Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Sunday, March 27, 2005
Patti Smith says:
“Patti Smith is not only a great performer, she is a shaman--that is, someone in touch with other levels of reality.”
- William S. Burroughs
Posted by Lee Hall on from 03/28 at 01:26 AM...which, I think, makes it perfectly acceptable to extrapolate from one album to another.
Posted by Lee Hall on from 03/28 at 01:34 AMPatti has meant so much to so many people for so long it would be impossible to measure her importance and influence. I have loved her since I first heard “Horses” played in its entirety on 96 Rock in Atlanta. That must of been January, 1976. But I love her more for what she did for my dear, now deceased friend, Benjamin Smoke about 20 years later. Smith had seen Benjamin’s band Smoke play somewhere and she liked it enough to write a song about him/them called “Death Singing”. She included this song, along with a photo of Benjamin on “Peace & Noise” (1997). More importantly, for Benjamin, she called him up and told him about the song and how much she liked his music. Benjamin would not live too much longer. He was in the advanced stages of HIV and also suffered from Hepatitis C, the later of which would eventually kill him. To those of us who loved him and to Benjamin himself, it was obvious, he did not have much time left. Yet, I have never seen him happier, than he was in the days and weeks following that phone call from his idol, Patti Smith. Thanks Patti.
Posted by Glen Thrasher on from Atlanta, GA 03/28 at 11:38 AMSince this thread is about a great performer, The Boss has just come out with a new album.
One song, in particular, is said by his close friends to be anti-war. It’s called “Devils & Dust”. Give a listen here:
http://music.channel.aol.com/franchise/firstlisten.adp
They don’t call him The Boss for nothing.
NR
Posted by Nader Rider on from 03/28 at 11:45 PM
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