Ya know, I completely understand that people are entitled to their own opinions with music. You either like it or you don’t, that’s all good with me. The same goes for Lou Reed. If people are not into his music, that’s all cool. What’s bothering me is that people have been disrespecting him as a person and disrespecting his music legacy. When I defend Lou Reed on the internet, I’m not trying to force people to like him. That’s not that what I’m doing.

What I’m trying to do are two things: 1) Trying to get people to learn about Lou’s musical past and respect his legacy 2) Try to ask people to give “Lulu” a second chance.

It’s pretty obvious that most metalheads and Metallica fans don’t know anything about Lou Reed. I’ve seen people write some of the nastiest shit about Lou in facebook, it’s just crazy.

Here, I’ll post some examples of what people have been writing about Lou in facebook (I’ll leave their first & last names out of ’em of course, these are REAL comments posted in facebook that are aimed at Lou Reed)…they were taken from various fan pages…

–“Thats because it sucks. I don’t care how OPEN Lars wants us to be or how liberating it was for him to play this crap. Never could stand any Lou Reed song. I don’t have a clue how people like him ever got famous in the first place. Even if I was stoned, was a hippie in the 60’s I still would think he sucked!”

–“Lou Reed sucks, and ‘Tallica made a huge mistake working with him. I understand being a fan…but he’s crap. Pure crap. His vocals are like having a ten-penny nail bashed into my ears”

–“This will be remembered for a long time as one of the most wasteful examples of the Earth’s resources. Lou Reed’s vocals are so disgraceful. My ass passing diarrhoea makes more musical like sounding noises that Lou Reeds voice box. FUCKING TERRIBLE music”

-“Are any of you people actually musicians? Because this is pure shit, and some of your opinions don’t reflect that. Lou Reed’s vocals are just horrible, and always have been. Being 69 years old and an “avant garde” artist are no excuse for this….whatever the hell it is. @ Jose Luis Zurita- I’m 25 and I guarantee you I’ve forgotten more about music history than you know. Anyone with decent taste in music is shitting all over this right now, hoping Lou goes back to the old folks’ crazy home, and hoping Metallica got all this experimental bullshit out of their systems before they sit down to write/record their follow-up to Death Magnetic.”

-“This sucks, it doesn’t even sounds like music. Lou your voice has nothing to do with music as well! T H I S S U C K S!”

You get the idea??? People just disrespected the man, not realizing who he really is. A rock n’ roll legend, an American icon, a genius and a true master at rock n’ roll. This is just proof that people don’t know their music history that well.

Kev