Word: smiths
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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...
Standing out on the ice on that Thursday night in January, the people at the end of the line are getting anxious. They are not exactly worried whether or not Patti Smith is A Legend Before Her Own Time. More to the point, they wonder if they can be saved from frostbite. The guys at the door don't tell anyone what the limit will be. They are letting people in slowly, slowly, like a bloodletting. Two hundred and fifty people are allowed to challenge the fire laws before the last 50 are told to forget it. An hour...
NONFICTION 1-Doris Day, Hotchner (1) 2-World of Our Fathers, Howe (4) 3-The Russians, Smith (6) 4-Bring On the Empty Horses, Niven (3) 5-The People's Almanac, Wallechinsky & Wallace (7) 6-The Relaxation Response, Benson (2) 7-Winning Through Intimidation, Ringer (5) 8-Angels, Graham (8) 9-The Adams Chronicles, Shepherd (9) 10-My Search for Patty Hearst, Weed