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Lou Reed - 1977-03-28 Aarhus (unaltered version) - Aud

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 20:28
by schnittstelle
Lou Reed - 1977-03-28 Aarhus (unaltered version) - Aud (Lou abandons show)

Lou Reed
Vejlby-Risskov Hallen, Aarhus, Denmark
28 March 1977
Aud


01 Sweet Jane
02 I'm Waiting for the Man
03 Rock and Roll Heart
04 Heroin
05 Rock and Roll
06 Walk on The Wild Side
07 Vicious
08 Coney Island Baby
09 Berlin

Taken from bootbloggeer.
No lineage, of course. Sorry.

Quite good sound although A- which I saw several times may be a bit high.

LOU REED, vocals and guitar
JEFFREY ROSS, guitar
MICHAEL FONFARA, keyboards
BRUCE YAW, bass
MARTY FOGEL, sax
MICHAEL SUCHORSKY, drums

A google translation of an article in Danish: http://www.aarhusportalen.dk/vis_artike ... cleId=1657:
(Left it as I got it. Some imagination is needed to get this translation. And some faults are pretty ridiculous. But I think it gives an idea of what
happened that night)

As Lou Reed created the chaos

02-11-2004 at. 08:27

By ANDERS LANGE Powered by Internet newspaper jp.dk

Tickets Lou Reed concert in the Concert Hall in May 2005 was virtually sold out in just a few hours - I hope the concert goes better than last time,
rock veteran created trouble in Aarhus.

All of us who were there will never forget, as Lou Reed visited Aarhus for the first and - until the fifth May 2005 - and every time.
Monday 28th March 1977 kl.20.05 asked the American rock migrates from the wild side her talent at the disposal of 1,600 young people in Vejlby
Risskov Hall. One and a half hours later evacuated by police dogs scene, stage lights were overturned and smashed, and a Steinway grand piano to
over 100,000 of contemporary devalued 1970-kroner was pushed off the stage by three horny troublemakers with leather jackets.

What happened between the two extremes is still relatively unclear, although the event was quite expensive. The singer and songwriter who had once
been part of the death lump popkultf?nomen Velvet Underground in the environment around Andy Warhol's self-staged The Factory, stood on the
end of Vejlby Risskov Hall, as Tine B?ttzausiden has immortalized with his lightning venstrearm in numerous battle for Forest Bakken handball girls.

Mr. Reed was dressed in future mandatory sunglasses and a hesitant backing band, which was just coming out of boredom coma, then something
happened. "Nobody throws beer to me," grunted Lou Reed suddenly. What was it? What kind of beer? Smidt from where? Not from this article
forfatterog not always from my good old, and always gentle, school buddy, Kim J., who later became an accomplished architect in Copenhagen.
Mr. Reed had just delivered the evening's first acceptable interpretation from own song-tax, we agreed. "Berlin" had been somewhat in the closet ...
after a slow start. The concert was only 50 minutes old, and the curly black audience was on its way from the stage.

As Jyllands-Posten John Christiansen wrote next day: "Lou Reed cheated his audience who had paid up to 79 million for tickets. We can not afford
in the industry. " Nothing could be more true. Reed had left the scene, and what did the hall in the great sport cadaver of a concert venue? Mob
begyndteat clap rhythmically. But not like today at the Concert Hall where the orchestra comes running back with an extra number after a few
seconds for fear that the mood will die out. The audience clapped rhythmically for 12-15 minutes. Regardless of the roadies and instrumentsl?bere
had begun to dismantle the car stereo. Gradually, it dawned on Aarhusians that Lou Reed would not return, scattered frustration itself.

Especially as a representative of koncertbureaet ICD went on stage and said: "When perpetrated an attack on Lou Reed onstage, so he sigikke able
to conduct the concert." Had someone dropped something on stage? It was not us! One of the Assembly was only with the conclusion and took the
consequences. Beer can landed in the middle of the scene with a splash, and lay for a moment and pumped the rest of its content beyond
mikronfonledningerne. A tin followed. My friend and I looked timidly at each other. Kim J. poked fingers in my pocket and pulled a green apple out.
At a quarter of a second turned his face from an architectural student's analytical Lou Reed knows the mine to a cocky ballademagers. The apple hit
a cymbal on the drum kit, and now had one of the inspectors suddenly got an idea: What if I get the audience to calm down by asking me out in the
middle of the stage, spread out your hands and saying movements, as when staples a golden retriever on his back with both hands, invites the
masses to calm down? What the inspector instead was, was a target. Mugs, boxes and now also folding chairs made of wood cleared the stage for
inspectors.

Three mini-bikers in leather jackets got their - right in Andy Warhol's spirit - 15 minutes of fame. They jumped firmly on the stage and p?rede
instruments collapsed under scattered applause. This was the layer with few tall project stands as tilderes frustration not jumped into a thousand
pieces as they fell. The rockers had carefully and meticulously walking from spotlight to floodlight and smash each small light bulb. Perhaps in
recognition of the unflattering about the situation they saw greatness: The Steinway Piano in the stage left side. By joint force - strong, they were
not - it was beautiful grand piano tipped off the stage.

Another vandal got the idea to run away with an electric piano. As it dawned on him atder was probably more witnesses than even a blotter would
like, he smashed ritueltklaviaturet during regular jubilation. Then the police came with dogs, and rebellion against Lou Reed went into solution.

Journalist J?rn Rasmussen wrote about the concert in Aarhus Stiftstidende and remembers evenings horribly clear. "I had my heavily pregnant wife,
so I was in two minds because I had to write about the riots and have my wife in safety at the same time. It was chaos. It was worse than it is today
to go to football, "he recalls. "Back then there was no cover behind the stage so people could stand directly behind the stage during a concert. And it
was from here that landed a beer can on stage. As I recall, discovered Lou Reed is not at all, but he was made aware of it by one of the musicians
from the orchestra. But the debacle could have been avoided, "said J?rn Rasmussen.

"No one was told what was happening. Hence arose the frustration. The day after I was invited to press conference with Lou Reed at the Hotel
Atlantis. He wanted to explain himself and said he had felt threatened that he regretted the tumult." Jyllands-Posten John Christiansen was after the
concert entirely on the audience side - with the exception of a few trick or. "The responsibility is solely Lou Reed. An experienced musician and
showman must be able to assess his audience, and the 1,600 spectators in Vejlby Risskov hall was quiet. I dare say that there is hardly had several
beer cans, hvisLou Reed had continued. Maybe he was angry about the relatively dull atmosphere and beer can was used as an excuse to stop,"
wrote John Christiansen and said straight out that Lou Reed had deserved the beer cans that were thrown.

At the press conference the day after the concert was also informed that the Steinway grand piano was not so damaged as feared - probably of
frustration for the diminutive muscle men who overthrew it. And Lou Reed assured him that he and his musicians had been happy to play in
Aarhus and hoped to return again.

It is happening now with 28-year delay in the Concert Hall. "I saw Lou Reed four years later p?Roskilde Festival," recalls Richard Rasmussen,
who for many years was rock critic p?Aarhus Skirt. "It was just after the murder of John Lennon, so even on bagsceneomr?det Lou Reed had two
bodyguards with him everywhere. He was not to come near. Perhaps it was given a germ in Aarhus, "says J?rn Rasmussen. "But now he comes
back to more comfortable 'relationship. I can well imagine that it will be a strength for Lou Reed to play in the Concert Hall. His age should be his
ability to tell stories with his songs come more into its own. And then it's not so easy to throw chairs at the Concert Hall .... "


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