If You are a Lou Reed Fan, go get the Kleenex box....

[kpete]

Laurie Anderson's Farewell to Lou Reed: A Rolling Stone Exclusive
'For 21 years we tangled our minds and hearts together'

By LAURIE ANDERSON


Laurie Anderson Lou Reed

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I met Lou in Munich, not New York. It was 1992, and we were both playing in John Zorn's Kristallnacht festival commemorating the Night of Broken Glass in 1938, which marked the beginning of the Holocaust. I remember looking at the rattled expressions on the customs officials' faces as a constant stream of Zorn's musicians came through customs all wearing bright red RHYTHM AND JEWS! T-shirts.

John wanted us all to meet one another and play with one another, as opposed to the usual "move-'em-in-and-out" festival mode. That was why Lou asked me to read something with his band. I did, and it was loud and intense and lots of fun. After the show, Lou said, "You did that exactly the way I do it!" Why he needed me to do what he could easily do was unclear, but this was definitely meant as a compliment.

I liked him right away, but I was surprised he didn't have an English accent. For some reason I thought the Velvet Underground were British, and I had only a vague idea what they did. (I know, I know.) I was from a different world. And all the worlds in New York around then – the fashion world, the art world, the literary world, the rock world, the financial world – were pretty provincial. Somewhat disdainful. Not yet wired together.

As it turned out, Lou and I didn't live far from each other in New York, and after the festival Lou suggested getting together. I think he liked it when I said, "Yes! Absolutely! I'm on tour, but when I get back – let's see, about four months from now – let's definitely get together." This went on for a while, and finally he asked if I wanted to go to the Audio Engineering Society Convention. I said I was going anyway and would meet him in Microphones. The AES Convention is the greatest and biggest place to geek out on new equipment, and we spent a happy afternoon looking at amps and cables and shop-talking electronics. I had no idea this was meant to be a date, but when we went for coffee after that, he said, "Would you like to see a movie?" Sure. "And then after that, dinner?" OK. "And then we can take a walk?" "Um . . ." From then on we were never really apart.

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[progressoid]

1. Thank kpete

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

Lovely.

Am a fan of both of them.

[kpete]

3. I stayed strong

until the last few paragraphs,
still crying.


Lou &Laurie
such dignity,
so real,
on life & death



I just sent this to mr. pete.


peace to you progressoid,
kp

[KamaAina]

2. This might be Laurie's time to shine

as one writer put it, "she is not a plus-one."

She could easily set the obit she put in their local paper to music.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/01/lou-reed-obit-laurie-ande_n_4192282.html

To our neighbors:

What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.

Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we’re city people this is our spiritual home.

Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!

Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.

Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.

— Laurie Anderson
his loving wife and eternal friend

[kpete]

4. KamaAina

wow,
just wow

peace, kp

[KamaAina]

5. When I read that I thought of this

my sign-on (beginning of broadcast day, actually) song from my college radio days.

[reddread]

6. Laurie ALWAYS shines

I feel selfish and safely confident that the next album she releases after Lou's departure will be every bit as impressive
as his paen to her in Set the Twilight Reeling.
Mr Reed set new standards in his work after some rather low moments, which I mostly enjoyed very much at the time.
Laurie Anderson has rarely set foot on this planet, such an amazing Angel.

[zappaman]

7. Beautiful.

[Tree-Hugger]

8. ....

[JPZenger]

9. After the Velvets, Lou became a typist

"Q: After leaving the Velvet Underground in 1970, you worked for your father for a while.

A: As a typist. He had this company, he was like president of it. He really wanted me to be in the family business. But that was a real impossibility. But when I left the Velvet Underground, I just packed up. I'd had it. So I was a typist for two years. My mother always told me in high school, "You should take typing. It gives you something to fall back on." She was right."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-the-rolling-stone-interview-19890504#ixzz2jzEFux00

[Mika]

10. One of her best - World Without End

https://myspace.com/officialaurieanderson/music/song/world-without-end-30064849-30249737?play=1