ROBERT QUINE WITH LOU REED, "CONEY ISLAND BABY" AND "WHITE LIGHT"

There's a lot of nice Quine here, raunchy solos and fills on both songs. It's interesting to see how Quine can play a bunch of hoary blues/Chuck Berry cliches and make them all sound obnoxious and fractured. I think it has something to do with his aggressive attack and liberal use of staccato (pretty atypical for rock guitarists).

Quine's work with Reed is a beautiful example of how a dense thicket of guitar fills around a vocal can be a very effective rock and roll sound. The Reed/Quine combo is sort of a punk rock version of Mick Taylor and Keith Richards. Quine and Reed are in the top tier of rock guitar teams, as far as I'm concerned.

I believe this clip is from the "Coney Island Baby" DVD, which I have been trying to track down. It doesn't seem to be in print, although you can find "A Night with Lou Reed" on Amazon, and it has a lot of great solos by both Quine and Reed.