Lou Reed
Philipshalle, D�sseldorf, Germany
April - 1 - 1979
Audience tape of unknown generation received in a trade back in the 80's
Rec. Info:
Cassette of unknown generation -> transfer via Onkyo tapedeck TA-2330 -> Magix Music Cleaning Lab (edit/remaster) -> FLAC (44,1 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo) -> DIME
Very good sound. I would rate it as Vg+ (after some EQ was made, mainly lifted bass). Unfortunately "The Bed" is missing from my tape version and there is
a cut before the end of "The Kids".
This show was on dime before not too long ago but as a tribute to Lou I had to make a new transfer of my tape and upload it to dime.
I don't know how my transfer compares soundwise to the recent upload. Surely someone can tell.
Below you find the original text of the last uploader (procella). This gives massive information about the show.
Tape length 179:12 min.
01 - Audience/Tuning
02 - Sweet Jane
03 - Coney Island Baby
04 - Waiting For My Man
05 - Leave Me Alone
06 - I'll Be Your Mirror
07 - Perfect Day
08 - Looking For Love
09 - Berlin
10 - Men Of Good Fortune
11 - Caroline Says 2
12 - The Kids (cut)
13 - Street Hassle
14 - The Bells
15 - Rock And Roll/You Keep Me Hanging On
16 - Sister Ray/The Magic Touch/Twist And Shout/The Magic Touch/Sweet Jane (cut)
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Lou Reed Dusseldorf 01 April 1979 audience recording
"I dont play when people throw things - alright?"
01 April 1979
Philipshalle
Dusseldorf
track 01: Sweet Jane 4.55
track 02: Coney Island Baby 10.48
track 03: Waiting For My Man 6.00
track 04: Leave Me Alone 16.09
track 05: I'll Be Your Mirror 4.36
track 06: Perfect Day 10.59
track 07: Looking For Love 8.28
track 08: Berlin 7.06
track 09: Men Of Good Fortune 5.24
track 10: Caroline Says 2 4.42
track 11: The Kids 4.30
track 12: The Bed 5.27
track 13: Street Hassle 21.29
track 14: The Bells 10.57
track 15: Rock And Roll/You Keep Me Hanging On 35.17
track 16: Sister Ray/The Magic Touch/Twist And Shout/The Magic Touch/Sweet Jane (cut) 23.27
Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
Charles (Chuck) Hammer: Roland guitar synthesiser
Ellard (Moose) Bowles: bass
Michael Suchorsky: drums
Stewart Heinrich: guitar
Marty Fogel: sax, wind instruments
lineage: TDK AD90 cassettes - (Wavepad) - wav - flac (level 8) - you
original recording engineer unknown
transferred to wav by lurid_uk February 2008
uploaded to Dime by lurid_uk February 2008
Lou's booze-soaked spring 1979 European tour to support "The Bells" was a big production. The songs almost all get
extended workouts, with lengthy solos from everyone (and lead vocals for Moose on "You Keep Me Hanging On").
The tour was the usual trail round the same familiar countries - at least they were playing larger venues this time.
(Chuck Hammer was later quoted as saying that the band travelled First Class and stayed at top hotels). RCA and
Arista seemed to be competing with each other with Reed product, in the UK at least. There, "Take No Prisoners" was
finally released (by RCA) on March 9th, while "The Bells" eventually hit the shops on April 27th. (Lou still "owed"
RCA Europe a double LP to compensate for the non-release of "Metal Machine Music" anywhere outside North
America.) Apart from a few dates in mid 1978, Lou hadn't played in Europe since August 1977, so these shows were
much-anticipated - there was much speculation as to which persona Lou would adopt this time round. On a personal
level, Rachel was now gone - replaced by his wife-to-be Sylvia, who accompanied the tour party. She had weaned Lou
away from speed but I think he replaced it with alcohol: his gut now bulged embarrassingly under his tee shirt.
European Tour 1979
March 27: Concerthaus, Stockholm
March 28: Falkoncentrum, Copenhagen
March 29: Kongresscentre, Hamburg
March 30: Eisporthalle, Berlin
April 01: Philipshalle, Dusseldorf
April 02: Pavillion, Paris
April 04: Mozarthalle, Mannheim
April 05: Liedhalle, Stuttgart
April 06, Stadthalle, Offenbach
April 07: Festhalle, Basle
April 08: Circus Krone, Munich
April 10: Hammersmith Odeon, London
April 12: National Stadium, Dublin
There would be crowd trouble at several of the shows on this tour, and this was one of them. Someone throws something
on to the stage during "Waiting For The Man" and Lou stops to remonstate with the crowd before leaving the stage
altogether. He returns with a killer "Leave Me Alone", but the audience remain rowdy throughout the show. At the
Offenbach show, Lou was arrested after (allegedly) assaulting a female fan. He spent the night with the the German police
before being released on bail the next day: the Munich show was then cancelled due to Lou's "nervous breakdown".
Interestingly, Lou claimed later that the police had tested his blood for (the expected) drugs, but had found none. After the
London show Lou came to blows with David Bowie over dinner at the Rendezvous Restaurant. David reportedly offered to
produce Lou's next LP but only if Lou "cleaned up his act" first. Cue physical violence...."Lou Bops Bowie - shocking
scenes in Chelsea restaurant" was the headline in the next edition of Melody Maker. (Bockris tells it differently - in his
version, Lou asks David to produce his next LP, and David demurs, "commenting that Lou needed to do a lot of work on his
songs himself". Whatever the reason, everyone agrees that Lou assaulted David....)
Despite all the crowd trouble, these early 1979 shows were great. This one is memorable for the long, long "Rock And Roll/
You Keep Me Hanging On" and the lengthy "Sister Ray" medley - I dont know how much longer it lasted after the cut at the
end of my tape. "Sister Ray" itself is initially taken at a snail's pace, with Lou spitting the words out contemptuously while
the band vamp behind him - at one point he even encourages the audience to sing along with him. Later, the band obviously
think that the show is over, but Lou lurches into a ragged "Twist And Shout", continues into "The Magic Touch"(?) and
then launches into "Sweet Jane" again!
This is a reasonable quality audience recording. There's not much hiss but it's got quite a harsh sound. It certainly doesn't
have the warmth of Velvet's stereo recording of the Stockholm show from this tour. There are a couple of cuts in the tape but
nothing serious is missing. There are also long gaps between some songs where Lou has left the stage, but I've left them in -
what's here is what is on my cassettes.
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Uploaded to DIME by Stacheleber 2013/10/28