Saw them with Taste (Rory Gallagher), and they did indeed kick, but with their left feet, dude.
Fred "Sonic" Smith married Patti Smith, I believe.
Saw Patti a few times, and she was VERY cool. She opened for the Stones on one of the tours; her dream come true, since at the party celebrating the release of her first LP (Horses, I think it was), she demanded that the guy in charge of the deal get SOME EFFIN' STONES' RECORDS to play, and then tried to kick Alice Cooper out of the place ("There are certain people here who do not belong here . .").
Rock. What a sub-culture!