On The Occasion Of The Death Of Mr. Lou Reed
I spent my teenage years lugging The Velvet’s 1969 from house party to house party, trying to get someone to play it, but with little luck. Then in 1980 I…
Lou Reed
Lou Reed, My Dad, and the Tennis Racquet Guitar
There aren't too many artists who can bridge the generational divide, or the straight/gay divide, but one of them was Lou Reed. Lou Reed, the singer-songwriter whose darkly poetic recordings…
Coney Island And The Santa Monica Pier
Two amusement parks on the ocean at each end of America. Must have been weird to drive from one to the other seeing that Elmer Gantry, Hank Williams, Chuck Berry,…