PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Lou Reed Performed with His Metal Machine Trio, at the Blender Theater at Gramercy

All Those Sounds From the Stage: Processed, and Not Always Pretty It was good to have this Lou Reed back: 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 improvised, loud, heavily processed, and some of it ugly enough to make people leave...

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