Lou Reed: If God showed up tomorrow and said Do you want to be President? No. Do you want to be in politics? No. Do you want to be a lawyer? No. What do you want? I want to be a rythm guitar player.

The Wild Side of Lou Reed
Before and After the Velvet Underground...
Lu-rid by Ty Petagno

This unofficial page is an appendix to
The Velvet underground Web Page,
devoted to the "wild" side of Lou Reed's career:
pre-Velvet Underground material, unofficial solo discography, poems...
No gossip, just facts...


visitors since January 1, 1998.


WHAT'S NEW?

Lou Reed
Metal Machine Music
Performed by Zeitkratzer

Metal Machine...
new CD+DVD
available early September 2007

available at Amazon.com
U.S.A. | UK | Deutschland | France

the early years
a pre-VU photo collection

a pre-VU discography
with rare audio samples
updated March 25, 2006

so blue
an interview with Phil Harris,
Lou's bandmate in the Jades

bootleg CDs
updated July 5, 2002

bootleg vinyls
updated April 15, 2001

poems
rare selected verses


by Olivier Landemaine
The Velvet Underground Web Page

Last modified: August 17, 2007

Special thanks: Enrique Miquel, Lau Buur Nielsen, Martin Christoph, Phil & Dana Harris. And also: Aral Sezen, Tito Amatller, Rafa Cervera, Kevin Webster, Shiroh Kouchi, Greg Wolf, Erik, Mick Patrick, Phil Milstein.

"Don't move."
- Sterling Morrison

the Warrior Heart of the Velvet Underground
Los Angeles, 1966


Don't miss the "quiet" side of Lou Reed on:

Sister Ray Enterprises

The official Lou Reed web site
News, projects, timeline, official discography, and links...

And

The Rock 'n' Roll Animal Web Page

by Enrique Miquel

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