Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Lou's So Free Right Now

This was made available on iTunes at the end of last year, either for "thirty minutes" or "a couple of days", as a copyright extension exercise. Maybe they thought nobody would notice, maybe they don't care that much - it's all about them - the lawyers, the music business. But of course some eagle-eyed music maven grabbed it, and it's extending its copyright right across the internet even as we speak, even as far as th' Isle O' Foam©. Free at last!

Thanks to all the links in the chain, whoever you are.

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18 comments:

  1. UncleRemusFebruary 1, 2022 at 6:41 AM

    No comment.

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  2. wardoFebruary 1, 2022 at 7:04 AM

    Love the artwork.

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  3. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIFebruary 1, 2022 at 7:21 AM

    Reed th' screed!


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    1. FiveGunsWestFebruary 1, 2022 at 7:30 AM

      Dis hyeah comint dun bin takun doon by da cominter.

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  4. BabsFebruary 1, 2022 at 7:36 AM

    My favorite Lou quote:
    "My week equals your year."

    I was Lou for many a Halloween.

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    1. Eric S.February 1, 2022 at 11:19 AM

      one of my buddies, now a philosophy and women and gender studies professor at a major state university, had a Lou phase shortly after she arrived at our sad li'l Central Texas SLAC. She nailed the Sally Can't Dane era look with the blonde hair, shades,and leather jacket. Teh kidz were atwitter and she had quite the following, male, female, and everything in-between, above, beyond, below, upside down.

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    2. Eric S.February 1, 2022 at 11:21 AM

      er, Dance, not Dane, though who knows, maybe Sally Can;t Dane either. Lou knew. Sigh. Old fat fingers and brain plus dyslexia...

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    3. BabsFebruary 1, 2022 at 7:08 PM

      Some years I was Sally can't dance Lou, other years I was Transformer and Berlin.

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    4. MrDaveFebruary 5, 2022 at 11:55 PM

      In 11th grade I was "For Little Ones/Wear Your Love Like Heaven" Donovan and made the grave error of using food coloring to achieve his blue skin hue from that photo shoot (clearly the result of lens filters and/or darkroom tomfoolery in retrospect but at the time I thought that was part of his look). I was blue for many days after that.

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  5. Eric S.February 1, 2022 at 11:14 AM

    Lou Reed was a complicated person but a helluva talent and wonderful rhythm guitar player. It was my great good fortune to meet Sterling Morrison when three of us (we weren't the first, just the youngest and most obnoxious, as he informed us) figured out he was hiding out at UT as an English grad student and got up the nerve to go to his office and ask if he was who we thought he was. Reader, he was. And more amused than he let on and didn't chase us away. When my pal asked him what Lou was like, he said he was a talented asshole. We rarely missed a gig when he sat in with the Bizarro's at the Hole in the Wall until they bizarrely kicked him out. Who knows.

    Anyway, quibbles about who exactly said it and picayune protests about the number (it is astonishing how much time a geeky academic can spend chasing minutia) aside, Eno's quip still seems right: the first Velvet Underground album only sold 5,000 copies but everyone who bought one started a band.

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  6. draftervoiFebruary 1, 2022 at 12:42 PM

    Mom (98) called to chat about buying some shares of Walgreens. As I was already on the line with her I asked to speak to my younger brother, as we've got Richard Thompson tix for two nights later this month. Anyway...after stocks n' Thompson, "copyright extention sets" were the topic. Did Dylan micro-release 500 copies of anything last year and we missed it? Conclusion was no, there weren't any signifigant releases last year, we're okay.

    Yeah, well, I've been wrong about a lot of things (ask me about that first marriage...) and I'm adding 1971 copyright releases to the list.

    The only faint, distant connection I have is that I used to work with Doug Yule's daughter at the Alameda Newspaper Group. I mentioned to her that I had recently recorded a tape where David Bowie told a Doug Yule story (he'd gone to a Yule-VU show, thought Yule was Reed...), and it turned out she was a huge Bowie fan, so I made her a copy of the tape.

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  7. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIFebruary 1, 2022 at 1:44 PM


    Doug Yulishness.

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  8. SteveSharkFebruary 1, 2022 at 6:46 PM

    Many thanks for this!

    Early 1970s Lou is my favourite period in his career. There's a case to be made for 1973's "Rock & Roll Animal* and "Lou Reed Live" (one show split over two albums) being one of the best live shows by anyone ever. What a band that was!

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    1. Dave HeasmanFebruary 2, 2022 at 11:32 PM

      Great band - Alice Cooper nicked it.
      Similarly Bob Seger had a great band in 1970 & Eric Clapton nicked it.

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  9. BambiFebruary 1, 2022 at 6:48 PM

    I was persuaded to go see Lou Reed live at the Albert Hall London around the time of the Ecstasy album (2000) it was a very good gig, only spoiled by our tickets being about as high up at the back as you could get, way too high up for my liking because I don't like heights.

    Anyway this post has inspired me to dig out The Bells, one of my favorites of his (well it's got Disco Mystic on it, whats not to love about that).

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  10. FieldhippieFebruary 2, 2022 at 3:30 AM

    Many thanks, etc.

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