RIP Lou Reed

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  • morello
    morello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    RIP Lou. :cry::cry:
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  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    curlygirly9 wrote:
    This is pretty fabulous
    * http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2013/11/1 ... talk_smith *
    Thank you for posting that.
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    'Rock N Roll Animal' is one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time. If you've never heard it... do yourself a favor and give it a listen. Side One with 'Intro/Sweet Jane' and 'Heroin' is... well, I guess if you don't like it... you probably don't like electric guitars. It is as powerful today as it was when i first bought it in 1974.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,215
    Cosmo wrote:
    'Rock N Roll Animal' is one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time. If you've never heard it... do yourself a favor and give it a listen. Side One with 'Intro/Sweet Jane' and 'Heroin' is... well, I guess if you don't like it... you probably don't like electric guitars. It is as powerful today as it was when i first bought it in 1974.

    Yes! :clap: :thumbup:
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  • morello
    morello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    Cosmo wrote:
    'Rock N Roll Animal' is one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time. If you've never heard it... do yourself a favor and give it a listen. Side One with 'Intro/Sweet Jane' and 'Heroin' is... well, I guess if you don't like it... you probably don't like electric guitars. It is as powerful today as it was when i first bought it in 1974.
    Cool. I'll look it up. Thanks for the info. :)
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  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,136
    http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... e-20131106
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,215
    curmudgeoness wrote:
    http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/laurie-andersons-farewell-to-lou-reed-a-rolling-stone-exclusive-20131106

    Wow... this part instantly brought me to tears, but not all of sadness, some joy as well.

    Lou, thank you for setting the standard for passing on through.

    As meditators, we had prepared for this – how to move the energy up from the belly and into the heart and out through the head. I have never seen an expression as full of wonder as Lou's as he died. His hands were doing the water-flowing 21-form of tai chi. His eyes were wide open. I was holding in my arms the person I loved the most in the world, and talking to him as he died. His heart stopped. He wasn't afraid. I had gotten to walk with him to the end of the world. Life – so beautiful, painful and dazzling – does not get better than that. And death? I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • morello
    morello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    brianlux wrote:
    curmudgeoness wrote:
    http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/laurie-andersons-farewell-to-lou-reed-a-rolling-stone-exclusive-20131106

    Wow... this part instantly brought me to tears, but not all of sadness, some joy as well.

    Lou, thank you for setting the standard for passing on through.

    As meditators, we had prepared for this – how to move the energy up from the belly and into the heart and out through the head. I have never seen an expression as full of wonder as Lou's as he died. His hands were doing the water-flowing 21-form of tai chi. His eyes were wide open. I was holding in my arms the person I loved the most in the world, and talking to him as he died. His heart stopped. He wasn't afraid. I had gotten to walk with him to the end of the world. Life – so beautiful, painful and dazzling – does not get better than that. And death? I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.
    Wow. That is beautiful. Thanks for pointing it out,

    RIP Lou. :cry:
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,877
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  • PJ212
    PJ212 Posts: 827
    I came on here to share this very part of the article. Happy to see it moved someone as much as it moved me. I don't know if I've ever read something as perfect as this.

    brianlux wrote:
    curmudgeoness wrote:
    http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/laurie-andersons-farewell-to-lou-reed-a-rolling-stone-exclusive-20131106

    Wow... this part instantly brought me to tears, but not all of sadness, some joy as well.

    Lou, thank you for setting the standard for passing on through.

    As meditators, we had prepared for this – how to move the energy up from the belly and into the heart and out through the head. I have never seen an expression as full of wonder as Lou's as he died. His hands were doing the water-flowing 21-form of tai chi. His eyes were wide open. I was holding in my arms the person I loved the most in the world, and talking to him as he died. His heart stopped. He wasn't afraid. I had gotten to walk with him to the end of the world. Life – so beautiful, painful and dazzling – does not get better than that. And death? I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,877
    I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love. - Laurie Anderson
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,215
    Nick Cave's tribute to Lou Reed:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKdlLw_jIhU
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  • Save Me
    Save Me Posts: 147
    Read that article last week at work and got very choked up as well. It was beautiful.
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Bono remembers Lou Reed.

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