Roll over, H. Melville, tell Tom Pynchon the news!

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Chris wrote:
>(The only worse thing I've seen was the horrible Time Rocker got up at 
>BAM last year by--whoops!--Lou Reed.)


     Yes, the case Lou Reed. Very sad story. The decay of a great artist. Like  
     Grass, Reed missed the right moment to stop (- "The Blue Mask" from 1982   
     would have been a good last record). Instead he went, well, "classic"...   
     Nevertheless, I'll always love not only Velvet Underground (- who         
     doesn't?) but also some of Reed's work from the 70s. "Berlin" (1973) and,  
     most of all, "Take no Prisoners" (1978). This last one is still my         
     favourite Rock-'n'-Roll record. Listened to it many thousand times.

     Best, Kai