The makers of "The RCA & Arista Album Collection" have shown an exemplary approach to the re-release of the Lou Reeds work: So the CDs offer a clearly improved sound as well as sound elements, which one did not hear on early vinyl and CD Pressungen. For example in groundbreaking works such as "Transformer", "Berlin", "Metal Machine Music" or "Street Hassle", with which Lewis Allan Reed earned himself a reputation as an unconventional thinker and total denier, and in some cases created sound art so far ahead of its time that nobody understood it at first.
Especially since Reed didn't do anything to explain himself. He was on a confrontational course all his life. And yet he fell in love with a lady of all people who is much more cordial, nice and open than he was himself. And that made him a little more sociable in the time he spent together. Thus Laurie Anderson, the great multimedia avant-gardist of the 70s and 80s, still raves about "her Lou" - even during the interview on a wet and cold October morning on the other side of the Atlantic..
eclipsed: Laurie, where are you right now?
Laurie Anderson: In Southampton, east of New York. I have a few days off in the house Lou and I bought in the late 2000s. And it's raining cats and dogs, really hard.
eclipsed: You were involved with Lou for 21 years. Honestly, how could you last so long with this misanthrope?
Anderson: (laughs) It wasn't him at all. Even though he was famous for being harsh with journalists. He loved writers, talked to them for hours. But he had problems with rock journalists, especially with those who were interested in gossip and gossip and asked questions like "What kind of leather jacket are you wearing? He could get pretty rude then. Which is why he had the reputation of hating all journalists, which definitely wasn't the case.
eclipsed: What fascinated you about Lou?
Anderson: He was an incredibly funny person and extremely intelligent. He has managed to produce things in people that they would never have dared to do themselves, which has literally outgrown them. It's a rare gift. And we had a very deep connection to each other from the beginning. We supported each other in everything, and it was a great partnership. I'm glad I met Lou and got to be with him for so long.
eclipsed: How do you take care of his estate?
Anderson: I'm still looking at everything. And I find his archive quite overwhelming in that I have the responsibility to do something good with it. But first of all, it was as if a 15-storey skyscraper collapsed above me. It's like, "Oh, my God, how am I supposed to handle this?
