Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Renaissance (a really fine group) is coming to the Music Hall on the 6; oh yeah, the Average White Band will be playing at Boston College on April 28. Borrow someone's BC I.D. and you can get in for $2.00 cheaper. The Paradise is offering Lou Reed on May 15, and no date set yet for the Talking Heads, but it should be sometime in Maymaymaybe this time...
What keeps these excursions along the wild side from being slumming expeditions is Reed's own rapt sympathy for the grifters, freaks and crooks who populate much of his music. Many of his songs are shot through with the kind of deadend romanticism that would stir Bruce Springsteen (who, in fact, appears unbilled and unannounced on Street Hassle, reciting the melancholy introduction to the third vignette). If Lou Reed gives no quarter in his music, neither does he yield to sensationalism or condescension. "You know," he sings in Street Hassle, "some people got no choice/ And they can never...
...like an Elvis Presley with brains, or Bob Dylan with looks," says Reed. "If you're intelligent at all, I'm a lot of fun." Finding the fun, however, can present a problem. Despite rave reviews for Street Hassle and a seismic stage show with which Reed is currently touring the country, playing his transparent Lucite guitar, radio play-crucial to an album's success-has been very limited. Says Arista President Clive Davis: "Every artist of original talent is a commercial challenge. Quality eventually wins out." He has no intention of urging Reed to cool down...
...least a semblance of normality, sharing a Greenwich Village apartment with a male lover named Rachael, who chews him out in the manner of spouses everywhere whenever Lou plays his guitar at peak volume. "The most frightening thing anyone can find out about me is how sane I am," Reed insists, glowering out from behind his wrap around shades...
Harvard's best race came in the steeplechase competition. Reed Eichner, although he was new to the event, boasted the fastest time, and Peter Fitzsimmons and Brian Finn followed suit, sweeping the race right before Brown began to fight back and pick up most of its wins...