Lou playing at the Mile End Sundown on 1st November 1972 - this is a really really nice quality recording - surely the best of all the extant recordings from his 1972 UK tour? I'll put a link to it below.....and with Phillip Goodhand-Tait on piano and harmonica during a long version of Sister Ray.....
Lou Reed 1972-11-01 London audience recording BA copy
Mile End Sundown
London
1972-11-01
01. MC intro/tuning 1.41
02. White Light White Heat/Lonesome Cowboy Bill 8.27
03. I'm Waiting For The Man 6.26
04. Pale Blue Eyes 5.55
05. Some Kinda Love* 4.37
06. After Hours* 3.04
07. Sweet Jane 5.08
08. Heroin 9.20
09. Walk On The Wild Side 6.22
10. I Can't Stand It 3.51
11. Wagon Wheel 4.22
12. Rock And Roll 6.35
13. Sister Ray 18.48
Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
Vinny Laporta: guitar
Eddie Reynolds: guitar
Bobby Resigno: bass
Scottie Clark: drums
* Lou plays these songs solo
This was one of the last shows of Lou's late 1972 tour of the UK - "Transformer" had been recorded but would not be released for another week or so. Bob Harris had played the studio recording of "Walk On the Wild Side" on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test TV show on 10th October, and it is recognised by the audience when Lou announces it. Phillip Goodhand-Tait and band join Lou for a long version of "Sister Ray" - surely the only rendition of that song to feature a harmonica solo!
This recording is the best quality and most complete copy of this show available - an extract from it was used as the source for the "Some Kinda Love" bootleg LP.
lineage: Maxell "low noise" C90 cassette from the collection of Bill Allerton - Pioneer CT-S670D player - wav - flac
wav transfer October 2025 by lurid_uk
2025 transfer notes
1. There was only audio on the left channel of Bill's cassette so I have used that to create a 2 channel mono fileset.
2. There is some minor tape damage during "Walk On The Wild Side". It is a very old tape and I did not try to repair it.
3. The cassette would not play all the way through side 2 no matter what I tried, so I have patched in the final 3 minutes 18 seconds or so of "Sister Ray" from another, inferior, source.
RIP Lou and Bill
the audio: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/i8yak7gs ... 7cmlc&dl=0
Lou Reed 1972-11-01 London audience recording from Bill's collection
Re: Lou Reed 1972-11-01 London audience recording from Bill's collection
Hello and thanks for all your work !
I already had this problem with a pre-recorded best of from a Swiss singer. I disassembled the case and then put the tape (previously rewound at the beginning of course) into that of a Maxell cassette which I then screwed back on.
I already had this problem with a pre-recorded best of from a Swiss singer. I disassembled the case and then put the tape (previously rewound at the beginning of course) into that of a Maxell cassette which I then screwed back on.
Re: Lou Reed 1972-11-01 London audience recording from Bill's collection
yes I have tried that - I've actually carefully transplanted the reels into 2 different new cases but to no avail. I think the problem is that the tape is wound too tight - it's at the stage now where it won't play at all. I've given up - I managed to get all but ~3 mins of the end of Sister Ray and I just edited that 3 mins in from a different but slightly inferior quality copy which I had before.....
Re: Lou Reed 1972-11-01 London audience recording from Bill's collection
Ah ok, you tried your best to save it, thanks a lot for this !
Re: Lou Reed 1972-11-01 London audience recording from Bill's collection
You've probably tried this too, but sometimes rewinding and ffwding the tape a few times, with a few sharp raps on a hard surface every time you flip it over, can sort that issue out.
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Re: Lou Reed 1972-11-01 London audience recording from Bill's collection
yes....tried that. FF'd and rewound it many many times and it actually got worse every time I did it. I tracked my "progress" by monitoring just how far into Sister Ray that it would play before seizing up. It started out at about 15 mins and then got progressively less and less.....