Maybe we should’ve offered Lou Reed a scoop before being cursed out over the status of his Sirius stock holdings. David Byrne has reminisced about the first time he met the musician, telling Rolling Stone in a new interview that Reed wanted to sign Talking Heads to a management deal at the start of their career. Despite being “in awe of” his creative ideas, Byrne and his bandmates felt it wouldn’t be a sound idea to enter into a business relationship with one of their heroes. “We were playing through some of our songs, just strumming a guitar,” he said. “And I remember he was showing us how if you slowed some of them down a little bit, that might not be the worst thing in the world, rather than trying to blurt out all the words really quickly. I remember when we met, he was eating an incredible amount of ice cream. I think he went through two of those quart containers of Häagen-Dazs ice cream in one sitting. We were like, Whoa.” Chris Frantz similarly recalled the hang at Reed’s apartment in his memoir, writing that Reed used a “bent and blackened spoon” and “didn’t offer us any ice cream or anything else.” He added, “it must have been four o’clock in the morning.” We like to think John Cale has better manners.
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