{"id":2536,"date":"2010-01-30T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-28T08:19:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:19:30","slug":"metal-machine-music-as-it-was-meant-to-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/metal-machine-music-as-it-was-meant-to-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Machine Music: As It Was Meant to Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lou Reed<\/strong> is reissuing the <em>Metal Machine Music<\/em> album, remastered and in a variety of formats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Metal Machine Music\" alt=\"The Amine B Ring\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/metal.gif\" width=\"314\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">The Amine B Ring<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Details are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loureed.com\/metalmachinemusic\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Lou&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t remembered that it was originally quadrophonic, and the quad mix will be available. There will even be a Blu-ray version. I&#8217;m fine with the CD version I have.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pitchfork<\/em> is also reporting that there will be a European tour where he will be accompanied by a couple of fellow traveling noiseniks. One of them, <strong>Ulrich Krieger<\/strong>, was the man behind the rerecording of the piece done mostly with acoustic instruments and excerpted here, with the master sitting in:<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wv8cJneLJkU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>I will report back if I hear of North American dates, because this is one you wouldn&#8217;t want to miss.<br \/>\n<noscript><a HREF=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Frotoha00-20%2F8002%2Fc7301422-d6fc-4dce-ac3e-eeae37645478&amp;Operation=NoScript\">Amazon.com Widgets<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Reed is reissuing the Metal Machine Music album, remastered and in a variety of formats. The Amine B Ring Details are available at Lou&#8217;s website. I hadn&#8217;t remembered that it was originally quadrophonic, and the quad mix will be available. There will even be a Blu-ray version. I&#8217;m fine with the CD version I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/metal-machine-music-as-it-was-meant-to-s\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}