D'Addario XL Strings May '94
D'Addario strings does it again with the bizarre celebrity endorsements. Earlier in Gearwire Gallery we saw them use Tolkien characters, and in this May 1994 full-page ad from Musician magazine, we are treated to a bad hotel/motel painting style portrait of Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground.
Rob Warmowski: Holy sheepshit, do I hate Lou Reed. If the Velvet Underground were somehow broken up in 1966, it would have prevented an entire generation of bloodless, mumbly, cookie-cutter 80s/90s indie rock bands from ever forming - a service to mankind if ever there was one. This wildly overrated jackass was invited to the floor of the United Nations this year to speak to the audience during a special concert - the US debut by the great Italian film composer Ennio Morricone. And what did Mr. Reed do with such an undeserved honor? He referred to "Ennio Macaroni" (no, really, I was there, I saw it myself), blurted some shrill half-baked political speech and then left before Morricone was finished conducting the orchestra.
Lou, your ass is probably worn and leathery from having it kissed repeatedly for decades, but look at you here, shilling for guitar strings! Shill. Ha! You're a shill. Shilling in a painting that looks like it's hanging on the wall of a Holiday Inn.
Shill.
well
That's a cool endorsee imho.
dolivas i'm agree with you
Lou Reed Sucks!
wow man you dont have taste
dude he kicks fucking ass. Indies the only orginal thing happening in music. and what the fuck do u listen to like wanker metal like dragonforce or trivium. and i dont think anyone that works for gearwire has a place to talk ive seen your pedal walkthroughs they suck tell that guy to learn how to play before he demonstrates stuff
Lou Shitflake
Lou Reed is the most pretentious, godawful, no talent, most overblown hack-with-a-guitar ever. He blazed a trail for other total hacks and the piece-o-chit music critics that make them famous.Garbage like the Ramones, Bruce Springstein, the Sex Pistols. Why do music critics like Elvis Costello ? Because they all look like Elvis Costello.(FZ)
Trans-poser
This horses ass had the nerve to badmouth the great Frank Zappa back in the 60's. FZ was one of the nicest, most talented and least selfish people who ever picked up an axe. This pretentious, homosexual junkie has been disrespecting musicians and audiences for decades. Watching this pseudo-intellectual prick talk-sing while playing his simpleton guitar made me puke back in the 70's. He is still around NY, making an ass out of himself.
Corpse with a guitar
Reed's willingness to bend over for the queers at Rolling Stone made him a success. Together they made posing on stage while playing garbage popular.
Lou Reed Can't Sing!
Has anyone seen the late 80s Keanu Reeves flick "Permanent Record"? It totally blew my mind how the two young musicians in this film posed as pizza delivery guys in order to sneek into a recording studio to catch a glimpse of Lou "The Crappy Talk-Singer" Reed. One of them said something like: "Man, if only WE could someday sound like this". Are you F-ing kidding me!!!? Don't get me wrong; I love talk radio, but if you call yourself a singer you damn well better be able to sing!
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