LOU REED 1980-06-02 New York late show audience recording RESEED

Bottom Line
New York
1980-06-02
(late show)

disc 1
D101: Sweet Jane 5.35
D102: Real Good Time Together 3.48
D103: I'm Waiting For My Man 3.57
D104: Coney Island Baby 6.30
D105: So Alone 4.15
D106: Vicious 2.55
D107: Walk On The Wild Side 8.05
D108: Standing On Ceremony 3.49
D109: Heroin 11.49

disc 2
D201: Keep Away 3.54
D202: The Kids 4.54
D203: Caroline Says 2 5.51
D204: The Power Of Positive Drinking 2.56
D205: How Do You Speak To An Angel? 4.41
D206: My Old Man 4.30
D207: Street Hassle (incomplete) 2.21

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

lineage: unknown generation MAXELL XL11 cassette - Pioneer CT-S670D player - WAV - FLAC (level 8)

original recording engineer unknown
transfer to WAV July 2008 by lurid_uk
uploaded to Dime July 2008 by lurid_uk
reseeded on Dime April 2010 by lurid_uk
reseeded on Dime February 2014 by lurid_uk
reseeded on Dime December 2025 by lurid_uk

The late show on 02 June 1980 was the last of Lou's "warm-up" shows at the Bottom Line before he departed on a short European tour. Maybe it's a hangover of him having lost his temper after the verbal abuse of the early show, but Lou seems to interact less with the audience. It's a far straighter, more "professional" presentation - maybe he's just preparing himself for the upcoming tour. The European shows would mostly take place in big, football stadium-sized auditoria, not really the sorts of places which would encourage much interaction with a (foreign) audience.

This audience recording is incomplete. Also, the quality isn't quite as good as it is with the other shows from this residency - the audience seem a bit more boisterous and the recorder was possibly further from the stage.

RIP Lou