Lou Reed live Park West Chicago 14 Apr 1978

[@LeeGreenlee-y9u]

Lou's all-time live gritty concert.

[@earlcullison]

I was at this show. Lou Reed was an hour or longer late for his set. The opening act was Ian Dury and the Blockheads. It was announced that Lou was late, but Ian & the Blockheads would keep playing until Lou was available. They played their hearts out, and they must have played Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll 3 times as Ian apologized to the audience for the band repeating their songs. Ian and the Blockheads won over every person in attendance that night! Then Lou and his band play this magnificent show. Since 1978, I had a bootleg of this show. I must have listened to this over 1000 times. That cassette is long gone, so it's nice to hear this concern again. I wish the Ian Dury part of that night would surface on KZbin. It was my all-time favorite night of live music.

[@floepiejane]

Thank you for the story. I hope you get your show. Cheers ✌🏽🌻

[@CoachRamona]

I saw the same tour and he was an hour late for our show too at the Stonybrook Gymnasium. Unfortunately, he had to cut the show short running out of time because of campus rules.

[@Goober66]

I saw reed play for 5 hours in 1979 -- the Bells tour -- San Francisco. Best concert of my life @ the Old Warfield theater where there were only120 attendees!😊 I'm a big blue oyster cult fan 2.

[@daveyvane]

They were great

[@gianniberaldo5452]

Great story, thank you. I saw Lou many time in Europe also the velvet undergound reunion tour: he has always been my favorite artist!

[@BeesWaxMinder]

They recorded every one of the "take no prisoners" shows so there are hours of recordings in brilliant binaural and even never released songs with this band🤯 Come on Rhino, do a box set!!

[@JDot315]

1) Gimme Some Good Times 00:01 2) Satellite of Love 2:50 3) Leave Me Alone 8:56 4) Walk on the Wild Side 18:32 5) Coney Island Baby (with band introductions) 25:00 6) Dirt 36:16 7) Street Hassle 45:00 8) Sweet Jane 55:45 9) Rock and Roll 1:00:45

[@MyDaniela24]

Grazie! 💕

[@manuelsantos2199]

Members: Lou Reed - vocals, guitar, guitar synthesizer Stuart Heinrich - guitar, background vocals Marty Fogel - electric saxophone Michael Fonfara - electric piano Ellard "Moose" Boles - bass, background vocals Michael Suchorsky - drums Angel Howell - tambourine, background vocals Chrissy Faith - background vocals

[@rhedde9794]

Thank you. What a great concert.

[@OutOnTheTiles]

Thank you!!

[@d_walsh]

What a set list.

[@fredYNWA420]

this version of Walk on the Wild side is on WXRT - Live from the Archives Vol 2. the quality is incredible! smokin' show! thanks for posting!!

[@laurensvredevoort9288]

So good. Indeed some of the best live versions of older songs, especially Coney Island.

[@thepetspider]

wow , yes just clicked onto comments and was listening to .. Coney Island.

[@slimedog]

My goodness this band is blaring! High energy overload, one of the best live shows I ever heard by Reed- leaves Rock N Roll Animal in the dust.

[@ericscandinavia3220]

Coney Island Baby and Berlin in these shows were just brilliant.

[@thepetspider]

Amazing, first time hearing this, I love it

[@peroduanippa]

Saxophone is great.

[@ghostexits]

This is by far the best LR performance I’ve found so far; the music is super tight, but not over blown; the songs are like a best of ‘70s collection; Lou is in great form, actually hitting most of his lines, not parodying his own lyrics as he frequently does. Just beautiful.

[@spaceengineer1452]

Why won't he sing the song melodies ? Infuriating. He totally wrecked the VU reunion.

[@ghostexits]

@@spaceengineer1452 it’s like he’s too cool to sing the same way twice. But his improv is so careless and awkward, like he has a disdain for his own material. I put Lou Reed in the company of Dylan and Leonard Cohen, but unlike those two, there’s a fair amount of Reed’s output I shudder to listen to.

[@PAULLONDEN]

*@Ektoplasmic Interzone* ....................."does".............?

[@hiraeth1340]

@@spaceengineer1452 Yea he's the only major artist who was totally incapable of doing justice to his amazing songs in concert. He's almost totally unlistenable after the mid-70s. He just blows as a singer live--way too mannered and awkward, rushed, out of tune, refusing to sing the melody, horrible timing--Just Awful. And I'm a lifelong Velvets fan.

[@animalrocker]

Lou was The best rock poet ever

[@MichaelManiscalco-k5k]

Capital theatre Passaic NJ, April 22nd 1978 Ian Dury opened up Front row center seats..

[@timothymurphy6910]

thanks for posting! i love youtube for finding great old music

[@Espacemtl]

Incredible show!

[@demianmachado9043]

The best Satellite ...and wonderful.

[@mikkokyottinen3829]

King of New York. He had the best behind him. If you were on the top of the hill then and there, you were on the top of the world. Don't you know what George Young and Harry Wanda said after hearing that Lou sang "Friday on My Mind" every night in the clubs of N.Y. They said:" Now we are up there".😘

[@hipcatsvintage3774]

I miss Lou. 😔

[@TheRedJokerrr]

Oh my, what a band that one has!

[@karmenjazbec7743]

THE SINGERS ARE GREAT TOO

[@marcellocostantini1159]

Omg what a version of coney Island baby ... Brings me to tears❤😭

[@laurensvredevoort9288]

Your right. Tears in the eyes.

[@karmenjazbec7743]

I LIKE HOW YOU INTRODUCE YOUR BAND LOU

[@davidfletcher9792]

By far the best Lou Reed show ever!

[@grahamchapple3552]

definitely not disco sh/it the band saxes maybe over produced leave me alone just a temporary thing street hassle three classics maybe over produced

[@tonetuning6448]

@@grahamchapple3552 ??

[@johncater7861]

I don't know it's just something about it that makes LR and that guitar guy addictive for me. Of course, Robert Quine (had to go look it up) and the great Fernando.

[@jellyfishkiss3886]

AMAZING. . .'coney island baby' anew, a ripping 'sweet jane' followed by a miracle 'rock n roll'. what a concert. this sound boils

[@blondeboywilson9221]

Wow! Great live mix! Great Performance! .....more Lively and direct than Take No Prisoners.

[@tonetuning6448]

He keeps his mouth shut haha, best live recording of Lou to date IMO

[@JDot315]

Street Hassle is my favorite Lou Reed album. Great to hear a concert from the tour. Thanks for the upload.

[@markcraven3842]

Amazing find. Thanks... Lou was such a great arranger of his music. He can play the same tune many different ways and they are all very very good. Miss Lou....

[@sergiocamposeo1285]

. A1

[@karmenjazbec7743]

MY YOUNG FRIEND NINA CALLED ME SHE IS AN ARTIST SHE WORKS IN CERAMIC AND I AM A PAINTER SCULPTOR AND POET SHE HAS A DOG DOLCE MY DOG OLD SHEPHERD ROCKY DIED LAST YEAR I MISS HIM A LOT I OFTEN CRY BUT I MUST HOLD ON STILL I HAVE THE CAT JACK LISTEN TO YOU COMFORTS ME LOU AND I WILL TAKE A WALK TO THE WILD SIDE I AM REALY WILD CHILD

[@michaeliceman5512]

As someone just sort of discovering Lou Reed beyond the "hits" I have to say Street Hassle is one hell of a fucking tune. That bass line is so simple yet so amazing.

[@grahamchapple3552]

yes Lou ( rip ) said there is 4 chords we think sweet jane is 3 but a hidden fourth. i prefer perfect day to wild side it is the same bass rhythym drums just four notes anyway lou was just lou ( rip )

[@grahamchapple3552]

yes Street Hassle the studio version the monologue is the Boss apparently born in the USA is related Springsteen it has to be the same 4 chords. Sweet Sweet jane the same 3 and a half chords.

[@grahamsw2]

@@grahamchapple3552 Lou said once that his whole career was learning how to play the D chord. He got really, really good at it

[@karmenjazbec7743]

YEAH LOU YOU DIED THE SAME YEAR AS MY MAMA I MISS YOU BOTH I WAS AT YOUR CONCERTS 3 TIMES IN LJUBLJANA AS I WAS AT BOB DYLAN S HE IS MY MAN

[@ericscandinavia3220]

This must be the best band in the Universe ever. Too bad it did not last longer. I think last songs they recorded was "My name is Mok" and "Triumph" with Lou Reed. And "America".

[@daveyvane]

I saw this tour in Detroit. Ian Dury blockheads opened. Lou was late and the crowd getting nasty. Lou walks on stage and says “fuck you detroit, you’re lucky I even show up”. The crowd loved it and the show was great.

[@josemanuelromerotorres6185]

Dedicada a mis padres familiares y amigos dep en su memoria ❤❤❤

[@pietropanetta3329]

Thank you so much for sharing this recording of a truly wonderful show from Lou. I shall save it so that it will be on tap for future access. I had seen Lou a few years earlier when he performed at the Rainbow in London, during his 1974 tour. There is a video of his performance in Paris, during this year. As in London, he has bleached hair and wears his trademark dark shades - an image perfectly captured on the cover of Sally Can't Dance. I felt so proud to be there, witnessing the coolest act in town with a black girlfriend to give me extra street cred: how cool is that!

[@johnshirley5222]

good quality bootleg. I saw this tour. Had it goin' on.

[@peteybra]

12:45 😍😍 this set is tight

[@Chrissynger]

Angela Howell (RIP) and Chrissy Faith on BGV

[@JonathanGoodmanND]

I was at the show and I seem to remember an idiot in the audience that had painted track marks on his forearms and had a guitar coming up on stage pretending to be Lou and having the security taken out anyway it was an amazing concert and Lou seem to handle the distraction really well😊

[@janrehak2125]

wow

[@stephenbleach4668]

I have the 'Take No Prisoners' live album, obviously the same band, TNP is my absolute live Lou or at least neck in neck with 'Rock N Roll N Animal'. Soundwise this is very good, a soundboard recording I assume? Anyway, this one is a must-have, not only because of the whole punk ethos this exemplifies (Lou Would probably cringe at the comparison ) of those heady times, but for the fact, this has some cracking songs, not on Prisoners. I'm listening to Leave me Alone as I'm writing this, and this one goes into some crazy free form, Jazzy jam. So you have these songs not on Prisoners: 'Gimme Gimme Some Good Times'-Dirt'-'Rock N Roll', and he actually sings 'Walk On The Wild Side' instead of taking the piss out of the song while rapping about how the song came to be. R.I.P. Lou Reed-genius, Rock N Roll poet.

[@GreenManalishiUSA]

This Chicago concert was recorded about a month before the Take No Prisoners shows. The TNP dates took place toward the end of Lou's USA tour. Perhaps by that time Lou had had enough of being on the road , and, back home in NYC, he could chill out a little bit. Hence the TNP shows contain those rambling and funny monologues. But this Chicago show is arguably a better showcase of the raw power that Lou and his band were capable of unleashing onstage.

[@JustinEdwords]

this sounds like the same binaural recording technology to me

[@barstow_]

His walk on the wide side is hilarious

[@publicacionreyes643]

Qué encuentro dorado de la música underground de los Estados Unidos que yo I Love!

[@juanitodh6538]

esto es lo mejor

[@peteriuliano5846]

Here's To Rachel - And One For You Too....

[@xema1958]

the best lou reed . take no prisoners lou

[@elaborator]

Outstanding

[@firstboyonthemoon8876]

Punk Rock was at it's prime the year before so Lou had to up his game. Competition is good for art.

[@alvesmonteiro5022]

Ate Sempre Lou

[@JustinEdwords]

best live lou reed era 1978-1980 hands down. the growing up in public album isnt that great but the tour and band is still amazing. anyway this has some strong alt versions of the take no prisoners tracks and great fidelity. i wonder if they recorded all these shows binaurally.

[@peteriuliano5846]

Saw LOU At The Bottom Line GROWING UP IN PUBLIC TOUR.

[@JustinEdwords]

great tour. some of my favorite performances from that era. the version of "the kids" slays

[@peteriuliano5846]

ROCK&ROLL/ANIMAL: FILM IN THE MAKING

[@patrickmichels7888]

@@peteriuliano5846what happened to the film

[@briansmith2163]

Some of this sounds like James Chance !!!!!

[@pierrepicot3706]

I like every live of Lou Reed and all songs of "Street Hassle" and liquid air (Don Cherry : cornet trompet of Ornette Coleman who've played with him) on I wanna be black (more of boneheads talked to his "racism" a part of people are dosen't understand the push-humor

[@peteriuliano5846]

The Big LOU REED BAND - Michael Suchorsky Marty Fogel Church Hammer Stuart Heinrich Chuck Boles MIchael Fonfara And The Great Vocals - And Of Course That Guy -LOUREED.

[@firstboyonthemoon8876]

Lou says "on bass, Luis Boles"

[@kanjiwooowooo3202]

​@firstboyonthemoon8876 He says "Moose" Boles

[@michaelholmes4374]

Where can I get this on cd

[@MyDaniela24]

Feltrinelli.

[@edwardspencer3906]

FUCKIN LOU!!! Dude, do I have to say more???

[@grahamchapple3552]

lou reed live has to be played LoUd read write listen not only lou but the band Satellite of love

[@greenglasful]

Yee uh!

[@karmenjazbec7743]

I AM JANE DOE LOU

[@animalrocker]

Thats for all lou album is Great he was better poet than bob dylan

[@andreatondini3116]

Orgasmo

[@xnslrzn]

Does anybody know where this show took place? The name of the venue.

[@MyDaniela24]

Park West Chicago 14/4/1978

[@colingordon8265]

This is a better set than 'Take No Prisoners' because he can keep his mouth shut when hes not singing.

[@ianibbotson9839]

Shame you can’t dickhead…

[@ianibbotson9839]

Shame you can’t, dickhead…

[@konajinx]

I fucking hate the saxophone during this period of Lou’s live sets. Horrible addition to the sound.

[@blondeboywilson9221]

He tended to over use the honky tonk horn Ala Springsteen.....

[@karmenjazbec7743]

I LIKE HOW YOU INTRODUCE YOUR BAND LOU