LOU REED '73 Air Force INTERVIEW LP /LOTS OF VELVET UNDERGROUND, ANDY WARHOL

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Here's a very rare 1973 interview album issued by the US Air Force, with one side a fascinating Lou Reed interview and the other an interview with Earth, Wind & Fire. The Lou interview (with legendary dj Frankie Crocker) is to promote TRANSFORMER, and he talks a lot about the Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol. Lou talks about how this album is the summation of everything he's done musically, that Warhol told him he should write a song titled "Vicious", with the lyric "I hit you with a flower" for a lyric; and talks about Warhol's and his own influence and that of the Velvet Underground; his effect on music and how the Velvets made him a "folk hero" yet Lou gets tired of listening to his VU music; how the Velvets "really didn't know what we were doing" nor the record company, who "didn't like their music", how radio stations didn't play them and banned the commercials for the first VU album; the difference in audiences in the Velvets era and "now" (ie as a solo artist); FM Radio, why he loves New York City and how it's his favorite place in the world; that he's a "movie person" and would like to do music for movies; and how he loves to gossip. The songs SATELLITE OF LOVE, WAGON WHEEL and PERFECT DAY are played. The Lou side grades EX; the Earth Wind and Fire side is VG+. This is the only copy we've ever seen of this rarity.
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