Lou Reed circa 1973. I'd been a big fan of the Velvet Underground and then Transformer came along and blew everyone away. Unfortunately at The Rainbow gig in London he only wanted to do songs from the follow-up album Berlin, which was dire. Added to which he was out of his tree on God-knows-what and when he wasn't singing (badly) spent most of the show keeping time by banging his SM58 on the Hammond organ, which is painful to watch, let alone listen to. The evening wasn't a total write off, though. The support act was The Persuasions, a totally brilliant acapella soul quartet, they were as professional as Reed was pathetic.

BJ