Word: patty
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Becaus0e the Night" marked the end of Patti Punk, a performer whose appeal was strong but limited. It marked the end of her raw scream-and-simmer tactics at the microphone too, because smooth, technosyncratic, polished albums mean similar concerts. The days when you could see Patti Smith wail out with Lenny Kaye at The Rat or The Bottom Line are gone. She was known to spit at her audiences, to jump on tables and kick drinks into the abyss. Patti Smith is now banned from The Bottom Line...
...think that I'm turning you on, you know. It's a good thing that "Because the Night" sold well and got on the radio because I was able to make more people happy that way, you know...and um...get them...involved in the rest of my music, "Patti says...
...would be easy to conclude that Patti Smith is being produced and retouched by the invisible, massive forces of the record industry. And it is true that mastermind technician Todd Rundgren produced her newly-released album, Wave. But it still isn't Boston, and that is because of the angst...
...angst has always been with Patti Smith, from Horses to Radio Ethiopia to Easter and even to Wave. If not present in pure noise, it is present in her whimpering and babelogue. Listen carefully. Behind the music of Patti Smith--behind her mesmerizing God-licks and Christ soliloquys--the seemingly mindless energy of punk is made indelibly clear and mindful...
...know what I'd do..." She looks back on her music now, perceptively, formulating a pseudo-philosophy around it, mending together her thoughts. Some of it seems so contrived, like all the stuff Jim Morrison mumbled in The Soft Parade. But it is all worth looking at, because Patti Smith was a precursor and now a survivor of a unique generation of rock'n' rollers, a generation which is now evolving and turning in new expressive directions. Enter Elvis Costello...