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

["Michael Carlucci" <michael@recordsnyc.com>]

    Right On! The newly remastered version comes out Tuesday with the bonus
tracks. RCA wanted to do a 2 CD set with Live and Animal plus the leftovers
and Lou Lou said no. Putz! MTC
> 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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