Lou Reed & Moby Perform "Walk On The Wild Side"
At different times and for different reasons, everybody in Austin seemed to be talking about Lou Reed and Moby this year: It was Lou's year to be honored with keynote speaker status, and the FADER Fort hosted its own version of a tribute, calling Mark Kozelek, My Morning Jacket, Yo La Tengo, and others to cover Lou's tunes to free-liquor fed, dinner-skipping crowd. As for Moby, well like we said, he's newly resurgent, our DJ friends' consensus pick for Most Improved Player.
Anyway about that Lou Reed tribute: We brought you the pics a few days ago, but now the FADER folks have upped Lou's only performance: fittingly, a duet with fellow South By buzz boy Moby on one of those Reed tunes every single person in the audience was sure to know.
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Posted at 10:22 AM in Video
Tags: Lou Reed | Moby | SXSW
Sure it was free, but it was also the dullest 'performance' I saw all week. After sitting through a few hours of some very fine and equally torturous remakes, this climax was REALLY disappointing.
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couldn't disagree more. the entire "lou reed tribute" show was amazing. amazing bands doing amazing songs. lou reed's addition to the lineup only made things more memorable. if i had to complain -- and it's hard to, i would have liked to have seen lou play with thurston moore, not moby.
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Can I just not hear it or is the bass line that we all know and love absent?
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