{"id":17772,"date":"2013-02-18T23:31:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T04:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17772"},"modified":"2013-02-18T23:31:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T04:31:34","slug":"lou-reed-as-his-music-was-meant-to-sound-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lou-reed-as-his-music-was-meant-to-sound-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou Reed&#8230;As His Music Was Meant to Sound!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/loureedtheway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17773\" alt=\"loureedtheway\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/loureedtheway-185x300.jpg\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/loureedtheway-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/loureedtheway.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been making my way through <strong>Neil Young<\/strong>&#8216;s memoir, <em>Waging Heavy Peace<\/em>. It&#8217;s rambling and slow going but not without its charms. Every 10 pages Young turns from the story of his life and music making to what I gather are his main concerns: toy trains, energy-efficient old cars, and some new audio technology that will enable drivers of these green behemoth vehicles to listen to Lou Reed&#8217;s latest music <em>as it was meant to sound<\/em>. Shoot, not even Lou will know how his music is actually meant to sound until he rides around in Neil&#8217;s 140-acre ranch in his souped-up 1952 convertible Cadillac with his high-tech audio delivery device cranked to the high heavens.<\/p>\n<p>I love how Young and Reed go on at great lengths about their high-minded audiophile dreams when their legacy has been established with some of the most primitive-sounding records to appear on a major label. <strong>T-Bone Burnett<\/strong> is also working on some mind-blowing audio technology that will allow his purposely pristine-yet-primitive, &#8220;pure&#8221; productions to sound as if they are being broadcast directly from Plato&#8217;s Cave. At least Burnett&#8217;s recordings actually sound about as accomplished as he would like them to sound, even on our inferior delivery devices.<\/p>\n<p>Someday I expect to run across an old <strong>Chuck Berry<\/strong> interview, in which he bemoans the state of late-1950s recording and playback technology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been making my way through Neil Young&#8216;s memoir, Waging Heavy Peace. It&#8217;s rambling and slow going but not without its charms. Every 10 pages Young turns from the story of his life and music making to what I gather are his main concerns: toy trains, energy-efficient old cars, and some new audio technology that <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lou-reed-as-his-music-was-meant-to-sound-30\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[130,68,225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}