For anyone interested I'm thinking of starting a "Rockin' 80s" ping list!!
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.
For anyone interested I'm thinking of starting a "Rockin' 80s" ping list!!
Captain Caaave Maaaaaaaan!
Man!!
Talk about not aging well!!!
Scandal's "Goodbye to You," gets decent airplay on many stations today, esp. during "80s hours" and such. In fact it almost equals "The Warrior" in airplay. However, while "Goodbye to You" is a catchy, well known song, it only reached #65 on the Billboard Hot 100. "The Warrior" hit number 7.
Who the heck is Patti Smith, and what did she ever change????
Ron Keel started out in the band Steeler with Yngwie Malmsteen. After Keel he did a few country records, which I haven't heard, but are probably better than most so-called 90s "rock".
We have a word for women like Patti Smith up here in Canada...........whore!!
who she?
Geez, John Kerry and Terry Kerry must be tired of getting beat up by ugly guys like this!
I love Malmsteen. I haven't really heard Steeler but I assume I'd like them, just can't ever find anything by them.
Alcatrazz was a good band, too.
Keel's country stuff ain't bad, but then again I'm not a country fan so what do I know!!
My dad says that she was dissin' Republicans even before nobody knew who she was, which was right before the current generation of people who don't know who she is. Or maybe it was the one before that.
"Pretty good, but she's no "Candy Slice"...."
LOL! How true. Gilda Radner did Patti Smith better than Patti Smith.
Who is she anyway?
never heard of this foul-mouthed, profound thang...glad I missed out - must be cuz I'm into country music
I've heard a few Steeler tracks on online radio, good hard rock. I'll listen to country if it's on, it's better than what they call music these days.
That must explain where BOC got "more cowbell"...they borrowed the one she had hung around her neck...
Hope they broke the mold this time !
I was just reading this thread to see if anyone was going to comment on Gilda's take on Patti.
Didn't Gilda strike a pose that mimicked Patti's album cover as she(Gilda) combed her 'pits.
I DO remember this skit as being hysterically funny.
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