Face2Face: LULU

Welcome back guys! This is jules and today I am going introduce you a new PlaySnack! feature...
It's called Face2Face! Once week Face2Face will expose you a recent or historical collaboration between two artists, two bands, or one artist and one band to form what we like to call "Superbands"!
Hope you will enjoy it, please let us know in the comments what you think about it!
Now I let Masa introduce you the first Face2Face... PlaySnack it!

jules



For today’s F2F we are going to talk about two Divinities in their genres, all around artist with decades of experience on their shoulder.

Lewis Allan Reed was born on March 2, 1942 and is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground cult band and for his subsequentely solo career (after 1971)

Metallica is an American Heavy Metal band from Los Angeles, California formed 30 years ago. The current line up includes the singer James Hetfielsd Lars Ulrich (drums), lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, and the bassist Robert Trujillo (since 2003). They had released nine studio albums, three live albums, five extended plays, 24 music videos, and 45 singles. The band has won nine Grammy Awards, and has had five consecutive albums debut at number one on the Billboard 200, making Metallica the first band to do so.

 

So about this absolutely non-conventional collaboration the site www.loureedmetallica.com says: 

The musical collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica, "Lulu," is coming your way this Fall (Oct, 31st) and this space will be your spot for all things Loutallica(!).[...]
"Lulu" was inspired by German expressionist writer Frank Wedekind's plays "Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box," which tell a story of a young abused dancer's life and relationships and are now collectively known as the "Lulu Plays." Since their publication in the early 1900's, the plays have been the inspiration for a silent film ("Pandora's Box," 1929), an opera, and countless other creative endeavors. Originally the lyrics and musical landscape were sketched out by Lou for a theatrical production in Berlin, but after coming together with the 'Tallica boys for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts in New York in 2009 all guilty parties knew they wanted to make more music together. Lou was inspired enough by that performance to recently ask the band to join him in taking his theatrical "Lulu" piece to the next level and so starting in early May of this year we were all camped out recording at HQ studios in Northern California, bringing us to today and ten complete songs.

Here you are the first revealed song from Lou Reed and Metallica upcoming album, "The View" a pure example of a 21st century rock opera. PlaySnack it!!!!

M.