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This was on Reddit today. Not sure if it's been posted here before. Lou looks heavily refreshed. Mid 70s apparently?

threechordwonder wrote: ↑07 Oct 2024 17:25 Also he was paid double rates because he played bass guitar and double bass ...

I believe I'm right in saying he played tuba as well (Goodnight Ladies). He was across all the basses

Herbie lived in Ditchling, a little village just up the road from me and I met him a couple of times. He came into the radio station I worked in and we did a live interview. I talked to him about WOTWS and I think he said he got £14 for the session, no royalties obv. He was a really lovely charming ...

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John interviewed in today's Observer
https://www.theguardian.com/music/artic ... on-copland

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Are you ready for ...... the Lou Reed AI Chatbot?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/ ... e-festival

That was a good read. A couple of things... The Music Machine weren't hippies by any stretch. They were a great garage punk band with a real hard sound on a lot of their songs ... like No Girl Gonna Cry for instance. Most of their songs were 2 -3 minutes long. When they played live they all wore one ...

Are we using this thread for snippets of VU trivia that aren't worth a new one? I was reading the sleevenotes to the Charles Douglas album that Moe Tucker produced and played drums on in the late 90s; " The Lives of Charles Douglas ". The notes read "Moe Tucker told me that she knew Phil Spector in ...

Very classy one-man-band cover of Venus in Furs by a lunatic wearing a drumkit on his head. This one will rock any party, guaranteed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/crappymusic/co ... urs_cover/

That was a really great read, thank you. Perhaps the reviews are more interesting than the book.

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/ ... -the-beast