(TV) Re: also moved by RnR Animal.....

["Raymond" <ray@wavewalker.freeserve.co.uk>]

I once spent a summer in a remote part of the french countryside when i was
a teen and
Rock n'Roll Animal was one of the only records I had access to for a whole
four weeks.I grew to love and cherish that  "kind of sound he was pursuing"
then and still have a major soft
spot for it today so I'm definitely with Michael
on this one.There's a power and energy to these versions that is quite
thrilling
and if i'm not mistaken the two guitarists on this disc are from the classic
Alice
Cooper band line-up from the early 70's.Superb stuff-loved those early Alice
records "Killer" and "Billion dollar babies" and especially the
singles -probably "heavy metal" but so too are most of my fave
Dolls/MC5/Stooges songs.....I mean who gives a shit when it's this
exciting?Lou's singing is a revelation as Michael rightly points out and his
delivery on "Heroin" particularly used to send shivers up my
spine....wonderful...it certainly moved me!

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Carlucci <michael@recordsnyc.com>
>     Noah wrote:

> > Is there anybody that likes the kind of sound he was pursuing on "Live"
and
> > "Rock and Roll Animal"? That's the Reed stuff that made me punch out my
> > front teeth.
> >
> > Noah
> >
>
>  Oh man, I love the R & R Animal and Live LP's. I know that it's not hip
> because Lou bastardised those V.U. songs and yeah he claims to have been
> bored with it and had to do it to get popular yakety yakety yak. But he
sang
> with more passion and venom on those LP's than any other solo records>
> That was a great band then and still are. Each time I hear those LP's they
> bring me back to a good place and I can't help but have these visions of
Lou
> working his ass off like he's never worked before. He was a true R&R
Animal
> then. Just listen to the vocal performances on White Light White Heat and
> Lady Day. There's all this great snarl and growling not to mention
> passionate energy coming from Lou. I love Steve Hunter's analogy of the
> group. "We were very coordinated while Lou was very, well, uncoordinated.
> Lou was the only singer that I ever saw lean forward and fall backward.
> Somehow that coordinated/uncoordinated duality worked". The rhythm section
> of Prakash John and Penti/Whitey Glan were a monster the way they held
that
> band together. So yes, I like what Lou was going after as much as I like
the
> rawness of the Banana LP even though your only suppose to like one or the
> other. I always found that humorous that you couldn't possibly like both
> because they were at different ends of the spectrum. Who cares as long as
it
> moves ya. M T C


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