{"id":1737,"date":"2009-06-29T09:31:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T16:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/06\/schnabel-and-reed\/"},"modified":"2009-06-29T09:32:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T16:32:53","slug":"schnabel-and-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/29\/schnabel-and-reed\/","title":{"rendered":"Schnabel and Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/daily-transom\/lou-reed-julian-schnabel-book-signing\" target=\"_blank\">from The NY Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/daily-transom\/lou-reed-julian-schnabel-book-signing\" style=\"color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\">Reed It and Weep: Legendary Lou, Velvet Underground Singer, Greets Groupies at Book Signing with Schnabel<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/author\/joe-pompeo\/\" alt=\"Home page of Joe Pompeo\" style=\"color: #2843b5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Pompeo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lou Reed<\/strong>, legendary frontman of the Velvet Underground, and\u00a0<strong>Julian Schnabel<\/strong>, noted artist and filmmaker, were sitting at a rustic wooden table inside the\u00a0<strong>Steven Kasher<\/strong>\u00a0Gallery in Chelsea on the evening of Thursday, June 25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/daily-transom\/lou-reed-julian-schnabel-book-signing\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"from Getty Images\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/files\/article\/berlin.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"212\" height=\"309\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The two longtime friends were there for a book-signing and cocktail party celebrating the forthcoming release of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Berlin\/Lou-Reed\/e\/9780847832125\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #2843b5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\"><em>Berlin<\/em><\/a>, a new collection of photographs taken during Mr. Schnabel\u2019s filming of a tour Mr. Reed did in 2007 to revive his classic 1973 album and rock opera of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>One by one, enamored fans approached the duo with copies of the book and other memorabilia\u2014vintage concert posters, black-and-white photographs, Velvet Underground LPs\u2014that they wanted Mr. Reed, dressed in a saggy black sweater and black jeans, and Mr. Schnabel, wearing loose white pajamas, the top half of which were unbuttoned just enough to reveal a thick swath of chest hair, to autograph with shiny silver markers.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/daily-transom\/lou-reed-julian-schnabel-book-signing\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The NY Observer Reed It and Weep: Legendary Lou, Velvet Underground Singer, Greets Groupies at Book Signing with Schnabel By\u00a0Joe Pompeo Lou Reed, legendary frontman of the Velvet Underground, and\u00a0Julian Schnabel, noted artist and filmmaker, were sitting at a rustic wooden table inside the\u00a0Steven Kasher\u00a0Gallery in Chelsea on the evening of Thursday, June 25. [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","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=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}