Patti, if I were you I'd take some of that money you've earned over the lifetime of your so-called 'career' and invest it in plastic surgery and a frontal lobotomy.
As for your opinions, nobody worth a damn gives a damn.
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.
And they call US the party of hate??? These people are totally out of their damned minds!! I can't believe people actually think like this!
Never heard of her - glad of it.
"Who the heck is Patti Smith, and what did she ever change????"
From the looks of it, her sex.
Code for "I can't get a contract with a record company."
Is that a picture of her? Who is Patti Smith?
Actually, thinking about our reactions, and looking at the posted picture, I'm reminded of a comment that Frank Zappa made concerning jazz:
"It's not dead, it just smells funny..."
skanky as ever!
It figures. The one who started the thread is that estrogen crazed pervert "symbolman", one of the Left's premier Collaborators.
:>)
I have no idea who this lady is...and I graduated high school in 70.
If she was the source of this great change in music of that era.....then who is she why am I not familiar with her? I don't think I'm senile, yet. I remmber Beatles, 10 Years After, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, etc. I remember Carly Simon, James Taylor, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, etc. I even remember Joanie Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot.
But for the life of me, I don't remember this lady at all.
Do you have a link to the one with the rocket launcher comment?
She always looked like that.
If she really cared...she would donate some $$$ and end her tour...save fuel...
Oh, I am sorry, she is a musician and above that sort of stuff...her music is more important...idiot!
Wasn't this the toad that Ted Nugent told her "he could smell her b.o. from across Eight Mile Road"?
I've never heard of her, either...and I really, really wish I'd never seen her.
Never heard of her. Guess I haven't been missing much.
At work today I forwarded the DU comment to the FBI. I'll post the link soon as I can find it
I have no idea who she is, but I would bet she is the one who ran off with the Ruby Slippers the other day.
She resembles Streisand in the color photo, but she looks mannish on the album cover.
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