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...Punk...
Boston rock and roll is reeling. Critics call it "new wave" but the musicians and their devotees uniformly say it's "punk." Whatever you prefer to call it, it's Boston's genuine sound, some of the most exciting music around, branded by a particular rancor, commenting on everything from politics to love to disco...
...which Patti Smith has sought for a long time--the unification of poetry and sound--and commercial success has given her the freedom to do whatever she wants in a studio. And no one can deny her talent, her mind and her music--it still moves. What is a punk, anyway? Where have you seen safety pins put through leather jackets and chains and clashing colors worn with jackboots? It's nowhere. It's nothing. It's a unique look, deliberately designed to resemble nothing else around it: it is an effort to isolate and distinguish, to glorify and attract...
...Patti Smith is one punk who has transcended the need for self-glorification and has instead found her ability to express her angst, however sophomoric it may appear at times...
...SYMBOLS themselves are meaningless, like words without perceptions. And to cling to any symbol--whether to be mindlessly patriotic or trendgoing punk--is decadent. And this is where the angst either emerges, or turns the knife inward. This is where confused fools lose themselves in their symbols and overdose, and it is where artists use their symbols, change them, flex them, adapt them, to express their angst. It's facing reality: Iggy Pop is a fool, Sid Vicious is dead, Johnny Rotten is dying, and Patti Smith is fucking with the future.*CrimsonLaura J. Levine...