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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

So Many Roads | LOU REED - Live in Chicago 1978

Lou Reed - 1978-04-14 - Chicago, IL (SBD)

Lou Reed 
1978-04-14
Park West
Chicago, IL
Soundboard Recording
256 kbps
Artwork Included

01. Gimme Some Good Times
02. Satellite Of Love
03. Leave Me Alone
04. Walk On The Wild Side
05. Coney Island Baby
06. Street Hassle
07. Sweet Jane
08. Rock 'n' Roll


1970s - #5: In 1978, in the midst of the punk rock revolution he helped inspire, Lou Reed released the album Street Hassle, a disc described as raw, wounded and unapologetic. Most of the early punk records could have been described in the same terms. Yet, at the time, Reed had little if any use for the punk scene. He was quoted as saying "I'm too literate to be into punk rock ... The whole CBGB's, new Max's thing that every one's into and what's going on in London—you don't seriously think I'm responsible for what's mostly rubbish?" Reed's comments show just how splintered rock and roll had become as the decade of the 1970s wound to a close.month This soundbaord recording captures Lou during the Street Hassle tour on April 14, 1978, 46 years ago today, at the Park West in Chicago. 



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