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I did but I was hoping someone who had more to say on the subject would post.

RIP Mr Reed, thanks for the music.

Yes I did, really wasn't my scene

I had just been listening to Velvet Underground & Nico in the car on Friday afternoon, and was thinking how well it has held up over 46 years. To say it was a "seminal" record is an understatement; so much of what rock and roll has become since then can be traced directly to the Velvet Underground, and most to that album in particular. Brian Eno once said that VU & Nico may have only sold 30,000 copies, but everyone who bought it started a band.

I was too young to have known the Velvets first, but I was just achieving my own rock-n-roll consciousness at the very moment both Lou Reed and Transformer were released. And I was hooked. I remember when Rock and Roll Animal came out, my friends and I literally wore it out on the turntable. I think that more than anyone, Lou Reed made rock music a genuine art form, making records that could rival any other work as "serious art."

What I don't understand is how, over such a long career and within such easy reach, I managed to see him perform live only once, in the early 1980s, when he was playing with Robert Quine. I truly regret not making more of an effort.

My first thought was that it would be hard to imagine a world without Lou Reed. But the truth is that we will always have Lou Reed, and for that I am grateful.

There ya go CP

I have read other snipits that say about the same

How I will always remember him: