- REVERB LP LOU REED WALK ON THE WILD SIDE FULL
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Lou Reed, in turn, was drawn to Bowie's music. Reed himself was somewhat dissatisfied with it.īetween that album and this one came the ascendancy of David Bowie, a man who had been more peripherally influenced by the cinematic lyrics and sexual warpage of the Velvet Underground. During his days as singer/songwriter/ guitarist with the Velvet Underground, he was responsible for some of the most amazing stuff ever to be etched in vinyl all those great, grinding, abrasive songs about ambivalence, bonecrushers, Asthmador, toxic psychosis and getting dicked, stuff like "Venus in Furs," "Heroin," "Lady Godiva's Operation," "Sister Ray," "White Light/White Heat," and those wonderful cottonmouth lullabies like "Candy Says" and "Pale Blue Eyes." His first solo album, Lou Reed, was a bit of a disappointment in light of his work with the Velvets. Your preternatural instincts tell you it's all there, but all you're given is glint, flash and frottage. That great cover: Lou and those burned-out eyes staring out in grim black and white beneath a haze of gold spray paint, and on the back, ace berdache Ernie Thormahlen posing in archetypal butch, complete with cartoon erectile bulge, short hair, motorcycle cap, and pack of Luckies up his T-shirt sleeve, and then again resplendent in high heels, panty hose, rouge, mascara, and long ebony locks the title with all its connotations of finality and electro-magnetic perversity. More on him here: everything2.A real cockteaser, this album. (SPF was a colorful term for a drug dealer or male prostitute, depending on context.) Campbell had a relationship with Harvey Milk for 7 years, and died from AIDS in 2005. It seems he was an energetic dancer: 'you should have seen him go go go'. It was a reference to actor Joe Campbell who played a character by that name in Warhol's 1965 film, My Hustler. He died of a botched routine gall-bladder operation, but my understanding then (could so easily be wrong) is that the gunshot wound(s) damaged his health in a way that compromised his ability to recover.Ī frequent question has been "Who was the Sugar Plum Fairy?" And there's some some disagreement about Andy Warhol's cause of death. For example Candy Darling died in '74 and not '76. I'm disappointed to find how inaccurate some of my sources were. I did try, but couldn't double-check every detail. Note: This video wasn't made by a production company nor broadcaster.
REVERB LP LOU REED WALK ON THE WILD SIDE FULL
You MUST watch this full screen to appreciate the effect! I loved making this, particularly that I wasn't bound by any traditional video 'frame'.
REVERB LP LOU REED WALK ON THE WILD SIDE PC
Particularly helpful were an excellent BBC Arena, and the 'Classic Albums' edition on Transformer.Īlthough it's presented here as a wide screen video, the way it originally worked was that when you inserted the CD-ROM the PC screen would go blank, and a series of video windows and menus would start to play, change shape, and move around the screen.
REVERB LP LOU REED WALK ON THE WILD SIDE TV
The video snippets were gathered from TV programs I'd recorded to VHS over the years about Lou Reed and Andy Warhol. I thought I'd lost all the source files, so it was great to find them recently on an old hard drive, and have the opportunity to re-purpose it for the internet. My PC was so slow back then it would only work at 12fps, so that's why some of this plays back a bit jumpy, but I think it gives it a nice retro look. This was cutting edge technology at the time! I used Adobe Premiere and Macromedia Director. At the end we were meant to hand in a theis, but I asked if I could instead submit an interactive CD-ROM. The course was for budding record producers, and huge fun. This video was created for a HND Music Production course at South Thames College around 2001. It was a huge surprise to discover what the song was *really* about! The story behind the music, and what became of that grand circus of flamboyant characters.Īs a kid I used to think the song was about taking drugs (seriously! - my excuse is I heard an idiot DJ say that.) and had somehow slipped through the BBC censorship net. WATCH THIS FULL SCREEN TO GET THE FULL EFFECT.
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