{"id":11194,"date":"2013-11-27T11:09:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=11194"},"modified":"2013-11-27T11:09:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:09:38","slug":"lou-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/11\/lou-reed\/","title":{"rendered":"LOU REED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11196\" alt=\"Lou Reed-1\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Lou-Reed-1.jpg\" width=\"534\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Lou-Reed-1.jpg 534w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Lou-Reed-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/b><\/h1>\n<h1><b>LOU REED<\/b><\/h1>\n<h2>On His Way Somewhere Else<\/h2>\n<p>I got there a couple minutes after 1 P.M. (Nov. 14) so if anything was said I didn\u2019t hear it, but nothing was supposed to be said, according to the posting on Lou Reed\u2019s Facebook page two days earlier:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New York: Lou Reed at Lincoln Center: A gathering open to the public\u2014no speeches. no live performances, just Lou&#8217;s voice, guitar music &amp; songs\u2014playing the recordings selected by his family and friends. The Paul Milstein Pool &amp; Terrace at Lincoln Center, Thursday November 14th. Time 1:00PM to 4:00PM.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were maybe a couple hundred people when I got there. It was a beautiful, sunny November day, 51-degrees (yesterday was windy and chilly in the 30s). Only problem was there was no Lincoln Center Wi-Fi working, so I went into the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts adjacent to the pool and its Henry Moore <i>Reclining Figure<\/i> sculpture and through Calder\u2019s <i>Le Guichet (The Box Office)<\/i> sculpture just outside the library entrance.<\/p>\n<p>From the second floor I could see the crowd, hear the Reed drone, and get some work done. I can\u2019t say that Lou would have loved the memorial, but I think he\u2019d have appreciated that I was getting some research done while listening to it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11195\" alt=\"Lou Reed - The Banana Album\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Lou-Reed-The-Banana-Album-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Lou-Reed-The-Banana-Album-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Lou-Reed-The-Banana-Album-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Lou-Reed-The-Banana-Album.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I did know Lou. Not well, but we were friendly, for sure. Probably because not only was I a fan of him, but his hero, Doc Pomus. In fact, we\u2019re both in the A.K.A. Doc Pomus documentary, he as one of the main interviewees, me as the guy with Seymour Stein at Doc\u2019s funeral. We also had martial arts in common, he being a Chinese practitioner, me a Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>But what a great, fan-friendly, open-to-the-public memorial! So much was written about Lou in the couple weeks since he died, nothing was left unsaid. Here was a chance to hear why we were all saying it. Also, you go to these invite-only memorials and the people who talk tend to talk and talk, more about themselves than the dearly departed.<\/p>\n<p>Looking out and nodding my head to Nico singing \u201cI\u2019ll Be Your Mirror\u201d from the Velvets\u2019 Banana album, I changed my mind, or at least modified it. I think Lou would have loved the memorial\u2014if it weren\u2019t <i>his<\/i>. He\u2019d recognize it for what it was: A nice New York November day music <i>happening<\/i>. He\u2019d have stopped for a moment, listened, and walked on by, on his way somewhere else, just like me.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Bessman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOU REED On His Way Somewhere Else I got there a couple minutes after 1 P.M. (Nov. 14) so if anything was said I didn\u2019t hear it, but nothing was supposed to be said, according to the posting on Lou Reed\u2019s Facebook page two days earlier: &#8220;New York: Lou Reed at Lincoln Center: A gathering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4976,1058],"tags":[7274,6858,7272,7266,7275,7273],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11198,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194\/revisions\/11198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}