Lou Reed "Kill Your Sons" Verona

[jayrockwell33]

check lou out from 4.05 minutes he 'shreds so hard' in tandum with 'pulling faces' that he actually melts the video. i love lou but what a spastic that's hillarious

[jayrockwell33]

"smacked-out in red rubber pants, making wheezing noises and farting (Toronto, ca. 1975" . . i just spat tea out all over my keyboard. i'm a lou-appreciator but that's some truly funny shit

[arizonaphossilz]

dude, he melts the video with his shredding! 4:22

[diskochimp]

This is a fucking GREAT performance...

[11spike7]

I saw Lou w\ Robert Quine around 83-84. If not the best concert I've ever seen, in the top 2-3. They were beyond tight...they were like a machine. Quine let Lou do those cool noisy solos, like in this video, while Quine created a sonic wall that was beyond beauty.

[Babaziba]

Rest in peace Quine - an adventurous talent.

[UrbanGuerilla88]

ultimate rock poet.

[Sparta2310]

I love Lou his lyrics and his emotional energy but he never could play the guitar for shit LOL

[guitarfreak1963]

@Sparta2310 just because he doesn't play totally predictable solos like every body else doesn't mean he couldn't if he wanted to .....infidels like you said the same thing about Hendrix cuz he used feedback,.......have you ever heard of an ATONAL progression?.......or DISSONANCE, he did these wild and atonal, spastic solos DELIBERATELY,......to break the norm and be avant-garde,.......but what would an infidel like you know anything about any of this........

[Sparta2310]

@guitarfreak1963 Don't be such a pretentious cunt please

[guitarfreak1963]

@guitarfreak1963.......OK,....­I'm sorry I called you an infidel,.....because if you like Lou Reed you must be cool to some degree, I am a 47 year old guitarist who has an extensive knowledge of Lou's work. Do you know he started out writing songs for Pickwick Records in 1964? he wrote "The Ostrich" ..a parody of the dance craze at the time, he invented an alternate tuning for the guitar called ostrich tuning, & believe it or not, many of Lou's guitar techniques are influnced by Ornett Coleman

[guitarfreak1963]

@guitarfreak1963 pretentious,.....look who's talking about pretentious,....do you even know what the word means?.....if anyones pretetious it's you...asshole,....at least I don't post shit unless I know what the fuck I;m talking about

[guitarfreak1963]

@guitarfreak1963 let me ask you this,...have you ever got to meet Lou,...and hang out with him and ask him about his guitar playing,.....or his inabilities.......due to certian things that have happened to him in his life?........like I said,.......do your homework before you talk out your ass........

[flynlulus]

Cause' you forgot the way you were' n ya could'nt even read! ... sittin in a Hospital

[michael07307]

these songs were about his own experiences,he was locked in a nut house by his parents didn,t like that he was DIFFERENT.

[fzkny]

GREAT! By the way, didn't he record LIVE IN ITALY around that time?

[davidbarrett1949]

Must have been fantastic to hear those strident chords echoing around that ancient theatre! I love the anger in Lou's voice as he gets more into the song - and what a guitar solo!

[streethassled]

Bit hard to replicate the studio drone through this stadium arena live version? It is what it is....and in this moment in time its a hard rocking fucking head smacking track! And as for Lou having off nights...happens all the time. It's called CHARCTER!

[JTerrible63]

@streethassled

(YEP & I love the Italain shows)AN "OFF" NIGHT FOR LOU IS JUST A DIFFERENT SPECIES OF MAGIC----& "WHAT WOULD OEDIPUS DO?" WITH ALL THESE WONDER-WIMPS WHO THINK THE LATEST LIMP, PC-LYRIC AND MOM-SAFE

SONGSTEERING COUNTS, OR, ELSEWISE, THAT MERE GORE AND BLATHER BECOMES ART IF IT SHOCKS:

POLICE NEWS/POLICE STATE

"it's too late..."

[Horushu]

Lou Reed, a true genius.

[Horushu]

Lou Reed is a real genius. This song is something... too good to be true.

[brunix02]

I recognized the guy who is dancing. is my brother Fabrice Crepaldi. hehe ..

[oleshatterbutt]

Robert Quine -five stars

[EdsPenis]

Club-handed rhythm and the vocal should drone ... misses the point of the dirge-like recording completely. But, hey, at least he's not smacked-out in red rubber pants, making wheezing noises and farting (Toronto, ca. 1975 -- Dury and the Blockheads saved the show).

[bakabana1966]

you even weren't born in 1975, so how dare you to judge Lou

[EdsPenis]

Sorry to point out that your American Idol has off-nights. Don't take down your Velvets posters yet, though ... he more than redeemed himself at Massey Hall at some of the other shows I attended, despite the fact of my not being born yet.

[IoEstasCedonta]

@EdsPenis He misses the point of his own damn recording? Screw you!

[DigitalRecursor]

This is my favorite Lou Reed song. Anyone have the Christian Death live cover of it? That was a good version of it too.

[musicboxbook]

Yes, it's from live in Italy. I was there...in Verona.

[JeremyThePilgrim]

Love this song. Love this version -is it on the "Live In Italy" album?

This makes me wanna pick up my electric guitar again.

[spotswoodthenewt]

One of Lou's cooler lesser known songs. Always great to hear that "electro-shock" solo of his. Despite video wobble, and it could have better sound, I just don't really care...5 stars!