Lou Reed : Impossible to imagine past 50 years of rock without Michaelangelo Matos . Three chords , and you 're into jazz . '' He says glam , punk and all alt rock in his debt ; Stones , U2 , REM among those influenced . His music transgressed , with topics such as NYC , hard drugs ; his view alienated , he says . Matos : Rock was S & M 's poetry , and he became paterfamilias to Reed 's rock scene .
Lou Reed : Impossible to imagine past 50 years of rock without Michaelangelo Matos . He says glam , punk and all alt rock in his debt ; Stones , U2 , REM among those influenced . His music transgressed , with topics such as NYC , hard drugs ; his view alienated , he says . Matos : Rock was S & M 's poetry , and he became paterfamilias to Reed 's rock scene .