Lou Reed 1972-11-01 London audience recording BA copy

Mile End Sundown
London
1972-11-01

01. MC intro/tuning 1.41
02. White Light White Heat/Lonesome Cowboy Bill 8.27
03. I'm Waiting For The Man 6.26
04. Pale Blue Eyes 5.55
05. Some Kinda Love* 4.37
06. After Hours* 3.04
07. Sweet Jane 5.08
08. Heroin 9.20
09. Walk On The Wild Side 6.22
10. I Can't Stand It 3.51
11. Wagon Wheel 4.22
12. Rock And Roll 6.35
13. Sister Ray 18.48

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

* Lou plays these songs solo

This was one of the last shows of Lou's late 1972 tour of the UK - "Transformer" had been recorded but would not be released for another week or so. Bob Harris had played the studio recording of "Walk On the Wild Side" on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test TV show on 10th October, and it is recognised by the audience when Lou announces it. Phillip Goodhand-Tait and band join Lou for a long version of "Sister Ray" - surely the only rendition of that song to feature a harmonica solo!

This recording is the best quality and most complete copy of this show available - an extract from it was used as the source for the "Some Kinda Love" bootleg LP.

lineage: Maxell "low noise" C90 cassette from the collection of Bill Allerton - Pioneer CT-S670D player - wav - flac

wav transfer October 2025 by lurid_uk

2025 transfer notes
1. There was only audio on the left channel of Bill's cassette so I have used that to create a 2 channel mono fileset.
2. There is some minor tape damage during "Walk On The Wild Side". It is a very old tape and I did not try to repair it.
3. The cassette would not play all the way through side 2 no matter what I tried, so I have patched in the final 3 minutes 18 seconds or so of "Sister Ray" from another, inferior, source.

RIP Lou and Bill

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