Literary interlude

"Hey, Lou, you got anything to drink?"

"No...You don't know what you're doing, you haven't done any research. You make it good for the rest of us by taking the crap off the market. Plus you're poor. [I told you he'd stop at nothing. It's this kind of thing that may well be Lou Reed's last tenuous hold on herodom. And I don't mean heroism.] And even if you weren't poor you wouldn't know what you were buying anyway. You wouldn't know how to weigh it, you don't know your metabolism, you don't know your sleeping quotient, you don't know when to eat and not to eat, you don't know about electricity..."

"The main thing is money, power and ego," I said, quoting an old Ralph J. Gleason column for some reason. I was getting a little dazed.

"No, it has to do with electricity and the cell structure..."

—Lester Bangs, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves," Creem, March 1975

Comments

[David Ehrenstein]

Funny but I read "tenuous hold on herodum" as "tenuous hold on heroin."

[Terry McCarty]

Imagining the review Lester could have written of the upcoming Lou-and-Metallica collaboration.