Lou Reed and Nico - I'll be your Mirror

about the relationship between Lou Reed and Nico

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[kidcalabria]

Thanks for posting this. I was friends with Nico & she didn't have a lot of good to say about Lou Reed, unike John Cale, whom she really admired & cared about. Once, in the '70s, Nico was in New York at Reed's apartment, she had a heroin habit, & Reed went out & locked her in for ages, knowing fully well that she would go sick, & if you know what that's like, you know that it's the sort of thing you wouldn't wish to your worst enemy, never mind subjecting a friend to that kind of pain on purpose

[kidcalabria]

@lisaleelee10

Well, I'm sure you know not to confuse the artist with the man. Lou Reed has the reputation of someone with a difficult personality & can appear like a cranky, miserable so-and-so, but that's because he's a genius condemned to live in a world made mostly of mediocrities. Just think that although The Velvets made great records you couldn't even find them in shops, & nobody dreamt of asking them to play Woodstock! Berlin, a masterpiece, was put down by critics & public in 1973!

[NintendoSegaSonyGuy]

Which documentary is this from? Vanishing Point?

[kidcalabria]

@TheodoreChell No excuses, just wrote what I know, without taking it too seriously, for I don't think of the YT comments as the ideal space for debate. But, anyway, usually people who create great art have also a great heart. Lou Reed's attitude is often a 'put on', especially in the 1970s when he first became known, & not to be taken too seriously either, & like Bowie, Jagger, Dylan, Iggy Pop, he also went thru different "personas". Anyway, you are entitled to your opinion, like everybody else

[TheodoreChell]

@kidcalabria What a load of crap. You're either nice or a bastard. A genius who lived in a..... That's like saying my son is super intellegent and is ADHD and a little this and that. You are what you are. Lou Reed probably is genius and asshole, so what. But don't look for excuses.

[countryleaves]

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(ˈl(j)ʊərɪd)

[ad. L. lūrid-us pale yellow, wan, ghastly.]

1.1 Pale and dismal in colour; wan and sallow; ghastly of hue. Said e.g. of the sickly pallor of the skin in disease, or of the aspect of things when the sky is overcast. 

[GreenEyedGurrrl]

@kidcalabria What a dick.

[kidcalabria]

@leguminoso Isn't it just? David Bowie said that of Lou Reed, I was quoting him but couldn't specify it for reasons of room in the comment box. I invite you to discuss it with Bowie, so you can laugh together about it : )

[leguminoso]

@kidcalabria "but that's because he's a genius condemned to live in a world made mostly of mediocrities" omg this is hilarious xD

[kidcalabria]

@grunntalll Really? & do you really think that you can eat through withdrawal? Heroin & opiates have always existed & people who used them - from Marcus Aurelius to Wagner, Edith Piaf, Otto Von Bismarck, William Burroughs, Baudelaire, De Quincey, Coleridge, Jean Cocteau, Edgar Allan Poe, etc.. never had a problem with it, 'cause the problem it's not the drugs, it's the law. But you should suggest it to the World Health Organization, I'm sure every heroin-addict in the world will sign up for it!

[grunntalll]

@kidcalabria Its the best thing you can do for a Heroin addict if you know there's enough food, its only way to give them rehabilitation.