Lou Reed New York 02 June 1980 early show audience recording

Lou gets very very angry....

"....just remember stupid - you're only the fucking early show....stand up you motherfucker....stand the fuck up!....."

Bottom Line
New York
02 June 1980
early show

track 01: Sweet Jane 5.49
track 02: Real Good Time Together 3.43
track 03: I'm Waiting For My Man 3.27
track 04: Coney Island Baby 7.14
track 05: So Alone 4.39
track 06: Vicious 2.43
track 07: Walk On The Wild Side 4.32
track 08: Standing On Ceremony 4.05
track 09: Heroin 12.49
track 10: Keep Away 4.37
track 11: The Kids 6.53
track 12: Caroline Says 2 5.29
track 13: The Power Of Positive Drinking 2.28
track 14: How Do You Speak To An Angel? 5.21
track 15: My Old Man 4.07
track 16: Growing Up In Public 4.20
track 17: Street Hassle 26.10
track 18: Think It Over 4.01

Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
Stuart Heinrich: guitar synthesiser
Chuck Hammer: guitar
Ellard "Moose" Bowles: bass
Michael Fonfara: keyboards
Michael Suchorsky: drums

lineage: MAXELL XL11 cassettes - (WavePad) - WAV - FLAC (level 8) - you

tracks 1 - 8: original recording engineer unknown
tracks 9 - 18: original recording by Bob Dillingham
transfer to WAV by lurid_uk
uploaded to Dime January 2008 by lurid_uk

This was a strange show. Lou was in a very energetic and talkative mood for all of these June 1980 shows at the Bottom Line, and he
generally had a good rapport with the audience. Here, Lou starts off in classic "Take No Prisoners" mode: he declares himself as a
candidate for President (again) during "Coney" and his little story during "Heroin" is frustratingly cut short (by a tape flip on the
master I presume) just as it gets interesting. He doesn't break stride when some crazy girl in the audience starts verbally abusing him
just before "Angel", but she doesn't give up and he loses it completely just before "Street Hassle". I dont think I've ever heard Lou lose
his temper and rant at the audience the way he lays into them here.... (You have to wonder why some of these "fans" even attended the
show in the first place!). But it fires him up for a passionate 25 min version of "Street Hassle"....

I've compiled this show from 2 different sources - tracks 1 to 8 are in excellent quality, but my source only supplied me with these 8
tracks. Bob taped the entire show, but his tape is much poorer quality: murky and without much top-end. (If anyone out there has the
rest of the show in the same quality as tracks 1 - 8 please share it!)

Distribute widely but do not sell!

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SBEs fixed by TLH. Re-encoded to flac (8).