Lou Reed – Rock N Roll Animal

Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this 1974 release. Rock n Roll Animal is a live album by Lou Reed, released by RCA Records. In it’s original form, it features five songs, four of which are Velvet Underground songs. The musicians were Pentti Glan (drums) and Prakash John (bass), Ray Colcord (keyboards), and Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter on guitars. (The two guitarists would later form the basis of the second Alice Cooper band, beginning on Welcome to My Nightmare, which also features Glan and John.) The album was recorded live on December 21, 1973, at Howard Stein’s Academy of Music in New York City. A sleeper hit, it peaked at #45 on the Billboard album chart during a twenty-eight week stay before earning Reed’s first RIAA gold certification in 1978.