Lou Reed — once the androgynous rock poet of the Velvet Underground, then a godfather of punk, now a weathered icon of courage and adventurousness in American music — in two astonishing live concerts, one from New York's fabled Bottom Line in 1983, one from the 2004 Benicassim Festival in Spain. With selections deftly mixed and matched for maximum effect, these two concerts allow us to time-travel between key phases of an amazing career, as Reed reinvents classic songs from his Velvets and early solo period and presents adventurous new work — always with the unmistakable droning, dissonance, and literary intelligence that are part and parcel of the Lou Reed approach to rock and roll, and to his adventures in post-classical minimalism and even free jazz, all key to his unique sensibility.
John Matarazzo
Director
Lou Reed
Vocals / Guitar
Robert Quine
Guitar
Fernando Saunders
Bass / Vocals
Fred Maher
Drums
Mike Rathke
Guitar
Tony Thunder Smith
Drums
Jane Scarpantoni
Cello
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