It's actually not. Lou promoted himself as an authentic, real guy but here he displayed pure hypocrisy, disappointingly. It's easy to see when you read between the lines, putting critical reasoning together. He says he didn't like anything from Britain, yet just 2 examples off the top of my head are that he's not only showed that John Lennon was 1 of his idols, by saying "mother, jealous guy and the plastic Ono band "in general." are some of the best things in history and playing at John Lennon's tribute concert, but also he's worked with Bowie and from interviews in the past, from both him and Bowie, it's clear to see that he has loved Bowie's work and even in collaboration gave Bowie complete artistic licence in the direction of the project.Either he is Predisposed towards Anglophobia, or he's just conditioned by some patriotism, and intrinsic jealousy or envy. Maybe he's just not aware of it.After all, true authenticity, doesn't mean not sufferin from human failings. This is very disappointing, because it makes me question the whole authenticity of the persona of Lou. But maybe he simply wasn't aware of the falsity of some of his predispositions.That's the best thing I can say about the situation without being More harsh,because most people would consider this pure hypocrisy at the core of his being, just like he accuses so many others of
@@Rowlph8888 He said he wasn't a fan of the Beatles, not that he wasn't a fan of John Lennon. Also, when he talks about "British" music, I don't believe he's talking about people like Bowie...
@@Rowlph8888you shouldn’t condemn anyone beyond recovery especially not someone you don’t know personally especially not based off little scraps of media online, Reed was an artist and artists do and say stuff most won’t understand but they are usually trying to make you feel a certain way
I've enjoyed several Lou Reed albums hugely over the years e.g. Transformer, Berlin and New York but forgot what an insufferable and disingenuous prick he was in person. If 'British people shouldn't play anything' then why did he waste his time on the 'junk' of John Cale, David Bowie, John Lennon, Mick Ronson, Herbie Flowers, and Ronnie Ross? When 'Daddy' owns a tax accounting firm you can probably afford to run your little leather street punk mouth like this.
Dude didn’t ask Lou the usual dumb questions and you can tell he really appreciated that here. Legendary Hearts is in my top three fave solo Lou albums along with Coney Island Baby and Sally Can’t Dance.
Sally can't dance is the shit! My dad found a copy at a yard sale back about when I was still in highschool mid 80s. It didn't even have the inner sleeve. And the initials of the previous owner scrawled just in the inside edge of the outer sleeve. Whenever I played that album myself, I would always replay kill your sons, a couple more times before I played the rest of the following tracks. I finally got a copy on cd, about 30 years later, after I decided to start with all of VU, and work my way up. Sally is still one of my faves of Lou.
If not the usual dumb ones, then the unusual dumb ones. He needs to stop interrupting. Why bother to ask anything, if you aren’t going to listen to the answer?
The interviewer is Bill Boggs, a NYC media celeb. Had an hour long show, weekdays at noon. Lou probably gives a shit enough to not wanna fuck up the interview that close to home.
"The basis of reality"...Basically the perfect description for what Lou was all about personally, artistically. It's what drew me to The Velvet Underground 35 years ago. Pure rock n roll, punk spirit, whatever you prefer to call it.
Goes to show Lou said whatever he felt was true in that precise moment - in accordance with his mood - rather than what we now know to be the real truth in hindsight. For example, The Velvets did in fact get back together 10 years later in 1993 to a triumphant reception with Lou himself cheerful about the occasion. Feels like he approached life just like his description here of how he wants to perform - he doesn’t want to know the song “too well”, he liked to keep it loose.
I think the interviewer was very respectful. That's why Lou was more open, and not on survival mode. Good on the interviewer. He was nothing but what an interviewer should be! No judgement! Just let the guy talk, and tell his story.
The calmes I have seen Lou. Also the first time I notice the eye tick, maybe it's just in that period:) But I was thinking this- Lou Reed has so much talent it's hard to grasp. And at the same time is so arrogant, and at the same time he is very humble. And manages to tell a story with all the emotions and details in just a sentence. That's what I call good artists. Lou, you have influenced my life and gave me so much comfort with you art. Thank you.
I love Lou so much. Not a week has passed since he died in which I have not felt his absence. I love VU to the Raven. All of it is so great and real and fun and beautiful in its own way.
"In heaven the British greet you at the door, the Italians provide the entertainment, the French do the cooking, and the Germans organize everything. In hell the French greet you at the door, the Germans provide the entertainment, the British do the cooking, and the Italians organize everything."
@@chickentwisties2298 no he said he liked their earlier stuff before too. Take what he says in any given interview with a grain of salt.hes known to make bipolar statements. Have to double check but been listening to a Lou reed biography audio book and think I heard he was fond of the song Doctor Robert. That's why I say a bit.
Honestly never considered that perspective but from his point of view I totally get it! 😅 It's going to be hard not to adopt this mindset going forward (I am obviously American)
Ya but without the Beatles there would be TONS of artists who never even got influenced 🤷🏻♂️ sure it’s fine to not like them but must respect what they did for music! They didn’t just change music, they transcended it, and changed the entire culture! Far as I’m concerned Lou’s just an old jealous prick 😂 sure your opinions are subjective but what the Beatles did is FACT and they still have the most number 1 hits of any music artist and they’ve been broken up for over 50 years
I've got some solid evidence from Reed's songs that can say that he actually didn't not like The Beatles: 1. During one of the VU recording sessions, the group played the riff of Day Tripper. 2. In his solo album Transformers, the song I'm So Free, written during his VU days, starts with the line, "Yes, I am mother nature's son."
On page 54 of Will Hermes’s Lou Reed The King of New York, the book mentions Lou Reed and Delmore Schwartz hearing “I wanna hold your hand” for the first time in early 1964 and playing it on the jukebox several times in a row. They then walked out of the bar into the snow and continued singing it
@@michaeldavis4832 Really? That's amazing. Can you please tell me the whole story, my good sir? How was it being around with Lou Reed? Did he like Rubber Soul?
I was actually surprised at how open and cooperative Lou was in this interview. I've read more interviews with him than I've seen in video, but he never seemed to enjoy giving them. I had to laugh at "I don't want to come across as pretentious or negative" because there's no other way to describe - the Beatles are junk, British rock is junk, Broadway show music is junk lol. I'm betting that if that same guy would have asked those same questions 6 months later or 6 months earlier, he would have heard a completely different Lou Reed. He says his songs are simple 2 or 3 chord rock, but his 5th studio album, Metal Machine Music was sheer ear torture, without a hint of chords OR music. I read once where he said he didn't like lead guitar, or lead guitar players in his band. Yet IMO, he made possibly the greatest live album ever - Rock N Roll Animal, which had TWO legendary guitar players trading extensive leads- Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner. I chalk it all up to a guy who marched to a different drum, did some amazingly great work, some pedestrian bland work, and some horrible work...but did it all the way he wanted. Some might call that the description of.... a genius
Some might call it arrogance 🤷 but hey..: I’ve found most artists that are great have some of that. Without the necessary confidence to be a rock star, you ain’t gon be one!
And yet in other interviews, Lou Reed has gushed about his admiration for David Bowie: a rock musician who couldn’t be any more British. He thought different things on different days, and liked to be controversial. Love Lou Reed.
i cant stop laughing but sure understand why quintesential NYC rocknroller is taking no prisoners, dont even know how but sure am so very happy i found this!
its understandable why he hated the early doors ('66-'68).... they were one of the few in the same early dark zipcode, yet jim got more of andy's girls & made more $.
@@foljs5858 … early on you have a point… but hotel and la woman were more mature and more street then early doors poetic and realism wise…. They were only more commercial b/c of their popularity… material wise they were as strong as VU (who by the way I like and respect)… re early pretension, reed and his being couched w/ Warhol factory had its own dose of facade. And reed, son of a long isl accountant, was no man of the streets upbringing wise anymore than the admirals son.
@@foljs5858 never thought of them as pretentious, if you werent around then i guess it sounds pretentious. I tell you that period of time was very crazy in new york, I think Lou was just singing was going on....very hard to understand in today's tame scene.....kids today can't believe some of my stories about the village then...people in the village can, but i dont live there anymore.....yeah, it was not pretentious
@@foljs5858 They also sounded an awful lot like The Animals with Eric Burdon, and even Them with Van Morrison. They simply had a psychedelic conceit to go along with the bedrock of R&B that they happened to play. That and the notoriety of their frontman really set them apart.
Lol Lou is my favorite musician of all time, hearing him complain about all these characteristics in music he calls "junk", what was "Berlin"? lol, and I really like Berlin
In reality, the English supergroups were far better than the Americans. Music, lyrics, imagination, musicianship. Pink Floyd, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones to name a few.
The Beach Boys, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, CCR, Eagles, Aerosmith, Tom Petty, Talking Heads, Van Halen, Guns N Roses, REM, Metallica, Nirvana... I can go on
That's lame, by that logic those bands were pale plastic imitations of the country and blues they were trying to emulate from America. Music isn't geographical. I do try to end on a positive note though so I'll tell you I love every band you named, all of them have a considerable amount of my money in their bank account!!
The English have a much greater history of bands but I would argue that the all time great solo artists are mostly American. Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix etc
Yeah but we got the blacks which makes us pretty much OP. Props to the english bands for actually picking up on the great music that went unknown here in America. All the great delta blues, country, rockabilly/rock n roll artists from america are what started it all. Rock n roll is American. Too many artists that went unnoticed but the english did have good taste.
@@clc-gl4jn I very much doubt that since he stole from those movements himself. Besides, art is all about "stealing", so that'd be just stupid to think. Especially when it comes down to mere chord progressions rather than unique hooks or riffs.
@@preciousmousse no. When you literally grew up in the country literally around the artists, that's not called stealing. That is called rubbing off on another person because they grew up around it..The British just stole mostly from it that is for damn sure. Mind you my favorite band is British called The Who. So it is no bias against the British. It is just truth
@@clc-gl4jn I guess you need some sort of national pride, that's only your view on things. If you take things like this you might as well say whites have no business playing rock 'n' roll since they "stole" from the blacks. Lou's arrogance exceeds the topic. Rock 'n' roll is a feeling, not an individual's ego masturbation. Now, Sir, let us stop stealing England's language, mind you.
@@preciousmousse again, English was something I grew UP on and was part of my American culture that was rubbed off on everyone here from the colonials. Music IS about origin and culture. As far as countries go, if you grew up in the origin and culture, you are already involved in what it was as aforementioned. If you weren't born into it, you would be a copycat poser. It's like if I were born in China and made my life all about Italian things and stole versions of Italian cuisine and got famous for how good it was. Sure it was good - but who originated it and was I anywhere near involved being around that culture?... No! I would be a poser culture vulture that stole from another origin and upbringing. The British had NO involvement with blues/rock music as their culture and origin whatsoever. None. Zip. Nada. They blatantly were using Americans originated music and getting famous and money off it themselves and not being original. That is the damn truth and I have a feeling you know it deep down. Edit was only for a typo
@@pedroparamo7351 His son made the rest of the world go through that in 1975 with Metal Machine Music. He's always been ashamed of being a nice middle class Jewish boy hence the cosplay street punk routine ever since. Throw in misogynistic woman beater into the mix, add a dash of racism and despite his own Jewish faith, antisemitism et voila, something that would even get evicted from a petri-dish. Shame really, as a lot of his music is really good
@@exitthelemming145 It's very probable that Louie was a poser and a bad person. So what? I just care about his music, not his personal/private life. As for metal machine music, you are completely right, that lp is a piece of shit. The worst of Louie. But there's everything in his catalogue: from the sublime to the execrable.
Love Lou Reed, but his interviews are absurd. I'm sure he never liked the Beatles or British Invasion bands. It's purely coincidental that post-Brit Invasion, Lou formed a rock quartet with mop tops, black clothes, Beatle boots, Vox amps, and played a Gretsch Country Gentleman (like George Harrison).
secret of " real " rock n roll, 1. keep it loose, don't present your music encased in plastic. 2. " Feel " better than technique ( for rock ) 3. Electric guitars and drums. { no orchestras }
@MrGobsmack Explain why the Beatles dropped their English accent when they sang. The Beatles like all the bands in Liverpool at the time got their inspiration from Black American artists of the 50s and early 60s. This is well known history. Yes, they took it to the next level but to many Americans listening to, say, Twist and Shout, it sounded like white boys pretending they were black
@omegajrz1269 It certainly goes back and forth but the British Invasion of the 60s mainly consisted of Brits imitating Black American artists. Of course it went way beyond that eventually. I was only pointing out the grain of truth in Lou's otherwise over-the-top statement.
"Lou, let's talk about all your hits. Walk on the Wild Side, Sweet Jane.....did I say Walk on the Wild Side?" Said Howard Stern on his live broadcast to I would imagine a not too pleased Lou Reed at an 80's radio station convention. Howard knew how to put people in their place back then that needed a little "tuning up". If anybody deserved a little comeuppance, it was Reed, who was a complete tool a lot of the time.
Most of the great British bands were inspired by American rock'n'roll in the first place so I guess it's understandable where Lou is coming from. But I'd say The Who could definitely could play it.
@@jotwee63 I love British rock and bands etc. but what was Britain’s answer to the doors? Or too the seeds? The garage rock scene was strictly US originally. The US psych in general was mostly superior. Not pop psych.
Beatles, stones, zeppelin, the who, Clapton, animals, kinks, hollies, Elton, E.L.O, clash, pistols, straits, sabbath, floyd, T Rex, queen, purple….yeah like Lou said the British are awful 😂😂
Great interview. Lou so rarely lets his guard down but the genuine appreciation from this reporter seems to actually draw him in.
It's actually not. Lou promoted himself as an authentic, real guy but here he displayed pure hypocrisy, disappointingly. It's easy to see when you read between the lines, putting critical reasoning together.
He says he didn't like anything from Britain, yet just 2 examples off the top of my head are that he's not only showed that John Lennon was 1 of his idols, by saying "mother, jealous guy and the plastic Ono band "in general." are some of the best things in history and playing at John Lennon's tribute concert, but also he's worked with Bowie and from interviews in the past, from both him and Bowie, it's clear to see that he has loved Bowie's work and even in collaboration gave Bowie complete artistic licence in the direction of the project.Either he is Predisposed towards Anglophobia, or he's just conditioned by some patriotism, and intrinsic jealousy or envy. Maybe he's just not aware of it.After all, true authenticity, doesn't mean not sufferin from human failings.
This is very disappointing, because it makes me question the whole authenticity of the persona of Lou. But maybe he simply wasn't aware of the falsity of some of his predispositions.That's the best thing I can say about the situation without being More harsh,because most people would consider this pure hypocrisy at the core of his being, just like he accuses so many others of
@@Rowlph8888 He said he wasn't a fan of the Beatles, not that he wasn't a fan of John Lennon. Also, when he talks about "British" music, I don't believe he's talking about people like Bowie...
@@Rowlph8888you shouldn’t condemn anyone beyond recovery especially not someone you don’t know personally especially not based off little scraps of media online, Reed was an artist and artists do and say stuff most won’t understand but they are usually trying to make you feel a certain way
@Rowlph8888 what would he be jealous for?
I've enjoyed several Lou Reed albums hugely over the years e.g. Transformer, Berlin and New York but forgot what an insufferable and disingenuous prick he was in person. If 'British people shouldn't play anything' then why did he waste his time on the 'junk' of John Cale, David Bowie, John Lennon, Mick Ronson, Herbie Flowers, and Ronnie Ross? When 'Daddy' owns a tax accounting firm you can probably afford to run your little leather street punk mouth like this.
Dude didn’t ask Lou the usual dumb questions and you can tell he really appreciated that here. Legendary Hearts is in my top three fave solo Lou albums along with Coney Island Baby and Sally Can’t Dance.
Coney Island baby the song alone is “necessary”
Legendary Hearts is a great record. You should try to find the version with Bob Quine's guitar parts intact. Apparently, Lou dropped them in the mix.
Sally can't dance is the shit! My dad found a copy at a yard sale back about when I was still in highschool mid 80s. It didn't even have the inner sleeve. And the initials of the previous owner scrawled just in the inside edge of the outer sleeve. Whenever I played that album myself, I would always replay kill your sons, a couple more times before I played the rest of the following tracks. I finally got a copy on cd, about 30 years later, after I decided to start with all of VU, and work my way up. Sally is still one of my faves of Lou.
If not the usual dumb ones, then the unusual dumb ones. He needs to stop interrupting. Why bother to ask anything, if you aren’t going to listen to the answer?
I’ve watched Lou Reed interviews for a laugh many times. This is the best I think any have ever gone.
deadhead!
The interviewer is Bill Boggs, a NYC media celeb. Had an hour long show, weekdays at noon. Lou probably gives a shit enough to not wanna fuck up the interview that close to home.
Not sure if I’ve ever seen Lou in a better mood! Haha
Yes, you coud see as much when he mentioned kids approaching him about his motorcycle helmet.
Look for the Flo and Eddie interview.
I like how his eye kind of twitches he gave us New York misfits a voice even before the Ramones lol
well, he's obviously popped a quaalude or two
Lou reed singing sounds just like what you would expect a guy called Lou Reed to sound like.
"The basis of reality"...Basically the perfect description for what Lou was all about personally, artistically. It's what drew me to The Velvet Underground 35 years ago. Pure rock n roll, punk spirit, whatever you prefer to call it.
Funny that he started such an edgy band for the 60s but Sunday morning is one of the catchiest songs I've heard
Goes to show Lou said whatever he felt was true in that precise moment - in accordance with his mood - rather than what we now know to be the real truth in hindsight. For example, The Velvets did in fact get back together 10 years later in 1993 to a triumphant reception with Lou himself cheerful about the occasion. Feels like he approached life just like his description here of how he wants to perform - he doesn’t want to know the song “too well”, he liked to keep it loose.
I think the interviewer was very respectful. That's why Lou was more open, and not on survival mode. Good on the interviewer. He was nothing but what an interviewer should be! No judgement! Just let the guy talk, and tell his story.
Then again maybe he just happened to be in a good mood that day.
Bill Boggs was popular as a NYC tv interviewer. A local celeb.
I think he was an expletive deleted.
The calmes I have seen Lou. Also the first time I notice the eye tick, maybe it's just in that period:) But I was thinking this- Lou Reed has so much talent it's hard to grasp. And at the same time is so arrogant, and at the same time he is very humble. And manages to tell a story with all the emotions and details in just a sentence. That's what I call good artists. Lou, you have influenced my life and gave me so much comfort with you art. Thank you.
I literally dig for Lou Reed interviews. So to see this recently posted is awesome! Thank you!
Literally? You're in your back yard with a shovel digging for interviews?
@@CleanFamilyVideos😂
The proto-punk counter culture revolutionary with the hardware store counter salesman voice.... love him
He was a guy who did drugs and played music, there’s nothing revolutionary about that
@@hannahs1683 This is like saying Stanley Kubrick just made movies and Dickens just wrote some books
@@kelechi_77Lmao
For a moment this video archive made me sad , we’ll never see another artist like Lou again, truly the king of NYC
I love Lou so much. Not a week has passed since he died in which I have not felt his absence. I love VU to the Raven. All of it is so great and real and fun and beautiful in its own way.
😂😂
Yes indeed a great fan I bought that album was a life changer is number 1 lucky to see this ,
Bill Boggs has a GREAT way of coaxing excellent interviews out of people who are notoriously difficult to interview.
Bill was such a skilled interviewer indeed
I remember this interview on TV in 1983. I was so hyped to see it ❤. Please post more ❤
What a great interviewer/interview
the way a couple times his smile after being deadpan would show for .2 seconds before cutting to the interviewer help
So true!
Imagine being one of the little kids who complimented his motorcycle helmet, only to realize decades later who that was 😂
Loved you Lou Reed and your bad assed vintage biker jacket!
best lou reed interview. reporter understands Lou
It's a NY talkshow.
It's so good that he talked. We wouldn't have anything it wasn't for this interview.
New sensations was my fave LP of 1984
Will Ferrell is a great interviewer
He is a great interviewer because he prays to baby Jesus and he gets help from baby Jesus.
👏It is not roller-coaster...
It's been basically a straight line👏👏👏👏💯
❤️LOU REED IS TRUE WINNER!!❤️🇺🇲🙏
'I suppose they should learn how to cook' 😆
"In heaven the British greet you at the door, the Italians provide the entertainment, the French do the cooking, and the Germans organize everything. In hell the French greet you at the door, the Germans provide the entertainment, the British do the cooking, and the Italians organize everything."
Reed, Pop and Bowie, the golden triangle
The holy trinity
But he said the British shouldn't play anything!
And jagger that’s the big four
@@Surv1ve_Thriveeven geniuses are wrong sometimes… 😂
@SoyBioIogia you are not, not wrong there my friend!
I have never seen an interview where he looks this happy
I came to see LR and finally went with admiration for the interviewer. That was journalim. That was doing the job.
The ultimate nightmare roommate.
Lou loved John Lennons solo career alot actually!
He liked the Beatles too a bit despite what he's known for saying.
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Lol what do you mean he clearly states he hated the Beatles, he even said in other interviews that they were "garbage".
@@chickentwisties2298 no he said he liked their earlier stuff before too. Take what he says in any given interview with a grain of salt.hes known to make bipolar statements. Have to double check but been listening to a Lou reed biography audio book and think I heard he was fond of the song Doctor Robert. That's why I say a bit.
@@chickentwisties2298 Lou loved fucking with journalists and the press. There are quotes of him saying how much he like the Beatles as well.
@@chickentwisties2298 stones was ok
lol, when he says the british souldnt eb playing rock and roll or anything,,, sucha funny man
Honestly never considered that perspective but from his point of view I totally get it! 😅 It's going to be hard not to adopt this mindset going forward (I am obviously American)
"I am crazy about rock"
LOL.
I attended many of those Bottom Line shows, here for nostalgia RIP Louis
This interviewer is great...
He did an amazing job of letting Lou expand.
Boy would I like to see Jiminy Glick interview Lou Reed. And Johnny Rotten, for that matter.
😂😂😂😂 me too
😂😂😂😂omg
Lou would probably punch Glick eventually.
@@rustybeltway2373 Was Lou a fighter or just a front? He was a pip squeak.
@@presence5426 I figure he can take Martin Short, with or without the fat-suit.
2:25 so funny because of how many bands say they don't like American music besides the Velvet Underground.
This is just a good interview, I don't think Lou could possibly be upset
Finally someone else who doesn’t like the Beatles, I felt so alone. lol
I can't stand them either
The Beatles is good when you're a child and haven't discovered a ton of artist yet
Ya but without the Beatles there would be TONS of artists who never even got influenced 🤷🏻♂️ sure it’s fine to not like them but must respect what they did for music! They didn’t just change music, they transcended it, and changed the entire culture! Far as I’m concerned Lou’s just an old jealous prick 😂 sure your opinions are subjective but what the Beatles did is FACT and they still have the most number 1 hits of any music artist and they’ve been broken up for over 50 years
I think that's it's awful that the interview isn't credited very well.
I've got some solid evidence from Reed's songs that can say that he actually didn't not like The Beatles:
1. During one of the VU recording sessions, the group played the riff of Day Tripper.
2. In his solo album Transformers, the song I'm So Free, written during his VU days, starts with the line, "Yes, I am mother nature's son."
On page 54 of Will Hermes’s Lou Reed The King of New York, the book mentions Lou Reed and Delmore Schwartz hearing “I wanna hold your hand” for the first time in early 1964 and playing it on the jukebox several times in a row. They then walked out of the bar into the snow and continued singing it
I listened to Rubber Soul with Lou in '65
@@michaeldavis4832 Really? That's amazing. Can you please tell me the whole story, my good sir? How was it being around with Lou Reed? Did he like Rubber Soul?
@@michaeldavis4832 And I must ask, is there a connection between VU's and Beatles's ""What Goes On?"
I don't think LR was an easy guy to be around but he did not like bulls#%t.
Understatement. I liked him in this interview. However, I am offended by performers that are not gracious to other genres.
Unless he's the one spewing bullshit.
He is BS
Damn, Will Ferril is an amazing interviewer. And Lou Reed is simply a fkng GENIUS, The End.
I didnt recognise Will Ferril here, he was so young
Lou was the original troll
Spot on, wipes the floor with gutter music press.
I was actually surprised at how open and cooperative Lou was in this interview. I've read more interviews with him than I've seen in video, but he never seemed to enjoy giving them. I had to laugh at "I don't want to come across as pretentious or negative" because there's no other way to describe - the Beatles are junk, British rock is junk, Broadway show music is junk lol. I'm betting that if that same guy would have asked those same questions 6 months later or 6 months earlier, he would have heard a completely different Lou Reed. He says his songs are simple 2 or 3 chord rock, but his 5th studio album, Metal Machine Music was sheer ear torture, without a hint of chords OR music. I read once where he said he didn't like lead guitar, or lead guitar players in his band. Yet IMO, he made possibly the greatest live album ever - Rock N Roll Animal, which had TWO legendary guitar players trading extensive leads- Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner. I chalk it all up to a guy who marched to a different drum, did some amazingly great work, some pedestrian bland work, and some horrible work...but did it all the way he wanted. Some might call that the description of.... a genius
Some might call it arrogance 🤷 but hey..: I’ve found most artists that are great have some of that. Without the necessary confidence to be a rock star, you ain’t gon be one!
Good points
Here I is.
And yet in other interviews, Lou Reed has gushed about his admiration for David Bowie: a rock musician who couldn’t be any more British. He thought different things on different days, and liked to be controversial.
Love Lou Reed.
someone give lou a glass of water!!
2:30 he really said british "people"
LOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
i cant stop laughing but sure understand why quintesential NYC rocknroller is taking no prisoners, dont even know how but sure am so very happy i found this!
if the british don't know about rock n roll then.... still, he's so great
Lou shitting on Broadway tunes.
Interviewer: “I love that music…” 😂😂😂
If Christian Bale and Will Ferrell merged, they’d be Bill Boggs.
I think one of Lou’s greatest songs is “The Gun”. So dark
And the Blue Mask
The interviewer looks and sound like Will Ferrell.
The velvet underground reunion comment aged well
$$$
its understandable why he hated the early doors ('66-'68).... they were one of the few in the same early dark zipcode, yet jim got more of andy's girls & made more $.
They were also more pretentious and cheaply "poetic" rather than street life
@@foljs5858 … early on you have a point… but hotel and la woman were more mature and more street then early doors poetic and realism wise…. They were only more commercial b/c of their popularity… material wise they were as strong as VU (who by the way I like and respect)… re early pretension, reed and his being couched w/ Warhol factory had its own dose of facade. And reed, son of a long isl accountant, was no man of the streets upbringing wise anymore than the admirals son.
@@foljs5858 never thought of them as pretentious, if you werent around then i guess it sounds pretentious. I tell you that period of time was very crazy in new york, I think Lou was just singing was going on....very hard to understand in today's tame scene.....kids today can't believe some of my stories about the village then...people in the village can, but i dont live there anymore.....yeah, it was not pretentious
@@foljs5858 They also sounded an awful lot like The Animals with Eric Burdon, and even Them with Van Morrison. They simply had a psychedelic conceit to go along with the bedrock of R&B that they happened to play. That and the notoriety of their frontman really set them apart.
@@johniorio7951 I meant the Doors were more pretentions no VU/Reed...
Lol Lou is my favorite musician of all time, hearing him complain about all these characteristics in music he calls "junk", what was "Berlin"? lol, and I really like Berlin
Genius is truth
Not sure he was a genius
"anyone who gets to side four (of Metal Machine Music) is dumber than I am" (Lou Reed)
Lou 'attitude' Reed
In reality, the English supergroups were far better than the Americans. Music, lyrics, imagination, musicianship. Pink Floyd, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones to name a few.
The Beach Boys, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, CCR, Eagles, Aerosmith, Tom Petty, Talking Heads, Van Halen, Guns N Roses, REM, Metallica, Nirvana... I can go on
tell him!
That's lame, by that logic those bands were pale plastic imitations of the country and blues they were trying to emulate from America. Music isn't geographical. I do try to end on a positive note though so I'll tell you I love every band you named, all of them have a considerable amount of my money in their bank account!!
The English have a much greater history of bands but I would argue that the all time great solo artists are mostly American. Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix etc
Yeah but we got the blacks which makes us pretty much OP. Props to the english bands for actually picking up on the great music that went unknown here in America. All the great delta blues, country, rockabilly/rock n roll artists from america are what started it all. Rock n roll is American.
Too many artists that went unnoticed but the english did have good taste.
gossamer wings lol, wise words my man!
Little kids always tell me how much they love my helmet 😂🤦🏻♂️
Looks like Ari Boulogne. His father? Alain Delon was right? Nico slept with many 1962.
Lou, after having a nightmare in which the Beatles took a picture of him while he was sleeping to use for the cover of Sgt. Pepper:
I love Lou's art so much, bit his arrogance was such a drag. At times it's unbelievable how seriously he took himself.
No arrogance. He did not like how the British stole from the American blues artists and doo wop. Simple as that...
@@clc-gl4jn I very much doubt that since he stole from those movements himself. Besides, art is all about "stealing", so that'd be just stupid to think. Especially when it comes down to mere chord progressions rather than unique hooks or riffs.
@@preciousmousse no. When you literally grew up in the country literally around the artists, that's not called stealing. That is called rubbing off on another person because they grew up around it..The British just stole mostly from it that is for damn sure.
Mind you my favorite band is British called The Who. So it is no bias against the British. It is just truth
@@clc-gl4jn I guess you need some sort of national pride, that's only your view on things. If you take things like this you might as well say whites have no business playing rock 'n' roll since they "stole" from the blacks. Lou's arrogance exceeds the topic. Rock 'n' roll is a feeling, not an individual's ego masturbation. Now, Sir, let us stop stealing England's language, mind you.
@@preciousmousse again, English was something I grew UP on and was part of my American culture that was rubbed off on everyone here from the colonials. Music IS about origin and culture. As far as countries go, if you grew up in the origin and culture, you are already involved in what it was as aforementioned.
If you weren't born into it, you would be a copycat poser. It's like if I were born in China and made my life all about Italian things and stole versions of Italian cuisine and got famous for how good it was. Sure it was good - but who originated it and was I anywhere near involved being around that culture?... No! I would be a poser culture vulture that stole from another origin and upbringing.
The British had NO involvement with blues/rock music as their culture and origin whatsoever. None. Zip. Nada. They blatantly were using Americans originated music and getting famous and money off it themselves and not being original. That is the damn truth and I have a feeling you know it deep down.
Edit was only for a typo
Hes right about the British. Americans did rockNroll Right i.e Brian Wilson - no1 has ever come close.
Love Lou.
Bit general rule is: the more he hates somehting, the more thretaned and jealous he is of it.
Wait, is that Lou Reed quoting Toni Morrison?
The better looking Will Ferrel
I love the roastation of that twangy British doo doo rolls
Reed was adamant here the Velvets wouldn’t reunite - well money spoke ten years later….
Maybe Daddy's accountancy firm was having a down turn?
@@exitthelemming145 Mr. Louie's "daddy" put him under electro-shock treatment when he (Louie) was young.
@@pedroparamo7351 His son made the rest of the world go through that in 1975 with Metal Machine Music. He's always been ashamed of being a nice middle class Jewish boy hence the cosplay street punk routine ever since. Throw in misogynistic woman beater into the mix, add a dash of racism and despite his own Jewish faith, antisemitism et voila, something that would even get evicted from a petri-dish. Shame really, as a lot of his music is really good
@@exitthelemming145 It's very probable that Louie was a poser and a bad person. So what? I just care about his music, not his personal/private life. As for metal machine music, you are completely right, that lp is a piece of shit. The worst of Louie. But there's everything in his catalogue: from the sublime to the execrable.
@@exitthelemming145I don’t care what he done has a person, his music speaks for itself
Respectful interviewer gets a good interview. What do you know?
He's got a point. Apart from the stones, British music is a joke.
"JUSTIN CASE SHOWED UP" 😅😅
"The British shouldn't play rock 'n' roll, they should produce my albums and make me famous though."
"I don't think the british should play rocknroll" :D :D :D
I read Lou had bad vision and I wonder if a contact lens wasn’t comfortable on his right eye.
Can anyone ID that shirt/jacket Lou is wearing
ok lou, if you say so🤭
Herr Boggs du Kügelnsauger, the Bottom Line was not in the East Village.
Hard to picture Lou typing away at an office desk. It's a good thing he didn't stick with it.
Love Lou Reed, but his interviews are absurd. I'm sure he never liked the Beatles or British Invasion bands. It's purely coincidental that post-Brit Invasion, Lou formed a rock quartet with mop tops, black clothes, Beatle boots, Vox amps, and played a Gretsch Country Gentleman (like George Harrison).
These are superficial characteristics. I don't hear Beatles influence in their music.
@@benmeltzerlisten harder
Popular musician with pretty girls in the late 90s and 2000s.
Whats up w Lous eye?
prob meth
Drugs effect.
What’s going on with his right eye?
That drove me nuts! I wanted to like rub it or him rub it or something! WTF?
Why doesn't he stop blinking?
Sure the Beatles were gutted by his appraisal 🤭
True musicians are forced to write the music they wished they’d hear on the radio waves
secret of " real " rock n roll,
1. keep it loose, don't present your music encased in plastic.
2. " Feel " better than technique ( for rock )
3. Electric guitars and drums. { no orchestras }
Pretty sure Lou knew there were good British bands but I think he also knew they were just imitating Americans.
yea those imitators the beatles. bwahahaha
@MrGobsmack Explain why the Beatles dropped their English accent when they sang. The Beatles like all the bands in Liverpool at the time got their inspiration from Black American artists of the 50s and early 60s. This is well known history. Yes, they took it to the next level but to many Americans listening to, say, Twist and Shout, it sounded like white boys pretending they were black
@@lesilluminations1Isn't American music strongly influenced by that of England?
@omegajrz1269 It certainly goes back and forth but the British Invasion of the 60s mainly consisted of Brits imitating Black American artists. Of course it went way beyond that eventually. I was only pointing out the grain of truth in Lou's otherwise over-the-top statement.
@@lesilluminations1 I can't really blame Lou even though I don't agree with him. I like their music as much as that of the Beatles.
"Lou, let's talk about all your hits. Walk on the Wild Side, Sweet Jane.....did I say Walk on the Wild Side?" Said Howard Stern on his live broadcast to I would imagine a not too pleased Lou Reed at an 80's radio station convention. Howard knew how to put people in their place back then that needed a little "tuning up". If anybody deserved a little comeuppance, it was Reed, who was a complete tool a lot of the time.
Most of the great British bands were inspired by American rock'n'roll in the first place so I guess it's understandable where Lou is coming from. But I'd say The Who could definitely could play it.
For every single American band you will find at least one British band that is better
Inspired by the ‘Delta blues’ mainly.
@@jotwee63 I love British rock and bands etc. but what was Britain’s answer to the doors? Or too the seeds? The garage rock scene was strictly US originally. The US psych in general was mostly superior. Not pop psych.
I'd say Lou is completely full of shiite.
Tbf the American rock bands at some eras saved rock n roll from being out of the spotlight (e.g, the strokes, nirvana)
Beatles, stones, zeppelin, the who, Clapton, animals, kinks, hollies, Elton, E.L.O, clash, pistols, straits, sabbath, floyd, T Rex, queen, purple….yeah like Lou said the British are awful 😂😂
Ramones >
Closed minded prick Lou was. I only hope he didn’t mean what he said
he said he enjoyed the kinks in the interview tho
think you've just illustrated his point- most of those above are shite
@@101vagabondwhat an idiotic comment 😂
PRE TRON. LOE ART
the interviewer should have just let him talk .
he's sort of the lenny bruce of music. maybe he should have been a stand up?
Thank god this guy has faded into obscurity. And I don't mean the inteviewer.
Where you live with your mom in obscurityville. Poop
There are too many genres he’s credited for. He’s an influence beyond just rock music now