twentyfourbit:
While visiting Canada for last night’s Neil Young tribute concert in Vancouver, Lou Reed stopped by Q Radio earlier in the week to promote his new photograph book, Romanticism. Interviewer Jian Ghomeshi (who handled that confrontational Billy Bob Thornton Q&A last year) does a solid job at not getting rattled by Reed’s sometimes awkward silences, waiting patiently instead for the rock legend to add further musings on various subjects. You might think a talk with the former Velvet Underground frontman about photography, instead of music, would be frustrating, but the two art forms are actually quite related for Reed, which he explains at Ghomeshi’s request.
Though I highly recommend you download the podcast of the show here, as Reed’s voice and silences are intrinsic to his expression, here are a few teaser quotes if you can’t listen just yet…
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