Enough filth and BS.
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.
"This is Henry after Val had him "cut."
It seems that the only way for pathetic has-beens to get any publicity nowadays is to trash the President. Bad press is better than no press. A few months ago it was another has-been. Gov. Moonbeam's ex-girlfriend, I believe.
LOL.
She needs to shampoo that 'do. Johnson & Johnson, baby!
Enough filth and BS.
Let her straddle a fire hydrant for comfort and consolation in view of her ugliness and previous anonymity. What's she do that is useful?
Good lord! The passing decades have not been kind to Smith.
Patti Smith? I never heard of her. Is she just another nobody who thinks she was somebody?
Three-bagger alert!
I notice that the bee-yotch made her silly remarks in Russia. Do we HAVE to let her ugly butt back in the United States?
That would be the late Fred "Sonic" Smith of the legendary MC5. They married in 1980, and she pretty much gave up her career to take care of his declining health and raise two kids in the Detroit suburbs. After Fred died and her children were in their teens, she started a modest comeback. She puts out an album every few years and tours behind it. Each album has a couple of good tracks, but nothing like the masterpieces of her early career, which still hold up quite well.
Time is not kind to Smith. Of course, nature wasn't too generous to begin with. Imagine the double handicap of ugly and stupid. Let's start a relief fund for her...
IMHO she gave punk a lame name. "Rock'n'Roll Nigger" had a decent guitar riff in the intro, then the lyrics took it down.
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never heard of this person
IIRC, she was best known for her underarm hair, which explains the French award...
Mark
Exactly . . . who the - - - - is this guy?
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