Berlin

For years now I've been saying that LOU REED should do a live performance of his classic 1973 concept album "Berlin", and now my wish has come true! Its just been announced that Lou will be performing "Berlin" at a four night stint at St. Anne's Warehouse in New York in December. I'm hoping for a DVD!

From the press release:
"A theatrically realized concert version of Reed’s stylized rock paean to life outside the circle, the orchestrations filled with the lyrics of the broken hearted and willfully disabled...the drifting tormented addicts of love formalizing their own downfalls in the outskirts of the divided city."

"Berlin" was originally conceived and recorded as a double-LP, but RCA informed producer BOB EZRIN at the last minute that they would not accept a double, and poor Bob had to hurry up and chop about fourteen minutes of music out of it to make it fit on a single LP. No songs were dropped, just some serious editing. (Lou would get his revenge soon enough, when he got them to release "Metal Machine Music" as a double LP). Surprisingly, and disappointingly, "Berlin" was not restored for the recently remastered CD.

As far as I know, there are no bootlegs of the removed material, but about 58 seconds of it showed up on the original 8-track release. You can download the clip from 8-TRACK HEAVEN here:

8-TRACK HEAVEN - BERLIN