Sometime in 1984 or 1985, the screenwriter/director Cameron Crowe interviewed Bob Dylan for a booklet that was later included in the Biograph CD box set. In the interview, Bob Dylan included Lou Reed on a list of solo artists he admired:
Some guys got it down—Leonard Cohen, Paul Brady, Lou Reed, secret heroes—John Prine, David Allen Coe, Tom Waits. I listen more to that kind of stuff than whatever is popular at the moment, they’re not just witchdoctoring up the planet, they don’t have barriers…
Q: Do you think there are preconceived ideas about certain voices like yours and Leonard Cohen’s and Lou Reed’s?
A: I think Leonard’s voice is easily understood because his vocal range is low and straightforward (linear). Lou has his own way of singing and speaking at the same time. Recording them shouldn’t be a problem.
Andy Warhol’s short films featuring Bob Dylan and Lou Reed are to be shown on the big screens of New York City’s Times Square every night throughout the month of May.
The legendary artist’s silent movies are to be projected on electronic billboards high above the Big Apple and screened in the three minutes leading up to 12 a.m. as part of an art series called “Midnight Moment.”
The pieces, which were filmed in the 1960s, feature Dylan and Reed, as well as poet Allen Ginsberg and actress/model Edie Sedgwick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avme-hIBncI
Andy Warhol, in POPism, describes seeing Dylan at some parties and poetry readings in Manhattan. And in the WBAI interview, Dylan mentions that he likes the FUGS, who were also part of the Village art scene. (The Fugs memebers, the VU, and Allen Ginsberg all contributed to the East Village Other Electronic Newspaper of 1965). Plus Ed Sanders of the Fugs also published a poetry magazine before starting the Fugs. Ginsberg contributed to the mag, as did many of the Beat poets. I don’t know if Dylan ever did.
Anyway, back to the VU. Lou studied poetry briefly at Syracuse under Delmore Schwazrtz. But he obviously also liked rock and roll and he liked Dylan enough to steal the line “I’ve got fever in my pockets, down to my shoes” for the song “Guess I’m Falling In Love” (finally released with words on the VU MCMXCIII live recordings, and also recorded in 1988 or so by Maureen Tucker, and also bootlegged from a 1967 performance). So I think we can say that Lou admired Dylan’s writing.
Lou Reed Described Bob Dylan as a ‘Pretentious Kike’
I loved his music, but you have to go where the story goes,” Sounes told The Daily Beast. “The obituaries were a bit too kind, he was really a very unpleasant man. A monster really; I think truly the word monster is applicable.”
The genius behind one of the greatest albums of the sixties was unstable, egotistical, misogynistic, violent, and selfish, according to some of those who knew him best.
He Was Very Smart. Like, Too Smart
“I remember we played something off Bob Dylan’s Tempest record, and Lou was, Oh this is great. Then three minutes in it would be, Is the instrumentation gonna change? Can we fade this out? Lou was like, Of course the lyrics are amazing but Bob can do this in his sleep. He’s not trying. That’s what it always came down to: are they trying?”
Lou Reed talks about the third side of the street.
READ MORE AT
https://www.quora.com/Did-Bob-Dylan-ever-talk-about-Lou-Reed
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lou-reed-described-bob-dylan-as-a-pretentious-kike
https://expectingrain.com/dok/who/v/velvetunderground.html
https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/24626/lou-reed-smart-like-smart
https://www.expectingrain.com/discussions/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=85603
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