Boing Boing Staging

The FUGS First Rehearsal and Lou Reed's Earliest Known Recording of 'Heroin'

Lou Reed writes Heroin by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall

From John Wilcock, New York Years


Read: Death and Taxes on Lou Reed’s Heroin Envelope | (Original Facebook post)
and "Pre-VU Lou" by Michael Sandlin

LISTEN: WFMU‘s Ted Barron recently played the very uncommon 1965 Pickwick demo of Heroin. Hear it at this link. | (Link to the full playlist)

ALTERNATE EARLY VERSIONS:
Reed also recorded other alternate versions with John Cale. This Youtube clip collects most of these; all are very different than the Pickwick recording linked above.

1966 Live Recording of Heroin:

FUGS SUPPLEMENTS:
There are three Fugs songs in this week’s Wilcock comic. Enjoy all three here:

For more on Ed Sanders’ magazine Fuck You, A Magazine For the Arts, see this overview from Boo-Hooray, (along with this interview), and this complete cover archive from the William S Burroughs site Reality Studio.

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