Lou Reed's MM3 - Cambridge, UK 17-04-2010 at Dime

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Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio
The Junction, Cambridge, England
17th April 2010

As some people want to hear more of this, and I greatly enjoyed the evening - standing about 6 feet
in front of Lou Reed in a tiny venue - here is the other UK performance

Zoom H2 with internal mics > Goldwave > CDR

Single 80 min Improvisation (actually 79.52 so it will fit most 80 min CDRs)

Lou Reed - Processed and unprocessed guitars, mini continuum
Ulrich Krieger - Tenor sax, live-electronics
Sarth Calhoun - Live processing, continuum fingerboard


Below is a review from the Cambridge Evening News:

Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio
Last updated: 19/04/2010 18:00

LOU REED?S Metal Machine Trio started their ?UK and European April 2010 Tour? at the Junction on Saturday.

The tour coincides with a just-released ?newly remastered edition of the 1975 original? Metal Machine Music double CD,
which is slightly less rough-edged than the original ? a significant maturation rather than a conventional repetition.

The new compositions evolved in 2002 when Ulrich Krieger reinterpreted the original with such success the composer
joined them for a live performance, and Saturday night was billed as ?A Night of Deep Noise?.

The band ? Reed on guitar, Krieger on tenor saxophone, Sarth Calhoun on keyboards ? kick off a vast blitzkrieg of sonic
imagery which has no rhythm, no key and no vocals in a soft-lighting setting with technology centre stage.
Reed, when not peering and tinkering at the mini-mixing desk in front of him with his specs way down his nose like some
maverick Dumbledore rejigging the rules of Quidditch, displayed a startling fluidity on the fretboard utterly at odds with
his years (he?s 68) and much of his rock past. In the bellicose blizzard of sound ? Metal Machine Music is about
radicalising your brain to force it to open up to new possibilities ? much of what he plays is lost, but an occasional
flurry of melodic invention from his guitar or Krieger?s saxophone cuts through the mix in a way made all the more moving
for apparently being completely spontaneous.

Krieger played with total commitment throughout and commanded respect from the audience ? an equal mix of indy teens,
everyone in between, and baby boomers.

The only song of the evening lasted an hour and 20 minutes after which the trio took a bow, Reed looked at the audience
for the first time, said ?thank you for coming" and was off, confounding everyone and maybe even himself with the potential
of the soundscapes he continues to explore.
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