Lou Reed Copenhagen 19 September 1973

"Phantom Animal"

Falkoner Theatre, Copenhagen

19 September 1973

originally released on silver CD by Gold Standard

track 01: Intro/Sweet Jane
track 02: How Do You Think It Feels?
track 03: Caroline Says 1
track 04: I'm Waiting For The Man
track 05: Satellite Of Love
track 06: Walk On The Wild Side
track 07: Oh Jim
track 08: Heroin
track 09: Rock And Roll
track 10: White Light/White Heat (cuts)
track 11: Vicious

Lou Reed: vocals
Steve Hunter: guitar
Dick Wagner: guitar
Peter Walsh: bass
Ray Colcord: keyboards
Pentti Glan: drums

lineage: Gold Standard silver CD - EAC- WAV- FLAC (level 8) - you

A reasonable quality recording (soundboard?) of Lou and band at one of the first shows on the European
tour to promote the "Berlin" LP. Lou reputedly asked Andy Warhol for advice about stage lighting
schemes and Andy supposedly recommended "stark white spotlights". Lou followed Andy's advice and
emphasisied the effect by layering his face in white makeup - by wearing black leather and adding mascara
to his eyes he ended up looking like an overweight panda. At this stage of his career Lou's drug of choice
was alcohol - and lots of it. But he seems to have been relatively "together" for this show, and manages to
remember the words to most of the songs. (Compare with the Glasgow Apollo Theatre on 24th September
- at that show he had to be propped up at the mic by the road crew after repeatedly collapsing on stage.)
It's hard to imagine what the audience thought of this set. Lou had not toured Europe to push "Transformer".
"Berlin" had just been released and was being promoted as the "Sergeant Pepper of the 1970s" - it even made
the top 20 LP chart in the UK. As it was, he restricted himself to only 3 "Berlin" songs, and padded the rest
of the set out with full frontal assault "heavy metal" arrangements of his back catalogue. Unbelievably,
"Caroline Says 1/Caroline Says 2" was issued and promoted as a 45 in the UK, and "How Do You Think It
Feels" was selected as a 45 for the USA market.... (you really have to wonder who at RCA made those
decisions!).
This band would get tighter and tighter as the tour progressed, culminating in the recording of "Rock And Roll
Animal" at New York's Academy Of Music in December 1973. Sales from that LP, and the follow-ups "Sally
Cant Dance" and "Lou Reed Live" would keep RCA happy for a many months - the "Metal Machine Music"
debacle was still nearly 2 years away......

EAC log file included

distribute widely but do not sell!

original artwork included (note inappropriate front/inside cover photos from 1974 and incorrect band credits -
I believe the details above are correct. The back cover shot is from the Crystal Palace Garden Party in London
on 15th September 1973)

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Uploaded Oct 6, 2007 by lurid_uk.

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