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I read through 11 pages of comments here hoping for someone to at least explain why Lou Reed would play large chunks of a show with his back to the audience - it's all about the feedback and you have to be facing the amp to get it right. With the exception of Neil Young I'm not sure any other musician continuosly working from the Sixties to the present has put as much time and energy into making feedback an integrated part of the song rather than an ear-splitting bit of razzle dazzle. Hendrix had his back to the audience when he humped his amp at Monterey but does anyone really think he just liked his amp that well or was it just showmanship on top of the search for feedback - the voice of god singing to us all.
