I’ve written twice before about the late guitarist Robert Quine, so I’m going to keep the commentary to a minimum and just direct you to some YouTube clips of Quine playing with Lou Reed on the Legendary Hearts tour in 1984.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three seems to be MIA

Part Four

Part Five

That tour marked the end of the turbulent Reed/Quine collaboration, and seeing them perform together makes me wonder if ol’ Lou wasn’t worried about being upstaged…

One more clip - here’s Quine playing with Matthew Sweet on “Girlfriend.” I just wanted to post this for the way it shows Quine’s style. Here’s this bald old man, low-key and understated, standing all by himself in the back, completely out of place next to these young kids. Then he steps in for the solo and OWNS it, and you instantly see that he totally outclasses everyone on the stage. That man could play.