{"id":793367,"date":"2019-02-24T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=797244"},"modified":"2019-02-24T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T15:00:29","slug":"flashback-lou-reed-plays-walk-on-the-wild-side-in-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-lou-reed-plays-walk-on-the-wild-side-in-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Lou Reed Plays \u2018Walk on the Wild Side\u2019 in 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After nearly two years of renovations, New York\u2019s Webster Hall will reopen on May 1st with a show by Patti Smith. Other acts slated to play include MGMT, Sharon Van Etten, Chris Robinson Brotherhood and Built to Spill. According to a press release, the improvements to the club include \u201ccentral air conditioning, expanded restrooms, additional stairwells for smoother entry and exit, and the venue\u2019s first-ever elevator.\u201d<\/p>\n

Webster Hall was built in 1886 and hosted everything from masquerade balls to labor union rallies, weddings and lectures in its early years. The building was bought by RCA Records in 1953 and it became one of their key recording studios. It\u2019s where Elvis Presley recorded \u201cHound Dog\u201d shortly after signing to the label, and everyone from Frank Sinatra to Harry Belafonte and Louis Armstrong also used the facility. On February 2nd, 1962, Bob Dylan played harmonica at a Harry Belafonte session there, marking the very first time he worked in a professional recording studio.<\/p>\n

In the 1980, Webster Hall was reborn yet again when new ownership took over and dubbed the main performance space the Ritz. It immediately became one of the main concert spaces in New York and booked the likes of the Pretenders, Kiss, Prince, Tina Turner and Eric Clapton. On December 6th, 1980 \u2014 just two days before John Lennon was murdered \u2014 U2 made their North American debut at the club. According to legend, a mere 25 people came to the show.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s video of Lou Reed<\/a> playing \u201cWalk on the Wild Side\u201d at the Ritz on July 16th, 1986. \u201cThis is also known as the Honda Scooter song,\u201d he told the crowd, referencing a recent commercial that utilized the song.<\/a> \u201cSome people think that\u2019s a conflict of interest since I\u2019m wearing a Harley shirt, but I keep telling them that was for fucking scooters, for Christ\u2019s sake. And I gotta pay the rent, too, and can\u2019t you take a fucking joke?\u201d<\/p>\n

The cavernous Webster Hall facility also hosted wild dance parties and many purists are worried that the new corporate overlords at BSE Global and Bowery Presents will clamp down on the fun, but they insist that isn\u2019t their plan. \u201cIt was a very democratic club that was all about variety,\u201d BSE Global executive vice president of programming Keith Sheldon told The New York Times<\/em>. \u201cWe want to bring that variety back when we reopen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After nearly two years of renovations, New York\u2019s Webster Hall will reopen on May 1st with a show by Patti Smith. Other acts slated to play include MGMT, Sharon Van Etten, Chris Robinson Brotherhood and Built to Spill. According to a press release, the improvements to the club include \u201ccentral air conditioning, expanded restrooms, additional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 14:08:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}