Patti Smith's Meltdown

Patti performs all of Horses with John Cale another night.

Malian bands and Television too.

Maybe she will have a meltdown at one of these nights...

One can only hope.

Steve Earle. Television. John Cale. ARRRGGH!! Those 2 homages to William Blake look a-mazing. I mean even with Patti alone that would be stellar, but Tori, Sinead, Kirstin Hersch...Flea, Frusciante... Does anyone WHO CARES [ie not Alex, Tim, Steve, etc] have the ability to go to this & report back? So that I may live vicariously through thee and be forever grateful?

xpost: WE WANT REPORTS! WE WANT REPORTS! WE WANT REPORTS!

(Hey, I love Patti Smith, if only for demonstrating just how much milage one could get in the mid-70s on Lenny Kaye and an attitude).

as for her recent stuff, uh... i don't get why anyone cares.

Who is stopping you?

Who is stopping you?

Voluminous posting of huge animated gifs and insanely hostile comments does make it kind of hard to carry on a conversation through it. Things seem to have simmered down now, though.

It is quiet now though....

So, while the kids are off playing WhackAMole, let it be known that I'm still jonesing for that Patti/Steve Earle gig. Damn that would be cool.

xpost
I've never heard anything by Steve Earle and know nothing about him. Recommend me one song to download.

......OK, you've succeeded. I'm out of here. Do excuse my interruption of your enjoyment of gifs and hatorade.

Go and download...Johnny Come Lately, Guitar Town, Galway Girl, and Breed (his Nirvana cover, which is actually kinda cool).

Fine hole I've dug for myself now. Alex, this is all your fault!

For the want of a Horse my thread was lost...

That 'hatorade' thing *was* kind of weird though. Ill-advised...

Who knew?

In terms of Mapplethorpe's photos of a nude Patti Smith, I find them as provocative and interesting as pungent fish-wrapping.

[xpost] Huh. You know, you're kind of onto something there.

http://www.sydbarrett.net/images/69-73/SydRoom/69-1.jpg

Though I can't think of a more amusing way to watch a thread die, in all honesty. Horses, Hatorade, Pungent-fish-wrappings, it's got it all!!

As someone who has suffered four years of "pot-stirring" at the expense of some of my favorite bands, je regret rien.

HA! I say.

HA!

BREAK IT UP! OH, I DON'T UNDERSTAND!
BREAK IT UP! I CAN'T COMPREHEND

etc.

Besides, killing her in such a fashion would only make her a martyr, which would hardly please you.

BOY HOWDY, LET'S HEAR IT FOR SERIOUS ROCKCRIT

xpost: Well, not really. Because there'd be movies, tribute concerts, album reissues, the anniversary edition of Horses that would take Kimberly to number one & the whole album would be immediately blasted onto all ipods in the land...Rock N Roll Nigger would become the national anthem & you'd have to sing it every morning before leaving the house...seriously dude, it'd be louder with her subsequent martyrdom, than now in her twilight years when the albums admittedly are a little on the slow side. Trust me. You should be happy with the current state of play.

But really, there hasn't been any serious rockcrit on this thread since it started. And since it's down to Alex & me, it's really just petty ranting. You're welcome to join us. Alex has plenty of Gatorade too, apparently, if you're thirsty.

What does this mean?

Because there'd be movies, tribute concerts, album reissues, the anniversary edition of Horses...

There already is all that fuckin' stuff. Who cares? The important thing would be that she was gone. If a bunch of whistleheaded slackjaws want to continue celebrating her, that's fine, but the bottom line would be that she would be gone, and that'd be swell enough for me.

Jesus, Alex. Did she steal Sonic Smith out from under you or something? "Whistleheaded slackjaws"... christ, you're going to get an ulcer.

xpost:

"Pull your head in" is another way of saying shut up. You know, like a turtle pulls his head in?

HEHEHE! Well sir, I'm proud to number myself amongst said Whistleheaded Slackjaws. Damn, I want to run out and start a band RIGHT NOW. Nice one!

I wouldn't like it at all if she were gone. She's not terribly loud anymore, which does bother me...I wish she still had the fire of her early years to really boil your cantankerous blood. But then again, even with her not so exciting stuff, her poetry is still as strong as ever, and THAT is what I like about her. So you can douse her in soy sauce all you like Mr Cranky Pants, but Patti ain't going nowwhere til I say so.

nyah nyah nyah

yoko intrigues me, esp if its a mix of songs and fluxus type perormances but > £20 is too much.

-- Amateur(ist) (amateurist@gmail.com), May 6th, 2005.

I think it looks fantastic. A shame I can only go to one of them.

Yoko live... can't wait. I was so gutted to miss her at atp.

Also titleof her album with Kevin Shields, based on the book. My Voice coverage archived here, (starts with a link to a Luc Sante piece about her)
https://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com/search?q=Coral+Sea

But came here to post this:
PRESENTED BY MURMRR & COMMUNITY BOOKSTORE: AN EVENING OF WORDS & MUSIC WITH PATTI SMITH
TICKETS ON SALE 8/7 @ 11:00 AM EST https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-of-words-music-with-patti-smith-tickets-115535284145 (more details below)
Patti Smith presents an evening of words and music celebrating her latest memoir, Year of the Monkey. This will be her only staged program of 2020.

For this one-time event, fans from around the world will be able to see Patti Smith on stage at the Murmrr Theatre in Brooklyn, where she will read from Year of the Monkey and play songs with her longtime bandmate Tony Shanahan.

This event will be filmed by acclaimed cinematographer Matthew Schroeder with a broadcast scheduled on September 4th @ 9:00PM Eastern Time.

About the book:

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, Year of the Monkey is a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year—with an entirely new chapter and ten new photos.

Following a run of concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland as a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger’s words, “Anything is possible: after all, it’s the year of the monkey.” For Smith—inveterately curious, always exploring—the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life’s gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America.

Smith melds the Western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world.

Riveting, elegant, often humorous, and now with a wonderful and entirely new chapter, “Epilogue of an Epilogue,” which includes many new photos in Smith’s signature style, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.

Tickets:

(1) US General Admission + (1) paperback copy of Year of the Monkey ($30)
(1) International General Admission + (1) paperback copy of Year of the Monkey ($30)
Tickets on sale at www.murmrr.com

**Year of the Monkey (paperback) will be published on September 1st, and books will begin to ship on that date. Due to the complications with shipping during the pandemic, delivery times can be difficult to estimate exactly, and could take between 2-4 weeks, especially for international orders. Please be careful when entering your shipping information; any customer errors resulting in return-to-sender will require an additional shipping charge to re-send. Ticketing fees are included in the overall price. Your ticket includes the American, English-language paperback edition of Year of the Monkey; unfortunately, we cannot make exceptions. All books will be unsigned.

murmrr is a Brooklyn-based multi-arts company that’s programmed live events with world-renowned talent such as: Bjork, Judd Apatow, John Mulaney, Jeff Tweedy (of Wilco), Patti Smith, Nick Cave, Ilana Glazer, Jenny Slate, Pete Davidson, Fred Armisen, Tori Amos, Colin Jost, George Saunders, Zadie Smith, and Billy Corgan (of Smashing Pumpkins).

Community Bookstore, founded in 1971, is Brooklyn's oldest independent bookstore.

murmrr theatre – Located at Union Temple, one of Brooklyn’s leading Reform Jewish synagogues, has been dedicated to enriching the cultural life of Brooklyn since it opened its doors in 1929.

Good short interview, checking in:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/20/patti-smith-i-feel-the-unrest-of-the-world-in-the-pit-of-my-stomach