The record that made Lou Reed leave The Velvet Underground: “I didn’t belong there”
Times had changed.
Lou Reed
The song Lou Reed said was “on another level” to anything else he had ever heard
Praise on the wild side.
The one musician Bob Dylan is certain “never made a bad record”
“Bob Dylan said a very nice thing to me once…”
The musicians Lou Reed said were out of his league: “I couldn’t even begin”
“I couldn’t even begin.”
The one band both Frank Zappa and Lou Reed couldn’t stand: “Beyond the realm of credibility”
Not ready for the primetime.
When Talking Heads turned down Lou Reed: “It was a little bit too much”
“Oh, I don’t know if we’re ready for this.”
The surprising Velvet Underground song Johnny Marr called “simple and perfect”
A fairly obscure nugget from a legendary band.