Lou Reed @ Thé des Ecrivains, Paris Nov 13 2012

Lou Reed @ Thé des Ecrivains, Paris Nov 13 2012

Avery rare Picture: Lou Reed Signing LULU's box set

 After the reading @ Palais de Tokyo yesterday night Lou Reed is still in Paris promoting his new photo-book, this time at Thé des Ecrivains, very nice place in the trendy Marais, you can buy books and other stuff but you can also have a coffee or a glas of wine.
No reading tonight , just a short introduction and then Lou is signing his book to a well behaved crowd of fans. Some people also bring some vinyls and he signed probably for the first time ever a box set of the record he did with METALLICA : Lulu as nobody bought that crap but...me !!!

Lou Reed Conférence @ Palais de Tokyo, Paris Nov 12 2012

 Lou Reed @ Palais de Tokyo in Paris 7:00pm

"SHUT UP"

To present his new book Rhymes/Rimes

Very late opening as Lou Reed worked on the Exhibition, starting in the morning then he had some interviews so he needed a rest. It was supposed to start at 7:00pm in fact Lou Reed showed up at 8:30pm.

They contacted the Palais de Tokyo just 3 weeks ago for this exhibition, it really shows that they have a huge space and really don't know what to do with it. We've been a few times at recent exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo and we have to say that we haven't seen so many crap exhibitions in such a short amount of time excluding Lou Reed's pictures, most of them are pretty good even though the man doesn't want to "legend" any of them.

It started with a "lecture" of RAVEN but first Mr Grumpy asked people in the back to "SHUT UP".

It lasted for 20 min.

Then there was a Q&A for another 20 min: There are pictures dating back from the late 60's, no photoshop, he has several cameras, all the pictures in the book are in a certain order... ans so on.

and Lou signed his new book "Rhymes/Rimes.

The Palais de Tokyo knows how to spend our money so we had a nice reception afterwards with champagne and canapés/macarons.

Cool evening !

Joe Jackson @ Olympia, Paris Nov 11 2012

Joe Jackson @ Olympia, Paris Nov 11 2012

Joe Jackson @ The Olympia, it's an early start as usual on sunday (7:00 pm) so we're very late and we've missed the first hour, Fuck !

it's packed and there are a few cameras recording the whole show, in fact it's broadcasted live on the internet on Germano-French tv arte live.

It's funny how he looks, we already noticed that on the advertising posters out in the streets but he probably had too much plastic surgery on his face and when he's smiling he's looking like The Joker without make up.

Joe Jackson is seating behind a keyboard on the left of the stage with a 6-7 piece band, he's promoting his new album of Duke Ellington songs but most of the songs we've heard had a Brasilian feel and beat with some percussions. Not really familiar with the latest songs he's done on his latest records but glad that he played some of his major songs like "Sunday papers", Is she really going out with him" or "stepping out".

He's still a bit of a rebel when people started shouted out songs, he said that he's not doing any requests and when someone said "The Marseillaise" he fingered him... ( as a joke I guess).

Good show but I guess I would have prefered more of his old rock'n roll songs.

Check setlist for details

The Rolling Stones' "One more Shot" Live from rehearsals and other stuff

 The rehearsals are over in France the band is on its way to NYC for some press duties, we have the post-Rolling Stones depression blues and ROCKERPARIS wants to keep the party going.

So here it is THE FIRST LIVE VERSION OF "One More Shot" recorded on Oct 11

The song has been released officially for a few days now, the band has left France so we don't think it should be a problem releasing this LIVE version ,I know the sound is crap but I think this song sounds much better LIVE that on the studio version

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR KIND WORDS ( Thanks Shidoobee)

We've done a pretty good job

We posted ALL the setlists of songs that the band rehearsed from Oct 11 till Nov 09.

We were the first one to share with you the recordings from the studio:

1) First live version of "I wanna be your man" since 1964 or 1965 (according to specialists)

2) the first ever LIVE version of "Doom & Gloom" (here below)

To keep up with the good work

You have on top of this page a couple of nice pics from the GRRR! Limited Edition Box set (still wrapped) The box  is HUGE (Courtesy of Jean-Pierre Lescher)

 

 Mick Jagger is on the cover (nice make-up Mick) of the French magazine POLKA -click on link for a preview of some of the pics from the mag- with some great Pictures from Jean-Marie Perier taken from his book "Rencontres" (click on link for a preview of the book)

 J-M Perier new book / Mick Jagger throwing a cup at a paparazzo

ROLLING STONES REHEARSALS SETLIST:

Nov 09 last one

Nov 08 with review of the rehearsals we personally attended

Nov 07 ,  Nov 06 ,  Nov 06,  Nov 05 , Nov 02,  Nov 01 , Oct 31, Oct 30

THE ROLLING STONES  @ Mogador on October 29 WITH LOTS OF PICTURES FROM THE SHOW

Oct 26 rehearsals (bottom of page)

Check our previous posts on THE ROLLING STONES @ Trabendo CLUB SHOW First show in 5 years

Rehearsals  (with Setlist)  of Oct 23 is HERE

Rehearsals  (with Setlist)  of Oct 22 is HERE

Rehearsals  (with Setlist)  of Oct 15 is HERE
Rehearsals (with setlist)  of Oct 16 is HERE
" I wanna be your man" audio from rehearsals is HERE

 Rehearsals  (with Setlist)  of Oct 11 & 12

That's it Folks !!!

Walking Papers @ Nouveau Casino, Paris Nov 10 2012

Walking Papers @ Nouveau Casino, Paris Nov 10 2012

Cool 75 min set of classic rock with Duff McKagan on bass , Barrett Martin on Drums, Jeff Angel on guitar & Benjamin Anderson on keys.

Duff 's new project WALKING PAPERS is in Paris, not a lot of people tonight, it's too bad, I've heard many good reviews about the album, nothing to do with Loaded. This band is more classic-rock blues orientated.

Cool to see Barrett Martin on drums as we're great fans of Screaming Trees and Mad Season.

We were standing in front of Duff and his bass sound was heavy and greasy as we like it.

They've performed only Walking Papers songs even though some people asked for some Guns songs, Duff felt a bit embarrassed by this.

After the show the whole band went to sign cds and vinyls in the pit specially Duff.

The band left to England, they are playing in London on sunday, they will be back next summer for festivals and some more club shows.