A Visit with a Mellow Lou Reed

Published: November 13 2009ByBen Fong-Torres
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Lou Reed in Wolfgang’s Vault? Certainly. NYC, Bottom Line, 1977, and it’s one of the most popular shows in the Concert Vault. Lou Reed’s band, The Velvet Underground, as the basis for a new book? Sure: White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day by Day, by Richie Unterberger. Lou Reed in GQ magazine? Uh…yes.

Another Grateful Dead Book? Why?

Published: October 16 2009ByBen Fong-Torres
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It’s not even that I’ve published another Grateful Dead book. While mine – The Grateful Dead Scrapbook – was being produced (in spring), I got an advance copy of Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead by Peter Conners. That makes, oh, about 100 books out on the band. Which begs the question: [...]

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