Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson & John Zorn booed in Montreal

lolz

For once, the Québécois have it right. These two irrelevant twits need to hang it up and stop. And John Zorn is overrated musical wankery. Tres bien to those Montrealers who booed these jokers.

obviously canadians have no taste.

Judging from that short YouTube clip, I don't see what was so offensive about the Lou Reed trio. Isn't this the kind of music one would expect at a multiday, multivenue jazz festival?

this is the kind of lou reed i'd rather see

@10:14 - Lou Reed irrelevant?!? Zorn overrated??! Typical vapid comment by a know-it-all BV d-bag!

what the hell were they expecting from a trio of these 3?

seriously, who expected "Walk on the Wild Side" at a Jazz Fest?

It's kind of nice to know that people can even be moved that much anymore (in this case to boo, heckle and walk out); that people can be that passionate about music. Pablo Picasso and Erik Satie started a riot once because the audience was so offended by their sounds. And John Cage was no stranger to this kind of reaction.

That said, I could never see myself booing or heckling someone performing music for me. Seems like a nasty, ignorant thing to do. I would just leave if I thought it was so unbearable.

Perhaps this is what Nickleback concerts are like?

Why do artists feel as though they can express themselves in the 'artistic freedom bullshit? Just stick to what you know - Lou Reed's concept albums are absolute garbage

John Zorn "wankery". You tapped that ass right with yo head. Zorn licks the dick and so does Reed, lol.

the trio should have known better than to experiment while so far from civilization

Lou Reed, John Zorn and Dennis Kucinich? Weirdest trio ever. I don't blame those people.

I dig the clip... crazy people walked out. Should jazz people know about Zorn already to know if they don't like it to not go see him?

~Dan

10:14- The music you like is better than the music I like. I guess I'll stick with the Velvet Underground....Have your Grizzly Bears and Twin Sisters.

Tickets were something like 100$. They played 4 songs, 12 minutes each.

Going to see Reed with Zorn and expecting to hear Sweet Jane...EPIC FAIL!

Never been a big of the avant-garde in anything, but these people booing are totally clueless, and so is 10:29 AM. No one is forcing you to listen to stuff you don't like.

twin sister sounds like fucking elevator music.

some of the comments are nothing short of awesome. kids, go listen to vampire weekend or grizzly bear. zorn, as well as the company he kept that night, are and intrinsic part of new york city music culture. if you don't get it or don't enjoy it, fine. but to write it off with some of those comments sadly displays your lack of knowledge and interest in only keeping up with whatever shit pitchfork tells you to listen to. brooklyn vegan, keep up the good work in putting out diverse music news. it's not all about four fucking four beats.

1046- must feel good to feel like you made "the right choice"

4/4 is so fucking over brah. 4/5 is where it's at

fuckin canadians

The Lou Reed, John Zorn, Laurie Anderson record is the worst of all time. A 45 minute unlistenable version of Dorita. Just a bunch of noise called art. So is a 2 year old banging on a piano. They deserved to be booed, not because Lou should have catered to the audience, but because that music sucks bigtime. Zorn is a total fraud. Again Lou taking the easy road.

I was at the Reed/Anderson/Zorn improv at the Stone. It was good.

It was billed as "improv." What do you expect?

"pollock looks like my 2 year old's fingerpainting"

I love New York, but people like Anon @ 10:32 are everything that is wrong with New York.

The Lou Reed Trio > Dirty Projectors

I was at that show. Some people booed, some people walked out. Some of the booers were sponsors from a large Canadian bank who got into the show for free. Some expected that John Zorn was going to play Wlak on the Wild Side. More than one-half of the audience loved the show and gave it a standing ovation.

I think @10:15 makes sense based on that clip. I wouldn't go see Laurie and Lou expecting to hear something "linear" myself.

glad a crowd finally had the ballz to boo this bullshit.

it's lou reed...he can do whatever the fuck he wants. people can boo and heckle, but it doesn't change the fact that he wrote white light/white heat.

for better or worse laurie anderson is what tenured music professors jerk off to.

"but to write it off with some of those comments sadly displays your lack of knowledge and interest in only keeping up with whatever shit pitchfork tells you to listen to."

Hate to say it but Laurie Anderson and John Zorn get sevens and eights on Pitchfork, and Lou Reed is Lou Reed. Try again.

Ce spectacle a été une perte de temps. Ce joueur saxaphone sonnait comme il jouait un Zuzuzela.

The above clip wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. Too short to make the call.

However, Laurie Anderson is a hack. Reed and Zorn can improvise, but she does not have the talent.

I saw Jim O'Rourke at Tonic years ago. He also did a set of noise, when I was hoping to hear his more melodic stuff. I thought it sucked, but I just left. I didn't raise a stink or ask for my money back.

If it wasn't for VU and their influences, the dude from Beach Fossils would've never had the opportunity to throw his bass into the river. If you want to blame Lou Reed for something, blame him for that!

John Zorn wears those same pants every day.

I love noise. I love noise so much I can't believe I get it for free everyday in my god forsaken city. I love disturbing noise so much I am more than willing to pay to see some saxophonist make sounds my anus makes when I'm on the toliet. Fuck Lou Reed, Long Live Emerson, Lake and Palmer!!!Mothafuckas!

Fuck Montreal. Probably the most interesting thing that happened to that city in a month.

^^^^aside from the maple syrup shortage.

Walking in to Reed?anderson/Zorn show at a Jazz event and expecting to hear Walk On The WIld SIde shows how stupid and clueless some people are. There's a lot of idiots out there that make uninformed decisions to go se something based solely on their one non-informedand unrealistic understanding of what everything in life should/will be. If you knew anything at all about any of these three performers separately much less together as an act, you would never in a million years except too hear Sweet Jane at this particular gig.

All you have to do is do some research on the performer, venue, collaboration, etc to know what to expect. Some morons who have never seen Reed before and don't follow his career, or Anderson's career, and don't even know who Zorn is, just see the name Lou Reed listed and connect the name with the songs they hear on he radio and make a blanket assumption that this is what they will get.... radio friendly classic rock Lou.

People you need to do your homework. It's not too difficult to tell what your getting yourself into with the smallest amount of investigation.

Montreal is wicked mothfuckas, cut the shit nerd cunts.

did lou get inspiration from ledger's "joker" before taking this interview? (or perhaps he just ate)

You don't charge $100 if you're not going to play the hits. Is Gene Simmons the only guy who gets this? People pay that kind of cash to see Lou shake his boney ass and play some fuckin' sweet tunes. Don't rip the fans like that in these economic times.

Citi is over $4.

Hating on Montreal is very tired.

Comparing Lou Reed to Gene Simmons is pretty hilarious.

Now Gene Simmons, Laurie Anderson and John Zorn is a trio I'd pay $100 to see.

Paul Stanley will be performing a freeform art- Jazz avant- fusion session tonight in NYC.. Venue tba. Expect to hear Rock n Roll All NIite (And party every day)

Say what you want about Gene Simmons, at least knows he isn't a poet

@ 11:52 - music is only about $$$ and playing the hits to a crowd of morons...such as yourself!

New York's alright if you like saxophones.

John Zorn and Mike Patton both suck.

I had the displeasure of seeing these two hacks together. Beatboxing over screeching
sax for an hour.

Just announced: Ace Frehley, Peter Criss and Yoko Ono at the Met.

Noise Art Expo 2010. Tickets $100

I can't wait to hear Detroit Rock City and I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Gene Simmons Poetry reading @ Housing Works Saturday

Tickets $150

Lou Reed probably wants to fuck Gene Simmons. Now I think we can all agree on that.

@11:17 - LOL

Peter Criss looks like Yoko Ono. Maybe Asians and cats look a like.

What famous men has Lou Reed blown in his life? Besides Warhol cause he's a hack. You think he blew Jimbo when he was visiting the factory?

Citi is at 4.02. Get in on this shit. We need more minorites investing in stocks. C'mon brothas get your portfolios in order.

Have you ever seen Peter Criss without his cat makeup? Have you ever seen Yoko with the Cat makeup? Has anyone ever seen Yoko and Peter together at the same time in the same room? Hmmmmmmm You may be on to something here

I love how this thread has evolved (de-volved?} from a discussion of Lou Reed. Laurie Anderson and John Zorn, to a posting on Kiss members. classic!

yeah these are the same people who would have booed the velvet underground in the 60's cause it wasn't what they were use to hearing.

Fuck Lou Weed, buy stocks niggas. Stocks is the new crack. Stocks is the new old english. Buy some Citi. Get some financials in yo portfolios brothas!!

Here's a question. Who is a better technical musician Lou Reed or Gene Simmons? Seriously.

I'm sort of happy folks from Montreal embarrassed themselves like this.

I like Lou more but Gene is a great bassist. I mean he spits up blood and fire. That's pretty amazing technically.

Who is Lou Reed? Is he a musician of some kind?

Here's a better question: Who's uglier Gene or Lou?

who's technically a better drummer... Mo Tucker or Peter Criss?

Is John Cale a better Violin player than Ace Freheley?

doo, doo doo, doo doo, doo, doo doo

10:51 is Marc Ribot

ha! i'm 10:51, and i am most certainly not marc ribot. but i do love to listen to him in whatever capacity he's playing, be it with zorn, tricky, robert plant, tom waits, etc.

i agree the above comment. it doesn't take too much research to figure out what these three are up to. lou has certainly experimented with, er, more experimental, for lack of a better word, sides of music. and laurie and zorn, that's the base of their careers. and seriously, what shocks me even more is that it was at that particular festival! zorn has played there many times, and that festival is fucking based on noise and things less than cohesive. what on earth did they expect.

and oh, the beach fossil comment was hilarious. i'd like to hear lou's comment on that fucking asshole's action of polluting the waters with his instrument. fucker.

I remember the first time I heard Lou Reed. It was back in the summer of 2007 and I was like, "Damn, this cat's on some next level sh!t."

Emerson, Lake and Palmer would have blown these guys off the stage. Especially a delicate like Reed.

lou got booed at lolla last year too. deserved it. godawful

this is why i hate the world. if half the world would kill themselves, i would be happy.

Is John Zorn wearing sandals with socks?! Jesus christ what a fucking creep.

it's times like these, i'm so happy that i saw wang chung at bb king's the other night.

Jesus, people. That Montreal performance clip isn't weird at all. I honestly was expecting some pure f-you cacophony. Turns out it was pretty mellow, scale-y, purposeful and textured.

Hearing it was like picking up the milk jug, thinking it's gonna be heavy, but it's empty and your arm kinda jolts upward. Too funny.

Lou Polluted the water himself when he walked into it at the Mermaid Parade. He made the ocean grumpy.

Even when Lou Reed plays a rock set these days, it is terrible. I walked out of his Lollapalooza set.

since when did audiences have the right to bully artists into playing only what they want them to? it's fucking ridiculous...

lou made some great rock and roll music, he created original mind blowing tunes... i got to see the velvet underground many years ago... lou's old, he's tired of playing those songs, you can't go to a show and expect that edge, that power anymore... don't buy a ticket thinking he's gonna play heroin... it's over...

It isn't the sound they made then that I find sad, it is the sound they after; they brought this upon themselves and have no one but themselves to blame -- in their wistful youth, Anderson and Reed both heavily marketed product brands called "Laurie Anderson" and "Lou Reed" and they plastered those brands so ubiquitously across the western world that people actually began to believe they had value. Remember, it was Andy Warhol who 'made' the 'animal' we came to call Lou Reed, and he went along with it, completely, whole-heartedly, he entered the idol-making machine thinking he had it made.

But what happened when Coca Cola tried to change their beverage? You all remember that. Brand loyalty is a double-edged sword. These pop stars thought they were so clever turning art and culture into pop brands to milk followers, and now they complain that they are now locked in guilded cages??? Well excuse me, but I believe we've been hearing that folk tale for some centuries now, and I cannot believe anyone as supposedly cultured and well-read as either of these two.

If they really cared about the music first, they could have released it under another branding, with a different label on the package. Then when people got there and realized "OMG that's LOU REED!!!" who knows, maybe their idol-worshipping teenybop fans might have started acting their 50-something ages a bit, like the John and Yoko fans did when those two started playing with Ornette Coleman :)

Just because an entity called Lou Reed can still refer to itself as such, none of the physical matter that constituted said entity is still retained from the being it was 40+ years ago.
Likewise, the more subtle matter (spirit, life force, energy, etc.) of this being is not likely to remain in large part similar to its former self.
And it is this soul-propulsion that was most responsible for the artistic creations of human Lou.
That is to say, you ain't hearing "Venus in Furs" no more 'cause Lou done lost it.

Dear 3:01--
Please include more "meh" and references to Daft Punk set times in your future postings.
Thanks.

What's the best emerson, lake, and palmer song

3:46, you should listen to Tarkus (the whole album)

I would do very naughty things to Gene Simmons daughter

3:01 pm: Yes possibly the trio could have given themselves a name for branding purposes that would have set them apart from their collective former output. But then again, the show was not billed as a Lou Reed show, or a Laurie Anderson show or a John Zorn show. It was billed as the three of them, and anyone with a brain should have been able to figure out that when different musicians from different styles of music play together you are not going to get a show that is similar to what any of then would necessarily do separately. And further, why shouldn't a performer play under his or her own name when trying out different genres and/or playing styles different from what they were famous for?

Just because people associate Lou Reed with one form of music doesn't mean if he switches genres he has to switch names. That;s a silly suggestion and implies that whatever genre and form of art that an artist is doing when they are at their most famous and well known and admired is the only form of art they can continue to make under their own birth name because to do otherwise would suggest dishonest marketing? Ridiculous.

Way too much artsy here. Let's get back to the classics.

The Tarkus? I'd hit it.

Jim Zorn > John Zorn

I was at the show. While some clip can be carefully selected to make the performance to be a lot more than it was ... it was crap. It was more like tree nut cases screaming at pigeons than music.

The show was good, I enjoyed it. Sure it was uneven, but what else do you expect from an improv, experimental performance?

All those whining idiots probably didn't even read the description of the show in the program, or realize it was billed as a trio. I'm sure that's why they were dumbfounded.

Like that guy in the (quiet) lobby before the show who kept screaming "LOU REEEEEED!! YEAAAAHHHHHHH!!! LET'S DO THIS!!!!"

TARKUS!!! YEAH!!! LET'S DO THIS!!!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3019/2739099988_663b08a655.jpg

Here's an article about the psychology of audience expectations in specific regard to the Anderson/Reed/Zorn show:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/127952-lou-reed-jason-robert-brown-need-more-discussion/

Someone should've gotten an axe and chopped those cables!

yea, where has Cale been the last several years?

^ Do the Google.

all that aside, Lou is still playing a G chord.

I like Laurie Anderson playing a tapebow violin, wearing a ski mask and handing out Christmas presents to the audience. I like Lou Reed trundling out the Berlin album. I don't know how I like John Zorn, if indeed I like him at all. Knowing how I like these people, I don't know if I'd pay to see them do a jazz improv, or if I did, I'd realize it's probably not going to be their usual fare and I'd adjust my expectations thusly. Is that weird of me?

the jazz fest was packed with american tourists in those funny baseball hats. thanks for the money, bros!

I was there and this topic is kind of blown out of proportion. I wasn't sure if it was a boo or a lou yell. No big deal, John told them where to go and then moved on. Everyone around me seemed entertained. The show was great. Well worth the cost of tickets travel and a night at a hotel.

Fact:
No Montrealer ever willingly attends an event at Jazzfest. We endure it. We endure YOU.

I would happily pay $200 to watch Laurie Anderson read the phone book, and Lou Reed can do whatever the hell he wants behind her. Not so big on John Zorn, but he's welcome.

Anyone who would boo Laurie Anderson or Lou Reed is utterly beneath contempt, and I'm ashamed to discover that I actually share the planet with such grotesque idiots.