Lou Reed Marseille 15 March 1975 audience recording

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Lou Reed Marseille 15 March 1975 audience recording

Post by lurid » 24 Feb 2008 21:18

not quite in the same league as the Gymnasium tapes but.....

Lou Reed Marseille 15 March 1975 audience recording

La Salle Valier
Marseille
15 March 1975

track 01: Sweet Jane 8.03
track 02: Coney Island Baby 4.31
track 03: New Age* 4.50
track 04: Waiting For The Man 6.18
track 05: Heroin 10.12
track 06: Vicious 6.08
track 07: Lady Day 6.21
track 08: Kill Your Sons 4.53
track 09: Satellite Of Love* 7.03
track 10: Walk On The Wild Side 6.33
track 11: Kicks 7.25
track 12: White Light/White Heat* 5.14
track 13: Rock And Roll 6.44

track 14: Radio JJJ Sydney: Lou Reed interview, 05 April 1995 (7.50)
track 15: Radio JJJ Sydney: Iggy Pop talks about Lou Reed, 22 February 1996 (0.49)

Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
Doug Yule: guitar, lead vocals on *
Marty Fogel: wind instruments
Michael Suchorsky: drums
Bruce Yaw: bass

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original recording engineer unknown
transfer to wav by lurid_uk February 2008
uploaded to Dime February 2008 by lurid_uk

Lou's 1975 European tour was in full swing by mid-March and his voice was suffering - he sounds very hoarse throughout this show and delegates lead vocals on 3 songs to Doug. Despite that, this is another great concert, with Lou and band very tight. If his drugtaking during this tour was at the level reported by Victor Bockris then it is certainly not apparent from this recording! Despite his voice problems, Lou puts a lot into his vocals - great versions of "Kill Your Sons" and "Wild Side", and another chilling rendition of "Kicks". It's also different to hear Lou himself doing the backing vocal in-fills to "White Light/White Heat".
This is a reasonable quality mono audience recording.

The show in Marseille is particularly interesting because of the (presumably extemporised) new lyrics to "Coney Island Baby". To the best of my knowledge, this is the only time these lyrics were used.

"Coney Island Baby" (The Glory Of Love)

When the sun comes up at night
And you find that everything has turned out wrong
And the midnight sun comes to claim your soul
And you wish you'd never done half the things you've done

Remember the princess on the hill
(She'll love you even though you're wrong)?
And right now she'll come shining shining through

And the glory of love
The glory of love
The glory of love might see you through

When all your 2 bit friends have gone and ripped you off
They said you'd never be a human being
And you begin to regret all the things you've seen
And you wish you'd never been half the places that you've been

Remember that the city is a funny place
Like a circus or a sewer
And some people have peculiar tastes

The glory of love
The glory of love
The glory of love might see you through

The glory of love
The glory of love
The glory of love might see you through

(lyrics by Lou Reed)

Tracks 14 and 15 are culled directly from the (Sydney) Radio JJJ archives.

Track 14 (JJJ archive no 95/10/588-5): On 05 April 1995, Rachel Kerr interviews Lou by phone. To quote the Radio JJJ archive notes: "Reed is very uncooperative and rude to the interviewer....abusive, condescending, arrogant....."
Rachel's questions don't impress Lou and she makes the fatal blunder of asking his opinion of Victor Bockris' new biography. Things go rapidly downhill from then on, and she ends up talking to a dead phone line.....vintage Lou.

Track 15 (JJJ archive no 96/CD/439-8): Rachel interviews Iggy Pop and he empathises with her recent experiences of Lou.

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