Doom & Gloom From the Tomb

Encounters With Quine

From a few years back, but new to me. These Rubber City Review posts, written by Robert Quine’s cousin (here and here), serve as an excellent overview of the late, great guitarist’s out-of-this-world playing. Some choice anecdotes, too, like how the “record company sent a test pressing of [Lou Reed’s] Legendary Hearts to his parents’ house in Akron, and he was so infuriated with the final mix (some of his guitar parts were mixed out altogether) that he grabbed a hammer, walked out on the driveway and smashed the record into little pieces.” Perfect.