Word: patty
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REMEMBER Patti Smith...
...performer who recorded Patti Smith's Horses album is very different when she gets away from the vinyl. Backed by a very rudimentary R&Roll band with monotonous rhythms and very confined three chord 4/4 beat, with no electronic overtracking, overdubbing and overecho, she is very challenging and very real. She taunts the audience, she does battle with them, and she comes out ahead...
...Patti Smith fell for Rimbaud because his picture looked like Dylan. Now Dylan writes liner notes on Desire about Rimbaud, and when Patti Smith sees it for the first time she laughs and giggles because not only had Dylan come to see her perform, but he must have been influenced by her appetites...
...dolls, melted wax, plastic horses, alligators, kangaroos. Dirt. Ashes. All images in her poems. The altar stands in an alcove lined with an arch of over 200 of her albums. Photographers drain the juice on their electronic strobes as people shyly wait with pens. One kid, who stole Patti's "Braves" jersey the other night has come to return...
...PATTI COMES IN with long thin teardrop legs stuffed into jeans which are stuffed into boots. Wisecracking and cursing and strutting and smiling, she is not playing the sensitive artist. Davis had said he wouldn't give her the full promo treatment if she shrank from stuff like this. She is determined to have a good time. She says it's her birthday, and if true, she shares it with Richard Nixon...