John Cameron Mitchell & Eyelids' Chris Slusarenko open up about paying tribute to LouReed with benefit EP
on stage for a special performance this last August, they decided to do something different. Sure, the group performed a track from the former's iconic smash-hit musical , but they also gave the audience something much more unexpected: a cover of"It just was so powerful and gorgeous," says Chris Slusarenko, the guitarist and vocalist for Eyelids. "I think pretty quickly, we were like, 'Let's just get this in the studio.'" was born.
But in choosing which songs to perform on the project, the band and Mitchell wanted to pick songs that spoke to them, rather than simply performing Reed's big hits. For example, when creating his version of "Turning Time Around" for a performance of Reed's music at Lincoln Center, Mitchell took W.B. Yeats' poem "," and interpolated it into the song's final moments, inspired by his friend and performance artist Justin Vivian Bond.
For Slusarenko, Reed's music isn't necessarily timeless, but rather "suitable" for the time we're currently living in -- especially with his intertwining of different emotions into a portrait of real complexity. "I think we really did a lovely job of showing the different faces of Lou that are still full of love, even if it's an angry song," he says. "There's heart in it.
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