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title: Lou Reed Live at Lollapalooza 2009
description: Lou Reed Live at Lollapalooza 2009, the official DVD of Reed's Grant Park set of August 9, 2009, with Sarth Calhoun on electronics and Continuum, Rob Wasserman on bass and Ulrich Krieger on saxophone. Released July 19, 2011.
url: https://www.sarth.net/transmissions/lou-reed-live-at-lollapalooza-2009/
published: 2011-07-19
facet: dream
credit: From [loureed.com](https://loureed.com/news/lou-reed-live-at-lollapalooza-2009-dvd/): Mike Rathke, guitar. Steve Hunter, guitar. Kevin Hearn, keyboards. Rob Wasserman, bass. Tony “Thunder” Smith, drums. Ulrich Krieger, saxophone. Sarth Calhoun, electronics and continuum. [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/release/15272070) lists it on Sister Ray Enterprises, Sarth credited for Continuum fingerboard and processing.
author: Sarth Calhoun
---
[Transmissions](/transmissions/) / Lou Reed Live at Lollapalooza 2009

Transmission · Dream

# *Lou Reed Live at Lollapalooza 2009*

*Lou Reed Live at Lollapalooza 2009* is the official DVD of [Lou Reed](/conspirators/lou-reed/)’s set at Lollapalooza in Grant Park, Chicago, on Sunday, August 9, 2009, released July 19, 2011. The band was Mike Rathke and Steve Hunter on guitars, Kevin Hearn on keyboards, [Rob Wasserman](/conspirators/rob-wasserman/) on bass, Tony “Thunder” Smith on drums, [Ulrich Krieger](/conspirators/ulrich-krieger/) on saxophone, and me on electronics and Continuum.

![Sarth Calhoun performing at Lollapalooza, a bass headstock in the foreground.](/images/lolla-dvd-show.jpg)

Sarth Calhoun at Lollapalooza, August 9, 2009.

> Reed, on the other hand, brought the weekend’s most audacious music, a set laced with bile, violence and feedback, never more so than when he threaded a raging “Paranoia Key of E” into a pile-driving “Waiting for the Man.”
> 
> Greg Kot, [Chicago Tribune, August 10, 2009](https://www.chicagotribune.com/2009/08/10/lollapalooza-does-it-again/)

## The set

Day three, to a capacity crowd of forty thousand. [Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lou-reed-snarls-vampire-weekend-bounce-on-eclectic-lollapalooza-day-three-2-65494/) noted Reed ran fifteen minutes over. Inside the set, [Metal Machine Trio](/conspiracies/metal-machine-trio/) played a ten minute noise interlude between the songs. The date is on [Sightings](/sightings/).

## The interlude

Ulrich Krieger, writing after Reed died: At 2009’s Lollapalooza MM3 played a ten minute noise interlude between well known Reed songs to the frantic cheers of a large audience. And of the tours that followed: On subsequent tours with his newly revised rock group, including Sarth and me, he would play MM3 recordings before and after shows.

Credits: From [loureed.com](https://loureed.com/news/lou-reed-live-at-lollapalooza-2009-dvd/): Mike Rathke, guitar. Steve Hunter, guitar. Kevin Hearn, keyboards. Rob Wasserman, bass. Tony “Thunder” Smith, drums. Ulrich Krieger, saxophone. Sarth Calhoun, electronics and continuum. [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/release/15272070) lists it on Sister Ray Enterprises, Sarth credited for Continuum fingerboard and processing.

> Rob Wasserman’s upright electric bass, Kevin Hearn’s string/horn patches, Sarth Calhoun’s invisible Macbookery, and guitarist Steve Hunter’s fiery if decidedly inside-the-box solos.
> 
> Jesse Jarnow on the same band a year earlier, [The Village Voice, May 6, 2008](https://villagevoice.com/2008/05/06/live-lou-reed-at-the-highline-ballrooms-first-birthday-party)

## Conspiracies

This is [Lou Reed’s song band](/conspiracies/lou-reed-song-band/) on film, with [Metal Machine Trio](/conspiracies/metal-machine-trio/) inside it. [Rob Wasserman](/conspirators/rob-wasserman/) and [Ulrich Krieger](/conspirators/ulrich-krieger/) have their own pages. My rig that day was the Continuum and [Kyma](/devices/).

Credits verbatim from loureed.com. The Krieger lines are from “Unclassifiable,” [The Wire](https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/lou-reed-1942-2013_ulrich-krieger_unclassifiable), 2013.