Blake Ian

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Lou Reed, Transformer

Oct 29, 2013·45 visitors

Lee Diamond

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Oct 29, 2013

Songwriters, Lee Diamond and Blake Ian discuss the work of the late Lou Reed, and the tremendous influence it had on both of them.

Blake Ian · 4:00 AM

Aloha Mr Hand!

Lee Diamond · 4:00 AM

hey man!

Lee Diamond · 4:00 AM

I jsut got home from Brooklyn

Lee Diamond · 4:00 AM

it's like a national day of mourning in Williamsburg

Lee Diamond · 4:01 AM

every single bar I walked into was playing White Light White Heat

Blake Ian · 4:01 AM

Yeah BK must be a crazy scene this week

Blake Ian · 4:01 AM

So have you ever listened to Lou Reed's music?

Lee Diamond · 4:02 AM

haha

Lee Diamond · 4:02 AM

Have I?

Lee Diamond · 4:02 AM

I've been playing his records, vinyl

Blake Ian · 4:02 AM

: P

Lee Diamond · 4:02 AM

that I bought in High School!

Lee Diamond · 4:02 AM

haunting stuff to hear now

Blake Ian · 4:03 AM

yeah its always strange that first week or two when an artist dies...there is this sudden transition of listening to someone who isn't on this earth anymore

Lee Diamond · 4:03 AM

exactly

Blake Ian · 4:03 AM

I remember that feeling when Elliott died

Lee Diamond · 4:03 AM

we live in a Lou Reed afterworld :(

Lee Diamond · 4:04 AM

me too

Blake Ian · 4:04 AM

Post Reedian

Lee Diamond · 4:04 AM

I never got to see him live

Lee Diamond · 4:04 AM

Now I'll regret that

Lee Diamond · 4:04 AM

Have you?

Blake Ian · 4:04 AM

Lou or Eliott??

Lee Diamond · 4:05 AM

Lou

Blake Ian · 4:05 AM

NO! I thought about that yesterday actually

Lee Diamond · 4:05 AM

it sucks

Lee Diamond · 4:06 AM

There will be no true Velvet Underground reunion ever again

Lee Diamond · 4:06 AM

Doug Yule is alive and well I think

Blake Ian · 4:06 AM

What's the first VU song you learned to play ?

Lee Diamond · 4:06 AM

Maybe the "Squeeze" album will make a comeback

Lee Diamond · 4:06 AM

Lee Diamond · 4:07 AM

it was Sweet Jane, Rock and Roll after

Lee Diamond · 4:07 AM

Rock and Roll was cool, cause it's in some weird tuning, every string is tuned to the same note

Lee Diamond · 4:08 AM

Lou Reed was a profound influence on me. changed the way I write songs for sure

Blake Ian · 4:08 AM

mine was Pale Blue Eyes

Lee Diamond · 4:08 AM

I love that song

Lee Diamond · 4:08 AM

that whole album, self titled, amazing,

Lee Diamond · 4:08 AM

perhaps, their best.

Blake Ian · 4:09 AM

Candy Says was the song that first made me say "holy shit these guys are awesome"

Lee Diamond · 4:09 AM

I know what you mean.

Blake Ian · 4:09 AM

listening in cutler's car, very stoned

Lee Diamond · 4:09 AM

I was in the car with you, I recall

Blake Ian · 4:09 AM

it was such a beautiful sound

Lee Diamond · 4:10 AM

indeed

Blake Ian · 4:10 AM

hahah

Blake Ian · 4:10 AM

nah this was like 95

Lee Diamond · 4:10 AM

That album still sounds fresh when I put it on

Blake Ian · 4:10 AM

didn't know ya just yet... but Im sure there were many other Candy Says stoned listens

Lee Diamond · 4:10 AM

never got old

Blake Ian · 4:11 AM

hahah one time a couple of chicks we hung out with a lot in high school freaked out listening to this one track when they were high

Blake Ian · 4:11 AM

shit whats the name of that song... its like a million voices

Lee Diamond · 4:11 AM

which track?

Lee Diamond · 4:11 AM

The Gift?

Lee Diamond · 4:12 AM

So Transformer

Lee Diamond · 4:12 AM

masterpiece?

Blake Ian · 4:12 AM

hmmm not the Gift

Lee Diamond · 4:12 AM

David Bowie and Mick Ronson produced

Blake Ian · 4:12 AM

Nico is on it

Lee Diamond · 4:12 AM

Blake Ian · 4:13 AM

like reading or something hahah

Lee Diamond · 4:13 AM

Venus in Furs?

Blake Ian · 4:13 AM

similar to the gift

Lee Diamond · 4:13 AM

it is like reading to music, a lot of Lou Reed songs

Blake Ian · 4:13 AM

not Venus either... its fast!

Blake Ian · 4:13 AM

very fast

Lee Diamond · 4:14 AM

run run run!?

Lee Diamond · 4:14 AM

oh!

Lee Diamond · 4:14 AM

black angels death song

Lee Diamond · 4:14 AM

thats what you're talking about?

Lee Diamond · 4:14 AM

poetry to music

Lee Diamond · 4:14 AM

it is fast

Lee Diamond · 4:15 AM

european son

Blake Ian · 4:15 AM

hahah its not black angels

Lee Diamond · 4:15 AM

european son

Blake Ian · 4:15 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 4:15 AM

NOPE!

Blake Ian · 4:16 AM

ah well Ill figure it out, Ill go digging on spottily later and come back and tell ya

Blake Ian · 4:16 AM

anyway... we got way off track here... Is Lou Reed still dead?

Lee Diamond · 4:16 AM

No rumor. He's gone.

Lee Diamond · 4:16 AM

lived an incredible and long life though

Lee Diamond · 4:17 AM

one to be celebrated

Blake Ian · 4:17 AM

yeah, one of my other obsession songs was Heroin

Lee Diamond · 4:17 AM

mine too

Lee Diamond · 4:17 AM

I think the scene in the Doors movie is when I first heard it , not sure

Blake Ian · 4:17 AM

that scene is amazing

Blake Ian · 4:18 AM

Best warhol!

Lee Diamond · 4:18 AM

Crispin Glover?

Lee Diamond · 4:18 AM

spot on Andy Warhol

Blake Ian · 4:18 AM

YES

Lee Diamond · 4:18 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 4:18 AM

everyone else always played a clean, cartoonish Andy

Lee Diamond · 4:19 AM

He may have been the best one

Blake Ian · 4:19 AM

I mean I love Bowie's in Basquiat

Blake Ian · 4:19 AM

but thats cause its Bowie

Lee Diamond · 4:19 AM

Bowie was good, but he was kinda still Bowie

Blake Ian · 4:19 AM

but Crispin played him like REAL, all fucked up

Lee Diamond · 4:19 AM

I think I;ll watch that tonight. Basquiat

Blake Ian · 4:19 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyqXFXbDPcg

Lee Diamond · 4:20 AM

so Lou Reed, great guitarist or not?

Lee Diamond · 4:20 AM

some think so, some don't

Blake Ian · 4:20 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 4:20 AM

My bro just told me Jeffrey Wright (Basquiat) is awesome on Boardwalk this year... haven't watched yet

Blake Ian · 4:20 AM

ok back to Lou

Blake Ian · 4:21 AM

I mean "great guitarist" is always hard to measure

Lee Diamond · 4:21 AM

I think he was

Lee Diamond · 4:21 AM

He definitely put his art before the craft, but it's all connected

Blake Ian · 4:21 AM

if you go by what I consider to be important than absolutely

Lee Diamond · 4:21 AM

creative

Blake Ian · 4:22 AM

same could be said about Bob, Kurt, Petty...

Lee Diamond · 4:22 AM

Yes, Kurt same thing

Blake Ian · 4:22 AM

its what they did with it

Blake Ian · 4:22 AM

I mean its not HARD to play a kurt song, but inventing what he did, thats where its at

Blake Ian · 4:23 AM

thats how I consider Lou as a guitarist..

Blake Ian · 4:23 AM

I mean some guys think Jeff Beck is a great guitarist... but like who cares about what he is doing??

Blake Ian · 4:23 AM

haha

Lee Diamond · 4:23 AM

haha!

Lee Diamond · 4:23 AM

touche!

Lee Diamond · 4:23 AM

you know I love Beck

Blake Ian · 4:24 AM

I mean Clapton and Jeff right? Take them both... both incredible skill... but there is something extreme missing from what Jeff is doing compared to Eric

Lee Diamond · 4:24 AM

I love them both

Lee Diamond · 4:24 AM

Both in the Yardbirds

Blake Ian · 4:24 AM

there's "hard to repeat" guitarists and there's "inventive, revolutionary, powerful" guitarists

Blake Ian · 4:25 AM

yeah thats why I used them... you love the Yardbirds

Lee Diamond · 4:25 AM

Lou Reed did become a "lead" guitarist later in his career

Lee Diamond · 4:25 AM

like The Blue Mask

Lee Diamond · 4:25 AM

he solo'd his ass off

Lee Diamond · 4:25 AM

he kind of became that type of guitar player

Lee Diamond · 4:25 AM

blues

Blake Ian · 4:25 AM

http://open.spotify.com/track/3BddioJA6UBeAF8RqgLUmK

Blake Ian · 4:25 AM

some listening for the readers

Lee Diamond · 4:26 AM

Shock Radar is playing

Lee Diamond · 4:26 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 4:26 AM

yes - "Yardbird" !

Lee Diamond · 4:26 AM

Blake Ian · 4:26 AM

My professor Joe Ferry at Purchase told me a great story about Jeff Beck once...

Lee Diamond · 4:26 AM

that one's for Jeff Beck and his awesome feel

Lee Diamond · 4:26 AM

Blake Ian · 4:27 AM

NO FEEL!

Blake Ian · 4:27 AM

haha

Lee Diamond · 4:27 AM

ALL FEEL

Blake Ian · 4:27 AM

Clatpton got all the feel

Lee Diamond · 4:27 AM

they are more similar than different

Blake Ian · 4:27 AM

Jeff Beck is the Danny Devito in Twins of the Yardbirds!

Lee Diamond · 4:27 AM

hahaha

Blake Ian · 4:27 AM

i said it!

Blake Ian · 4:27 AM

"the left over crap"

Lee Diamond · 4:27 AM

Devito was ALL FEEL

Lee Diamond · 4:27 AM

he made that movie!!

Lee Diamond · 4:27 AM

come on

Blake Ian · 4:27 AM

no the character

Blake Ian · 4:27 AM

not devito!

Blake Ian · 4:27 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 4:27 AM

Vince

Blake Ian · 4:28 AM

check this out.. Im gonna bring it back to music from Twins ready??

Blake Ian · 4:28 AM

the chick who played Vince's girlfriend in Twins... what famous rockstar wife did she play?!

Lee Diamond · 4:28 AM

I dont have a clue

Lee Diamond · 4:29 AM

I'm in post Lou mourning, what is this?

Blake Ian · 4:29 AM

ok ok

Blake Ian · 4:29 AM

but her name is Chloe Webb and she played Nancy in Sid and Nancy

Lee Diamond · 4:29 AM

oh!!!

Lee Diamond · 4:29 AM

that's right!

Blake Ian · 4:29 AM

Pretty RELEVANT to the Lou tawk!

Lee Diamond · 4:29 AM

I forgot she was in that

Lee Diamond · 4:29 AM

she was perfectly annpoying

Blake Ian · 4:30 AM

hahah yeah

Blake Ian · 4:30 AM

Oh Lou, Im gonna miss ya

Lee Diamond · 4:30 AM

I do miss him

Blake Ian · 4:30 AM

ok so there was Candy Says first to hear and fall in love with the band

Blake Ian · 4:30 AM

then there was pale blue eyes that I first learned to play

Blake Ian · 4:30 AM

THEN Trainspotting scene - Perfect Day

Lee Diamond · 4:30 AM

Man

Blake Ian · 4:30 AM

learned to play and sing that one too

Lee Diamond · 4:30 AM

that scene is incredible

Lee Diamond · 4:31 AM

powerful

Blake Ian · 4:31 AM

it was actually one of the first songs I downloaded on Napster and burned to a mix CD

Lee Diamond · 4:31 AM

a perfect day

Blake Ian · 4:31 AM

I remember the first time I heard Heroin at a party actually and literally said to the guy who was playing it "WHAT is THIS?!"

Blake Ian · 4:32 AM

I remember it vividly

Lee Diamond · 4:32 AM

were you on Heroin?

Blake Ian · 4:32 AM

I couldn't get enough of the song for 10 years after that

Lee Diamond · 4:32 AM

sounds like a good party

Blake Ian · 4:32 AM

haha no, shrooms

Blake Ian · 4:32 AM

it was at Purchase

Blake Ian · 4:32 AM

kid was playing it in his dorm

Blake Ian · 4:32 AM

first week of school

Lee Diamond · 4:33 AM

the VU were definitely a college rock band for me

Lee Diamond · 4:33 AM

loved them in college

Blake Ian · 4:33 AM

OH but then!

Blake Ian · 4:33 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 4:33 AM

I got into the funniest Lou record for a while

Blake Ian · 4:33 AM

you might laugh at me

Lee Diamond · 4:33 AM

Street Hastle?

Blake Ian · 4:33 AM

Nope

Lee Diamond · 4:33 AM

Growing up in Public?

Blake Ian · 4:34 AM

Man I gotta go listen to this record right now!

Lee Diamond · 4:34 AM

which?

Blake Ian · 4:34 AM

Lou Reed, New York

Blake Ian · 4:34 AM

The Halloween Parade!

Lee Diamond · 4:34 AM

Love that record!

Blake Ian · 4:34 AM

Romeo and Juliette

Lee Diamond · 4:34 AM

busload of faith

Blake Ian · 4:34 AM

dirty blvd

Lee Diamond · 4:34 AM

that was my favorite

Blake Ian · 4:34 AM

I mean its likely oddly straightforward and clean

Lee Diamond · 4:34 AM

everyone's favorite

Blake Ian · 4:35 AM

*like

Blake Ian · 4:35 AM

and happy

Blake Ian · 4:35 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 4:35 AM

was he doing Yoga?

Lee Diamond · 4:35 AM

I think he just wanted to rock out

Blake Ian · 4:35 AM

but still so catchy and brilliant

Lee Diamond · 4:35 AM

the lyrics aren't "happy"

Blake Ian · 4:35 AM

but even the mixes were like way cleaner than normal

Lee Diamond · 4:35 AM

yeah

Lee Diamond · 4:35 AM

he was sober for that album, I think

Lee Diamond · 4:36 AM

1989 or something

Blake Ian · 4:36 AM

"Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor... Ill piss on em"

Blake Ian · 4:36 AM

lol

Blake Ian · 4:36 AM

"That's what the statue of bigotry says"

Lee Diamond · 4:36 AM

love it

Lee Diamond · 4:36 AM

speaking of New York, we haven't mentioned

Lee Diamond · 4:37 AM

we lost the king of Long Island rockers

Lee Diamond · 4:37 AM

Lou was from Freeport! town next to me

Blake Ian · 4:37 AM

Wow didn't know that!

Blake Ian · 4:37 AM

always thought BK

Lee Diamond · 4:38 AM

grew up on L.I.

Blake Ian · 4:38 AM

thats awesome... one of us

Lee Diamond · 4:38 AM

now, all we have is Billy Joel

Blake Ian · 4:38 AM

or we're one of him

Lee Diamond · 4:38 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 4:38 AM

lol I was JUST typing a Billy Joel joke

Lee Diamond · 4:38 AM

type away

Blake Ian · 4:38 AM

OH!

Blake Ian · 4:38 AM

The Murder Mystery!

Blake Ian · 4:39 AM

that was the song the girls bugged out to

Lee Diamond · 4:39 AM

thats not from Nico! But yeah

Lee Diamond · 4:39 AM

that's a great a song

Lee Diamond · 4:39 AM

like reading poetry over music

Blake Ian · 4:39 AM

You're right, she isn't one of the voices, I was confusing it with one of the others you said...

Lee Diamond · 4:39 AM

the end is crazy and fast

Blake Ian · 4:40 AM

Let's Tawk Lou lyrics for a second...

Blake Ian · 4:41 AM

I gotta think above all, to start a song with "sometimes I feel so happy, sometimes I feel so sad" is like a Dylanesque moment in history

Blake Ian · 4:41 AM

profound and unifying words that can be understood by every person on the planet

Lee Diamond · 4:41 AM

true

Lee Diamond · 4:41 AM

Lou was a great story teller too

Blake Ian · 4:42 AM

unlike say "heroin, it's my wife and its my life"

Blake Ian · 4:42 AM

haha

Lee Diamond · 4:42 AM

he didn't just put cool lines together

Lee Diamond · 4:42 AM

Dylan was different

Blake Ian · 4:42 AM

you mean like Beck?

Blake Ian · 4:43 AM

Dylan did that sometimes... the Beck thing

Lee Diamond · 4:43 AM

Yeah, abstract

Blake Ian · 4:43 AM

Beck is like lyrical collages

Lee Diamond · 4:43 AM

I think he did it more than Lou Reed, although Lou was abstract, but I think Lou was more focuses on painting a picture or telling a story.

Blake Ian · 4:43 AM

Dylan did that sometimes

Blake Ian · 4:44 AM

but then ya got blowin in the wind and hurricane which is the opposite

Lee Diamond · 4:44 AM

Sure, Dylan did it all. But I never thought of Lou as being another Bob Dylan

Blake Ian · 4:44 AM

yeah Lou had imagery that tied together through an entire song

Blake Ian · 4:44 AM

no def not

Blake Ian · 4:44 AM

I was just saying that one line to start off Pale Blue eyes

Lee Diamond · 4:44 AM

I hear that too much from friends too, that Lou was copying Dylan

Blake Ian · 4:44 AM

was a dylan moment, I meant it as a compliment

Lee Diamond · 4:44 AM

I don't get that

Blake Ian · 4:45 AM

Dylan being the lyrical master of the millennium

Blake Ian · 4:45 AM

No way!

Blake Ian · 4:45 AM

Lou was more like a godfather of punk

Lee Diamond · 4:45 AM

But I don't think Lou ever admitted to being influenced by Bob Dylan

Lee Diamond · 4:45 AM

maybe later in his career

Blake Ian · 4:45 AM

everyone post dylan was influenced by Dylan

Lee Diamond · 4:46 AM

I don't know if Lou even liked him in the 60's

Lee Diamond · 4:46 AM

true

Blake Ian · 4:46 AM

From Tupac to Bono!

Lee Diamond · 4:46 AM

But I never actually heard Lou talk about Dylan as an idol, or anything like that

Blake Ian · 4:46 AM

Dude Dylan was tweaking up against Alan Thicke way before Miley was with Robin

Lee Diamond · 4:46 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 4:46 AM

Lou was too cool for idols

Blake Ian · 4:46 AM

haha

Lee Diamond · 4:46 AM

can't argue that

Lee Diamond · 4:47 AM

He was too cool

Lee Diamond · 4:47 AM

why didn't they ever jam?

Lee Diamond · 4:47 AM

or do any collaborating ?

Lee Diamond · 4:47 AM

who hasn't jammed with Bob Dylan!?

Blake Ian · 4:48 AM

I think people lose perspective of what something sounded like when it first car into existance

Blake Ian · 4:48 AM

Lou was jamming wit Bowie

Blake Ian · 4:48 AM

diff scene

Blake Ian · 4:48 AM

dirty drug scene

Lee Diamond · 4:48 AM

What, Dylan didn't take dirty drugs?

Lee Diamond · 4:48 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 4:48 AM

there was some overlap, but remember Dylan took that long time off

Lee Diamond · 4:48 AM

was he too famous for Lou?

Lee Diamond · 4:49 AM

yah, after the motocycle accident

Blake Ian · 4:49 AM

and Dylan wasn't getting down with the glam, transgender, heroin scene

Blake Ian · 4:49 AM

he had the accident

Blake Ian · 4:49 AM

yeah

Lee Diamond · 4:49 AM

I wonder if Dylan liked Lou Reed's music.

Blake Ian · 4:49 AM

then when he returned there were a few birthday shows and a lot of religions haha

Lee Diamond · 4:49 AM

Never heard him talk about it

Lee Diamond · 4:49 AM

what religion is he now?

Blake Ian · 4:49 AM

Jew

Lee Diamond · 4:50 AM

again?

Blake Ian · 4:50 AM

goes to temple

Lee Diamond · 4:50 AM

full circle?

Blake Ian · 4:50 AM

on high holidays

Lee Diamond · 4:50 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 4:50 AM

haha for real

Lee Diamond · 4:50 AM

well, Lou remained true to his jewishness, his whole life

Blake Ian · 4:50 AM

he goes to a temple on long island on yom kippur

Lee Diamond · 4:50 AM

how do you know this?

Blake Ian · 4:50 AM

I know someone who goes to the temple

Blake Ian · 4:51 AM

that he goes to on yom kippur

Lee Diamond · 4:51 AM

I wouldn't think Dylan even knows where he is half the time now

Blake Ian · 4:51 AM

well lets not open the Dylan door, we will never get back to Lou!

Blake Ian · 4:51 AM

haha

Lee Diamond · 4:51 AM

Blake Ian · 4:51 AM

but I will say this, I think thats the genius of Dylan

Blake Ian · 4:51 AM

can't put your finger on him ever

Lee Diamond · 4:51 AM

I never met him!

Blake Ian · 4:51 AM

people try to make movies, try to define him

Blake Ian · 4:51 AM

never works

Blake Ian · 4:52 AM

too slippery

Lee Diamond · 4:52 AM

if I met him, I would try to put a finger on him

Blake Ian · 4:52 AM

hahahaha

Lee Diamond · 4:52 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 4:52 AM

dude you could have at prospect park that time!

Blake Ian · 4:52 AM

he was like 10 feet from us

Lee Diamond · 4:52 AM

we were close

Blake Ian · 4:52 AM

you could have put out a finger

Lee Diamond · 4:52 AM

"Robert!! Robert!!!"

Blake Ian · 4:52 AM

"Bob! Can I put my finger on you?!"

Blake Ian · 4:52 AM

its clean I was wearing a glove!

Lee Diamond · 4:52 AM

hahah

Blake Ian · 4:53 AM

Man I haven't smoked marijuana in years, but I think Heroin may have been my favorite song to listen to stoned ever...

Blake Ian · 4:53 AM

honestly. #1

Blake Ian · 4:53 AM

just floated away listening to that song

Lee Diamond · 4:53 AM

Did we ever jam that song?

Blake Ian · 4:53 AM

insane energy

Lee Diamond · 4:54 AM

we probably did at some point

Blake Ian · 4:54 AM

yes we did

Blake Ian · 4:54 AM

me you and Larry played it at USL at Jay Mccabes bachelor party

Lee Diamond · 4:54 AM

Amazing night

Blake Ian · 4:54 AM

never happened!

Lee Diamond · 4:54 AM

haha!!

Lee Diamond · 4:54 AM

well, that party was amazing

Blake Ian · 4:54 AM

never. happened.

Lee Diamond · 4:54 AM

it didn't?

Blake Ian · 4:55 AM

there was no party, no night, erased from existence

Blake Ian · 4:55 AM

No gang!

Lee Diamond · 4:55 AM

I think I played 2 sets that night

Lee Diamond · 4:55 AM

YOu and my band

Blake Ian · 4:55 AM

you did

Blake Ian · 4:55 AM

3 actually

Lee Diamond · 4:55 AM

and I passed out before thre Feud

Blake Ian · 4:55 AM

Blake Ian set, Shock Radar set, me you Larry set

Lee Diamond · 4:56 AM

I miss the USL

Blake Ian · 4:56 AM

yeah man that might have been the sickest setup a band ever had

Lee Diamond · 4:56 AM

we were like The Commitments

Lee Diamond · 4:56 AM

rehearsing in a bar

Lee Diamond · 4:56 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 4:56 AM

we had a bar to ourselves to rehearse and drink for free

Blake Ian · 4:56 AM

and we even had a bartender!

Blake Ian · 4:56 AM

haha

Lee Diamond · 4:56 AM

i remember

Blake Ian · 4:56 AM

Dina... I loved her

Lee Diamond · 4:56 AM

ruled

Lee Diamond · 4:56 AM

yes!

Blake Ian · 4:56 AM

I loved a lot of girls

Blake Ian · 4:56 AM

hahah

Blake Ian · 4:57 AM

but she was the ONE that winter

Lee Diamond · 4:57 AM

you hook up with Dina!?

Blake Ian · 4:57 AM

nah

Blake Ian · 4:57 AM

can't hook up with a muse

Lee Diamond · 4:57 AM

ah, a muse

Lee Diamond · 4:57 AM

Great Flick!!!

Blake Ian · 4:57 AM

didn't you ever see the Brooks movie!?

Blake Ian · 4:57 AM

hahah

Lee Diamond · 4:57 AM

hahaha

Lee Diamond · 4:57 AM

The Muse!

Blake Ian · 4:58 AM

You don't want your muse living in your house

Blake Ian · 4:59 AM

seriously though, I always had to have a muse ... and we played in a closed bar with one person in the room, a female bartender. There was really no way around her being the Muse for that period

Lee Diamond · 4:59 AM

I did not know this

Lee Diamond · 4:59 AM

Dina

Lee Diamond · 4:59 AM

haha

Lee Diamond · 4:59 AM

was Poison about her?

Blake Ian · 4:59 AM

hahah no

Blake Ian · 4:59 AM

many years before her I think

Blake Ian · 4:59 AM

or maybe not actually

Lee Diamond · 5:00 AM

what song of yours do you think is most influenced by Lou?

Blake Ian · 5:00 AM

Did we play any Lou Reed songs together?

Blake Ian · 5:00 AM

at shows

Lee Diamond · 5:00 AM

I think we played Pale Blue eyes

Blake Ian · 5:00 AM

hmmm Id say Deniro

Lee Diamond · 5:00 AM

i'm sure we played a few

Blake Ian · 5:00 AM

that always felt like Lou

Lee Diamond · 5:00 AM

sweet jane

Lee Diamond · 5:00 AM

Deniro!?

Blake Ian · 5:01 AM

we did play sweet Jane at USL show once actually, it was a Mark Pot request

Blake Ian · 5:01 AM

Deniro felt very Lou no?

Blake Ian · 5:01 AM

I think I was listening to a lot of Lou when I wrote that song

Lee Diamond · 5:01 AM

I can see that. It's just progressive rockish for you

Lee Diamond · 5:01 AM

I would have thought you'd pick a song more like Poison

Lee Diamond · 5:01 AM

ringing out chords like "Heroin"

Blake Ian · 5:02 AM

hmmm nah, Poison and Road of Diamonds are the two songs that always felt like me

Blake Ian · 5:02 AM

less influenced than others

Blake Ian · 5:02 AM

if that makes sense

Lee Diamond · 5:02 AM

If you could play Lou one song of yours

Blake Ian · 5:02 AM

but yeah Deniro felt like Lou when I sang it

Lee Diamond · 5:02 AM

what song would it be?

Blake Ian · 5:02 AM

poison

Blake Ian · 5:02 AM

haha

Lee Diamond · 5:02 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 5:03 AM

actually

Blake Ian · 5:03 AM

Evil Angel

Lee Diamond · 5:03 AM

there you go

Blake Ian · 5:03 AM

I think he'd dig that

Lee Diamond · 5:03 AM

I could see him loving that one

Blake Ian · 5:03 AM

what about you?

Lee Diamond · 5:03 AM

Millionaire perhaps?

Blake Ian · 5:03 AM

you have a Lou type thing?

Blake Ian · 5:03 AM

ah definitely!

Lee Diamond · 5:03 AM

I think he would have found the lyrics to be interesting

Blake Ian · 5:03 AM

My favorite shock song

Blake Ian · 5:03 AM

very VU actually now that I think of it

Lee Diamond · 5:03 AM

he was a major influence on me lyrically!

Lee Diamond · 5:04 AM

and I'm realizing that now more, that he's passed away

Blake Ian · 5:04 AM

and my other fav of yours Cousin to Jesus

Blake Ian · 5:04 AM

also very Lou

Lee Diamond · 5:04 AM

If I never got into Lou

Lee Diamond · 5:04 AM

and Dylan

Lee Diamond · 5:04 AM

I think my lyricss would be really simple and predictable

Blake Ian · 5:04 AM

yeah definitely

Lee Diamond · 5:05 AM

Whenever you hear radio bands, or bands that just suck

Blake Ian · 5:05 AM

Lou is one of the 5 or so guys, whose songs I learned to play that helped me figure out how to make them

Lee Diamond · 5:05 AM

they're usually missing that Lou Reed ingredient

Blake Ian · 5:05 AM

one of my first songs on guitar was 5 years by Bowie

Lee Diamond · 5:05 AM

mine too

Blake Ian · 5:05 AM

and I remember thinking "oh I see what he is doing here"

Blake Ian · 5:06 AM

like with the chords and building melody and lyrics

Blake Ian · 5:06 AM

it made sense

Blake Ian · 5:06 AM

it was like a text book

Lee Diamond · 5:06 AM

He was emulating Lou

Lee Diamond · 5:06 AM

haha

Lee Diamond · 5:06 AM

or the other way around?

Lee Diamond · 5:06 AM

I don't know

Blake Ian · 5:06 AM

Drain You, 5 years, It Aint me babe

Blake Ian · 5:06 AM

Needle and the damage done

Blake Ian · 5:06 AM

they were emulating all over each other at one point!

Blake Ian · 5:06 AM

hahah

Lee Diamond · 5:06 AM

hahaha!

Lee Diamond · 5:07 AM

and maybe we should end on that note for now

Lee Diamond · 5:07 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 5:07 AM

ok just ONE more Dylan moment Im going to squeeze in here

Lee Diamond · 5:07 AM

always

Blake Ian · 5:07 AM

and maybe this can be the beginning of our next Tawk which should definitely be on Dylan...

Lee Diamond · 5:07 AM

a Dylan tawk would never end between me and you

Lee Diamond · 5:08 AM

and possibly end in a screaming match on the phone

Lee Diamond · 5:08 AM

haah

Blake Ian · 5:08 AM

It aint me babe, I distinctly remember thinking how fucking cool it was that he wrote a love song about a girl who loved him and he was like ... nah sorry

Blake Ian · 5:08 AM

a reverse long song

Lee Diamond · 5:08 AM

true

Blake Ian · 5:08 AM

*love song

Lee Diamond · 5:08 AM

he wrote the model for that kind of song

Blake Ian · 5:08 AM

like every love song is "I love her and she doesn't love me back"

Lee Diamond · 5:08 AM

like Mike Nesmith's Different Drum?

Lee Diamond · 5:08 AM

similar idea

Blake Ian · 5:08 AM

and this dude was like... "this chick loves me and Im like, go away!"

Blake Ian · 5:09 AM

always gotta bring up the Monkees when we're tawking about serious musicians!

Blake Ian · 5:09 AM

heheheheh

Lee Diamond · 5:09 AM

It's the same idea!

Blake Ian · 5:09 AM

kidding - love that song...

Lee Diamond · 5:09 AM

is it not?

Blake Ian · 5:09 AM

yes it is

Blake Ian · 5:09 AM

because thats what the Monkees did

Blake Ian · 5:09 AM

"lets make a song like this one"

Blake Ian · 5:09 AM

hahah

Blake Ian · 5:09 AM

lets have hair like these guys

Lee Diamond · 5:10 AM

sometimes the best songs are written that way!

Blake Ian · 5:10 AM

I suppose

Blake Ian · 5:10 AM

ok dude, good Tawk. Goodnight Lou

Blake Ian · 5:10 AM

Thanks for the lessons

Lee Diamond · 5:10 AM

indeed

Lee Diamond · 5:10 AM

lets continue at an earlier hour someimte

Lee Diamond · 5:10 AM

long day

Lee Diamond · 5:11 AM

long Coma Art

Lee Diamond · 5:11 AM

haha

Blake Ian · 5:11 AM

Long Coma Art

Blake Ian · 5:11 AM

LOL!

Lee Diamond · 5:11 AM

LOL!

Lee Diamond · 5:11 AM

cosmic!

Blake Ian · 5:11 AM

always comes back to Albert

Blake Ian · 5:11 AM

peace

Lee Diamond · 5:11 AM

why not