Lou Reed-Rock N Roll Animal (1974) & Street Hassle (1978) Original Vinyl Sealed
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Lou Reed- Original Vinyl Albums, Brand New Sealed
Rock N Roll Animal 1974
Vinyl LP pressing. Rock n Roll Animal is a live album by Lou Reed, released by RCA Records. In its original form, it features five songs, four of which are Velvet Underground songs. The musicians were Pentti Glan (drums) and Prakash John (bass), Ray Colcord (keyboards), and Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter on guitars. (The two guitarists would later form the basis of the second Alice Cooper band, beginning on Welcome to My Nightmare, which also features Glan and John.) The album was recorded live on December 21, 1973, at Howard Stein's Academy of Music in New York City.
Street Hassle 1978 "This is a Stereo Binaural Sound Recording"
Lou Reed (vocals, guitar, piano, bass); Bruce Springsteen (spoken vocals); Stuart Heinrich (guitar, background vocals); Michael Fonfara (piano); Marty Fogel (saxophone); Steve Friedman (bass); Michael Suchorsky (drums); Aram Schefrin (string arrangement); Jo'Anna Kameron, Angela Howard, Christine Wiltshire, Genya Ravan (background vocals).Engineers: Heiner Friesz, Manfred Schunke, Rod O'Brien.Live tracks recorded in Munich, West Germany. Studio tracks recorded at the Record Plant, New York, New York.Crossing the wrong side of the tracks, as most of Lou Reed's albums do, 1978's STREET HASSLE is the younger sibling to Reed's eloquent, mature NEW YORK, released over a decade later. The centerpiece of STREET HASSLE, the handsome, hypnotic and brutal title track evolves in three "symphonic" movements, and is a powerful, theatrical precursor to Reed's work with John Cale on SONGS FOR DRELLA and director Robert Wilson on the operatic TIME ROCKER. Bruce Springsteen makes an uncredited spoken-word appearance in the last movement of the piece, "Slipaway," and there's even a touch of E-Street-type brassy groove on "Wait."An album teeming with the lyrical hell of drug addicts and desperate misfits, STREET HASSLE does possess elements of Reed's pitch-black humor. "Gimme Some Good Times" playfully samples "Sweet Jane," and Reed sings the strangely sunny words of "Real Good Time Together" against a morbid wash of distorted guitar effects and vocals. A mix of New York studio recordings and fine live performances recorded in West Germany, STREET HASSLE is a curious and compelling coda to Reed's tumultuous and ever-changing '70s work.
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