"It always bothers me to see people writing ‘RIP’ when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop-out. To me, ‘RIP’ is the microwave dinner of posthumous honors." - Lou Reed
Im right there with you man. Blah blah blah hes dead so fucking what do you see him crying? No I see a man speedballing his ass off and having a good time.
I've watched this 100 times and I'll watch it 1000 more; so fortunate someone captured this moment in time. Crazy to think how many people will never know it even happened, but us lucky few get to cherish it.
yes it is gonna be hard, so far my drug of choice is sport (climbing) and i had no need for opiates so far. but i wouldnt know if i am strong enough if a grade A #4 would come around. i just hope it wont come around soon :) thanks for your kind words
Even in my 53 I am in fucking methadone, just 10 years ago I said goodbye to Heroin. I'm sorry to keep methadone ... until the end of my ... although I still love heroin
gurufuttlappele ... your drug is sport climbing? You ever break into a gym at 4 in the morning to climb the rock wall? Give me a Fucking break, not even the same "sport" .
Damn , I was there too. I remember you. You was that guy in front of me with the huge hat on , and you kept yelling " Lou, Lou Let me.blow you Lou!" Ya know , it kinda ruined the show for me.
@@shanemiller2046 omg this comment made my night...I had a very bad day with a breakup and just reading this comment made me laugh so hard. Love your sense of humor man!
This is really a great tune. I use to listen to this in the late 70's, when I was a teenager. We just drank beer and smoked weed....maybe a few other things. I never rode the dragon, and I'm happy I didn't. I lost a niece to this shit last November. My brother tried so hard to help her climb out of her ditch. She was 25....rip Nikkie
This is the most incredible version of this song, and one of the best. This is enveloping and direct in a way that no other live recording have been. The controlled blasts of electric guitar are magnificent! Just love this version. Damn this guy was a powerful stage presence
I saw Lou do this live in San Francisco where he tied off with the microphone cord and fixed front center stage. I went very close to see and he was not faking.
Heroine is not great. It's death. I think, 50% of my dearest friends died from it, during the 80/90s. They are still missed after all these years. Reed was an unique personage translating the rush into words. Rest in peace, my friends.
I'm 21 and I've been a heroin addict for a year now. There is no such thing as trying heroin, only sharing your life with it. The lyrics Lou sings describe the experience perfectly, it's a beautiful thing. The thing that ruins lives is addiction, it's important to remember that heroin and addiction are two separate things. If you use some of the logic that some people are posting then there should be no love songs either as that inevitably ends up in pain and suffering. This is just a love song.
been a fan of lou reed from day 1. been drug-free from day 1( thank god) had good parents ( a good dad who could be really scary, which every young teenager needs in order 2 stay away from drugs) ...anyone who can survive hard drugs, get clean ,& live 2 tell the tale, i salute u....
Kudos to anyone who was able to get off of such a hardcore drug as Heroin. I'm sure it wasn't easy. The hard part is staying off, and getting their lives back together. Best of luck to all of you who are trying!
Every time i listen to this song i ask myself if it was worth it that i detoxt.just remembering the warm feeling,the sloly floating pictures throgh your brain,the totally relaxt feeling...i have to stop
Since a few month i hear everytime this great song when i smoke some hero... And today i hear the song, too......and everything seems so warm and good. But i know, tomorrow it´s the same cold and disapointing world....the circle in (my) life since 23 years of pain, love and hate,peace, drugs and neverending hope.
coming from a humiliated full fledged addict, lou loved it like the rest of our clan does. hope hes doing better :]. was his choice to live it. love him and his music forever!
Bark Underjord no mate I don't this is the second message this crazy fuck has sent me. And are you not reading what co cl has wrote?? Or can't you read??
Real as it Gets. LOU REED Rockn Roll Animal Period . Legendary Live Album . You want Rock nRoll Street Urban . Punk Junkie Attitude . Lou Delievered the Goods. Steve Hunter Dick Wagner dueling Guitars. Great Band backing LOU. This record is Timeless. I first seen Lou Reed in 1976 . Different Band with Lou on Guitar. Seen NY Tour. Magic and Loss. And of course BLUE MASK Tour. Great Band as well. No One does LOU REED . Blessed to have seen him LIVE.
You are right...I listened to this song today, and thought what a dangerous song it is, and how it glorifies drugs.....tsk, I too have given years to heroin/morphine addiction, and have yet to quit methadone. Heroin when I was young seemed so ''glamorous'', mainly because of songs like this...but my god, what a fool I was. I am sorry about your Girlfriend. Well done for being clean.
Lou Reed at this time was incredible & outrageous. You can tell he was out of it. Sometimes he would fake shooting up on stage on that tour during Heroin(1974). This version is great, the way he performs it, the way he turned Heroin in this sort of black mass, with the organ & all. Thanks for uploading this.
@gangstaman97 I was fortunate to see two of his gigs at the ROXY in LA, late seventies, still have the tix stubs. He truly gave it all for his audiences. The 2nd gig was a two show night, we saw the 2nd. He played from like midnight till 4:30, he just kept going. And you could not have said it better in your comment. His music is timeless and has survived while other have simply faded like a sunset. LOU ROCKS!!!! and I am old, hmmmm
According to one site it is Danny Weiss on guitar, Michael Fonfara on keyboards, Prakash John on bass, Pentti “Whitey” Glan on drums. The guitarist is incredible.
I lost my niece to that shit......sad , but I rocked to this song in the 70's.....we just drank beer and smoked weed. Maybe a few other things,,,,,but never chased the dragon. Guess I was lucky that it wasn't popular in my circle of friends. My niece's death really makes me think back to those days, and what kept me from going over the edge. She's at peace now, and in our hearts.
Hate2 and dec550. Respect to both of you for your views. Whatever it was in life that gave you the emotion and mind to feel the way you do. I hope life is good to you now.
I haven't poked a vein for 22 years now, I wouldn't and actually shouldn't be here. And so many that are gone. I just buried my brother due to the needle and the spoon..
I'm sorry. That's sad. So many went through this. I get why this the best healing song of all time. There's nothing like it. One of the best songs of all time!!!!
The best thing about this wonderful song is when the audience call for it to be played at Max's (Kansas City) 'n' Lou, fairly smugly, said "we don't do heroin anymore". Or something similar 😊.
You Were The Man -Even Without Heroin- but You Sang about it- so the common peeps would know about all the crap that was going on out there,people would get away from the crap in life by just playing this music- and not do the hard drugs- it was the words and presentation that turned minds artistically. Lou- Lou , you be gone, but your words and artistic presence will remain forever.
o great song. great song. he's fucking amazing. holy crap. this song is one of the best songs ever. the music, instruments, text. everything is amazing. he's genius.
Amsterdam, 70 ties also the ,trip, era... I grew up, and grown older with some very brilliant musicians... There texts aged ,like a good 🍷 wine.... Lou Reed was one of them,... Together with Joe Cocker,.... More ,brass, got into play.. I count myself a Rich man...
I feel that this song, and most songs that reference drugs so strongly and obsessively are neither really pro drug/anti drug. It's hear a man singing about his experience with them, and the powerless feeling one gets when you can no longer deny yourself whatever it is you may have become addicted too. Looking at it from a view as either a pro/anti drug standpoint is undermining the point of the music, A man's blackened heart on display for everyone to witness, it's beautiful.
Well done...only someone who has been through it would know the utter wretchedness. I had to quit suddenly on a foreign holiday, and it was ''something I wouldn't wish to repeat''..But I have to repeat it....or be on for the rest of my life. When one has got clean, one does feel so much more ''alive'' ..one laughs a whole lot more. that is what I notice..drug free people do really laugh-and I miss that. As one gets older, you think ''been there/done that'' and you know the futility of addiction.
Echt een ongelofelijke beschrijving hoe je een goede fiks met smack kan ondergaan! Zo veel flashes met dit nummer ondergaan, blij dat ik het heb gekend. Nu past het niet meer bij mij. By; René Emans
cool vid. just think, this vid has been around for 33 years (longer than i) and we're only getting to see it now thanks to high speed net and YT. love seeing old vids on here, cheers.
Dope dependence is hard. It's hard to live that way in increments. It's extremely tough for long term i.v. heroin dependents to kick for good, but it can be done, and life without dope is much better, but it ain't easy. Anybody who lives a junkie's life has to change everything about themselves in order to stop and stay stopped. It's hard to maintain either way, but you'll never find out unless you have to go through it yourself. Hopefully we don't die in the meantime.
"It always bothers me to see people writing ‘RIP’ when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop-out. To me, ‘RIP’ is the microwave dinner of posthumous honors." - Lou Reed
Wow, facts!! I’m not gonna use that anymore either. RIP to rip.
I always write RIPMOFO to make sure they understand exactly how I feel.
Im right there with you man. Blah blah blah hes dead so fucking what do you see him crying? No I see a man speedballing his ass off and having a good time.
@@energyasylum997 lol
@@joshuathompson1743 man, you sure miss the meaning of the lyrics of this song
I've watched this 100 times and I'll watch it 1000 more; so fortunate someone captured this moment in time. Crazy to think how many people will never know it even happened, but us lucky few get to cherish it.
You never heard the RnR Animal album ? Like, really ?? He sings about the same... but the music here is total garbage ..
Agreed
you are not alon :)
STEVE HUNTER DICK Wagner
goodbye heroin #3#4
goodbye morphine
goodbye (furanyl/butyr)-fentanyl
and fucking goodbye to methadone!
but i will always be addicted to this song!
gurufuttlappele be aware heroine will take you back many times more but always fight on afther mistake
yes it is gonna be hard, so far my drug of choice is sport (climbing) and i had no need for opiates so far. but i wouldnt know if i am strong enough if a grade A #4 would come around. i just hope it wont come around soon :) thanks for your kind words
Even in my 53 I am in fucking methadone, just 10 years ago I said goodbye to Heroin. I'm sorry to keep methadone ... until the end of my ... although I still love heroin
gurufuttlappele best friend kick out methDone to. Fuck it it's not hundreds years look like heroine .
gurufuttlappele ... your drug is sport climbing? You ever break into a gym at 4 in the morning to climb the rock wall? Give me a Fucking break, not even the same "sport" .
I was at that show, as well, my first time seeing him. Remember it quite well to this day.
Damn , I was there too. I remember you. You was that guy in front of me with the huge hat on , and you kept yelling " Lou, Lou
Let me.blow you Lou!"
Ya know , it kinda ruined the show for me.
@@shanemiller2046 omg this comment made my night...I had a very bad day with a breakup and just reading this comment made me laugh so hard. Love your sense of humor man!
@@jacobrodriguez4707 One can only try. Oddly I don't remember posting this. Musta been high.
I wish I was there Lou Reed has helped me through my toughest times
"Experienced" him in concert in 1974. Rock 'n' Roll Animal is the greatest rock album of all time!
This is really a great tune. I use to listen to this in the late 70's, when I was a teenager. We just drank beer and smoked weed....maybe a few other things. I never rode the dragon, and I'm happy I didn't. I lost a niece to this shit last November. My brother tried so hard to help her climb out of her ditch. She was 25....rip Nikkie
Who'd have thought we'd have lasted this long? Well done on your 71 years Lou. We had perfect days and your passing leaves a hole in my life.
This is the most incredible version of this song, and one of the best. This is enveloping and direct in a way that no other live recording have been. The controlled blasts of electric guitar are magnificent! Just love this version. Damn this guy was a powerful stage presence
I saw Lou do this live in San Francisco where he tied off with the microphone cord and fixed front center stage. I went very close to see and he was not faking.
So good. One of the best ever live performances.
can you feel the love HE feels while singing this song??
divine
The most amazing song in the world.
Lou Reed rocks so hard.
Heroine is not great. It's death. I think, 50% of my dearest friends died from it, during the 80/90s. They are still missed after all these years. Reed was an unique personage translating the rush into words. Rest in peace, my friends.
I relapsed yesterday, going to bed clean tonight
"…it's my wife & it's my life…" Bless you, Lou. Great talent here - from guitar to drums.
I'm 21 and I've been a heroin addict for a year now. There is no such thing as trying heroin, only sharing your life with it. The lyrics Lou sings describe the experience perfectly, it's a beautiful thing. The thing that ruins lives is addiction, it's important to remember that heroin and addiction are two separate things. If you use some of the logic that some people are posting then there should be no love songs either as that inevitably ends up in pain and suffering. This is just a love song.
Been clean off the shit for a little over a year now. You still with us pal? Hope so
Wish they would offer a digital version.
Being a guitar player , this is HEAVY version the guitarist is killing this song with some heavy tone .
Loved it. One of my favourites. 'I'm gonna try to nullify my life'; each line is pure poetry. We miss you, Lou.
been a fan of lou reed from day 1. been drug-free from day 1( thank god) had good parents ( a good dad who could be really scary, which every young teenager needs in order 2 stay away from drugs) ...anyone who can survive hard drugs, get clean ,& live 2 tell the tale, i salute u....
Even after you stop getting high this is still a great song.....
Lou Reed was at his peak during the Rock n Roll Animal era. 👍😎
Agreed. But "Take No Prisoners" is on par.
@@eirik.loevhaug that is a superb album and saw it live. Saw Lou and iggy live. They changed the way music was more than most
love when someone from the audience reminds him about his sunglasses :)
Kudos to anyone who was able to get off of such a hardcore drug as Heroin. I'm sure it wasn't easy. The hard part is staying off, and getting their lives back together. Best of luck to all of you who are trying!
8 years now, for me. But want it daily. Just know that I can’t. “Chasing the Dragon” is SO TRUE
Every time i listen to this song i ask myself if it was worth it that i detoxt.just remembering the warm feeling,the sloly floating pictures throgh your brain,the totally relaxt feeling...i have to stop
RIP Lou Reed. I forgive you for Lulu. Thank you for the music.
Every version I here of this song is pretty fucking good
Among the best 2
Since a few month i hear everytime this great song when i smoke some hero...
And today i hear the song, too......and everything seems so warm and good.
But i know, tomorrow it´s the same cold and disapointing world....the circle in (my) life since 23 years of pain, love and hate,peace, drugs and neverending hope.
lou reed = one of the best lyricists ever
he was my second heroin 1970.......i miss him
Thanks for that great song and performance ! '74 was his best time I think. Rock'n'Roll Animal !!!
coming from a humiliated full fledged addict, lou loved it like the rest of our clan does. hope hes doing better :]. was his choice to live it. love him and his music forever!
+Co Cl Go to sleep little one
+Co Cl what the fuck are you even trying to say. fucking clown
Co Cl Go take some heroin and chill down...
Michael Johnston Seriously need some downers here ^^
Bark Underjord no mate I don't this is the second message this crazy fuck has sent me. And are you not reading what co cl has wrote?? Or can't you read??
representing a great time in my life. Simple garage band sound just worked.
Real as it Gets.
LOU REED Rockn Roll Animal
Period .
Legendary Live Album .
You want Rock nRoll Street Urban .
Punk Junkie Attitude .
Lou Delievered the Goods.
Steve Hunter Dick Wagner dueling
Guitars.
Great Band backing LOU.
This record is Timeless.
I first seen Lou Reed in 1976 .
Different Band with Lou on Guitar.
Seen NY Tour.
Magic and Loss.
And of course BLUE MASK Tour.
Great Band as well.
No One does LOU REED .
Blessed to have seen him LIVE.
Heroin won't be the death of you Lou, you're 70 years old!
i was there in the Hague '74 with friends it was GREAT...the greatest live concert ever
beautiful
Amazing live performance of this incredible song!
yyyyyyyyeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
Peace and love to everybody. love lou reed, and this is his best song ever....
You are right...I listened to this song today, and thought what a dangerous song it is, and how it glorifies drugs.....tsk, I too have given years to heroin/morphine addiction, and have yet to quit methadone. Heroin when I was young seemed so ''glamorous'', mainly because of songs like this...but my god, what a fool I was. I am sorry about your Girlfriend. Well done for being clean.
Heroin... It's my life & my wife...
Lou Reed at this time was incredible & outrageous. You can tell he was out of it. Sometimes he would fake shooting up on stage on that tour during Heroin(1974). This version is great, the way he performs it, the way he turned Heroin in this sort of black mass, with the organ & all. Thanks for uploading this.
this song means so much to me..
Can't stop crying. At least my daughter got to know and love him.
The poetry of Reed shoots up through me/ & I feel the time code of history/ called music, sweet poetic Lou Reed music...
@gangstaman97
I was fortunate to see two of his gigs at the ROXY in LA, late seventies, still have the tix stubs. He truly gave it all for his audiences. The 2nd gig was a two show night, we saw the 2nd. He played from like midnight till 4:30, he just kept going. And you could not have said it better in your comment. His music is timeless and has survived while other have simply faded like a sunset. LOU ROCKS!!!! and I am old, hmmmm
That`s great
i will cherish our meeting n c.d. signing and pics forever Mr. Reed! only a yr ago
A great of R&R.
Great song.
Aesthetic, painfully beautiful, deep...
Sublime version!!!
just Wonderful!
great version.
Saw him in Alexandria, VA during this tour at a skating rink....there were no more than 200 people there. It was AWESOME!!!!
According to one site it is Danny Weiss on guitar, Michael Fonfara on keyboards, Prakash John on bass, Pentti “Whitey” Glan on drums. The guitarist is incredible.
Hunter and Wagner were already gone, and soon P. John would leave as well…. Weiss didn’t last long either.
Prakash John is amazing
have,nt heard this song in years . xxx nice 1
I lost my niece to that shit......sad , but I rocked to this song in the 70's.....we just drank beer and smoked weed. Maybe a few other things,,,,,but never chased the dragon. Guess I was lucky that it wasn't popular in my circle of friends. My niece's death really makes me think back to those days, and what kept me from going over the edge. She's at peace now, and in our hearts.
Hate2 and dec550. Respect to both of you for your views. Whatever it was in life that gave you the emotion and mind to feel the way you do. I hope life is good to you now.
love to all of you. rip lou.
LOU REED RULES.
R.I.P Lou reed !! What a star U were And now are XXX "when i'm rush and on the run "...
love you for ever..♥
Que de bon moment sur ta music ,que dieux te garde pres de lui ,et joue lui Sweet Jane..il aimera sur......................
Thank your God that I appreciate his work and always have and always will.
fantastic document of the man, the myth, the legend. RIP Lou. Much love...
Tremendos
there r alot of things that also feel good and do not destroy ur life....go for that!
best live ever
amo questa canzoneee!!!!!!!
I haven't poked a vein for 22 years now, I wouldn't and actually shouldn't be here. And so many that are gone. I just buried my brother due to the needle and the spoon..
Contratulations that you choose life but I am very sorry for your brother.
I'm sorry. That's sad. So many went through this. I get why this the best healing song of all time. There's nothing like it. One of the best songs of all time!!!!
The best thing about this wonderful song is when the audience call for it to be played at Max's (Kansas City) 'n' Lou, fairly smugly, said "we don't do heroin anymore". Or something similar 😊.
Pedro Muniz u a survivor
They shouldn't give people a hard time about wanting to hear it tho.
I shot dope about 15 years. I'm 33, I've been clean over a year on Methadone
Well said my friend.
Excelente versión!
Canción mítica del disco de rock animal.. RIP. LOU REED. EL PADRE DEL ROCK ALTERNATIVO
You Were The Man -Even Without Heroin- but You Sang about it- so the common peeps would know about all the crap that was going on out there,people would get away from the crap in life by just playing this music- and not do the hard drugs- it was the words and presentation that turned minds artistically. Lou- Lou , you be gone, but your words and artistic presence will remain forever.
that was one amazing performance.....a real star.
"YOU CAN ALL GO TAKE A FUCKING WALK"
Thank you for your thoughts.
this is a real gem
Magnificent musik
o great song. great song. he's fucking amazing. holy crap. this song is one of the best songs ever. the music, instruments, text. everything is amazing.
he's genius.
Ahh! This is great!
The best Lou Reed ever.
Amsterdam,
70 ties also the ,trip, era...
I grew up, and grown older with some very brilliant musicians...
There texts aged ,like a good 🍷 wine....
Lou Reed was one of them,...
Together with Joe Cocker,....
More ,brass, got into play..
I count myself a Rich man...
God I loved tht song when I lived in Amsterdam
I feel that this song, and most songs that reference drugs so strongly and obsessively are neither really pro drug/anti drug. It's hear a man singing about his experience with them, and the powerless feeling one gets when you can no longer deny yourself whatever it is you may have become addicted too. Looking at it from a view as either a pro/anti drug standpoint is undermining the point of the music, A man's blackened heart on display for everyone to witness, it's beautiful.
i've been off heroin for a year and it certainly made me feel like a man when i put a spike in my vein
he's an unconscious piece of art
ahh, incredible. all the high I need. thanks for posting.
Is never too late to change Rip LOU ...
Well done...only someone who has been through it would know the utter wretchedness. I had to quit suddenly on a foreign holiday, and it was ''something I wouldn't wish to repeat''..But I have to repeat it....or be on for the rest of my life. When one has got clean, one does feel so much more ''alive'' ..one laughs a whole lot more. that is what I notice..drug free people do really laugh-and I miss that. As one gets older, you think ''been there/done that'' and you know the futility of addiction.
Amazing how it hits the feeling...!
Echt een ongelofelijke beschrijving hoe je een goede fiks met smack kan ondergaan! Zo veel flashes met dit nummer ondergaan, blij dat ik het heb gekend. Nu past het niet meer bij mij. By; René Emans
cool vid. just think, this vid has been around for 33 years (longer than i) and we're only getting to see it now thanks to high speed net and YT. love seeing old vids on here, cheers.
Dope dependence is hard. It's hard to live that way in increments. It's extremely tough for long term i.v. heroin dependents to kick for good, but it can be done, and life without dope is much better, but it ain't easy. Anybody who lives a junkie's life has to change everything about themselves in order to stop and stay stopped. It's hard to maintain either way, but you'll never find out unless you have to go through it yourself. Hopefully we don't die in the meantime.
R.i.p lou ....i miss u all ready
Brilliant song!!!
cant wait to seee him!!!
BEST SONG EVER.
Why did I listen to this song when I was that young and unaware? Probably that's why...
Fine line between Love and Loathe...between a medicine and a poison.