I didn't listen to it for years, but I remember Lou Reed live in Italy as a great album.  I'd file this one as the best Lou Reed album of the 80s with "New York", mostly thanks to the band, which has more edge as on the Blue Mask. The Velvet classics versions are quite painfull to listen to, but Quine and Fernando Saunders on bass (if I remember correctly) make this an excellent rock album.

Renaud

> Message du 15/01/04 10:32
> De : Efr�n del Valle
> A : skip heller , Peter Gannushkin , SELC - Andrew Mortensen
> Copie � :
> Objet : Re: James Blood Ulmer
> --- skip heller
> escribi�: >
>
> >
> > As for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, they definitely
> > came up with a sound that
> > was theirs. I have to respect that, even if I'm not
> > a fan. Few people ever
> > do that.
>
> I really dug "Mother's Milk" and "Blood, Sugar, Sex
> Magik" but after that I think the general impression
> is they've gone down the hill. I think worst of all
> was the avalanche of imitators (quite similar to FNM's
> case), but "B,S,S,M" was a great album and on top of
> that, popular and accessible, which doesn't seem a
> regular combination of terms nowadays, as we discussed
> here several weeks ago.
>
> > I never got the sense that Ribot owed that much to
> > Quine, whose playing I
> > also know quite well (or rather I did up to about
> > that time -- I can only
> > listen to so much Lou Reed).
>
> I don't know Quine's playing from the purely technical
> point of view (my knowledge of the guitar must be
> limited to seven or eight chords, I must admit) but I
> see lots of similarities between them. Besides the
> 60's twangy/surf guitar sound-influence, there's
> always this "skeletical" approach to soloing, for
> instance- there are lots of exceptions in Ribot's
> playing, though, specially when he's in a jamming
> context like Bar Kokhba, Emergency, etc... But even in
> those recordings with Waits, I get the feeling that
> he's got a taste for the "lowest common
> denominator"-approach.
> By the way, how's Reed's "Live in Italy" with the
> "blue mask" band?
>
> Best,
>
> Efr�n del Valle
>
>
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