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Real Life Parallels
Dec. 30th, 2004 01:11 pmscript:
TRACK past hands adjusting levels on a sixteen-track mixer, and on past the faces of visitors seated in the back: Trevor and Girlfriend, Devine and Mandy.
MANDY
(voice over)
But when it all came crashing down, I watched from the sidelines just like everybody else.
Angela Bowie tells a similar real life version of events in Backstage Passes about Lou Reed, for whom she has admiration and sympathy: Poor Lou. [referring to a recent romantic breakup] More grist for that monstrous, superindustrial-strength angst mill of his. Yeah, poor Lou. You hear such stories about him, particularly about his paranoia and his temper, and I have no trouble believing them. I've never seen him lose it completely – that is, I've never seen him physically violent – but I've been there when he's come close. He blew up at David and Ronno in the studio one day during the 'Transformer' sessions; I made a beeline for the door as soon as he exploded, and went shoe-shopping on Carnaby Street for an hour or two.
TRACK past hands adjusting levels on a sixteen-track mixer, and on past the faces of visitors seated in the back: Trevor and Girlfriend, Devine and Mandy.
But when it all came crashing down, I watched from the sidelines just like everybody else.
Angela Bowie tells a similar real life version of events in Backstage Passes about Lou Reed, for whom she has admiration and sympathy: Poor Lou. [referring to a recent romantic breakup] More grist for that monstrous, superindustrial-strength angst mill of his. Yeah, poor Lou. You hear such stories about him, particularly about his paranoia and his temper, and I have no trouble believing them. I've never seen him lose it completely – that is, I've never seen him physically violent – but I've been there when he's come close. He blew up at David and Ronno in the studio one day during the 'Transformer' sessions; I made a beeline for the door as soon as he exploded, and went shoe-shopping on Carnaby Street for an hour or two.
