The new Honor Titus-Julian Casablancas interview will hopefully hit the web later today, but for now, here’s Julian speaking about Lou Reed in an article posted on NME’s website.
“It was so fucking sad when Lou died. I was fucking genuinely upset. He’s everything – the reason I started the label, music… I just felt the injustice, of how amazing he was.”
“But he wasn’t really mainstream,” he added. “I think he may have done too many drugs, to be honest. But also the live thing – I was thinking that what I liked about him is that he didn’t try to make it all sound the same. There was a disconnect. I also think that’s why he didn’t get a sense of how loved he was. I mean, he must have had some idea, he must have heard people talking about Bob Dylan and him, but he wasn’t mainstream really. But for me he’s on the Mount Rushmore of rad dudes.”
Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/julian-casablancas/76334?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=strokes&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=kanye#4wlY0YR3sHffCi0f.99
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