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mandag den 28. oktober 2013

”Two drunks railing at each other…” Lester Bangs første møde med Lou Reed


”…Lester managed to set up his first actual interview with the man and invited me to accompany him to the affair to act as his cornerman. It turned out to be an ugly spectacle: two drunks railing at each other over the glass-strewn Formica table of at tacky hotel bar. Reed was – relatively – civil to me but stared at Bangs throughout there long over-inebriated conversation as through he was face to face with some mentally challenged country bumpkin who’ll just escaped from the local nuthouse”

- Nick Kent i ‘Apathy For The Devil’.

Interviewet eller hvad jeg nu skal kalde det, fik titlen ’A Deaf Mute In A Telephone Booth’ og kom i novembernummeret af ’Let It Rock’, 1973. Det kan læses i sin helhed på Rock’s Backpages Library, hvor man også kan finde en række anmeldelser og andet godis om Reed. Det kræver godt nok et login, men det kan man få med et snuptag.

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