Legendary 1974 Live Album On Vinyl LP!
Features Classic Solo Renditions Of Songs By The Velvet Underground!
Remastered Under Lou Reed's Direct Personal Supervision!
Rock n Roll Animal is a live album by Lou Reed, released by RCA Records in 1974. In its original form, it features five songs, four of which are Velvet Underground songs. The musicians were Pentti Glan (drums) and Prakash John (bass), Ray Colcord (keyboards), and Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter on guitars. (The two guitarists would later form the basis of the second Alice Cooper band, beginning on Welcome to My Nightmare, which also features Glan and John.)
The album was recorded live on December 21, 1973, at Howard Stein's Academy of Music in New York City. A sleeper hit, it peaked at #45 on the Billboard album chart during a twenty-eight week stay before earning Reed's first RIAA gold certification in 1978.
"In 1974, after the commercial disaster of his album Berlin, Lou Reed needed a hit, and Rock N' Roll Animal was a rare display of commercial acumen on his part, just the right album at just the right time. Recorded in concert with Reed's crack road band at the peak of their form, Rock N' Roll Animal offered a set of his most anthemic songs (most dating from his days with the Velvet Underground) in arrangements that presented his lean, effective melodies and street-level lyrics in their most user-friendly form (or at least as user friendly as an album with a song called 'Heroin' can get). Early-'70s arena rock bombast is often the order of the day, but guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter use their six-string muscle to lift these songs up, not weigh them down, and with Reed's passionate but controlled vocals riding over the top, 'Sweet Jane,' 'White Light/White Heat,' and 'Rock 'n' Roll' finally sound like the radio hits they always should have been. Reed would rarely sound this commercial again, but Rock N' Roll Animal proves he could please a crowd when he had to." - AllMusic
Features:
Vinyl LP
Remastered under Lou Reed's direct personal supervision
Gatefold jacket
Recorded Live at Howard Stein's Academy of Music, N.Y.C.
Selections:
Side A:
1. Intro/Sweet Jane
2. Heroin
Side B:
1. White Light/White Heat
2. Lady Day
3. Rock 'n' Roll
Features Classic Solo Renditions Of Songs By The Velvet Underground!
Remastered Under Lou Reed's Direct Personal Supervision!
Rock n Roll Animal is a live album by Lou Reed, released by RCA Records in 1974. In its original form, it features five songs, four of which are Velvet Underground songs. The musicians were Pentti Glan (drums) and Prakash John (bass), Ray Colcord (keyboards), and Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter on guitars. (The two guitarists would later form the basis of the second Alice Cooper band, beginning on Welcome to My Nightmare, which also features Glan and John.)
The album was recorded live on December 21, 1973, at Howard Stein's Academy of Music in New York City. A sleeper hit, it peaked at #45 on the Billboard album chart during a twenty-eight week stay before earning Reed's first RIAA gold certification in 1978.
"In 1974, after the commercial disaster of his album Berlin, Lou Reed needed a hit, and Rock N' Roll Animal was a rare display of commercial acumen on his part, just the right album at just the right time. Recorded in concert with Reed's crack road band at the peak of their form, Rock N' Roll Animal offered a set of his most anthemic songs (most dating from his days with the Velvet Underground) in arrangements that presented his lean, effective melodies and street-level lyrics in their most user-friendly form (or at least as user friendly as an album with a song called 'Heroin' can get). Early-'70s arena rock bombast is often the order of the day, but guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter use their six-string muscle to lift these songs up, not weigh them down, and with Reed's passionate but controlled vocals riding over the top, 'Sweet Jane,' 'White Light/White Heat,' and 'Rock 'n' Roll' finally sound like the radio hits they always should have been. Reed would rarely sound this commercial again, but Rock N' Roll Animal proves he could please a crowd when he had to." - AllMusic
Features:
Vinyl LP
Remastered under Lou Reed's direct personal supervision
Gatefold jacket
Recorded Live at Howard Stein's Academy of Music, N.Y.C.
Selections:
Side A:
1. Intro/Sweet Jane
2. Heroin
Side B:
1. White Light/White Heat
2. Lady Day
3. Rock 'n' Roll
