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BEAUTY! 1974 ORIG = ROCK & ROLL ANIMAL = Lou Reed = FIERY DOUBLE GUITAR Velvet

Sold Date: April 30, 2017
Start Date: April 25, 2017
Final Price: $43.00 (USD)
Bid Count: 8
Seller Feedback: 17440
Buyer Feedback: 9

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                       FINAL COLLECTION COPY!
  
     ONE OF THE BEST LIVE ROCK ALBUMS EVER!!   

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                                   LOU REED

                       ROCK & ROLL ANIMAL
                  

                   

               USA - (orange) RCA RECORDS - APL1 0472



 MINT CLEAN... final collection copy - rare to find SO clean!

Yes! a clean first printing ~ and that's saying something ... the dark gatefold cover is near impossible to find without wear = here's a decent survivor with mint clean vinyl !
Original 1974 first pressing in thick gatefold of a killer hardrock album...
Recorded at The Academy of Music in New York City in 1973, this is one of the better live rock albums in existence, next to the WHO's LIVE AT LEEDS, of course. Lou Reed let loose some mightily fine HARD & heavy rockers at this show, and this is more a great guitar LP than perhaps anything else. Lou doesn't even play his own guitar on these cuts, as he didn't need to, he had the powerful double guitar attack of Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner (from Detroit's "FROST") behind him. The album's opening number, "Intro", starts off with some of the best live guitar playing ever to land on any rock album, and once Lou joins in on vocals, as the music moves on to the classic "Sweet Jane", from Lou's Velvet Underground days, it just gets better." Intro/Sweet Jane" is one of those numbers that is rated a ten and should be rated even higher, as the guitars just explode! With that said, you won't be able to forget that the main guitar riff to "Sweet Jane", played here in the same way it was played on the Velvet Underground's studio cut of the song, is really the very same guitar riff first played by Jimmy Page in 1965 on Them's hit single, "Here Comes the Night". For song two, we hear another Velvet Underground tune, the classic, "Heroin". In part thanks to this band, this is another one that sounds better here live than the Velvet's studio version. Many rock fans point to this song as perhaps rock's best written drug song, and on this night Lou once again makes you feel the sting of the lyrics. Another Velvet Underground number that also sounds great here, is the LP's closing tune, "Rock 'n Roll", clocking in at just under ten minutes and like "Heroin", it is full of all kinds of new life played live with this band, more exploding guitars. Then finally there's "White Lighting/White Heat" - the fourth song of the Velvet's found on this LP; it is on par with "Rock 'n Roll" and the others; man, this backing band was just on fire when this concert was recorded!
All said, Rock 'N' Roll Animal rates high and a remains a special listen...


"Intro / Sweet Jane" 7:55
"Héroïne" 13:05
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"White Light / White Heat" 5:15
"Lady Day" 4:00
"Rock 'n' Roll" 10:15




CONDITION: The Cover: The thick gatefold cover is M- SO hard to find in this TOP collection ... this cover is usually always found with shelf wear ... it's 42 years old relic and so hard to find MINT like this...no split seams, no bends, no writing & no delete marks ....VERY collection worthy rarity ...

The Vinyl: Rated: all clean and clear M- ...looks fantastic and plays like it looks! both orange RCA labels are perfect






              

 

       

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!








 

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