Posted on 09/01/2005 4:13:47 PM PDT by Kaslin
U.S. singer and musician Patti Smith attacked business and President George W. Bush at a press event in St. Petersburg on Thursday, where she received an excited response from the local journalists and fans.
“The world right now is really f***ed up,” she said addressing the 100-strong crowd that gathered at the “505” record shop on Bolshaya Konyushennaya Ulitsa.
“The world right now is being run by a**holes like George Bush and pharmaceutical companies, these greedy people who don’t care about the environment, who don’t really understand the poor, who don’t understand other cultures. We are the underground and we have to get strong, because the world is being run by business.”
Smith performs at the Music Hall on Friday.
Boldly, Smith turned the press conference into something less formal; she never took her seat or used a microphone, standing up, speaking loud. She also took an acoustic guitar and gave an emotional performance of “In My Blakean Year” from the 2004 album “Trampin’,” her most recent.
“People Have the Power,” proclaimed Smith, 58, during a brief link-up with Radio ROKS, a local station. She wore a CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) badge and a small pin representing Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters, France’s highest cultural decoration, that she received from the French Ministry of Culture in July.
According to Smith, who helped to change rock music as a punk singer and poet in the 1970s, major record companies are doomed to die out.
“They have been greedy and they will crumble, and I think that the independent industry is the only thing that will live,” Smith said.
“Now with today’s technology, young people don’t even need record companies. They can gather some money, make their own CDs, they can share them, they can download them. To me that’s fine,” Smith added.
“Rock and roll is not a business, it’s a voice that we can use politically, artistically, poetically. ... And hopefully new young people will infuse new blood into that idea. That’s what my band was trying to do,” Smith said.
I mean, what good is it to control the House, Senate and Presidency if you can't just shoot people that need shooting?
I got a job in a piss factory inspecting the pipes. Its a paycheck, jack.
When an entertainer becomes butt ugly and loses their talent, they attack President Bush and America to sell their old CDs and albums in countries that hate us.
why is she holding a picture of peter frampton?
LMAO stopit you're killing me...
LOLOL!
"Maybe she should don a rescuers vest and seek victims out after dark in downtown New Orleans so she could really get a grip on things."
The same with Sheehan. Both are in need of a reality check.
Yet another plagiarist walks in the shoes of Michael Moore and Sheehan, who stole their talking points from the DUngHeap.
Without pharmaceuticals, there wouldn't be too many new drugs.
This windbag needs to get a life.
Please tell me Debby kicked her a**
He's just pissed they changed the name back to St. Petersburg.
Never heard of her. I don't think I have missed much.
I think her hormone shots have caused dementia.
and I thought that was Hillary having a bad hair day!!!
"Islam would be a good match for her. They are the most disorganized religions ever."
Their thinking is distorted, too. A great magnet for liberals.
yup , one foot in the grave , the other foot on a banana peel
;o)
"Without pharmaceuticals, there wouldn't be too many new drugs."
With the amount of whatever she's on, I would think she'd appreciate pharmaceutical companies.
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