...there just aren't enough heart attacks in the world today.
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.
Nobody plays her version, although you hear the remake that 10000 Maniacs did (better version IMHO) every once in a while.
Keel (obscure 80s hair metal band) also did a version in '87 that wasn't bad.
*sigh* That's just ...just ... it's *sniff*...poetry.....
Yes...she was more talented and more attractive than this old hippie.
Sorry I'm stumped... both by the name and the pic.
Is this a man or a women, because I sure as hell have never herard of 'it' before.
oh ew.
It that a 5 O'clock shadow?
she's a man, baby!
I didn't know Helen Thomas had a son!!!
That creature must be the illegitimate offspring of Helen Thomas and Bill Clinton......
Once again... if this nation is so terribly run, why not move to Europe where perfection exists right now?
If not Europe, there's China, Russia, Venezuala, Cuba... surely one of these leftist havens would suffice.
Patti, we truly want you to be happy. Please move to the "worker's paradise" of your choice, and leave us in peace. You know, the "peace" you folks love to preach about constantly.
Uh, that's Cousin Itt, two T's, to you. And unlike this crone, Cousin Itt never belabored us with a face.
...there just aren't enough heart attacks in the world today.
I liked her version of "Because the Night". Springsteen wrote it and his version is very weak in comparison.
Ms. Smith looks a bit weathered!
Id rather be a lampost in Casper WY, than to wear something like that publicly..
She is a skank who's music always sucked. Who gives a **** what she has to say.
Another has-been baby boomer rocker driveling on about subjects that are waaayyyy over her adled mind.
Nothing to see here, move along.
You should post a warning with that picture.
STFU Patti.
Correction that would be Patti Smythe.
Is that photo she's holding a picture of her in her "less ugly" days?
Oh my Gosh, I didn't know Kieth Richards had a sex change operation....
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