Lou Reed '74 Australia Funniest Press Conference EVER & Wild side + Rock 'n Roll LIVE HD
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- Unique on TH-cam and UNSEEN for 40 years, we see American Musician and Native New Yorker Lou Reed has just arrived in Australia for the first time August 19, 1974 and at this Press Conference we see Lou Reed like a Maestro in total control which sometimes leaves the Australian Reporters rather miffed at this man, someone no doubt like they've never met before! This also includes LIVE performances at the Hordern Pavillion in Sydney of Walk on the Wild Side and Rock 'n Roll both later would become Classic's in the Music catalogue of the now late Mr. Lou Reed.
At 1:03 in this video you'll see a young woman wearing a Lou Reed "Transformer" sweater, this work was created by Mary Adams, an amazingly talented Knittress/Artist who's works of Lou Reed amongst others like (Patti Smith,Blondie) were just recently on exhibition near where I live so I went and saw her and her incredible works of Art in Sweater form and will at some point edit my interview with Mary who's talent and skill has without a doubt reached a *Masters Status since 1974, she tells the story behind this in my interview with her so I 'll leave it here for now.
See more of Mary Adams @ http:/www.smalltowngirl.com.au
As of late 2017 Mary Adams is now living in Canada with her son and his family.
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My God, the interview was so damn funny I practically choked. The dude was hilarious!
"Do you take drugs?"
"No."
...
"What do you spend your money on?"
"Drugs."
but he says "right" 4:30 when the Journalists asks "for other people" NOT himself ;^) surely not, love the MAN
No
23QT123 ha!rip
I scream laughed when he did that.
Ah, so he's a dealer. lol
I love his deadpan “I don’t take drugs…I’m high on life” immediately followed by “oh, yeah, I want ‘em (the fans) to take drugs.”
Because it's the only way they can listen to his shitty music.
I love how the guy got offended and sighed when the woman asked the question about Andy Warhol but she probably asked the best one out of all of them
That was definitely the best question. The only question Lou answered with any enthusiasm at all.
@@TheKmankman4321 yeah, we'd never have heard of him or any of em not even nico without warhol...
Offensively stupid questions perfectly answered. No wonder Lou despised journalists.
but he loves journalists
+SilverCuckoo _____Why do it then ? apart from needing the press exposure....One ought to know what to expect, especially from the Australian hack press...He didn't seem that comfortable anyway with his unconvincing "hard" act......especially since Lou was a very soft and kind hearted man.....
SilverCuckoo Seeing this interview just reminds me of some of the interviews Bob Dylan had to go through.
Look. I'm Australian and I take offense at your remark. I think these journalists are doing their very best to reflect us and our curiosities. Example, "Would it be right to call your music, 'Gutter Rock"?" 'Oh yeah.." and pardon me Silver, are you a homosexual (or tranvestite) ? (I am both)
I'm also from Australia and I think these journalists are pretty incompetent; the whole interview eventually starts to sound like an interrogation. I'd recoil too if I had ten people asking me personal questions in such a frank tone. It's pretty ruuuuuuude.
The very essence of "ask a stupid question and get a stupid answer"
Classic! The only way to answer moronic questions is with moronic answers. Bravo Lou. Wish you were still around.
ALL fans of Lou wish the same 100% mate! Cheers & peace from "Down-under"!
I don't think the questions or answers were moronic lol
Interviewer: "You're a man of few words, why is that?"
Lou: "I don't have anything to say"
lmaoo
"How would you describe yourself?"
"Average"
I absolutely love how he says that haha
"I'm high on life".
liked his "better than Monopoly" comment (!)
And benzedrine 💊
Is this where that phrase started?
Lou was an American original. There can never be another like him
So true!💯
How he keeps a straight face is beyoud me...
he is an andy wanna be
7722993 he was high on life, didn't you hear?
he learned from andy
who?
LOL. And I bet you're serious.
I like how he answered that one womans question genuinely.
One of the most iconic interviews in rock and roll history
Interviewer: "Are you a transvestite or a homosexual?"
Reed: "Sometimes"
lmao!!!
Lou. "What's the difference?" lol!
@@dougbennett8592 so funny. It was a brilliant answer lol
“What’s the difference?” I thought was a cop out response, he knew exactly what the difference is and it pandered more to the straight world than the anti-media troll campaign he was on here.
Lou did what he wanted to do. That's why a lot of people admire him.
not a single wrong answer. The press is owned.
Mr. Zizzledizzle Von Schizzle c
You're a man of few words, why is this?
I don't have anything to say.
+JCatJake Where do you spend your money?
On drugs. LOL
For other people?
Right.
same
I made a t-shirt that said that back in 1974, because of this interview. :)
Being interviewed by rock/regular journalists absolutely didn’t suit to Lou Reed. I think he’d have made much, much more efforts if he had been interviewed by literary reviewers for instance. First, because he loved poetry and, secondly, they would probably have adopted a very different approach for talking to him. Statements/questions such stupid as : “you want people to take drugs themselves that’s perhaps why you sing about drugs”. I mean... when people tell you so silly things, it’s almost impossible to not mock them. That’s why Lou “earned” his reputation of being a nightmare for journalists. Because he despised stupid questions.
"Where do you spend your money?"
"On drugs."
"For other people?"
"Right."
I like how they ask him a question and he answers quite literally in 0.1 seconds
"I want people to take drugs."
"Why?"
"Cause it's better than Monopoly."
Best line ever
A throw away line!
Nothing special or funny about it!
Goons like you put singers up on a pedestal when they're just people who buy into all the adulation they receive from simply singing and playing music!
They walk around thinking they're demigods!
Without they fame Lou Reed and many like him are just average junkies!
John Bryan I don't know that much about Reed apart from a few songs and the work he did with the Velvets.
Personally I didn't find this interview that funny. Reed just seemed to be himself. The problem with the media and music journalists in general is that they believe that ALL musicians need them and are hungry for publicity and therefore expect them to "act" a certain way. Reed obviously either didn't give a shit or was "playing a role". Whichever of the two its a lot more interesting then the typical pandering popstar that has zero personality and is as entertaining as watching paint dry.
One of the best lines--and i am not comparing LR to Knut Hamsun....LR couldn't clean Hamsun's shoes. Someone asked Hamsun ?why he wrote novels? Hamsun: To kill time.
Another person asked Hamsun why he wrote a letter of introduction for Herr Hitler???
Hamsun : I was just being polite.
Bitter, hateful, jealous bullshit from a nonentity with a humour bypass :/ take a bow John Bryan, because what the world needs now is more sad bitches like you .. go fuck yourself.
i like board games. I think i might need to take more drugs. I've gotten botulism from eating preserved mushrooms. I might need to play more board games. Life isn't very straightforward
"I don't do drugs" ... What do you spend your money on ? "drugs"
right
I spend my money on monopoly.
thats the point at which you can confirm that he's totally just fucking with them and doesnt care about his answers
Looking at how Lou responds to the journalists makes me think of street-savvy drug dealers whilst being interrogated by the police: confuse, deny, play innocent etc.
thats what I thought too but why don't they ask about the music...?the lyrics etc..
Not for nothing... Any person who answers questions whilst being interrogated by the police can't be considered Street-Savvy!
You have the right to remain silent. ANYTHING YOU SAY can and WILL be used against you in a court of law.You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you without cost.
'I WISH TO SPEAK TO MY LAWYER'
For how obnoxious Lou could be ,he's quite reasonable in this 'interview' having a group of people you don't know crowding you isn't usually a pleasant experience, terrible live performance tho ( seems off time compared to rock n roll animal & other performances from this era - poss shot speed beforehand?)
zion-da-Zebra you are a wise person and all should heed this advice. And I mean ALL. Nothing wrong with doing so no matter what they say
That's super spot on. Hilarious guy
This is f'ing hilarious but I can totally relate to him too. I was a strung out heroin user and a reserved, introverted smart ass back in the day myself.
I had the good fortune of meeting Lou Reed in NJ in the '90s outside of a concert setting, so it was real and there were no fans all over the place. When I met him he was probably 50 and had matured and humbled a lot. He was also long sober at that point which definitely helped as well as added many years to his life.
Interviewer: What message are you trying to get across?
Lou: I don't have one.
Interviewer: Most singers do. They usually sing about something and have some kind of way of getting through to the people.
Lou : Like who?
Interviewer: Well most singers
Lou: Like who???
Interviewer:..............
Yes, that's what happened.
Funny but no need for the name calling.
@@daddypig.5796 pointless without the name calling, f idiot
420 man is a dick
Amazing... The interviewer literally had no thought behind his question. None.
Interesting how nice he was in response to the woman who asked about Andy Warhol. He seemed interested in her question & didn't troll her
I agree 100% !
His response was sarcastic about a slavish worship of Warhol.
@@TS-qq7vr yet every thing he said was factually true within that "sarcastic" response. Maybe not as sarcastic as you think.
@@TS-qq7vr nah he was pretty much just being sincere there
He literally grits he teeth when he says "still is"
The media is no better today, how Lou is missed!!
They’re probably worse now
They're so much worse today. The CIA owns 1 out of every 10. The other 9 are too scared to step out of line. At least these guys were smiling.
punk before punk
hi
@@Royale_with_Cheeze naw
Not possible 😉 It had to start somewhere, right? But I hear you. People mostly think that punk really started with safety pins & spikey hair, etc. They were late to the party. Maybe Iggy Pop & The Velvet Underground were the very first? I'm sure other people can list more of the same. Patti Smith was at it by 1971. Must be a decent documentary out there somewhere that covers its roots, etc. I'd like to see a good one. Any pointers would be appreciated. I think Lou Reed was following in Dylan's footsteps when messing with the press. Dylan left people enraged & confused in much the same way; but he did it with the big guns. Love watching this stuff. Thanks for a great upload 🙂
He has to be admired, he didn't care about anything but himself, it's all selfish indulgence, but he earned many fans for it, I'm one of them.
Better than pretending to care about others ...
This is so fucking hilarious. Lou Reed is the man!
men dont do that shit
I had the honour of meeting him just a year before he passed. He did a song with a band that I was co-managing at the time. He came to their New York show with Laurie and even played a couple of his songs with the band. He was an incredible man.
Which band, what song?
@@johnarundell7951 Metric - Wanderlust from 2012's Synthetica.. Great band, not the best song. Was also one of his last live performances, possibly his last and Metric played Pale Blue Eyes and one other song with him along with Wanderlust.
Raj Sihota I was with Lou that night at Radio City. I know Emily loved Lou and he was so happy to be asked to do those two songs with them. He was so happy afterward. It was indeed his last performance in NYC.
Lou seemed to enjoy being asked whether it would 'be right' to call his music 'gutter rock', as if he'd never actually heard that one before and wished he came up with it himself. "Oh yeah."
agreed, you could tell he was in to that term "gutter Rock" to describe his style, Lou was always VERY much a New Yorker!
His music was once called "ghoul rock " by some pop music xmas annual of that era
"What do you like most in life?"
"Everything."
"Is there any things you like better than others?"
"No."
This is my favourite rock n' roll interview of all time. The new versus the old. New York street smart new versus the backwater Australia of the time. Cool indifference versus the mob. All done with an inner smirk. Perfect.
Whenever I'm back in my hometown of New York, boppin' around on the streets, this song always plays in my head. Love the sax solo at the end of the studio version of this song
Yeah, it's a great soundtrack for NYC.
they told me to come in here.
Good to see the Oz press has remained consistent over the last 40 years and remains so
He loved doing this -- it was part of the Lou Reed Show. He used to hang up on interviewers in mid-question - it eventually became an expected part of any 20-minute telephone encounter.
What a legend. Here he is confronting a bunch of australian journalists all on the attack, even the future sixty minutes reported Ray martin. And made them all look like fuckwits. Good work Lou, R.I.P.
I don't think any of them were on the attack, I think they were remarkably tolerant. All of them, every one, were going along with what he was doing and staying respectful to him. Very professional.
Lou made them all look like fuckwits? You mean exposed them as fuckwits. As for the journalists being "remarkably tolerant" and "very professional", you must've been watching a different press conference. The only remarkably tolerant person in this room was Lou Reed.
It's Ian Leslie,not Ray Martin.
He made himself look like a "fuckwit".
I remember one of those fuckers tried to attack bob Marley and other reggae artist for smoking weed and living in their poor neighborhoods in Kingston and Bob Marley shut his ass straight down in the chillest way possible
Journalist: "who writes these sort of things about you if they're not true?"
Lou: "journalists!!"
Sharp as a razor...
"Oh i love journalists"
the cynical laughter they all burst into after that answer was really awful
that version of wild side has seriously made my day. thanks
🤗
and here we have the legend that is Lou Reed.
100%!
"Journalists." Best answer to a question of all time. Glad to see Stevie Hunter get some brief air time at the end.
I love his chilled out way of answering the questions , such a real guy, he gave the perfect responses
Watching Lou Reed in this interview gives me a feel of a real life Fight Club.
I love Lou Reads interviews, and how he plays these people.
This is how the press should be treated today.
Best Interview Ever!!! ✌️💗
Interviewer: Do you do everything people tell you to do?
Reed: Sometimes
Lou wrote.the.most original music including gonna kill your son. No one has ever addressed this tragedy in music. He is just the purist animal rocker. Beautiful man, man.
a true genius in a level that a lot of people couldn't understand,clearly this press conference was something that his manager recommend to lou,notice that all the questions are lame/not interesting if there was a good question he would be more polite.love you lou i missed you very much
This is hilarious, they have no way to comprehend him or his music. They are probably fans of bubblegum, not bubblegum music, just bubblegum.
Most hilarious interview in music period. Lou was a fucking legend
Lou and Dylan gave the best interviews.
Very Clever give' em a taste of their own medicine ...wish they still did that
Saw him in Sydney 74. He wasn’t having a good night. A shame as he could have brought the house down. Still love listening to his albums though. Absolute classics. 💜
wow, Aussie press back in the day was like an interrogation. Leave poor Lou alone! lol
"You don't ever take drugs."
**shakes head** **Sips drink**
This will probably remain my all time favourite thing about being human. Ever. Love you Lou. You fucking perfect human.
Managing to floor the press by giving them the answers they're looking for
this is passive aggressive performance art
Matt Sherman gotta love it.
You're an idiot!
I didn`t know Lou was so huge star. And journalists took him so seriously.
I love that he fucks up the beginning of “Wild Side” and just laughs it off. He’s obviously having a blast performing.
Thank you for posting this. I have seen him live often since the early 1970's when I was in college in NYC (I am a New Yorker); have seen him in every phase of his career. I love him; Laurie too. RIP my dear Lou.
The performance of rock n roll is the most ridiculous speed fueled thing I’ve ever seen. I love it and lou’s chicken dance
Australian journalist in the 70s were shockers, ask Sinatra , Lou dispensed with them hilariously I loved it taking the piss out of journalists
Thank you James.....I am a real fan of Lou Reed and was listening to "Walk on the Wild Side" in the car on the way to work this morning...Brilliant music and excited to see this clip. Forget the crap people want to throw at him and absorb the vibes and mood from his music.....Transformed us all !!!
+jakjazzz cheers mate, & so true! ; j
5:21 This guy is totally in love
This is how we treat genius when it surfaces.
He was handsome!
I want this video carved into my teeth
😁
He is SO funny !
Thanks so much for posting this James! I was at this gig at the Sydney Hordern Pavilion (I'm now living in Canada). It was an excellent night! I still have the ticket stub here somewhere.
+len801 cheers mate, what a memory of Lou to have, something I never will have as I never saw Lou ever in person!
Me too, still got the stubs.
This interview is pure gold !!!
No it is pure celluloid
@@cornelisrijsdijk3533 , very funny 😃
I love how the interviewer just didnt understand his sarcasm.
I saw him on stage in 1974 .. Heroin was very very exciting
Lou Pop Bowie Reed performance. Love it. Miss you Lou. There will never be another like you.
At 3:30 the only female journalist asks the only sensible question and is immediately spoken over
How to Give an Interview 101: By Andy Warhol.
Step One: Absolutely refuse to play the role of "Artist" for the Press - ever - while secretly hoping at least one journalist will get the joke.
Step Two: Repeat Step One.
Safe to say that Lou Reed was not 'secretly hoping' for anything here.
Let's not over complicate music can unite societies, people and genders, Lou was all about that!
Young Ben Stiller would have killed the role of Lou reed.
I thought I was the only one
I don’t think the earthbound Ben Stiller would have understood the subject…
You are a casting genius.
@@DanieHattingh you’re too kind, you’re too kind…
I don't think Ben has the depth of experience in the realms of drugs to play Lou accurately haha :/
"Anti-social behavior...? What's that?"
What is that anyway?
Vince Farin yeah, the journalists didn't know antisocial means to be a psychopath/sociopath
Ron Calabro not really, antisocial doesn't mean sociopathic, it's just that the condition is medically termed antisocial personality disorder
DelToro Perdedor as I understand it he was put in an institution and given electroshock 'therapy'...when he was 15 or so. Got to think anyone who had that done to them might not feel very sociable afterwards.
@Rocco Cosmo Terranova We weren't the most open-minded country in '74. People forget, but the whole laid-back attitude thing wasn't widespread and journalists tended to be a lot more conservative than the gen pop anyway...
Love love love love love love love love
Freakin Lou Reed
this was a real treat to see. thanks! this is why i haunt youtube...
It's a comedy act, brilliant.
What a great band he’s got playing behind him, live sound ist tres bien
Band are self indulgent wankers.
This is superb, how to do a press conference,what a performance what a piss take to the loud abrasive Aussie reporters trying to get him to say something controversial and lose it. absolutly brilliant
I love the "special effects" for the show's grand finale: Silly String!
This is an interview with Ben stiller acting and nothing can convince me otherwise.
Bahaha
this interview is hilarious. Lou Reed was awesome
Dammit that guitar player is an ace.
Patrick Hawkinson fuckin a
Sometimes . So the performance is like his Vegas Revue version . Coke fueled or not , it's bizzare . Even for him . Weird . But , I like it !!
Tremendous!
Best interview ever ! Thanks for the additional material - it fits perfect!
Are the keyboard player and guitarist the same players that are featured on the live Rock n Roll Animal disc? Drummer and bass player look different and I believe the aforementioned had two guitarists.
I don't know what some of you clueless are talking about. I love how loose and raw this performance is.
I get a vibe that he kind of had performance anxiety unless he was really jacked up. Like he was here.
I think you're right. He had performance anxiety. A lot of great artists do. Many are introverts. He even admits it here.
Yeah I think he was into taking a lot of speed then. I'm truly glad he stayed sober for a long time prior to his passing. Great, great deadpan interview. Lou Reed was (and is) the epitome of cool.
@coogan8825 Yeah, the junk was a presence too. But Lou Reed loved him some speed. He looked like A1 Nut Boy Spped Freak to Judge All Other Speed Freaks from 1973-76. The short short blond hair with fascist symbols carved into it; the leatherman outfits and permanently dilated eyes....David Bowie, who was in just terrific shape himself, would tell mutual friends that "Lou is the devil; you must stay away from him."
Lou cannot be tougher and hostile with journalists hahaha. So fuckin' hilarious lol. This is the best example you can find of a true bad boy of rock and roll.
Do yoy take drugs? -
Lou" No I get high on life".
Five minutes into the inteveiw................
What do you spend ypur money on?
Lou" Drugs".
Lmao
Loue
I'm high on life! He was bored with those people and the stupid questions they asked him. Answering questions with questions is classic Lou Reed.
+Scott Davis he was bored of drugs, music, performing, touring, journalists, practically everything at this stage in his career
great artist, great look, great badass person :)
pure genius of a man/ receptiveness abound's in Lou Reed 's vocabulary and quick fire response to very silly question's / Lou strike's me as guy with autism without the repetitiveness / bravo to you Lou with great respect......maybe? one fine day! Lou ... people will learn to know what it's really like to be human!....R.I.P.
Nah he was just rude and difficult for no reason.
@@missyjes7671 Yea ! And living in shitty political times then ! As we all do today.
Strikes you as a guy with autism? What a bullshit diagnosis every time someone has to deal with people they'd rather not talk to they have autism. Now if he was wearing a helmet and trying to punch himself like a retard that might make me think autism.
@Danny Scholten Do you know what contrite means? Did you mean "contrary", cause he was the fucking opposite of contrite. Also "without having the remotest idea of what your [sic] speaking about" is pretty hilarious coming from the guy who doesn't know what contrite means and who in the quoted segment can't even use the correct "you're", but ok.
I agree Lou could be a hell of a prick, and that a lot of that was a "front for his lack of self confidence and his self loathing". Doesn't that make you feel a little sorry for the guy? His childhood/adolescence were no walk in the park - also, a lot of his attitude was just a very New York kinda vibe. I love my country, but Jesus our journos were a bunch of basic bitches back then (we weren't yet a very worldly country, and a much less tolerant place)... Shitting on artists who are your contemporaries is nasty, but I think few people got to see the real Lou - a prickly but also deeply emotional man.
He was on something
Haha wonderful those stunned and confused journalists
pure awesomeness♡☆
ya know, socially,... it's really cool to be around people that you can relate to,... like good conversation,... & no, nothing to do w/ drugs either,... very rare, I find great conversation where we can relate.