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"I have a B.A. in dope—and a Ph.D. in soul," said Velvet Underground alum Lou Reed during his keynote address at SXSW on Thursday morning. But that's not all he said. Another gem: “Punk in the old days meant a coward. I meant punk—aggressive steel street action. That’s what I meant, and there they were, like a lot of these bands last night. All that young guy stuff? That’s punk. No one did that, and now it exists, and it will forever, because where else are we going to put it? It’s there or jail.”

If you want to catch a bit of the wit (or, you know, music) emanating from Mr. Reed, he'll be touring the world over the next few months. Pitchfork reports that the European leg of the tour will feature a 30-piece band, a children's choir and a set designed by The Diving Bell and the Butterfly director Julian Schnabel.

Take a tour on the wild side:

March
18 - Brooklyn, N.Y. @ St. Ann's Warehouse

April
20 - Northampton, Mass. @ Calvin Theater
25 - Norfolk, Va. @ The NorVA
26 - Richmond, Va. @ The National
28 - Durham, N.C. @ Carolina Theatre
29 - Asheville, N.C. @ Orange Peel
30 - Knoxville, Tenn. @ Tennessee Theatre

June
23 - Cork, Ireland @ Cork Marquee
24 - Belfast, Northern Ireland @ Belfast Waterfront
25 - Edinburgh, Scotland @ Edinburgh Playhouse
26 - Nottingham, England @ Royal Centre
29 - Paris, France @ Salle Pleyel
30 - London, England @ Royal Albert Hall

July
3 - Munich, Germany @ Munich Philharmonie
4 - Hamburg, Germany @ CCH Congress Centrum
7 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Copenhagen Opera House
9 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Annexet
11 - Tallinn, Estonia @ Saku Suurhall
12 - Riga, Latvia @ Arena Riga
14 - Warsaw, Poland @ Sala Kongresowa
16 - Brussels, Belgium @ Bozar
19 - Lisbon, Portugal @ Campo Pequeno
20 - Loule, Portugal @ Monumento Duarte Pacheco
21 - Malaga, Spain @ Terral
22 - Madrid, Spain @ Mardid Conde Duque
25 - Girona, Spain @ Portaferrada Festival
26 - Benidorm, Spain @ The Bullring