One of the best live albums ever released.

My favourite versión by far, the bass is wicked

Le morceau de légende mes amis !!! Ça groove monstrueux du début à la fin et ça monte monte monte.... 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

I really wish I had met Lou Reed. He was the genius of punk music.

Lou with two incredible lead guitarists, Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner. With these gentlemen playing together, it's hand you can't beat.

This one's a Rock N Roll locomotive at full throttle, no brakes and heading for a wall. This one and "Kick Out the Jams" (The MC5) has all the subtilty of a solid concrete block tossed through a plate glass window. Simply bruisin'! Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner were a formidable duo. Prakesh John on bass is incredible. I remember buying "Rock N Roll Animal" when it debuted. I wore it out in short order. Lou Reed (RIP)

Steve Hunter 's best job ever!! He has put his name on this one !

Reed rocks

The God Father of Punk

Shit Kickin' guitar play!

Prakash John machine

First time I heard a Maestro phase shifter on the guitar intro to Sweet Jane. Talk about a galvanizing moment! Only thing better was a Uni-vibe on Machine Gun on Band Of Gypsies or Clapton rockin' a wah wah. Man I was blessed to hear those pedals! Thankyou soooo much for making me spend ALL my money on guitar effects. I salute the men.who brought them to life. Oh...Behave! Killer stomp box inventors! 😜

Wunderbare Seite... Vielen Dank fürs Runterladen ( Rock `n Roll did save my Live )...

Da quando l'ho sentita la prima volta ogni tanto la devo mettere su 🤷

Far and away the very best version of this song ever released. Where the original captured the pulsating, orgasmically charged rush of slamming methamphetamine, this embodies the relentless euphoria and feeling of super-soldier invincibility brought on from smoking ice. For all the talk about glam’s obvious influence on Lou’s sound in this era, I hear this song in particular as more of a proto-hardcore punk reimagining. As near as I can tell, Lou ditched this version-along with most of the RNRA adaptations-because of how almost comically these tracks showcase the backing band’s outrageous talent vs. Lou’s vocals, which meld perfectly but obviously lack the technical proficiency on full display everywhere else. What a shame. I’ve always been surprised more bands haven’t chosen to cover this song-specifically this version.

This song is so badass how am i the first to comment on it.

The very same band appeared in the Bette Midler movie "The Rose", as her backing band. Strange, but true! Great shots of Penti Glan playing a bizarre -looking Camco drum set. Then, Alice Cooper heard this very album and stole the band away from Lou Reed. You can see this band on Alice's "Welcome to My Nightmare". Aye, rock n' roll is a harsh mistress.

Everyone agrees this is great--except for Lou Reed. I read that Lou Reed resented being upstaged--maybe resented it as early as during the live shows or maybe when the LP became a hit (he enjoyed commercial success at last--he probably asked himself "Have I sold out?"). He viewed this hot band as a mistake. It was like he was pushed to the side, a mere vocalist between guitar solos, not the star performer. He performed with these skilled musicians but did not know ahead of time that these guys would get so much applause (I'm not sure he personally hired them--maybe someone else such as Bob Ezrin did the hiring). In 1972, before being with these amazing musicians, Lou Reed's live shows had weak musicians. Those shows were a snooze, and Lou Reed's career was stalling. Then magic with the late 1973 Rock and Roll Animal concerts.. Audiences listening to FM radio felt Lou Reed struck gold with Wagner, Hunter, Prakash John (amazing bass player), and Penti Glan (great drums). But Lou didn't feel that way. From 1975 onwards Lou Reed would never again let others upstage him. He would NOT allow great musicians like Wagner and Hunter to steal shows. The result in Lou Reed's later years: mediocre records, disappointing live shows. Lots of people went to Lou Reed live shows in the late 1970s expecting THIS kind of hot show (the Rock and Roll Animal lp was a big hit, as I said), but audiences at shows from 1975 onwards felt disappointment. By the way, I had a friend who went to a Lou Reed live show around 1974 or 1975 with the expectation that it would be like Rock and Roll Animal. My friend was amazed that Lou Reed was shooting up heroin on the stage. Ah, but maybe it was medicine for diabetes--or nothing. Was real heroin being used, or was this mere theater (like in an Alice Cooper show)? Nobody can know for sure except for Lou Reed.

From the 2012 movie Lawless.

Who is the Bassist? Great Job here!!

Need to go from this to Train Kept A Rollin' from Aerosmith (well, sorta), for SURE!!

perfectly describes the first hit of heroin, you chase the dragon forever after

Better leave that PCP alone!!!

On en aurait bien besoin d'un peu plus de clarté!

Jeff Bezos...are you listening? I'm just drinking and crying and I can't do anything

Long life to heroin!!!

A little meth goes along way.