Quote by Patti Smith?

[Peter Sondergeld]

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>wouldn't have expected her to say this.  Comments, anyone?
>
>"Rock and Roll is for men. Real Rock and Roll is a man's job. I
>want to see a man up there. I want to see a man's muscles, a man's
> veins. I don't want to see no chick's tit banging against a bass." --
>                            Patti Smith.
>
>
>John


I like *Horses*, but I've only ever had a passing interest in Patti Smith so
I'm not very qualified to comment. My wife is the fan in our house. But for
my A$0.02, I'd be very surprised if she had said it.

Maybe there's some insight for those with good eyes in Lillian Roxon's
description of Patti.

PATTI SMITH/ Watching Patti Smith perform onstage is like watching a head-on
collision between Dondi and Machine Gun Kelly. On wax, she often sounds like
a seance held at the Fillmore East during a typical late sixties blowout.
She is alternately praised and damned for her literate (albeit bizarre)
lyricism, erratic vocal delivery, and suicidal guitar style. Many of her
fans claim that Patti Smith is, in part, responsible for the evolution of
punk rock. Many of her detractors claim the same thing.
The singer-songwriter-guitarist-poet-punk was born in Chicago but raised in
New Jersey. A poet-in-residence in New York since the late sixties, Patti
first began appearing onstage in a musical setting during 1973-74 when,
backed by rock writer Lenny Kaye on guitar, she alternately read, sang, and
chanted her poetry in various New York clubs. In 1974, Patti and her newly
formed band (led by Kaye) cut their first homemade single, "Piss Factory". A
number of local gigs followed which, ultimately, frightened most of the
record companies in the New York metropolitan area into a state of near-stupor.
Clive Davis of Arista, however, was willing to take a chance on the New
Wave's patron saint, so Patti and entourage were signed. An initial release
in 1975, "HORSES", made it to the lower half of the top LP charts and
established Patti as an artist to be reckoned with. A second album, "RADIO
ETHEOPIA", released a year later, was less enthusiastically greeted.
Patti Smith, poet-rock star-artist, lists Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, William
Burroughs, and Arthur Rimbaud as her main influences.

[discography to 1976]


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Peter Sondergeld
p.sondergeld at qut.edu.au