LOU REED 1984-12-17 London audience recording

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LOU REED 1984-12-17 London audience recording

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LOU REED 1984-12-17 London audience recording

Academy Theatre
Brixton
London
England
17 December 1984

disc 1
D101: Sweet Jane 4.28
D102: Waiting For The Man 4.00
D103: Martial Law 4.49
D104: Down At The Arcade 4.07
D105: Legendary Hearts 3.00
D106: Turn Out The Light 5.44
D107: There She Goes Again 3.00
D108: Sally Cant Dance 5.25
D109: Walk On The Wild Side 4.51
D110: Street Hassle 5.50
D111: Satellite Of Love 7.48

disc 2
D201: My Red Joystick 5.00
D202: New Sensations 7.56
D203: Doing The Things We Want To 4.18
D204: Turn To Me 4.51
D205: I Love You Suzanne 3.09
D206: White Light White Heat 4.42
D207: Coney Island Baby 6.02
D208: Waves Of Fear 3.22
D209: Band Intro 1.09
D210: Rock And Roll 7.29

Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
Robert Quine: guitar
Peter Wood: keyboards, accordian, backing vocals
Fernando Saunders: fretless bass, backing vocals
Lenny Ferrari: drums

lineage: (unknown generation) Maxell UL60 cassettes - Pioneer CT-S670D player - wav - flac (level 8) - you

original recording engineer unknown
transfer to wav August 2014 by lurid_uk
uploaded to Dime August 2014 by lurid_uk

DKB Concertpromotion presents the 1984 European Tour

01 December: Johanneshov Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden
02 December: Falkoner Teatret, Copenhagen, Denmark
04 December: Sportspalais Ahoy, Rotterdam, Holland
05 December: Philipshalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
07 December: Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland
09 December: Velodrome Anoeta, San Sebastian, Spain
10 December: Palacio Municipal de Deportes, Barcelona, Spain
12 December: Palasport, Padova, Italy
13 December: Palasport, Milan, Italy
15 December: "Saturday Live" show, BBC Radio 1, London
16 December: The Academy, London, England
17 December: The Academy, London, England
18 December: "Old Grey Whistle Test" show BBC TV, London

This was the last date of the (2nd) European leg of the world tour to promote "New Sensations". The band had been on the road on and off since the summer and things were getting a bit strained between Lou and Bob Quine. Bob reputedly referred to this as the "No Sensations" tour - no drink, no drugs, no parties, no fun. There was certainly no invention - the set list seemd fixed in stone, with even Lou's between song ad-libs sounding bored. Bob's guitar playing is uniformly excellent - listen to his incendiary solo on "Waves Of Fear". These problems would come to a head in early 1985: Bob and Lou fell out badly and would never play together again. A real pity, with Lou the long-term loser in my opinion.

I got this recording of the show at a record fair in Edinburgh sometime in 1985 or 86. Sound quality is ok, a bit harsh but without too much crowd noise or tape hiss. Probably not too far from the master. The entire European leg of this tour was preserved on audience tapes of varying quality - this one isn't too bad, considering the cassettes are now nearly 30 years old.

Lou did a lot of promotional work to support "New Sensations" - the mid-1980s were his most "user-friendly" years since the very early 1970s. RCA also pushed hard for the LP to be a commercial success: 7" singles with picture sleeves, 12" singles, a promo video interview, special remixes - the whole gamut of mid-80s promotional pressure was brought to bear on potential Lou Reed record buyers. And it succeeded, to an extent - the LP entered the top 100 in the USA LP charts and the promo videos for both "I Love You Suzanne" and "My Red Joystick" were in heavy rotation on MTV (alongside, if I recall correctly, Michael Jackson's "Thriller"). But it was all to prove futile - Lou perversely followed up this faux-success with the truly dreadful "Mistrial" ("...it's the best album I've ever made....").

I've included scans of the ticket and some contemporary reviews of the show.

RIP Lou
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