If Iggy Pop and David Spade mated.
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 those tunes were none too good.
["Vera Geminii" for example]
Her one big popular "hit" was written by Bruce Springsteen.
["Because the Night"]
The only other song she ever did that impressed me was "Pissing in a River" which was featured on the 80s cult movie "Times Square" which had a -great- punk soundtrack.
[and the proof of her obscurity will be the immense number of FReepers who have never even *heard* of that movie!]...;))
Gilda Radner did a wicked imitation of her on the old SNL, though....;)
Michael Moorcock wrote a lot of lyrics for BOC too but he's apparently wise enough to keep his political yap shut.
[Ah think ol' Patti could use a little "more cowbell", if'n ya gits muh drift]....>:-]
How could they omit her infamous "trademark armpits"?!?
If Iggy Pop and David Spade mated.
Acid induced flashbacks.
They really think they're flaming Nixon.
Marshall's Law?
Now ya gone and done it....:)
Since I got invoked to this thread under "the BOC rule", here's some apropos "Marshall" related lyrics
"The Marshall Plan"
In a dark horse town, in the middle of the west
Where Friday takes so long to
arrive
Johnny wakes up dreaming turns on the radio
The he jumps up plays
his guitar in the mirror
Starts his day with a rock and roll
pose
Tonight's the night that Susie and he
Are going to a rock and roll
show
Tonight! I'm gonna see some rock and roll!
Yeah, my favorite
group is playing!
Tonight! I'm gonna see some rock and roll!
Well it's
showtime and he's caught up in the crowd
He hates the crush but he loves the
music loud
He reaches out and Susie's disappeared,
Now Johnny's standing
on a corner after the show
Looking for his Susie dear
But there goes his
Susie - in the band's limousine!
Yeah, well that's the way it goes at these
rock and roll shows
That's the way it goes - it's rock and roll
That's
the way it goes - it's rock and roll
Now Susie's gone, and Johnny hears
the thunder
As he rolls another number and he counts
He counts the times
he's felt himself to be the hero
'Cause ever since he was a boy
He's heard
about adventure
As he looks into the mirror now he knows
He must be the
star and play guitar like thunder
Find Susie at his rock and roll
show
Boy, if I only had a good guitar and a big amp
Boy, it wouldn't
be somebody else taking my girl away...tell ya
I know what I should do...I'll
put an ad in the paper
Get a few other guys who want to play as much as I
do
Tell ya, I ain't playin' no surf music
I'm gonna play some heavy
music
I'm gonna play bad
I'm gonna play loud
I know just what I want it
to sound like
It's gonna sound like...
It's gonna sound
like...
This is Don Kirshner
And tonight on Don Kirshner's Rock
Concert
A new phenomenon in the music world
With six million albums to his
credit in just two short years
My good friend, here's Johnny!
Now
Johnny became a legend in his time
Found it easier to live in pain
Half a
hero in a hard-hearted game
Now it's showtime and he's caught up in the
flow
He hates the rush but he needs the music so
Still he reaches out but
Susie's disappeared
Well that's the way it goes at these rock and roll
shows
It's rock and roll
That's the way it goes - It's rock and
roll
It's true, no one deserves that. Not even an over-acheiving manboy like the wee Spadester.
Patti Smith?
Who's the guy in the pic? Is that him?
Patty SmYthe...much better looking.
Better overachieving than underachieving slacker. Manboy? Not at all, not even debatable.
Achievement oriented man. And funny too.
"Where is the fresh water you bastard?"
Just read that link....nasty folk over there, huh?
Overacheiving as in lasting and remaining long beyond his skill set.
Like Alan Alda.
BTW, just love that puberty-proving beard he's wearing.
Ouch, what'd he ever do to you?
Like Alan Alda.
Now that's uncalled for. That's as bad as the Patti Smith comparison. Alan Alda and Patti Smith are exponentially worse than he ever could be.
BTW, just love that puberty-proving beard he's wearing.
It proves nothing, it doesn't need to prove anything. That thing about the cigar? True here. It was for a role, it's different now.
I didn't realize that. I always liked the "Goodbye to You" video.
What a C
Who is Patti Smith?
BTW, I did not know who Rosanne Barr was until after she was in reruns!
Which, I'm guessing, won't be "run by business."
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