Word: patty
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PATTI SMITH: HORSES (Arista; $6.98). The author of two published books of verse, Patti Smith has worked as a musician intermittently over the past year or so, mainly in New York underground night spots. Dylan turned up at a performance recently-an event that confers rock's official blessing. Her debut record, like her wild-eyed poems, reveals an artist who is gifted but undisciplined. Leading off with Gloria in excelsis deo ("Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine"), her dark voice projects a tough, fragile, street-girl image. The showcase number, Horses, invokes Rimbaud...
Nona Hendrix, bathed in eerie green light, portrays the "System" while Patti and Sara sing to her: "System--Leave Me Alone." Nona does not represent the "system" of the 60's--the "fascist war-mongering machine," the "military industrial complex" which will bring riot police out to face protesters; she is the "System" which we in the 70's have to cope with: a system which uses seductive promises of monetary security and personal advancement to entice us into joining it. Was this song (written by Hendrix) something one could hear in a German cabaret during the Weimar Republic...
Three fine vocalists, the group descends from Patti Labelle and the Blubelles, the also-sang soul trio that followed in the wake of the Supremes during the mid-sixties. Since their return from Europe little more than a year ago, the group has developed a totally new act and a sound destined to sway the record charts for quite a while...
...costumes worn by the three women were awesome, bizarre to the extent that one wonders what manner of being could create such trappings. During the first half of the performance the three ladies appeared in outfits of all silver, ranging from Patti's futuristic gown to Nona's space-like body suit, seemingly painted over her shapely figure...
...behold. The spotlight found Nona on stage left with a black floor-length cape covering an enticingly sheer body-stocking with silver boots and silver plates, discreetly covering a minimal portion of her body. A huge white plume crowned her head. She and Sarah lifted their eyes upward as Patti Labelle appeared atop a 20-foot stairway in center stage, wearing a cape and train profusely ornamented with orange and black feathers, reiterating the program's theme and title of the group's latest LP recording with Epic, "Nightbirds...