Lou Reed - Solo Acoustic, Radio 3, Madrid, Spain, 6-5-1998

I just posted some acoustic demos by the Velvet Underground, at the start of Lou Reed's musical career. Here's something acoustic by him nearer to the end of his career.

In the late 1990s, Reed, finally caught the "unplugged" bug, a few years after the acoustic concert trend had peaked. This show was done before a studio audience in Spain. The audience was remarkably polite and hardly ever clapped or hollered during his songs. In a few cases, there was some clapping for the first few seconds of a song, but I got rid of that by patching in the strumming of the same chords from later in the song. The result is that it sounds exactly like Reed playing an acoustic guitar alone in your living room.

The show is on the short side. I found an extra song to make it a bit longer. Reed played a solo acoustic version of "Heroin" for a TV documentary the same year as the concert. You'd never know it wasn't part of the concert, based on the sound.

With the extra song, this still is only 27 minutes. It's short, but sweet.

01 I'll Be Your Mirror (Lou Reed)
02 Dirty Blvd. (Lou Reed)
03 Talking Book (Lou Reed)
04 Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)
05 Pale Blue Eyes (Lou Reed)
06 Sweet Jane (Lou Reed)
07 Heroin (Lou Reed)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16695493/LOURED1998_SloAcustcRdio3MdridSpin__6-5-1998_atse.zip.html

The cover is from a video of Reed playing this concert in 1998.