Saturday, January 17, 2009

Heroin





Tonight I decided to do Lou Reed's anthem to opiate abuse. Having known about 500 junkies in my life and ingested just enough poppy tea to get a good idea of the attraction (think Ray Charles), this song has always hit deep for me. I think I nailed it. The first time I listened to the playback I had tears running down my face. But then, a few days ago I was crying over Charlotte's Web too. I'm just like that these days. Recorded in an eleven and a half minute trance at my kitchen table into my laptop, with a live performance effect added to give it that appropriately echoey feel.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your "Heroin" IMEEM on Apesmas is playing through the complete 11 min !!

DiAnne said...

nice .. never used a needle and never will but a guy loaned me the VU album when I was 16 and this song has been running thru my mind for 42 years