Lou Reed's concert at the Capitol Theatre in 1984 is one of the most extensive and complete documents of his solo career, capturing one of the fathers of alternative rock in a nearly two-hour performance that traversed decades of an incomparable trajectory.
The setlist was extraordinarily generous: Sweet Jane and Rock 'N' Roll from The Velvet Underground, the solo classics from Transformer and Berlin, and material from his latest eighties records coexisted in a performance that demonstrated the extraordinary coherence and reach of Reed's work.
Capitol Theatre 1984 is a portrait of Lou Reed in his second great creative era: the artist who had built avant-garde rock since the 1960s and who was now revisiting that legacy with the wisdom and irony of someone who knows exactly what they have done and what it's worth.