Interview (Live In New York - Transformer Tour 1972)
Lou Reed

WLIR: Hi, we're back. Live and in stero from the Ultra Sonic recording studios. And tonight, uh, Mr. Lou Reed is with us. (audience applauding) For sure. If you wanna get out and see the band... Uh, Alice Tully Hall, January 27th in a rather rare New York appearence. Your back in New York though right? You spent a long time in the city. Lou: Yeah, we spent a long time in Europe. We were in uh, in and around London, Scotland, places like that for a while. WLIR: Have you officially moved to England? Lou: Oh, no, no, no. We just went over there cuz we hadn't seen it. WLIR: So New York is still the city of record. Lou: New York is the home base. WLIR: Uh-huh, uhh... the album was recorded in London? Lou: Yeah the album was recorded, real great studio named trident. WLIR: Trident, yeah. And David Bowie produced? Lou: David and Mick Ronson. Musn't forget Mick. WLIR: Musn't. Lou: Musn't. WLIR: How'd you like working with... Lou:(intrrupts) It'd be naughty.(laughter) That's what they, that's what they say in England, when you, when you say something, they say nah, that's naughty, that's naughty.(audience laughter) WLIR: But they don't say that in New York? Lou: No man, they'd punch ya out if ya did!(roaring laughter) WLIR: I dunno, I dunno, how'd you like working with David? Lou: I loved working with David, David's a terrific empathy. WLIR: How do you, how do you account for the fact that...(snickering laughter) Lou:(laughing) Not that way! (more audience laughter) WLIR: How do you account for uh (Lou: WHEW!) during his performance at Carnagie, he dedicated what seemed like and entire half hour to Lou Reed and did a couple of Lou Reed tunes. Lou: I guess he likes 'em. (audience laughter) WLIR: Yeah? After all these years suddenly for the energy to start, to start coming back again... Lou: Interesting isn't it? WLIR: It's is, it is! Lou: Yeah. WLIR: I guess it must have been there all along. Lou: Yeah, I-I-should think so, ya know... WLIR: Where's Doug Yule? Lou: Uh, dead I hope. WLIR: (gasping from host and audience) Whoa! I went to high school with Doug Yule, you can't say that! Lou: Oh well I can say it, but I didn't mean it. WLIR: You worked together on the Loaded album. Lou: ye-uh-well, we WORKED on the Loaded album. WLIR: And that was, that was the final venture? Lou: That, that was it. WLIR: That was the end of it. Lou: That was the end. WLIR: The end of your proverbial era as it were. Lou: Well the end of that era... is it era(eer-a) or era(eh-ra)? WLIR: Era(eh-ra)? It's an error to call it an (eer-a) Lou: Is it an error to call it an (eer-a) or is it an error to call it an (eh-ra)? WLIR: It's an ear! Lou: An ear? Of corn?(laughter) WLIR & Lou: It's an era. WLIR: Do you think, do you think we'll ever see the Velvet Underground together ever again, performing or playing? Lou: Well, which permentation of it? (someone in the audience: Anyone!) Well, there's a version of the Velvet Undergournd that's in London right now that's uh got the original drummer and has Doug Yule and two other people in it. WLIR: Oh, so Doug Yule's working, he's not dead! Lou: No, he's not dead, he's not dead. WLIR: How 'bout Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground? Lou: Nah, no chance of that. WLIR: And what about the Thunder Thighs? Lou: OH! If I had 'em here! WLIR: These are not the Thunder Thighs... Lou: No, these are not...(a member of the band: I thought I was a Thunder Thigh!) (laughter) He thought he was a Thunder Thigh then I hadda tell him he wasn't and he got very depressed. WLi
R: Why don't you tell me who IS playing here with you tonight? Lou: Oh, we have Bobby Resigno, Vinny Laporta, Eddie Reynolds, and Scott Clark. (audience applause) WLIR: Ok, well, talking about New York city and the Velvet Underground certainly epotimized what I think New York really was to a lot of people for a long time at least, at least during... Lou: Most of whom are now in jail. WLIR: ...or dead. Lou: Or dead. (laughter) WLIR: Uhhh, good to hear that you are still a member of this uh, this insanity. Why don't we go back and do something from the old days... from Velvet Underground, New York, 19 what 63-4? Lou: No, nooo, no about circa... I guess... do you know the story about how I wrote this song? WLIR: Please, please tell me. Lou: I was workin' for a record company as a song writer, where they'd lock me in a room and they'd say write 10 surfing songs, ya know and I wrote Heroin and I said hey I got somthin' for ya ya know... and they said, NEVER HAPPEN, never happen. So that's what we'll lead our set off with. WLIR: Ok, thank you. (audience applause) Lou Reed Tuesday night concert WLIR FM. Lou: (starting the intro) Yes, it still exists. Now in the original days, not only was it banned but they wouldn't take advertisments for our album because of it. Now here we are doin' it over the radio... very funny (applause) K, here we go... This is the rock version, it's called Heroin. They play the song and in the middle Lou shouts, I tell ya, a junkies dream hahaha


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  A Dream   A Gift   A Sheltered Life   A Thousand Departed Friends   A Thousand Departed Friends   Adventurer   All Through The Night   All Tomorrow's Parties (Live)   All Tomorrows Parties   All Tomorrows Parties   America   America (Star Spangled Banner)   Andy's Chest   Andy's Chest   Animal Language   Average Guy   Baby Face   Balloon   Banging On My Drum   Baton Rouge   Beginning Of A Great Adventure   Berlin   Berlin (In Album Berlin)   Berlin [Live]   Betrayed   Big Sky   Billy   Black Angel's Death Song   Blind Rage   Bottoming Out   Broadway Song   Burning Embers   Busload Of Faith   Call On Me   Call On Me (Live)   Candy Says   Carolin Says II   Caroline Says 1   Caroline Says 2   Caroline Says I   Caroline Says I [*]   Caroline Says Ii   Caroline Says Part 2   Change   Charley's Girl   Charley's Girl   Chooser And The Chosen One   City Lights   Claim To Fame   Coney Island Baby   Courtly Orangutans   Crazy Feeling   Crazy Mary   Cremation   Cremation - Ashes To Ashes   Cremation / Ashes to Ashes   Dime Store Mystery   Dime Store Mystery (To Andy - Honey)   Dirt   Dirty Blvd.   Dirty Boulevard   Disco Mystic   Doin' The Thing That We Want To   Doin' The Things That We Want To   Doin' The Things That We Want To   Doing the Things That We Want To   Don't Hurt A Woman   Don't Talk To Me About Work   Don't Hurt A Woman   Dorita   Down At The Arcade   Downtown Dirt   Dreamin'   Dreamin' - Escape   Dreamin'   Ecstasy   Edgar Allan Poe   Egg Cream   Empty Bottles   Endless Cycle   Endlessly Jealous   Ennui   Every Frog Has His Day   Faces & Names   Faces & Names   Faces And Names   Families   Femme Fatale   Find Your Note   Finish Line   Fly Into The Sun   Foggy Notion   Follow The Leader   Foot Of Pride   Forever Changed   Frozen Warnings   Future Farmers Of America   Gassed & Stoked - Loss   Gassed And Stoked   Gassed And Stoked - Loss   Ghost Story   Gimmie Some Good Times   Going Down   Good Evening Mr. Waldheim   Good Evening Mr.Waldheim   Good Night Ladies   Good Taste   Goodby Mass   Goodby Mass - In A Chapel Bodily Termination   Goodnight Ladies   Growing Up In Public   Guardian Angel   Guilty   Guilty (Song)   Guilty (Spoken)   Halloween Parade   Hang On To Your Emotions   Hangin' 'round   Hangin' Round   Hangin' Round   HanginRound   Harry's Circumcision   Harry's Circumcision - Reverie Gone Astray   Harry's Circumcision   Heavenly Arms   Hello It's Me   Hello It's Me   Here Comes The Bride   Heroin   High In The City   Hold On   Home Of The Brave   Hooky Wooky   Hookywooky   Hop Frog   How Do You Speak To An Angel   How Do You Speak to an Angel?   How Do You Think It Feels   How Do You Think It Feels [*]   I Believe   I Believe In Love   I Can't Stand It   I Can't Stand It   I Heard Her Call My Name   I Love You   I Love You, Suzanne   I Remember You   I Wanna Be Black   I Wanna Know   I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum)   I Want To Boogie With You   I'll Be Your Mirror   I'm So Free   I'm Waiting for My Man   I'm Waiting For My Man (Live In New York - Transfo...   I'm Waiting For The Man   I'm So Free   I'm Waiting For The Man   Images   Imp Of The Perverse   In Our Sleep   Interview With Lou Reed   Into The Divine   Into The Divine (Live)   Intro   Intro/Sweet Jane   Intro\/Sweet Jane   It Wasn't Me   It Wasn't Me   Janitor of Lunacy   Jealous Guy   Keep Away   Kicks   Kill Your Sons   Kill Your Sons [DVD]   Ladies Pay   Lady Day   Last Great American Whale   Leave Me Alone   Leave Me Alone [*]   Leave Me Alone [#]   Legendary Hearts   Like A Possum   Lisa Says   Little Sister   Looking For Love   Love Is Here To Stay   Love Makes You Feel   Lulu   Mad   Magic & Loss   Magic & Loss - The Summation   Magic And Loss   Magic And Loss - The Summation   Magician   Magician - Internally   Make Up   Make Up Mind   Make Up My Mind   Mama's Got A Lover   Mama's Got A Lover   Martial Law   Men Of Good Fortune   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 1   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 1   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 2   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 3   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 4   Mistrial   Modern Dance   My Friend George   My House   My Old Man   My Red Joystick   Mystic Child   N. Y. Stars   N.Y. Stars   N.Y.Stars   New Sensations   New York Telephone Conversation   No Chance   No Chance - Regret   No Money Down   No One Is There   Nobody But You   Nobody's Business   Nobody's Business   Nowhere At All   Nowhere at All [*]   Nyc Man   Ocean   Oh Jim   Oh, Jim   Old Poe   One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)   Ooohhh Baby   Open House   Original Wrapper   Outside   Overture   Pale Blue Eyes   Paranoia Key Of E   Peggy Sue   Perfect Day   Perfect Day [Acoustic Demo][#][*]   Perfect Day [From Trainspotting]   Pow Wow   Power & Glory Part Ii - Magic Transformation   Power & Glory - The Situation   Power & Glory Part ii - Magic Transformation   Power and Glory   Power And Glory - The Situation   Power And Glory Part II   Power And Glory Part II - Magic Transformation   Power and Glory, Pt. 2   Power and Glory, Pt2   Real Good Time Together   Revien Cherie   Revien Cherie (Live)   Ride Into The Sun   Ride Sally Ride   Riptide   Rock 'N' Roll   Rock & Roll   Rock & Roll Heart   Rock & Roll Heart   Rock ’n’ Roll   Rock And Roll   Rock And Roll Heart   Rock Menuet   Rock Minuet   Romeo Had Juliette   Rooftop Garden   Rouge   Sad Song   Sally Can't Dance   Sally Can't Dance   Satellite Of Love   Satellite Of Love '04   Science Of The Mind   Senselessly Cruel   September Song   Set The Twilight Reeling   Sex with Your Parents   Sex With Your Parents Part Ii   Sex With Your Parents (Live)   Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker) Part II   Sex With Your Parents Part Ii   She's My Best Friend   She's My Best Friend   Shooting Star   Sick Of You   Sister Ray   Slip Away   Slip Away (A Warning)   Smalltown   Smiles   So Alone   Some Kind of Nature   Some Kinda Love   Something Happened   Soul Man   Spit It Out   Standing On Ceremony   Starlight   Strawman   Street Hassle   Street Hassle: Slip Away   Street Hassle: Street Hassle   Street Hassle: Waltzing Matilda   Stupid Man   Style It Takes   Sunday Morning   Sunday Morning (Live)   Sweet Jane   Sweet Jane (1969 Live Version)   Sword Of Damocles   Sword Of Damocles - Externally   Talking Book   Talking Book (Live)   Tatters   Teach The Gifted Children   Tell It To Your Heart   Temporary Thing   The Bed   The Bells   The Blue Mask   The Cask   The City In The Sea / Shadow   The City In The Sea/Shadow   The Conqueror Worm   The Day John Kennedy Died   The Great Defender   The Great Defender (Down At The Arcade)   The Gun   The Heroine   The Kids   The Kids (Live)   The Last Shot   The Original Wrapper   The Power Of Positive Drinking   The Power Of The Heart   The Proposition   The Raven   The Sword Of Damocles   The Tell-tale Heart (Part 1)   The Tell-tale Heart (Part 2)   The Valley Of Unrest   The View   There Is No Time   Think It Over   This Magic Moment   This Magic Moment (The Drifters cover)   Trade In   Tranquilize   Tripitena's Speech   Triumph   Trouble With Classicists   Turn Out The Light   Turn To Me   Turning Time Around   Underneath the Bottle   Vanishing Act   Venus in Furs   Vicious   Vicious Circle   Video Violence   Voices Of Freedom   Wagon Wheel   Wait   Waiting For The Man   Walk & Talk It   Walk and Talk It   Walk It Talk It (Live In New York - Transformer To...   Walk On The Wild Side   Walk on the Wild Side [2003 Remaster]   Walk On The Wild Sidelr   Warrior King   Warrior King - Revenge   Wave Of Fear   Waves of Fear   Waves of Fear [DVD]   What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong cover)   What Becomes A Legend Most   What's Good   What's Good - The Thesis   White Light White Heat   White Light/White Heat   White Light\/White Heat   White Prism   Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)   Why Can't I Be Good   Why Do You Talk   Wild Child   With You   Women   Women [DVD]   Work   Xmas In February   You Wear It So Well   You'll Know You Were Loved   Youll Never Find

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