls out, under went a liver transplant, he was not going to rust out, he rode it hard till it broke..RIP Lou.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jammin' Joe 13 Report post Posted October 29, 2013 Never really a big fan, but I did like some of his stuff. I always thought his music was like real New York junkie street level music. Not meaning anything degrading by it, just that his music showed a slice of real life and it wasn't always real pretty. (If that makes any sense.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Searcy 841 Report post Posted October 29, 2013 When I was a kid there was no MTV. When their finally was we didn't have it in my house. So a lot of my new music came to me through a few radio shows and TV shows like Radio 1990, Friday Night Videos and Saturday Night Live. I'll never forget this one. It was the first time I really paid attention to Lou Reed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zigzag 335 Report post Posted October 29, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxn_B_2XWMs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgd1hh_KaS0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
