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

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>>Raymond wrote:

>>>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.

if you dig hunter/ wagner guitar tagteam, check out mitch ryder's band DETROIT.
they released a (self-titled??? haven't owned it since college) record right
around 1970 & those very same boys are the guitarists....cover a "heavy" version
of "rock & roll" too...(obvious inspiration for lou)....
i love ryder...the record's a bit heavy-handed but kinda groundbreaking....which
leads me to......
post-zappa tho still early alice cooper....
those records certainly do kick ass & to illustrate our man lou's influence on
all the aforementioned, an old pal of mine relates a story where he caught
cooper in rochester, ny around the time of "killer"...the band opened with a 2
chord instrumental that sounded quite similar to the drone of "heroin" (rocked
up a bit, of course)....cooper then came out & kicked into a song with a very
lou chord progression (maybe "under my wheels").
after the show my friend ( a teenager at the time) approached cooper as he was
entering the downtown hotel he was staying at...wanting to show off, he told
cooper that he thought he heard a lotta lou reed in the songs, particularly the
opener ("wasn't that heroin w/out the words?")...cooper grinned & said something
to the effect of "i've ripped that bastard off for all he's
worth."....good-naturedly, of course.


> 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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