NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Patti Smith remembers the first time she saw Lou Reed in person. It was 1970 and Reed and the Velvet Underground were performing at the Manhattan club Max's Kansas City. "I was so taken with their music," she said Monday as she spoke of her friend, inspiration and fellow poet-musician, who died Sunday at 71. "I made it my business to study him. His process completely spoke to me, the process of merging poetry with these surf rhythms, this pulsing loop. You could get ...
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Patti Smith remembers the first time she saw Lou Reed in person. It was 1970 and Reed and the Velvet Underground were performing at the Manhattan club Max's Kansas City. "I was so taken with their music," she said Monday as she spoke of her friend, inspiration and fellow poet-musician, who died Sunday at 71. "I made it my business to study him. His process completely spoke to me, the process of merging poetry with these surf rhythms, this pulsing loop. You could get ...
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