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.
"Candy Slice" get's up off the floor long enough to spout nonsense.
What a cutie..../s/
" 100-strong crowd that gathered at the “505” record shop on Bolshaya Konyushennaya Ulitsa "
99 probably would have been there regardless of whether or not Patti was shooting her mouth off ...
Geez, if it weren't for the name Patti, no one would know for certain that she was female. Also, if she could just keep her mouth shut, no one would know that she's so stupid!
OMG!!! I SO needed a laugh today! Thank you for posting!!!
Ah, yes. Her only hit song. And nobody under 30 has ever heard it.
I can't even get mad about this one - it would be like gettting P.O.'ed at Cousin It.
" She's fetching! "
You mean like , " Fetch me the ball Fido ! " ?
I'll have to check this out - coulda swore that obnoxious ballad was sung by Benatar.
“The world right now is really f***ed up,”
Yeah, because of low life scumbags like her whose amorality has brought the judgments of God against us.
Who is Patti Smith?
ok, never mind: you have proved yourself correct.
mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa ;)
'Potti Mouth' Smith
Never heard of her.
LOL..
She's fetching alright..
Fetchin' muh Maalox for me.
Damn! She's as lovely as Cindy Sheehan.....and mick jagger.
Feel sorry for her husband.
John Mcenroe
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