We caught Lou Reed at the Radio City Music Hall around the time his New York album came out (1989). His guest was Little Jimmy Scott. Here's everyone's favorite side from that album:
In case you didn't catch the last verse:
Well Americans don't care much for anything,
land and water the least
And animal life is so low on the totem pole
with human life not worth more than infected yeast
Americans don't care too much for beauty
They'll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream
They'll watch dead rats wash up on a beach
and complain if they can't swim
They say things are done for the majority
Don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear
It's like my painter friend Donald said to me
“Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over, they're done”
Here's Lou on David Letterman's show at about that same time. If you look sharply, you'll see two familiar faces in the band: Buddy Guy and James Cotton.
Here's Lou on David Letterman's show at about that same time. If you look sharply, you'll see two familiar faces in the band: Buddy Guy and James Cotton.
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