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 "We had vast objections to the whole San Francisco scene. It`s just tedious, a lie and untalented. They can`t play and they certainly can`t write... You know, people like Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead are just the most untalented bores that ever came up. Just look at them physically, I mean, can you take Grace Slick seriously? It`s a joke! It`s a joke! The kids are being hyped." "You can`t beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums."
If I don`t do [t`ai chi] my body really hurts. It just starts aching and hurting. It`s terrible. To me it`s candy. It`s my idea of fun. But it requires the tenacity of a lion. Otherwise it shows and you`re in class and you`re the one going in the wrong direction. But if you tag into it, it`s beyond belief. It makes me feel great in every way. It gives you tons of energy. It makes you very strong, very balanced and very focused. It`s good for everything.
Meditation doesn`t have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy. And no matter what happens, keep counting. I personally like it when I can feel that I`m actually moving the beads when I`m counting. And once you make it to a minute, see if you can do a minute-and-a-half. Eventually you can do it without the beads.
On the release of his 2007 album "Hudson River Wind Meditations": It`s geared up to help to you to focus. I call it centering. I use the music all the time. I leave it on all day because living in the city it has an intriguing ability to absorb the outside sound and kind of weave that into itself somehow. So a car horn or a fire engine - all this background noise - just somehow filters into it in a nice way. I`m not sure that I know why, but I know that it does that.
People think that I work out but it`s all t`ai chi.
[On his colleague John Cale]: "I only hope that one day John will be recognized as ... the Beethoven or something of his day. He knows so much about music, he`s such a great musician. He`s completely mad - but that`s because he`s Welsh."
Trivia
In 1958, a 14 year-old Lou Reed was part of a doo wop band called The Shades and recorded a single.
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Is portrayed by Brian Bell in Factory Girl (2006)
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Resides in New York City.
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The Velvet Underground were voted the 19th Greatest Rock `n` Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone.
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Winner of the 2005 Ivor Novello Special International Award.
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Attended Syracuse University.
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Best known songs include "Sweet Jane", "Rock and Roll", "Femme Fatale", "Walk on the Wild Side", and "Satellite of Love."
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Born in Freeport, NY USA
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He was with the group "Velvet Underground" until 1970.
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He was with the group The Velvet Underground until 1970; returned when they reformed in the 1990s.
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Living with Laurie Anderson [1995 - present]
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Married 3 times.
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Produced `Metal Machine Music` in response to RCA Records` demands for a quick follow-up to his Top Ten LP `Sally Can`t Dance`. The hour-plus of electronic noise was almost buried as a classical release, but instead was promoted as a pop album. The resulting backlash nearly ruined the label and Reed`s reputation; both later issued apologies, while the album remains a musical enigma.
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Reed`s guitar in the early Velvets days included a built-in electronic tremolo. Reed sometimes turned this up, and tuned all the strings to D; the resulting sound he called "Ostrich guitar".
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Spent some weeks in a mental hospital in his teens, at his parents` insistence; his "treatment" included electroshock therapy and medication. Reed reflected on the experience later in songs, including "Kill Your Sons".
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