LOU REED 1972-09-29 London audience recording RESEED

2009 RESEED NOTE: I previously seeded this show in March 2008 - these are the same flac files but with a revised text file and some contemporary scans.

2014 RESEED NOTE: I've fixed the SBEs, removed the photo scans and tidied up this text file accordingly.

QUALITY WARNING: only fair quality - listen to the samples.

Sundown Theatre
Edmonton
London
England
29 September 1972

disc 1
D101: White Light/White Heat 6.09
D102: Lonesome Cowboy Bill 5.03
D103: I'm Waiting For The Man 8.24
D104: Ride Into The Sun 5.39
D105: New Age 5.16
D106: Walk And Talk It 4.11
D107: Sweet Jane 6.10

disc 2
D201: Going Down 3.01
D202: I Can't Stand It 3.52
D203: Berlin 6.57
D204: Head Held High 3.48
D205: Cool It Down/Wild Child 15.57
D206: Heroin 10.05
D207: Rock And Roll (cut) 2.50

Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
Vinnie Laporta: guitar
Eddie Reynolds: guitar
Bobby Resigno: bass
Scottie Clark: drums

lineage: unknown generation TDK C90 cassette - Pioneer CT- S670D cassette player - wav - flac (level 8) - you

original recording engineer unknown
transfer to wav March 2008 by lurid_uk
originally uploaded to Dime March 2008 by lurid_uk
reseeded on Dime October 2009 by lurid_uk
reseeded on Dime February 2014 by lurid_uk

After the 2 initial shows at the King's Cross Cinema (14th and 28th July), Lou played a few more dates in and around London before he went into the studio in August to start recording "Transformer" with Bowie and Ronson. Recording complete, he and the Tots then went out on tour again in September and this show at the Edmonton Sundown was one of the first of that tour. This is a fine, enthusiastic performance by Lou. His vocals are good, his voice holds up well, and the band are nice and tight. There are no songs from "Transformer" - presumably the Tots haven't learned them yet. It's hard to tell on this poor recording, but he's quite talkative between some of the songs - he announces "Heroin" as "for the guys out front"....

This show was reviewed (quite differently!) in both "Melody Maker" and "Sounds". I've included scans of both reviews - make up your own mind!

NOTE: despite Mr Shaar Murray's report, I am as certain as I can be that "Venus In Furs" was NOT played at this show!

This mono audience recording is only fair quality. The cassette was dated "October 1972" when I originally received it. However, all the contemporary documentation I have seen relates to a show on 29 September, so I think my copy was misdated.

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Lou Reed summer/autumn 1972 timeline

June/July: Lou returns from USA
08 July: Lou guests at Bowie�s Royal Festival Hall �Friends of the Earth� benefit show
14 July: Lou plays the Scala Cinema, King�s Cross, London � Mick Rock takes photos
15 July: Bowie/Ziggy plays the Friar�s Club, Aylesbury
16 July: Lou and Iggy Pop join Bowie at the Ziggy Stardust press conference, Dorchester Hotel, London
28 July: Lou plays the King�s Cross Cinema � back �by popular demand�
29 July: Lou plays the Friar�s Club, Aylesbury
30 July: Lou plays the Greyhound, Croydon
01 August: Lou and Bowie/Ronson start recording �Transformer� at Trident Studios, London
(Some references specify 11th August)
19 August: Bowie/Ziggy plays the Rainbow Theatre � Lou is in the audience
26 September: Lou appears on UK TV � The Old Grey Whistle Test
27 September: Polytechnic, Manchester (start of UK tour to promote �Transformer�)
29 September: Edmonton Sundown, London
30 September: Concertgbouw, Amsterdam
06 October: St Andrew�s University, St Andrew�s, Scotland
07 October: Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland
13 October: Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge University, Cambridge (may have been 31 October?)
14 October: Leicester University, Leicester
17 October: New Theatre, Oxford (cancelled and resheduled for 25th October at a different venue)
19 October: University Stadium, Liverpool
20 October: Essex University, Essex
21 October: Imperial College, London
22 October: Hard Rock Concert Theatre, Manchester
25 October: Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford
26 October: Alhambra Rock Theatre, Birmingham (New York Dolls support)
27 October: Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds
28 October: Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston
29 October: Guildhall, Southampton
30 October: Friar�s Club, Civic Hall, Dunstable
31 October: Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge University, Cambridge (may have been 13th?)
01 November: �Walk On The Wild Side� is released in the UK
01 November: Mile End Sundown, London
02 November: Pheasantry Club, London

08 December: �Transformer� is released in the UK - fame and fortune beckoned....

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