Lou Reed

[Naildriver74]

Lou Reed Rest in peace I'm going to miss you!

 

[neglectoid]

lou reed was a pinhead. r.i.p.

 

[Bonzo]

If I had a banana here, I'd raise it for a toast now.

 

[Kolchak357]

My wife said someone I loved passed away. I told her not to tell me as I didn't want to ruin my Sunday. Well the cat is out of the bag now. Very sad to see this news. In college I got into Lou Reed when I first heard his New York album. I quickly started listening to all the Reed music I could get my hands on. As you can guess this quickly progressed into a Velvet Underground obsession. Even used Ride Into The Sun (Another View version) as our first dance at our wedding. Never met the man, but I am truly crushed by this news. This world needs artists and poets and we just lost one of the greats.

 

[Korven]

It's sad news indeed. Love Velvet Underground but never bothered to check out his solo stuff except Metal Machine.

 

[Kolchak357]

It's sad news indeed. Love Velvet Underground but never bothered to check out his solo stuff except Metal Machine.

Some of my favorites of his solo work (in case you wanted a recommendation): The Blue Mask, Berlin, New York, and Rock & Roll Animal (live album).

 

[Kolchak357]

 

[Sumez]

 

[Naildriver74]

I never wanted to ruin anyone's day, it was something I wanted to share. I wasn't sure how many fans thier would be. (The end of another great adventure)

 

[Kolchak357]

Not your fault. I was just delaying the inevitable. I would have been just as bummed whenever I found out.

You didn't ruin my day, Mother Nature and the cycle of life did. Nothing we can do about that. Better I hear about it from another fan. If I read it tomorrow at work and mentioned it to my coworkers, I would have gotten a solid round of "who's Lou Reed?". That would have been much tougher on me.

 

[Captain B. Zarre]

Who needs an TAF kickstarter when you can kickstart this instead?

 

[karl]

Magic and Loss! Very sad news. Lou Reed was huge!

I love "New York", "Berlin", "Transformer", the incredible "Songs for Drella" and almost all of the Velvet Underground discography.

 

[Naildriver74]

Not your fault. I was just delaying the inevitable. I would have been just as bummed whenever I found out.

You didn't ruin my day, Mother Nature and the cycle of life did. Nothing we can do about that. Better I hear about it from another fan. If I read it tomorrow at work and mentioned it to my coworkers, I would have gotten a solid round of "who's Lou Reed?". That would have been much tougher on me.

It's nice to be surrounded by friends here.

 

[Kolchak357]

A person named pinmods posted this on Pinside. Such a relevant Lou Reed story that I thought I'd move his post over here. Hope he doesn't mind.



Apparently, Lou Reed was a pinhead. This from one of his band mates:

"Lou and I bonded on tour late night playing pinball in hotel children's game rooms to the point that I carried $50 in quarters where ever we went. I was mandated to book hotels that had pinball machines. He was a master of the slanted table and each players turn could take 10 or 15 minutes while the other remained a spectator and we chatted about life."

Pretty cool.

 

[Naildriver74]

Thanks for finding that,