Lou's Arista years were not his best. Sadly when you go to listen to Lou, the first things you're not gonna reach for are "The Bells" or "Growing Up In Public" However we did get one masterpiece during this time "Street Hassle" Which brings us to the point where you come in. Apparently the live songs on "Street Hassle" "Gimmie Some Good Times, Leave Me Alone, Shooting Star and Wait" were recorded on April 24th in Ludwigshafen, with Wait being recorded in Munich (I don't know the date of this one) I find it very hard to believe that these songs were recorded at these shows seeing as how the bootlegs I can find of these cuts sound like shit,unless there are soundboard recordings of these songs floating around somewhere I can't find. The songs on "Street Hassle" are definite soundboards. So do you the Lou Reed connoisseur know of where these song exsist, and what show's they are from. Can you help me locate the shows where these live "Street Hassle" songs were recorded? See scans
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According to the liner notes from the binaural reissue, live recordings were done with the Derks Mobile Studio in Munich, Weisbaden, and Ludwigshafen.
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Gimmie Some Good Tunes, Shooting Star and Leave Me Alone were recorded in Weisbaden on 4/24/77 according to this site:
https://loureed.es/live1977.htm
(I recently did a search for recordings from Lou's 1983 and 84 tours with Robert Quine.)
it's the "Dirks Mobile Studio", owned by Dieter Dirks, famous for his success as producer with the SCORPIONS from the late '70s to the late '80s, including their most successful period. ;-) nevertheless, thanks for the additional informations! kudos.
DeleteAccording to this article, the live tracks were recorded binaurally by Manfred Schunke on 4/24 at Ludwigshafen.
ReplyDelete"The new songs he’d recorded in Germany had a tough, slurry, Dollsy drive, but they were only half-formed. Arista vetoed the idea of issuing the record as a live album. Entering a studio in New York with Richard Robinson, (Lou) resolved to overdub new work over the concert recordings."
https://damienlove.com/writing/babe-im-on-fire-the-making-of-lou-reeds-street-hassle/
https://damienlove.com/writing/babe-im-on-fire-the-making-of-lou-reeds-street-hassle/
There's a bootleg of the Munich show (4/22/77 at Circus Krone). But the Street Hassle live recordings aren't from the soundboard. The binaural recordings used replicas of human heads "with microphones placed inside each precision-tooled ear-canal". Manfred Shunke “flew them by thin wires all over the concert hall."
ReplyDeleteSo the real question might be whether the original binaural live recordings still exist (without the studio overdubs that Lou added later at the Record Plant in NYC).
Sorry, found one other source for Lou's 1977 tour dates (velvetforum.com)
ReplyDeleteMunich: 22 April 77 (the night "Wait" was recorded at Circus Krone)
Weisbaden: 23 April 77 (Rhein Main Halle)
Ludwigshaven: 24 April 77 (Friedrich Ebert Halle)
The site loureed.es lists Ludwigshaven as 23 April and Weisbaden as 24 April, and says that Weisbaden was the source of 3 songs on Street Hassle. But the Damien Love article says that "the bulk of Street Hassle’s basic tracks" (which I take to mean everything but "Wait") was recorded on 24 April, but in Ludwigshaven (not Weisbaden).
I wonder if Manfred Schunke traveled with the Derks Mobile Studio and his binaural recording heads to all 3 shows (in Munich, Weisbaden and Ludwigshaven).
Live Lou is always welcome ! Thanks!
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