Happy 30th anniversary of Lou Reed's solo

 Happy 30th anniversary of Lou Reed's solo work mask, blue, issued on February 24, 1982. Everyone has a favorite Lou phase - some people like heavy guitar notes, some like red lipstick-queen who, like Lulu members of Metallica. But for most of us, Lou has never been more intense and full of feelings of Blue Mask. This is one of the most difficult truth about the most fun husbandhood album ever made. Lou is in love, but found it just scared the hell out of him. When she sings: "No good / Everything went from bad to bizarre."

Blue cover up a few days before his 40th birthday Reed. (What does it mean to be turning 70 next week, March 2.) After years of debauchery, running wild on each side of the city and passed out on most of them, he had a lot to talk about his new life as a man of "average." Lou face the terror of adult love, look at his mental demons as he tries to keep the good stuff found. As Tom Carson of Rolling Stone wrote in a five star review, "Lou Reed has done what even John Lennon could not do it, he put the Plastic Ono Band and Double Fantasy on the same note."

He also has his own band the hottest of the Velvet Underground. On bass, Fernando Saunders, Reed made his debut as a long-running wingman. Drummer, Doane Perry, who joined Jethro Tull a few years later. And on lead guitar, the late great Robert Quine, fluent virtuoso in New York without the jazz and punk rock. Lou is the failure of the last record of pop overbaked, so fans were surprised to hear songs like panic attack the night horror show, "A wave of fear". Cook for several minutes while the game is busy Quine notes, unfortunately it does not sound like another guitar solo - it sounds like the human nervous neurons, too hot to explode like a series of firecrackers. It's "Sister Ray" anxiety suburban-husband.

Lou certainly did not take voice lessons lately, but it is part of the emotional impact, because the strain to get to the doo-wop record high, "My House" in the tire rasp-key. There is humor in the way Robert Mitchum smoothly on a line like: "I am very happy to be alive / My writing, my motorcycle and my wife." And when he serenades his wife as a "hero", this twist on a 1967 trip to know this velvet-and-death drug "heroin".

Blue mask, but also shows how love can erode the dirt of poverty remain buried in your brain when you're single and easier to hide from ourselves. Lou few serious toxic waste cleanup: bad memories ("Blue Mask"), drinks ("Under a Bottle"), urged the damage ("Fear Wave"), a nightmare of violence ("Gun"), fearing that it would interfere with the relationship in as a way to mess up everything else. But for now, he did not give up. The "heavenly weapons," copy "Femme Fatale," she belts her name over and over ("Syyylviiiaaa") and that all the songs that he needs.

Robert Quine, a kind of famous driving, never quotes his friend Lester Bangs said: "The only problem is you have to play music with others." And he added that the music you listen to Lou Reed Lou Reed, a man not known for his cheerful personality. Somehow they managed to play together off and on for four years. Quine once said: "The first week and a half is great."

Given these two types of aggression, there is no way that this band can not survive, and that Quine / Reed / Saunders (Scritti Politti as a drummer Fred Maher), just cut a record studio, which is almost the same legendary Heart-election. As Quine says sound Perfect Forever 1997, when he heard the legendary low liver mixture, not too good: ". I was in Ohio and out of the way in and destroy the tape into little pieces" So, that's it. (Quine honored in 2003 as one of the greatest guitarist of the Rolling Stone 100)

Blue masks not a commercial success - are you kidding? - But again I repeat legend Lou Reed. No rock star who ever graced a lot of changes in 40, because Reed defines the role of changes in age, Neil Young takes more than a decade later (and Springsteen the decade after that). True, the marriage eventually fall apart, as a band. But there was one false moment in this album. If "things went from bad weird," Mask Blue is good proof of how ridiculous they get.