Transmission Impossible

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Lou Reed
Transmission Impossible

[ Eat To The Beat / 3 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 9 October 2015

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THREE BROADCAST RECORDINGS ON THREE CDS NEW YORK 1972, LOS ANGELES 1976 & AUSTRALIA 1978
In December 72, Lou Reed released Transformer. David Bowie and Mick Ronson co-produced the album and it introduced Reed to a wider audience, especially in the UK. It was from this period, just after the albums release, that Reed performed in front of a small invited audience in New Yorks Ultrasound
Studios, where he played a blistering set made up of Transformers best cuts, a handful of Velvets classics, the title track of his next record Berlin, and a single cut from his debut.

Coney Island Baby came in January 1976, a rather more traditional rock record, and in October that year Rock & Roll Heart was Reeds first album for Arista, after label boss Clive Davis saved Lou from bankruptcy. It was shortly after the release of this well received work, his seventh solo effort, that he performed at Los Angeles Roxy Theatre where the entire show was broadcast by local FM Radio. Featuring four tracks from his Arista debut, along with classics from his past records, the show is as electric a performance
as Lou ever gave. The backing from esteemed jazz trumpeter Don Cherry (father of Neneh) provided for a unique jazzy sound which was a new style for Reed.

By November Lou and band were touring the Far East and Australia and played the The Regent Theatre in Albury on 1st November '77. Once again, the show was broadcast and the results of that transmission can be heard on this set as the final disc. So, three excellent shows by one of the decades most interesting, eclectic, unique and challenging musical artist whose best work is featured in the set here, albeit in versions rarely heard before.

Tracks:

Disc 1
1. White Light/White Heat 04:04
2. Vicious 03:13
3. I'm Waiting For My Man 07:15
4. Walk And Talk It 04:04
5. Sweet Jane 04:38
6. Lou Reed Radio Interview 05:027. Heroin 08:35
8. Satellite Of Love 03:28
9. Walk On The Wild Side 05:56
10. I'm So Free 03:52
11. Berlin 06:00
12. Rock 'N' Roll 05:15

Disc 2
1. Sweet Jane 04:33
2. I Believe In Love 03:38
3. Lisa Says 07:13
4. Kicks 10:26
5. She's My Best Friend 05:33
6. You Wear It So Well 04:55
7. Claim To Fame 02:51
8. I'm Waiting For The Man 12:54
9. Sheltered Life 07:29
10. Vicious Circle 03:44
11. Walk On The Wild Side 10:32
12. Coney Island Baby 08:54

Disc 3
1. Sweet Jane 07:31
2. Rock & Roll Heart 02:59
3. I Wanna Be Black 08:26
4. Rock 'N' Roll/You Keep Me Hangin' On 10:53
5. Walk On The Wild Side 09:57
6. Shooting Star 04:05
7. Satellite Of Love 11:16
8. Coney Island Baby 07:30
9. Banging On My Drums 03:55
10. Street Hassle 13:42