Hello and welcome to Taey Tunes Tuesday. This week, we'll be talking about Lou's contribution to Metal Machine Music. A tribute album. A tribute to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music album.
Album. Yeah, that's the news now. There was a blurb on NPR yesterday. That's exciting.
Your mom sent it to me. My mom did? Mm-hmm. I don't know.
Dave Gebrow. Or she didn't send it to me. She sent me a text saying, Okay, well, this testament to Dave Gebrow's Vision and the Trimmy. His insistence, his vision.
He came up with a concept of four artists covering this sort of, this incendiary. Lou Reed. It's a hard word to say. Lou Reed.
I was like, why am I going to say incendiary right now? But I did. I think I said it right. I don't think I know what that word means.
His divisive. He made this this dope. He made a record that kind of, in a way, he lost some people. He lost quite a bit of fans, right?
Because people weren't sure if this was, like, just him being lazy or trying to get out of a deal, right? With a contract or, like, why did he push people away? Because it was just basically noise for an hour, right? And so it sort of left people bewildered at the time.
Like, what is this dude? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
He made an experimental noise record. It was an experimental noise record, but he always insisted that it was art and that he intentionally made it that way. Well, as a Velvet Underground fan, I thought it perfectly fit in with his disc alcalfi. Oh, but I wonder if at the time you would have also felt that or if that's a thing the distance could give you, where you are looking back at the collection of maybe his influences and the Velvet Underground, you go, yeah, it makes sense.
And I just wonder if at the time it was too, you know what I mean? It's harder sometimes when you're in the moment to understand what the heck he's doing. Yeah, to really to have been a charting artist. Yeah.
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He had a hit. He had a hit. He was a pretty big hit. Right.
And then he released a double album of noise. Yeah. So at the time when, yeah, there was no such thing as ambient and electronic music. Yeah.
Of course. And done. Interesting things. Um, they're not necessarily related.
Oh. Oh. Oh. So this is part of what I did to record.
So this is part of what I did to record. Oh, this is a little snippet of what's actually on the record. Yeah, it's a little read. Yeah, it's a little read.
It's a little read. Yeah, it's a little read. It's a little read. What are you going to have on the screen during this part if you ever get this up on YouTube?
Your face. Not a lot of people. And this is, I mean, I would say not unlike a lot of stuff you do. You like making.
I do. I made excruciating noise pieces when I was. This is almost, this is beautiful. There I say.
That's just what I was saying. That's just funny. I wanted to be free of song structure. That was what.
This sounds less haunted. It builds up. I mean, this is, this is, this is the. The haunting has since.
It's a beautiful, kind of, from the rich. To me, this is, this is, this is, this is art. It's a sound art, you know? You, you throw it in a cool gallery and people walk around or they sit and lay in a couch.
You know, yeah, and then I write like a like two or three paragraph description. Oh, the plleckered. references a lot of things that I've read and I'll line myself with some musical movements. Sure, you know sure is baby.
Oh speaking of where's my poetry? Oh yeah that's what I remember this one. So yeah anyone who actually wants to hear that without us talking over the top of it. I'm gonna keep that.
I'm gonna keep keeping that? No no no no. Oh wow. Oh my god sorry.
Okay so that is four minutes out of the 16-minute piece and so I just feel like I'm in a gallery. That was awesome. I liked it. Cool you liked it.
I do. I think it'd be cool if a light artist did a complimentary like if someone listened to it and then did a cool light display or something inspired by the music and then maybe you lay down on big squishy pillows and you look at a cool light installation while listening to the music. Hmm right? Sure I hear that happens.
Hey we went to a place that did that when we went to Duscanso Gardens at in December that you walked through the gardens with a light display to music. I want to put that out. Put this out in the world. Hey if anybody wants me to do a sound installation let me know.
Your veil. I'm a veil. I mean if you have an endowment or something I'm only I will only require maybe like 50, 60 thousand dollars to do it. Yeah sure.
I'll spend a couple of months on it for sure. You know and really really find really make something for your light if you want to collect any collabs of some high art people out there. Let me know. In the meantime yeah I made that for Dave Gebro's Metal Machine Music.
Check it out. Is it available like Oliver's Dreaming and stuff? No it's not streaming. How do you find it?
You can hear my piece. I'm unmastered kind of low res version of what I did. You can hear it on our subsec. Did you already put it on there?
Are you going to put it on there? I'm gonna put it on there. You're gonna put it on there. After I organized the shelves as you've instructed me to do.
Yeah that's true. Only after that. Wait but so but where can they hear the whole album? Is it on?
It's on the discography. Okay. Patreon. All right so we should have a link to that.
Absolutely. This is gonna be so many links. The descriptions could be a link party guys. So just I'll quickly I'm gonna consult my my own fact book.
There's four artists that contributed to the record. A side of piece. Fantastic. One is Mark Robinson who was a very sort of well-known among indie circles a musician.
Okay. Called Unrest back in the 90s. Nice. There's a contribution by Corey Hansen who has a newer band called Wand.
Where pretty everything I hear by them is different. He seems like a very creative person. So and then one by Will Collin Hart who is part of the elephant six collective. Oh uh-huh.
This group of musicians are from the Georgia area. Actually some of them originally from Louisiana but they had a neutral mill co-tell as part of it. He was in a band called Olivia. Tremor Control.
Big sort of nice family of people who made really experimental very lush pop music. Nice. So he he does one and so the whole record is available on the discography. Patreon and then there's a double record that I think is like kind of expensive.
It's like a hundred bucks but there's only there's only like a hundred available. Right. It's a limited quantity. Yeah.
It's a super limited quality. Can you also order that through? Yeah. It's all available up.
It's all there. Okay. Through the discography site. Yeah.
Okay. So this was sort of this was a Dave Gebro's baby. But yeah. So yeah.
I put some poetry through this thing. Uh-huh. I guess it's poetry. She's reading from my journal.
I would like to put it. Poetry baby. But um so yeah so there's this this record is out there. Yeah.
It's available now. You worked on it for a long time. I worked on it. I worked on it for it.
It wasn't something you just no pop and squatted. It was no back in the day I would I would like to say I've spent it. That vulgar is that too vulgar to say? No pop and no absolutely not.
I didn't shit this one out. No I actually really thought about it and it took a lot out of me. You really I mean I just think that like you really did put in the time in the work. I put the vinyl touches on the on some eardrum damage that I've been working on for the last 42 years.
I'm making that up. But um so yeah so it's all available. There's a 16 minute piece that sort of progresses and it's it's interspersed with some of my my journal entries from a few years ago. Oh and but could you do you want to read your little speaking of journal entries?
Do we still have time? Um we yes. Oh my gosh. Well what you just handed to me?
These are probably priceless works of art. Really these are my best my best work. I mean truly. Um Lou recently found we recently found these um in the attic in some book of mine.
David Sedaris book. Yeah it wasn't a David Sedaris book. Uh huh. Maybe I was talking diabetes with owls.
Oh you know what I think because I was reading that book and I had also been like going through my old journals and stuff and looking for poetry for Dear Diary or you know kind of an additional part two for the Dear Diary past whatever you guys know I'm talking about our old episode called Dear Diary where we read from our journals and things so oh no oh no oh no it's coming. We don't have time. Read it over this. I can't read it over this.
Oh you're going everyone's gonna have to wait for Adele's poetry. Really or maybe we should keep talking and I will put this as like a paid thing on the sub stack. I think this should be for everybody. This should be free.
It's a little graphic that's what's making a little subconscious so I mean it's pretty graphic. I mean I don't know if I okay should we save you for the full length episode this week? Okay so in conclusion this is this is this is towards the end of the piece my piece so I think it sounds rad I like it. You think it sounds rad?
Yeah I do. No that's a cool word rad always works. I like it I feel like I could knit to it. Low red low red that low red tiny turns turns the concludes.
Thank you for listening.