Many thanks for introducing me to this interview and these relationships.

I had seen BS&T and Ten Wheel Drive at the first Atlanta Pop Festival. Of course, everything's great when you're at a festival, but the horn-augmented pop / rock sound didn't sit well with me afterwards--Soft Machine Third and Fourth are more to my taste. (Also on the Atlanta 1 bill: Chicago Transit Authority, Al Kooper solo with horns, and Janis Joplin with the Full Tilt Boogie horn section. I only saw Reed in concert once--about the time of Transformer. My favorite Reed solo albums are the first one, then scattered albums through Drella.) Incidentally, Lou Reed's poems in Fusion magazine show more of his vulnerable side.

I didn't know about Co'lorado--quite a revelation, that Ravan and Reed could sound so appropriate together. (I also just discovered that she recorded John Cale's "Darling I Need You" on the same album. Not quite the same chemistry, but a decent cover.)

I haven't said this before, Frank, but what I appreciate most about your interviews is that you give the musicians an opportunity to speak for themselves, without forcing your own aesthetics on them (and I'm sure your aesthetics would be congenial).