Product: Night With Lou Reed [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 4.0
A Hot Night with Lou
This is just the kind of Lou Reed concert you wish you could have been present at. And fortunately, someone filmed it, so you can get as close as the mists of time will allow. Lou's playing for his peers in NYC, like Andy Warhol, and pulling out all the stops. The band, with Fernando Saunders on bass, and Robert Quine on Guitar, absolutely melts together, they're so tight. Lou was on an upswing here, having just released one of his best solo albums ever, THE BLUE MASK, and showing off what turned out to be his live sound for the next 15 years. In interviews, Lou called this "Adult Rock and Roll", but really, it could also be called punk jazz. Or maybe, it defies classification. However, if you love Lou Reed, and want to see him at work reproducing his best solo work of the 80s, then here you go. After seeing the show, you realize it's a loss to the history of rock, that more films of his live work from the 60s onward don't exist. So what is around, is all the more valuable.