Will none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he got in his records a beautiful hybrid sound - Let Him Run Wild, Don't Worry Baby, I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun - 'and she had fun, fun, fun 'till her daddy took her T-bird away.'
Lou ReedI'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.
Lou ReedI've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.
Lou ReedThese are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.
Lou Reed