Velvet Underground guitar pioneer Lou Reed dead at 71
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[I]1942 - 2013[/I]
[quote]Lou Reed, a massively influential songwriter and guitarist who helped shape nearly fifty years of rock music, died today. The cause of his death has not yet been released, but Reed underwent a liver transplant in May. With the Velvet Underground in the late Sixties, Reed fused street-level urgency with elements of European avant-garde music, marrying beauty and noise, while bringing a whole new lyrical honesty to rock & roll poetry. As a restlessly inventive solo artist, from the Seventies into the 2010s, he was chameleonic, thorny and unpredictable, challenging his fans at every turn. Glam, punk and alternative rock are all unthinkable without his revelatory example. "One chord is fine," he once said, alluding to his bare-bones guitar style. "Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz."[/quote]
[url]http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-and-rock-pioneer-dead-at-71-20131027[/url]
Sad to see such an influential guitarist gone, RIP Lou
Absolute icon of modern music. RIP
I did not expect this to happen so soon, thought he had longer than that..
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y[/media]
this song made me too sad, here's a happy one to remember the old bastard
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZYBRHnlkSY[/media]
What a perfect 71 years he must of lived.
It's weird how people always manage to die a few days after I start listening to their music again :(
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMZp2IXWl7U[/media]
Sunday morning
brings the dawn in
gonna put on some metal machine music in his honor
Sleep well Lou
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1r8smLOmM[/url]
Such a terrible thing, to just go without warning. At least he still wrote and he was seemingly happily married before going..
holy shit this came out of the blue
RIP
Lets not forget when this happened. Love you Lou.
[video=youtube;qm8n0vhVJcg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm8n0vhVJcg[/video]
IS THIS REAL OR NOT?
[url]http://en.mediamass.net/people/lou-reed/deathhoax.html[/url]
jesus fuck, because I'm hearing so much stuff from both sides. it's a hoax or not?
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jesus fuck i am so fucking confused. the hoax is a hoax itself? [url]http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2013/10/27/report-that-lou-reeds-death-is-a-hoax-is-a-hoax.htm[/url]
he took a walk too far on the wild side
My day is fucking ruined.
i guess he's going to be very underground now
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;42665494]Seeing as though the source is Rolling Stone, a magazine that was built specifically for rock music and its history, I'd say it's pretty safe to assume he's dead, end of story.[/QUOTE]
ugh god fucking damnit. :(
[quote]"I am a triumph of modern medicine," Reed posted on his website on June 1, 2013, without directly acknowledging the transplant. "I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future."[/quote]
:'(
Rest in peace.
Sad to see all the original rockers dying out like this. We're fortunate enough to be among the last to see them, unfortunate enough to watch them all pass.
Well shit ! This I did not expect...
Thank you for your music, Mr.Reed ! You influenced many and you will still influence a lot of people. You may be dead, but your name will stay.
[QUOTE=Mooe94;42665424]IS THIS REAL OR NOT?
[URL]http://en.mediamass.net/people/lou-reed/deathhoax.html[/URL]
jesus fuck, because I'm hearing so much stuff from both sides. it's a hoax or not?
edit:
jesus fuck i am so fucking confused. the hoax is a hoax itself? [URL]http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2013/10/27/report-that-lou-reeds-death-is-a-hoax-is-a-hoax.htm[/URL][/QUOTE]
[URL="http://en.mediamass.net/blog/mediamass-project"]http://en.mediamass.net/blog/mediamass-project
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you can check out whether or not most sites are satirical by looking at their "about us" page if you can't already tell by the headlines.
[QUOTE=Mooe94;42665424]IS THIS REAL OR NOT?
[url]http://en.mediamass.net/people/lou-reed/deathhoax.html[/url]
jesus fuck, because I'm hearing so much stuff from both sides. it's a hoax or not?
edit:
jesus fuck i am so fucking confused. the hoax is a hoax itself? [url]http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2013/10/27/report-that-lou-reeds-death-is-a-hoax-is-a-hoax.htm[/url][/QUOTE]
They've claimed other celebrity deaths in the past were hoaxes as well, but they all turned out to be true. I think they do this just to trick people and get hits when they get cited.
One of the greats.
[QUOTE=Olas;42666393]They've claimed other celebrity deaths in the past were hoaxes as well, but they all turned out to be true. I think they do this just to trick people and get hits when they get cited.[/QUOTE]
you can type in lots of celeb names in the url and get results
[url]http://en.mediamass.net/people/will-smith/deathhoax.html[/url]
[url]http://en.mediamass.net/people/donald-trump/deathhoax.html[/url]
[url]http://en.mediamass.net/people/barack-obama/deathhoax.html[/url]
it's just a big trolling tool
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