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'''Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed''' (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. Reed first found prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of [[The Velvet Underground]].
  
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'''Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed''' (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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The Zappa family has expressed animosity towards Reed describing him as "the world's biggest loser, the king of losers. He's commander of the losing side". A reason was given in the claim that after Zappa's [[The Rainbow Theatre Incident|accident at The Rainbow Theatre]] Reed changed the venue of a concert he was giving from the Hammersmith Odeon to the Rainbow so that he could look down at the point where Zappa hit the ground.  <ref>[[Dweezil Goes Out To Lunch.]] By Ben Watson and Danny Houston, 
T'Mershi Duween, #29, February 1993</ref>
  
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Reed first found prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of [[The Velvet Underground]] (1965 – 1973). The band gained relatively little notice during its life, but is considered by some to be the seed from which much alternative rock music sprang. As the Velvets’ principal songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects such as S&M ("Venus in Furs"), transvestites ("Sister Ray"), and transsexuals undergoing lobotomies ("Lady Godiva's Operation"). As a guitarist, he made use of distortion, volume-driven feedback, and nonstandard tunings.
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On January 12, 1995, Lou Reed [[Zappa Inducted Into The Hall Of Fame|inducted]] Zappa into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. [[Gail Zappa]] and the children were initially against using Reed and asked for [[Johnny "Guitar" Watson]] instead.
  
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<blockquote>AZ: When we do a show, when the album is all done, we're going to try and bring back a show ...<br>
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DZ: Or create a new style of show. With us, it's almost as much theatre as anything else because we'll incorporate whatever we're thinking about at that moment. Whatever happened that day that was funny, we like to bring it up onstage, talk about it, have fun with the audience; make a song about it. We'll play certain songs of ours half-steps apart, just wrong and out-of-tune, like [[wikipedia:Lou Reed|Lou Reed]] or something, because we hate Lou Reed.<br>
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AZ: Let's just get this out in the public. Lou Reed is the world's biggest loser, the king of losers. He's commander of the losing side. You see, there is really a good reason why we hate Lou Reed.<br>
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Interviewer: Does it relate to Frank at all?<br>
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<div align=right>–Form the interview [[Dweezil Goes Out To Lunch.]] with [[Dweezil Zappa|Dweezil]] and [[Ahmet Zappa]]</div>
 
  
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Revision as of 15:59, 26 December 2010

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. Reed first found prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of The Velvet Underground.

The Zappa family has expressed animosity towards Reed describing him as "the world's biggest loser, the king of losers. He's commander of the losing side". A reason was given in the claim that after Zappa's accident at The Rainbow Theatre Reed changed the venue of a concert he was giving from the Hammersmith Odeon to the Rainbow so that he could look down at the point where Zappa hit the ground. [1]

On January 12, 1995, Lou Reed inducted Zappa into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. Gail Zappa and the children were initially against using Reed and asked for Johnny "Guitar" Watson instead.

Further reading

Lou Reed

References

  1. ↑ Dweezil Goes Out To Lunch. By Ben Watson and Danny Houston, 
T'Mershi Duween, #29, February 1993
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