katrina benefit '06
she's with the king (since like '92) so I suppose that makes her the queen, right? oh well, most of you people will never get it. She's too truly avant-garde & too ahead of her time. She made it into John Peel's record box, for lord's sake. Even Lou didn't. She was on the scene with Glenn & Rhys before anything even went down. She was Andy Kaufman's "straight-man" audience plant too. She speaks many languages & performs most foriegn concerts in the vernacular. She was the first artist to release an interactive CD-ROM with Puppet Motel. She was the first (& last) artist-in-residence for NASA. She can make art in any media. She invented the modern multimedia stage show & many instruments. She doesn't tour with a lot of equipment anymore, however, & mainly just relies on her storytelling mastery. She was the featured musical act at the state-of-the-art World Expo last year in Aichi, Japan.
when asked about Laurie's music by Charlie Rose in 2003 (after some 9 years together, mind you), Lou praised her to the skies & said "she's
the best...THE BEST" & kept going on & on....Charlie was interviewing Lou for NYC Man & the whole time he could not stop talking about Laurie. (& Andy Warhol too) You could tell she was a little embarrased.