Back in Creem Magazine 1970s there were like three major interviews by
Lester Bangs with Lou Reed, these were as important to following Reed as his
albums back then in some ways. I came on a brief excerpt today, while
looking for something else, and think/wish that these interview/essays could
be collected and put out, heavy and hilarious readings, captured Lou Reed
/and/ Lester Bangs as two rock-n-roll animals in the cage...
http://us.arts.poetry.narkive.com/05h6L9mQ/the-king-of-autumn-shadowville-all-stars.3
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venomous little dwarf.
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Nice image, unique for the mythos.
I was quoting your pal Cythera like verbatim.
We've never met.
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... though personally it reminds me of
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/187/4288/320/jjclr4125a1.jpg
"...In other words, Lou Reed is a completely depraved pervert and
pathetic death dwarf and everything else you want to think he is. On
top of that he's a liar, a wasted talent, an artist continually in
flux, and a huckster selling pounds of his own flesh. A panderer...
Lou Reed is the guy that gave dignity and poetry and rock 'n' roll to
smack, speed, homosexuality, sadomasochism, murder, misogyny,
stumblebum passivity, and suicide, and then proceeded to belie all his
achievements and return to the mire by turning the whole thing into a
monumental bad joke with himself as the woozily insistent Henny
Youngman in the center ring, mumbling punch lines that kept losing
their punch..."
- Lester Bangs, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves, or How I
Slugged it out with Lou Reed and Stayed Awake," 1975.