from silver CD 'Banging on my Drums'
SBD - incomplete
lossless data disk # 615
memorex dvd-r (black sharpie)
in large storage box ALPHA

FLAC

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data disk # 615

Lou Reed Groningen 01 May 1977 incomplete soundboard recording

(liberated from the "Banging On My Drums" bootleg CD, where it is (I think) misdated as 02 May)

Evenmentehal
Groningen
01 May 1977

track 01: Dirt/Oh Jim 14.43
track 02: Better Get Up And Dance* 4.36
track 03: Shooting Star 5.14
track 04: Such A Pretty Face* 5.03
track 05: Real Good Time Together 3.53
track 06: Gimmie Some Good Times 4.37
track 07: Affirmative Action (PO #99)* 13.41

*these song titles are as published in "Pass Thru Fire - The Collected Lyrics"

Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
Jeffrey Roth: guitar
Michael Fonfara: keyboards
Bruce Yaw: bass
Marty Fogel: saxophone
Michael Suchorsky: drums

lineage: Midnight Beat silver CD MB CD133 - EAC - wav - flac (level 8) - you

EAC log file included

Uploaded to Dime April 2008 by lurid_uk

The setlists for these early 1977 concerts were among the most varied of Lou's career. Although the shows were ostensibly to promote "Rock And Roll Heart", they didn't usually feature many songs from that LP. In reality, Lou was trying out the ideas and songs which would eventually form "Street Hassle". Of the songs on this (incomplete?) recording from Groningen, "Better Get Up And Dance" and "Affirmative Action (PO #99)" would subsequently be abandoned completely. "Such A Pretty Face" would eventually mutate into "Wait": it would later appear on the "Street Hassle" LP along with "Shooting Star", "Real Good Time Together" and "Gimmie Some Good Times". Lou would never be so unpredictable again!

I dont know where the good folks at Midnight Beat sourced the material for their 1997 "Banging On My Drums" bootleg CD set, but they did a great job. I was more than happy to pay out good money to hear these gems......

Some contemporary pics I've included with the torrent files:

1. Lou with shades and cassette recorder, London (?) April 1977
2. Lou and Rachel on-stage, Bottom Line, New York, May 1977
3. Lou on-stage, Berlin, March/April 1977
4. Lou on-stage (bug-eyed!), Berlin, March/April 1977
5. Lou and Nico backstage, Berlin March/April 1977
6. Lou on-stage, Berlin, March/April 1977

(pics 1 and 2 used without permission - photographers unknown)
(pics 3, 4, 5 and 6 copyright Gordon Lyon)

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SBD

data disk # 615