{"id":1557,"date":"2009-04-27T23:14:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T06:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/04\/middling-metal-machine-my-inharmonious-ass\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T18:20:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T01:20:38","slug":"middling-metal-machine-my-inharmonious-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/27\/middling-metal-machine-my-inharmonious-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Middling&#8221; Metal Machine My Inharmonious Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/25\/arts\/music\/25reed.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The NY Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: normal; font-size: 24px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">All Those Sounds From the Stage: Processed, and Not Always Pretty<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 1px; margin-top: 12px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; margin-bottom: 5px; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial\" id=\"wideImage\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2009\/04\/25\/arts\/Lou-Reed.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 450px; text-align: right; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; color: #909090; margin-bottom: 3px\" class=\"credit\">Chad Batka for The New York Times<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; line-height: 13px; color: #666666; font-size: 11px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Lou Reed performed with his group, Metal Machine Trio, at the Blender Theater at Gramercy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: normal; font-size: 12px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><nyt_byline type=\" \" version=\"1.0\"><\/nyt_byline><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal\" class=\"byline\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/ben_ratliff\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: none\" title=\"More Articles by Ben Ratliff\">BEN RATLIFF<\/a>,\u00a0Published: April 24, 2009<\/p>\n<p>It was good to have this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/lou_reed\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\" title=\"More articles about Lou Reed.\">Lou Reed<\/a>\u00a0back: not an American Master nor a Legend of Rock, but a barking, brooding, beneficial irritant. On Thursday night at the Blender Theater at Gramercy, onstage between Sarth Calhoun and Ulrich Krieger, two much younger musicians, he was making noise \u2014 improvised, loud, heavily processed, and some of it ugly enough to make people leave.<\/p>\n<p>Not many, though. There were extra-musical reasons to stay put. An emotional reason: he\u2019s Lou Reed, poet of New York City, et cetera. And a big intellectual reason: Mr. Reed calls this group Metal Machine Trio, which refers to a notorious double-LP he made in 1975. \u201cMetal Machine Music\u201d is a kind of personality test. Many average listeners, even average Lou Reed fans, heard it as long-winded, discordant feedback.<\/p>\n<p>You couldn\u2019t really rely on Mr. Reed to tell you how to feel about it, either. He\u2019d had a hit record the year before \u2014 \u201cSally Can\u2019t Dance\u201d \u2014 which he didn\u2019t seem to love. He seemed to propose \u201cMetal Machine Music\u201d as corrective honesty, almost clinical, as if he\u2019d hooked up a mixing board directly to his neurons. \u201cNo one I know has listened to it all the way through including myself,\u201d he wrote in the record\u2019s liner notes. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, but not especially, if it turns you off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/25\/arts\/music\/25reed.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The NY Times All Those Sounds From the Stage: Processed, and Not Always Pretty Chad Batka for The New York Times Lou Reed performed with his group, Metal Machine Trio, at the Blender Theater at Gramercy. By\u00a0BEN RATLIFF,\u00a0Published: April 24, 2009 It was good to have this\u00a0Lou Reed\u00a0back: not an American Master nor a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}