Lou Reed
The Knitting Factory
New York City, NY
December 9, 1998
(Two Of Us Master Volume 74)

Recording: Shure Mic > Sony WM - D6C

Transfer: Two Of Us Master Cassettes > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity > iZotope RX 8 /ozone 9 (mastered) > xACT > FLAC

01 Dirty Blvd
02 Alone At Last
03 The Kids
04 Street Hassle
05 Set The Twilight Reeling
06 Into The Divine
07 Future Farmers Of America
08 Tell It To Your Heart
09 I Don�t Need This
10 Talking Book
11 Why Do You Talk?
12 Small Town
13 Hang On To Your Emotions
14 Riptide
15 The Blue Mask
16 Blood Of A Lamb
17 Leave Me Alone
18 Romeo Had Juliette
19 Heroin

Known Faults:
-Spine Music and Perfect Day: probably missing but not confirmed as played
-Dirty Blvd : joined in progress
-Tell It To Your Heart: start cut

Welcome to Volume 74 of the "Two Of Us" Master Series.

Between 1983 and 2002 there was likely not a taper or taping duo more active than the "Two Of Us". For the better part of two decades they taped over 250 artists with an array being taped multiple times.

If you collect Springsteen then you are already familiar with some of their work, "fmcleanboots" has posted a half dozen or so of their "Tunnel Of Love" tour shows but has decided to pass the baton.

What you don't know is their passion was not just for Springsteen but for music and that passion runs deep. It is astonishing how many artists they taped.

They followed tours taping club shows, theater shows, arena shows, big artists, mid-level artists and local artists. If they were following a tour and the tour had an off night they'd see who else was playing that night to tape.

Always focused on enjoyment of the show as the priority, tickets were for the most part acquired outside of the venue as they worked to obtain the best possible seats, continually trading up until the correct seats were acquired.

The results of this were the captures are uniformly excellent but on occasion the start of the show was sacrificed as a trade-off for the seats. The heavy lifting was done by the Sony WM-D6C and an external Shure Mic before moving to DAT for the last couple of years.

None of their masters have ever been circulated and have been safely stored for the past three to four decades in a climate controlled environment. Tapes transferred so far are in pristine condition.

Though we may do some mini releases of a series of shows in order for one portion of a tour for the most part shows will not be released in order, there are just too many of them.

This will be a very exciting series and we hope along the way we upgrade existing circulating audio and offer up shows that do not have any circulating audio.

We hope you enjoy the ride, this is definitely not a dark ride.

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Lou Reed @ The Knitting Factory December 9, 1998

At the end of 1998 Lou Reed played three nights at the Knitting Factory, the shows were not back to back and took place over two weeks starting on November 25, then November 30 and December 9th.

Both the November 25th and 30th shows already circulate, it appears the December 9th show does not generally circulate and this is very likely its first appearance.

The capture is probably missing "Spine Music" and "Perfect Day" as they both opened the previous two nights.

Setlist is generally the same with one very welcome addition to the final night in what appears to be a super rare playing of "Blood Of The Lamb" (only recorded performance?) from the "Time Rocker" a collaboration between Robert Wilson (direction and design), Darryl Pinckney (text) and Lour Reed (songs and music). The play is loosely based the shards of H.G. Wells "The Time Machine".

I could not find any other shows around this time period that included "Blood Of The Lamb".


Thanks to "Two Of Us" and their dedication to capturing all these great shows, the HOURS and HOURS spent waiting in line, traveling, money on tickets as well as trusting me to be the caretaker of their life's work, our little community is indebted to you both. Also, a big thank you to my friend "fmcleanboots" for putting me in touch and laying the groundwork that has resulted in all these great releases and finally to professor goody for always being "on call" to ensure we're at the correct pitch...we've only just begun to scratch the surface.

Artwork included...

mjk5510 & Two Of Us

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46 Willy DeVille 1989-11-28 NYC Early & Late Show
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49 Nick Lowe 1989-04-11 Brookville, NY
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54 Roxy Music 2001-07-23 NYC, NY
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56 John Fogerty 1997-06-04 NYC, NY
57 Squeeze 1990-08-04 NYC, NY
58 Lou Reed 1989-03-21 NYC, NY
59 Nick Lowe 1989-04-21 Ann Arbor, MI
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71 Women In Rock 1997-11-13 NYC, NY
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73 Lou Reed 1998-11-30 NYC

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