by bill@thephilter.com | Jul 29, 2022 | Pre-VU
[Lou Reed] would come into work stoned every day, because he was the king, as I found out, of pills. I could never figure out what he took. Lou was very bright, and he was taking pills that I think doctors didn’t know about. We used to have to pick him up off the... by bill@thephilter.com | Jul 21, 2022 | Pre-VU
And now we are forced to reckon with the fact that some of the stuff Lou Reed was involved in at Pickwick Records was just plain schlock. “This Rose” is followed immediately on Swingin’ Teen Sounds by “Flowers for the Lady,” a leaden piece of dross on which Terry... by bill@thephilter.com | Jul 12, 2022 | Pre-VU
About a foot away from this computer sits a copy of a Pickwick International album called Swingin’ Teen Sounds of Ronnie Dove & Terry Phillips, vintage 1964. I couldn’t find it anywhere online so I looked it up on eBay and was able to score it for $10 plus... by bill@thephilter.com | Jul 3, 2022 | Pre-VU
Pickwick started Lou’s career. It taught him the discipline of showing up.—Don Schupak Achieving artistic success requires a combination of talent, luck, and hard work. The exact proportion is different in every case, but you need some of all of them. And of the...