Lou Reed
Agora Theatre
Cleveland, OH
5-27-80 (late show?)

Source: Soundboard
Lineage: Master reels > professionally transferred (unknown process & equipment) > wav > CD >
EAC > wave > wavemerge > cdwave (retracked – dead air and repeat material omitted) > TLH >
flac (lvl 8)

Release date: 6/26/07

Disk 1

D1T01 Sweet Jane
D1T02 I am waiting for the man
D1T03 Coney Island Baby
D1T04 Vicious
D1T05 Perfect Day
D1T06 Heroin
D1T07 How do you speak to an angel
D1T08 Berlin
D1T09 The Kids

Disk 2

d2T01 /how do you speak to an angel
d2T02 heroin
D2T03 The power of positive drinking
D2T04 My Old Man
D2T05 Applause and Crowd Banter
D2T06 The Bells
D2T07 Pale Blue Eyes (Band Intro) Pale Blue Eyes/

The Band

Chuck Hammer – Guitar Synth
Stuart Heinrich – Lead Guitar
Michael Fonfara – Keyboards
Ellerd Moose Boles – Bass
Michael Suchorsky – Drums

Notes:

• I have banged my head of this one for a while now to try to figure out a few points of conflict.
  I have exhausted all resources I could find to add some clarification so I am going to put this
  out in hopes that someone may have some information on this, I am certainly no Lou Reed expert.
  Points of conflict are listed below. Overall a great sounding source and from what I can tell
  is totally uncirculated up until now. No editing other than retracking and removing dead air and
  repeat material has been done on this since the professional transfer.
• When I received the raw waves, there were three different tracks for “Heroin”. Two are
  definitely different and the last was a partial from d2t02. I have omitted the partial track.
  The other two baffle me. d1t06 and d2t02 both seem to be complete. d1t06 is 9:31 seconds and
  d2t02 is 15:23? D2t02 is also preceded by a 30 second snippet of “how do you speak to an angel”
  that seems to fade seamlessly into the second take of heroin. This would lead me to believe that
  there is some missing material.
• D2t03 and d2t04 also had duplicate tracks. These were omitted.
• I have seen two records of set lists for a show at this venue for this date. Neither of them
  match this source. I have talked with the one fellow from a Lou reed site and he noted
  that there was an early show and a late show for this date. He only knows the late shows exists
  because he was informed by a band member that it was taped and has never seen or heard the set
  so he was unable to add much clarification.
• d2t05 this track is 9 minutes of crowd banter. I included it to preserve the integrity
  of the show.

Flaws:

• d1t01 There is a volume spike in the first 30 seconds of the track.
• d2t01 This is a 30 second partial of “how do you speak to an angel”. The beginning is cut
• d2t07 Cut at the end. Source courtesy of Mightyfox – Fox’s Pick # 1 Tracked, flaced, and text created by bgreen