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    PATTI SMITH, KRONOS QUARTET AWARDED POLAR MUSIC PRIZE
    By Associated Press

    STOCKHOLM - American string quartet Kronos Quartet and rocker Patti Smith have won the 2011 Polar Music Prize, the prize committee announced Tuesday.

    The musicians will be invited to Stockholm later this year to accept the prize of 1 million kronor ($166,000).

    The Polar Music Prize is Sweden's most prestigious music award and is typically shared by a pop artist and a classical musician. It was founded by Stig Anderson, manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, in 1989.

    The prize committee said in a statement that "by devoting her life to art in all its forms, Patti Smith has demonstrated how much rock 'n' roll there is in poetry and how much poetry there is in rock 'n' roll."

    The Chicago-born Smith, 64, "has transformed the way an entire generation looks, thinks, and dreams," the committee said.

    The Kronos Quartet, which is based in San Francisco, was praised for incorporating avant-garde rock and music from a variety of sources worldwide.

    "For almost 40 years the Kronos Quartet has been revolutionizing the potential of the string quartet genre when it comes to both style and content," the committee said.

    Last year's Polar Music Prize was shared by Italian composer Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork.


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    Patti Smith: Photographers Muse

    TIME asked artist, writer and musician Patti Smith, one of this years TIME 100 honorees, to tell us about her life in front of the lens. Smith shares some of her personal photographs and offers photographers some advice, from a subjects point of view.

    To be the subject of a photographer, whether artist or blessed amateur, is a privilege and a joy. I was delighted as a child to sit for my first portrait. It made me feel special. As a teenager I posed for my siblings in dramatic lighting borrowed from James Whale and film-noir.

    In the late sixties, before the conspiratorial lens of Judy Linn, I referenced French New Wave. My schoolmate Frank Stefanko shot me as I first tread upon the road of Rock and Roll. Kate Simon documented the early steps in black and white. Lynn Goldsmith often joined my band on the road and within her studio we shot the atmosphere of Easter, joyfully in color.

    There have been so many moments of collaboration, both intense and ebullient, allowing me to experience a sense of being a muse, a hot shot, or merely myself. In 1978, Annie Leibovitz shot me in New Orleans behind a small wall of flame for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. In the early eighties, my only photographer was my late husband, Fred Sonic Smith. After Freds untimely death, Steven Sebring documented my way back to public life. Michael Stipe photographed my first tour with Bob Dylan. Bruce Weber shot me in a ballet gown and jewels worthy of the throat of Liz Taylor. Oliver Ray, who took the cover picture for Peace and Notice, snapped a moment as I posed for Richard Avedon for the New Yorker.

    Finally, I must speak of Robert Mapplethorpe. I was his first model, a fact that fills me with pride. The photographs he took of me contain a depth of mutual love and trust inseparable from the image. His work magnifies his love for his subject and his obsession with light.

    So, as one who has stood before the camera of many artists and friends, I can only advise a photographer to love his subject, and if this is not possible, love the light that surrounds her.

    By Patti Smith



    Marco Grobs portrait of Smith for this years TIME 100 can be viewed here:
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    Artist BACKNEXT By Michael Stipe

    Thursday, Apr. 21, 2011


    In 1976, I wondered why TIME didn't have a triumphant Patti Smith on its cover. The '70s were a time of expansion and progressive thought birthed in the upheaval of the '60s, and this single gesture would have locked in Coolness! Progress! Forever! ... at least in the mind of one Midwestern teenage music fan struggling to imagine his future. But in 1980 the country lurched backward to a time that resembled a cartoon '50s, the effects of which resonated for decades.

    In 2011 we face a new era of sweeping changes combatting an even deeper cynicism and intolerance. With Just Kids, her memoir of her friendship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti, 64, reminds us that innocence, utopian ideals, beauty and revolt are enlightenment's guiding stars in the human journey. Her book recalls, without blinking or faltering, a collective memory one that guides us through the present and into the future. Patti Smith, cover of TIME, 2011?

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    Smiths memoir Just Kids is published by Ecco.



    Judy Linns book of portraits, Patti Smith 1969-1976, published by Abrams Books can be purchase here:
    http://www.amazon.com/Patti-Smith-1969-1976-Judy-Linn/dp/0810998327

    Editorial Reviews

    From Publishers Weekly
    Before Patti Smith became a rock star, she loved to pose as one for her friend, the photographer Judy Linn. These 100 grainy, gritty, black and white photographsof Smith working, playing, primping in the clutter of her apartment; surrounded by erstwhile lovers, the artist Robert Mapplethorpe and playwright Sam Shepardbrim with bright light and the obvious affection between photographer and subject. Linn, a photography professor at Vassar College whose work is now collected in the Whitney Museum and elsewhere, recalls a summer spent poring over Alfred Stieglitz's work, including the portraits of his wife Georgia O'Keefe ("I thought I could memorize it and crack its grammar"). She describes learning from the "visual logic" and "illogical brilliance" of her own photosand it's easy to see why. The photographs vary in quality, but at their besttake the nudes of Smith where a dark necktie and belt bisect and play against her long, pale bodycapture Mapplethorpe and Smith's youth and earnestness, their wildness and vulnerability. Here is Smith's acclaimed 2010 memoir, Just Kids, come to lifethe shrines to Bob Dylan, the dressupand the photos strike the same wistful note; as Smith writes in her afterword: "once upon a time, we were young and beautiful and anyone we imagined we could be." (Mar.)
    (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

    Product Description
    "I was eager to be Judy's model and to have the opportunity to work with a true artist. I felt protected in the atmosphere we created together. We had an inner narrative, producing our own unspoken film, with or without a camera."
    -Patti Smith, from her afterword

    Like a scene in Godard's Vivre sa vie or Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, Patti Smith posed for the lens of a young photographer, Judy Linn.

    It was 1969, some years before Patti Smith entered the arena of rock and roll. Smith was a struggling poet, harboring a romantic ideal of the collaborative possibilities between an artist and model- a dream happily fulfilled within this intimate and high-spirited body of work.

    Linn's images of Smith range from the vulnerable to the iconic. Focusing on shifting influences and spotlighting her profound relationships with artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Sam Shepard, Linn has captured Smith like no one else, in the grainy atmosphere of a bygone New York.

    Judy Linn's photographs document the blooming of an enduring friendship and the evolution of two unique artists: gritty and visionary, fragile and tough.


    Praise for Patti Smith 1969-1976:

    "a striking new book, Patti Smith: 1969-1976 (out March 1) . . . collects photographs of the coolly photogenic star taken by her talented friend Judy Linn during the same time Kids describes. They're wonderfully composed shots of Smith looking like the star of a Godard film of her own making. The pictures show her fully ready for a closeup that would cement her boho image just a few years later, on the iconic cover of her first album, Horses, shot, of course, by Mapplethorpe himself."
    -New York Daily News

    "Here is Smith's acclaimed 2010 memoir, Just Kids, come to life-the shrines to Bob Dylan, the dress up-and the photos strike the same wistful note; as Smith writes in her afterword: 'once upon a time, we were young and beautiful and anyone we imagined we could be.'"
    -Publishers Weekly

    "Anticipating a new generation's excitement for Smith and Mapplethorpe, their friend Judy Linn has published a new book of her photographs, Patti Smith 1969-1976, that centers on the era covered in Just Kids, the time before Patti and Robert were famous. The book's a nice visual testament to their friendship, but it's also a bible of good clothing, an early record of one of the most stylish couples of all time."
    -The Fader.com

    "Linn's collection of photographs is the perfect complement to Smith's National Book Award-winning memoir, Just Kids . . . like Smith's memoir, the photos-uninterrupted by titles, captions, or any other text-serve two purposes: they tell the story of young artists finding their voice and style and serve as a love letter to '70s New York, four decades later."
    -Flavorwire.com


    About the Author

    Judy Linn is a photographer who is represented by Feature Inc., New York. Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Detroit Art Institute, and the Dallas Museum of Art. She teaches photography at Vassar College and lives in New York City.
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    "JUST KIDS" AUDIO BOOK OUT IN JULY

    Patti Smith's Just Kids will be released as an unabridged audio book on July 26, read by Patti herself!

    You can order the CD set now from Amazon.com
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062109383/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=levity&linkCode=as2&ca mp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=0062109383
    , or support your local bookstore!

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    "OUTSIDE SOCIETY" TO BE RELEASED AUGUST 23

    Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Patti Smith raises the curtain on OUTSIDE SOCIETY, a new collection of her signature songs on the Arista and Columbia labels. The landmark 18-song release marks the first single-CD collection to span Patti's entire body of recorded work. The chronologically arranged tracks move from 1975 (her debut album, Horses, with "Gloria" and "Free Money") through 2007 (Twelve, with her cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"). Also released on vinyl as a double-LP set, OUTSIDE SOCIETY will be available everywhere August 23rd.

    The music on OUTSIDE SOCIETY is newly remastered by award-winning engineer Greg Calbi and Patti Smith band member Tony Shanahan. The CD booklet will feature brief recollections of each song written by Patti, who personally supervised the choices.

    Of "Because The Night," for example, Patti writes: "Bruce Springsteen gave me a great gift in allowing me to lend verses to his beautifully constructed anthem. My contribution was written for my future husband, Fred 'Sonic' Smith. Though we have performed it hundreds of times, the strong response it draws always makes it fresh and exciting to sing."

    Order on Amazon.com: CD | Vinyl (2 LPs) | MP3 Download

    OUTSIDE SOCIETY by PATTI SMITH (Columbia/Arista/Legacy 88697 94315 2)

    1. Gloria
    2. Free Money
    3. Ain't It Strange
    4. Pissing in a River
    5. Because the Night
    6. Rock 'n' Roll Nigger
    7. Dancing Barefoot
    8. Frederick
    9. So You Wanna Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
    10. People Have the Power
    11. Up There Down There
    12. Beneath the Southern Cross
    13. Summer Cannibals
    14. 1959
    15. Glitter in Their Eyes
    16. Lo and Beholden (Radio Edit)
    17. Smells Like Teen Spirit
    18. Trampin'

    Tracks 1-2 from Horses (Arista AL 4066, 1975)
    Tracks 3-4 from Radio Ethopia (Arista AL 4097, 1976)
    Tracks 5-6 from Easter (Arista AB 4171, 1978)
    Tracks 7-9 from Wave (Arista AB 4221, 1979)
    Tracks 10-11 from Dream of Life (Arista AL 8453, 1988)
    Tracks 12-13 from Gone Again (Arista ARCD 8747, 1996)
    Track 14 from Peace and Noise (Arista 07822 18986-2, 1997)
    Track 15 from Gung Ho (Arista 07822-14618-2, 2000)
    Track 16 from Lo and Beholden (Arista promo CD ARPCD-3855, 2000)
    Track 17 from Twelve (Columbia 82876 87251-2, 2007)
    Track 18 from Trampin' (Columbia CK 90330, 2004)


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    PATTI SMITH, KRONOS QUARTET AWARDED POLAR MUSIC PRIZE
    By Associated Press

    STOCKHOLM - American string quartet Kronos Quartet and rocker Patti Smith have won the 2011 Polar Music Prize, the prize committee announced Tuesday.

    The musicians will be invited to Stockholm later this year to accept the prize of 1 million kronor ($166,000).

    The Polar Music Prize is Sweden's most prestigious music award and is typically shared by a pop artist and a classical musician. It was founded by Stig Anderson, manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, in 1989.

    The prize committee said in a statement that "by devoting her life to art in all its forms, Patti Smith has demonstrated how much rock 'n' roll there is in poetry and how much poetry there is in rock 'n' roll."

    The Chicago-born Smith, 64, "has transformed the way an entire generation looks, thinks, and dreams," the committee said.

    The Kronos Quartet, which is based in San Francisco, was praised for incorporating avant-garde rock and music from a variety of sources worldwide.

    "For almost 40 years the Kronos Quartet has been revolutionizing the potential of the string quartet genre when it comes to both style and content," the committee said.

    Last year's Polar Music Prize was shared by Italian composer Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork.



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    Polar Music Prize: Patti Smith

    Published on Wednesday

    Last night, as the legendary musician was awarded Sweden's top music prize, we sat Smith down for a quick chat about her rich artistic output

    You could say the Polar Music Prize is like the Nobel Prize, but for music. It's Swedish, awarded once a year and goes to dignitaries who's worked long and hard to improve our lives, be it through chemistry, literature or music. After its 1992 incarnation, the Polar prize has been awarded to everyone from Peter Gabriel to Björk, Led Zeppelin to Bruce Springsteen, and Bob Dylan to Ray Charles. This year's winner was punk godmother Patti Smith who, at 65, received the honour for devoting her life to art in all its forms.

    Smith, who shared the prize with the Kronos Quartet, just finished recording her new album, which is due next year. In fact, she just left the recording studio, finishing off a song, right before boarding her flight to Stockholm. Smith also is also working in two books; a companion to 'Just Kids' (2010) more focused on music and a fictional detective story... We sat her down after the press conference and asked her to describe her...

    Poetry
    I was sort of political, in a way, because my first temptation was to infuse blood and new life in poetry. I went to many poetry readings and they seemed extremely boring and I wanted poetry to be more alive. To make poetry more exciting. Then I felt that rock'n'roll was getting over-glamorous, over-corporate, so then my ambition was to bring rock'n'roll back to its roots, to the people.

    Photography
    When I take photographs, I photograph things that I can share with others, perhaps places that I go to receive the things that I've seen. But I think one of the most beautiful things in life is when man gifts to each other, you know: painting, songsit's like nature. We go out and nature give us clouds, and mountains and rivers and wild flowers and man, we give our ideas, drawings, and paintings and music or a pop song that makes everybody happy.

    Performance
    In 1970, I was working in a bookstore, I was supporting Robert [Mapplethorpe] and I really didn't think of performing at all I was focused on writing poetry. I was writing and reading, sometimes I was playing in the underground, or something, but my focus was really to draw and paint and to write poetry. I didn't have technical abilities but I had a vision. I think I'm a natural performer, a communicator, so I'm still here.

    Creative versatility
    My whole life, I've done everything in the same space; When I sleep and I work and draw and take photographs... everything is in one space. Everything reflect my inner world as well as my outer world: my aesthetics, the things that I like and also my very chaotic mind. I do so many things that there are so many rooms [in my mind], there are little compartments in my rooms, I have the photography room, and the painting room, and the room dedicated to my children...

    ... rock journalism in magazines such as Creem
    Well, I wasn't really a rock journalist. I did write a few pieces, I was not a sort of maverick journalist. I wrote pieces occasionally. But I always tried to write to open people's eyes, to find things wonderful. But it was something that I did sometimes simply to make a living. It was a very exciting time in rock journalism, when I was young people took it very seriously, and wrote beautiful philosophic pieces on rock'n'roll and I think that journalism should re-embrace its possibilities and not be too much about gossip.

    ... The scene in London during the 70s
    When my first time I came there, The Clash and Sex Pistols hadn't performed yet but everyone was hanging out in the same area of London, listening to reggae and rastafari, and this kind of music was very important for me. I had a very strong connections with it for different reasons. I studied the history of The Queen Of Shiva, King David, which I like very much and with Lenny [Kaye]. Our record was dedicated to the Ethiopian people in 1976. It was such a wonderful scene in London at that time, with the very young pre-punk rockers and the rastafari community, and some American invaders like me and Lenny Kaye...


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    Tracklist:
    01. Gloria
    02. Free Money
    03. Aint It Strange
    04. Pissing In A River
    05. Because The Night
    06. Rock N Roll Nigger
    07. Dancing Barefoot
    08. Frederick
    09. So You Want To Be A Rock N Roll Star
    10. People Have The Power
    11. Up There Down There
    12. Beneath The Southern Cross
    13. Summer Cannibals
    14. 1959
    15. Glitter In Their Eyes
    16. Lo And Beholden (Radio Edit)
    17. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Radio Edit)
    18. Trampin



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    Patti Smith was, and is, pure experience Her reign in the 70s as a street-hot rock & roll messiah seemed to exist from a void. No past, no futurethe future is here, shed sing. Id hear tales of romance, the girl with the blackest hair hanging out at recording sessions writing poetry. But I didnt know her. I could only embrace the identity I perceived. I was impressionable and she came on like an alien. The first time I met her was in 1975 in a magazine. It was two poems about three wishes: rock & roll, sex, and New York City. Her photo was starkno disco color flash. It was anti-glam, nocturnal staring eyes, black leather trousers. She was skinny and smart. She posed as if she were the coolest boy in the city. And she was. I could only imagine her world through her poems: telling, truthful, dirty, hopeful. I wanted to meet her and take her to a movie, but she was so unobtainable and fantastic I could only entrust my faith to the future. The future would allow me to have a date with Patti Smith or at least hang out with her. And the future seems to have come. It seems to be happening, its happened. Its here.

    Patti grew up in south Jersey in the 60s. As a teenager she became involved in a succession of religious experiences: Catholic lust, an intense relationship with the Jehovah Witnesses, and a full-on romance with Tibetan Buddhism. She completely immersed herself in the genius of Bob Dylan and Arthur Rimbaud. She loved (and loves) rock & roll with an unbounded passion. It instilled beauty and vision to a complex life of dreams.

    Patti moved to New York City late in the decade. Ive met people who knew her at this time and Ill stare at them as if to somehow transport myself through their memory to see her. She was skinny and exotic. She had Keith Richards haircut. She was sexy and manic. She worked at book stores and wrote and read poetry and did art. She co-wrote and acted in Cowboy Mouth with Sam Shepard. She was muse and lover to Robert Mapplethorpe. They were writers, artists, and rock & rollersthey were young and had any which way to go. Years moved by.

    She and Lenny Kaye jammed poetry and electric guitar at St. Marks Church. Patti would touch her chest and pronounce, Jesus died for somebodys sins but not mine Word was out that an amazing woman with a wild, intellectual positivism was tearing it up downtown. Local news programs and the Village Voice would begin to monitor her moves. She wrote amazing, celebratory record reviews for Rolling Stone, ??Rock Scene and Creem. Rock & roll was the sounding tool for modern prayer. She went to hear Television at CBGB and joined forces with Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell. They amplified the influence of Burroughs, Genet, Hendrix, Dylan, Stooges, Dolls and reggae.

    Patti and Television spent 1975 at CBGB creating a forum for an excited and completely distinctive sensibility. We created it, lets take it over, shed shout and brought serious sounds to the people away from the arena-mind of the corporatized music/youth culture. Revolution was neccessary. The Ramones came in, Blondie came in, Talking Heads came in. Entrepreneurs hyped the Sex Pistols and a subculture was begun. Its current status as a valid mainstream format is just a commercial of its sublime expansion. By 1979 Patti split to Michigan with Fred Sonic Smith (legendary guitarist of Detroits high energy prophets the MC5) and got married. They had two kids and did a lot of fishing. She was out of the scene and out of sight. A second generation of artists and musicians had come to New York City and began to make noise in an explosion of punk rock inspired enterprise. The strongest and most original force in the musics history had been a woman. And this fact alone exacted upon the punk culture a situation in which women were empowered and encouraged.

    Patti reappeared in the late 80s with the affirming People Have the Power. The songs video showed a distinguished, serious Patti at home in proclamation amongst images of spiritual leadership. She and Fred played at a celebration for Dylan and another for Jackson Pollock.

    Fred passed away in 1995 as did Pattis brother and close friend, Todd. Robert Mapplethorpe had also passed away.

    Patti doesnt drive. In 1977 she fell off the stage and her eyesight was damaged. Survival in Michigan is difficult and lonely without Fred. She wants to play. As soon as her 13-year-old ends the school year she plans on moving back to New York. She has no set design on a professional life but she loves performance. And teaching. I could only interview Patti in conversational mode. She speaks with humor and thoughtfulness, her words are at once searching and prosaic.

    I flew to Boston to meet her and Lenny Kaye where we were to drive to Lowell, Massachusetts for a benefit for the Kerouac Foundation. She asked me to play guitar on three songs: one she had written, one by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, and one an improvisation to a poem by Kerouac. We did a show in Lowell and two in Boston, all three in these cool churches. We spent Saturday visiting the haunts of Kerouacs Lowell. Patti took Polaroids of my hands for a Sunday exhibit at a friends gallery in Jamaica Plain. Shed frame the photos with broad white frames and write around them vignettes pertaining to the subject. I was friends with someone I had dreamed of being friends with for nearly 20 years.

    This conversation was recorded late night in a hotel in Lowell, October 6, and the next day in the back seat of a car driving to Boston.



    Stone Hedge Inn. Lowell, Massachusetts.

    Thurston Moore How would Lester Bangs have conducted this interview?

    Patti Smith Lester wrote a really nice article about us a long time ago called Stagger Lee Was A Woman. But then he turned against us because he felt we sold out with Radio Ethiopia. Everybody thought we sold out. They thought we had turned heavy metal. They found lyrics like pissing in a river offensive, they found experimentation offensive, definitely too sonic.

    TM It was for its time. It seemed like a very MC5 influenced record. There was nothing like it at the time.

    PS Lenny introduced me to their music. I had never heard of the MC5. Radio Ethiopia was influenced by Black To Comm. When Lenny introduced me to Fred, it was March 9, 1976, almost twenty years ago. Fred was standing in front of a white elevator in a navy blue coatthe coat which appears in Godspeed. Walking in your blue coat, weeping admiral, thats Fred.

    TM I remember a little item in Rolling Stone back then about a love letter you sent Fred.

    PS I sent him a telegram: Light and energy enclosed. I couldnt believe they found out about that.

    TM How are your children?

    PS I really love my kids, I like having them around me. They can drive you nuts and theyre such a responsibility but its like a movie you can never see again. You watch it as its happening and you think its always gonna be like that and then

    TM And then you go see Kids.

    PS Or one of your kids turns into Kids. Too much reality for me. Ive lived reality, so why go see it on the movie screen?

    TM What do you think of the whole debate on censorshipparents being offended by pornographic lyrics?

    PS I think they have the right to be concerned. Some of the stuff pawned off as freedom of expression, let alone art, is just trash, just jerking off, with no real duty attached. No seeking to elevate. No self-censorship. No conscience. Things seem too open to me now, children are being robbed of their childhood. I dont know. Somehow I feel like Rip van Winkle who fell asleep in the 70s and woke up in the 90s. When I was a child we were much more cut off from the adult world. What I think is, Toyland, toylandonce you pass its portals you may never return again. (laughter)

    TM Whats the first record you ever bought?

    PS Shrimp Boats by Harry Belafonte, Patience and Prudence doing The Money Tree, and, embarrassingly enough, Neil Sedakas Climb Up. My mother bought me a box set of Madame Butterfly when I was sick. I always got great records when I was sick. I got Coltranes My Favorite Things. My mother was a counter waitress in a drugstore where they had a bargain bin of used records. One day she brought this record home and said, I never heard of the fellow but he looks like somebody youd like, and it was Another Side of Bob Dylan. I loved him. You see, I had devoted so much of my girlish daydreams to Rimbaud. Rimbaud was like my boyfriend. If youre 15 or 16 and you cant get the boy you want, and you have to daydream about him all the time, whats the difference if hes a dead poet or a senior? At least Bob Dylanit was a relief to daydream about somebody who was alive.

    TM Did you ever see John Coltrane?

    PS Yes. Once in Philly in 63 when My Favorite Things came out. There were two jazz clubs right next to each other, Peps and the Showboat. You had to be eighteen, so these people helped me get dressed up, trying to look older. I was basically a pigtails and sweatshirt kind of kid. So I got in for 15 minutes and saw him and then they carded me and kicked me out. He did Nature Boy. I was in such heaven seeing them, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner, that I wasnt even disturbed that I got thrown out.

    TM I suppose youth culture was very familiar with jazz at that time.

    PS It was a small culture. Kids who were too young for the beat thing and too old for the Beatles got into jazz.

    TM Do you remember your first guitar?

    PS I saw this really old Martin in a pawn shop, it had a woven, colored strap and I loved it. I saved my money, but when I went back to get it it was gone. So I bought a little Martin. I didnt know anything about tuning. I could never understand why my chords never sounded like the songs in my Bob Dylan song book. And then I met Sam Shepard and he showed me. He bought me this 30s black Gibson, which I still have. Its the same kind of guitar Robert Johnson plays.

    TM Are you aware of these bands which are referred to as riot grrl bands?

    PS Now I know they exist but I couldnt tell you anything about them. Is it a positive thing?

    TM Yeah, its main focus and agenda is the communication of self-help and social issues to young women. Its a network and very band-oriented, fully inspired by punk rock.

    PS Well, thats heartening to know. I hope theres lots of them.

    TM When you guys would come out and say, Fight the good fight, I was 18 and I thought, Thats cool, that sounds right, Ill take that over the other.

    PS Well, we did one or two things right.

    TM You guys were a nice band, you didnt cop a lot of attitude.

    PS We were nice. We shared whatever we had, because we didnt have anything. No opening acts then. Sometimes Id do poetry, or wed show our home movies, footage of us when we were younger, on the road, having fun with each other. I remember once, when we were in Austin, staying in the Lyndon Baines Johnson suite, and this interviewer asked me, What is the future of rock? And I said, Sculpture. Then he asked me about the future of art, and Richards lying there beached, eating cheesecake, and says, The computer. It will take over everything.

    Want to hear about my fish story? Did I ever tell you about my pet fishing lure named Curly?

    TM No.

    PS It was purple and had a little curly-q tail. I would cast it and we would have telepathy. I would get into such in-depth conversations with this lure that I would actually see inside the water. I could see fish lurking. It was like Herbert Hunkes poem about Jack Kerouac and his notebook. This lure was an extension of me. I love that lure. If you ever come to Michigan Ill show you Curly. You know how people say certain lures catch fish, this lure never caught nothing. But we used to have the greatest thoughts. Hed tell me things like how he once went fishing with Arnold Palmer. I much preferred going out with Curly and catching nothin. I always meant to write a story about him, I forgot about it till right now.

    TM When did you first meet Bob Dylan?

    PS Backstage at the Bitter End. We didnt have a drummer yet. It was just the four of us, we hadnt been signed yet.

    TM Did you see him in the audience?

    PS No. Somebody told us he was there. My heart was pounding. I got instantly rebellious. I made a couple of references, a couple of oblique things to show I knew he was there. And then he came backstage which was really quite gentlemanly of him. He came over to me and I kept moving around. We were like two pitbulls circling. I was a snotnose. I had a very high concentration of adrenaline. He said to me, Any poets around here? And I said, I dont like poetry anymore. Poetry sucks! I really acted like a jerk. I thought, that guy will never talk to me again. And the day after there was this picture on the cover of the Village Voice. The photographer had Dylan put his arm around me. It was a really cool picture. It was a dream come true, but it reminded me of how I had acted like a jerk. And then a few days later I was walking down 4th Street by the Bottom Line and I saw him coming. He put his hand in his jackethe was still wearing the same clothes he had on in the picture, which I likedand he takes out the Village Voice picture and says, Who are these two people? You know who these people are? Then he smiled at me and I knew it was all right. The first time I ever heard him was way back in 1964. I went to see Joan Baez. She had this fellow with her. Bobby Dylan. His voice was like a motorcycle through a cornfield



    Saturday: Driving from Lowell to Cambridge: We stop for Polaroid film and Patti buys a present for my daughter, Coco. Then we head on to the grotto where Kerouac used to write, and light candles for Fred. From there, we go to Kerouacs memorial, granite slabs with lines from his Dr. Sax carved into their surface. Patti leaves her guitar pick at his grave.

    TM You know, I grabbed your ankle once at a concert. It was during an encore when you were doing My Generation. There was mayhem and you were real close and I reached up and grabbed you. But I got freaked out as if I was going too far and I let go.

    PS You were sonic youth.

    TM When we named ourselves Sonic Youth the word sonic wasnt so common. Sonic boom was a technical term; but in rock & roll I only knew of Sonic Smith.

    PS Fred loved that. He always said, They got that from me! Id say, Well, you dont know that. It was a source of pride for him. He was sonic.

    TM The only other time I saw you was in Bleecker Bobs in the 70s. You walked in eating pizza and wearing aviator glasses and Bleecker Bob showed you an Ian Dury picture sleeve and you said, I dont listen to music by people I dont wanna fuck.

    PS (laughter) Yeah, that was me.

    TM One time I went to see you at CBGB and it was totally packed and you guys were wearing these black leather pants, you were totally bad-ass. It was a pretty intense scene, I was standing there biting my lower lip and you looked at me and bit your lip right back at me like, Ill show you how to bite your lip. Kid.

    PS I was kind of mean. Im so glad Im nice now.

    TM Well, I didnt think you were mean.

    PS Well, I spotted you.

    TM That night William Burroughs came to the gig.

    PS I remember that. I was in heaven that night. Afterwards, he said to me, Patti, you are a remarkable chanteuse. He was wonderful and so handsome. I had dinner with him recently and hes still handsome, such a good dresser, like he had the lead in Guys And Dolls.

    I grabbed Brian Joness ankle once. It was in 1964 and they were playing with Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles in a high school auditorium in South Jersey. There were only about 450 people and folding chairs. The American flag and the school flag were up. I had never seen the Rolling Stones. The weird thing was that the only other time Id seen any white rock concerts was Joan Baez. We went to see the Motown Revues. They didnt have white rock concerts, at least not in South Jersey. You went to the airport, it was five dollars a carload and the Motown bus would come in, and in one day you could see Little Stevie Wonder or Ben E. King. It was called the Airport Drive-In. So, anyway, I was sitting in this auditorium, with mostly other white girls. Everybody was sitting there politely during Patti LaBelle, nobody danced or anythingit was kind of square. And then the Rolling Stones came on and all of a sudden girls started screaming and ran towards the stage. I had a front row seat. And I had no choice, they just pushed me into the edge of the stage. I had never seen anything like this ever. I was so embarrassed. They acted like such freaks, screaming. One girl broke her ankle. It was some kind of collective hysteria they had learned reading about people going to see the Beatles.

    TM They mustve rocked when they came out.

    PS Mick Jagger looked very nervous. The funniest one was Keith because he was really young and nervous and his ears were big and he had pimples and his teeth were kind of bucked and cute. But I loved Brian Jones. He was sitting on the floor playing one of those Ventures electric sitars, and these girls kept pushing me and pushing me. They pushed me right on the stage and then I felt myself going under and I was gonna be trampled and out of total desperation I reached up and grabbed the first thing I saw; Brian Joness ankle. I was grabbing him to save myself. And he looked at me. And I looked at him. And he smiled. He just smiled at me. (sigh) My Brian Jones story.

    TM Brian, Brian, Im not cryin...

    PS ...Im just tryin to reach you.

    TM I used to really love that poem.

    PS Where did you and Kim meet?

    TM Through a mutual friend. I was in a band called The Coachmen and we were coming out of the no-wave scene.

    PS Whats no-wave?

    TM Contortions, DNA, Lydia Lunch, Mars

    PS Oh, I missed that.

    TM It was the next generation of the downtown music scene, all these new kids from art schools moving to New York and taking over the scene. Blondie became radio-friendly and they created this real harsh, nihilist music called no-wave. It was atonal, chordless, noise rock played by these weirdo personalities.

    PS Sounds like I couldve got a job.

    TM It was total anti-rock. The Sex Pistols were supposedly destroying rock & roll, but they were just playing Chuck Berry chords a little faster and sloppier and louder.

    PS They were a pop band. Pop music used to be derogatory, but, especially since Pop Art, the word has been redefined. Pop is something, at its best, both pleasurable and inspiring.

    TM Do you have a lot of friends in New York?

    PS Yeah, I have a lot of new friends, a couple of old ones. A lot of my friends from New York are gone. My main friend in New York was Robert (Mapplethorpe) He was my best friend. And I really loved Richard Sohl. Whenever I came to New York after I moved to Detroit Id always get excited as Id see the skyline because I knew somewhere in that city they were working or cruising or whatever. I like coming back to New York. I love walking around, Ill pass cafés and people will say, Hi Patti, just like when youve grown up in the neighborhood.

    Are we lost? (We ask for directions at a gas station.)

    TM You wrote a poem for the Dalai Lama.

    PS Yes, I have always cared for him since I was a kid in 1959 when the Chinese invaded Tibet and he disappeared. I prayed for him constantly. In September I was asked to work with him at The World Peace Conference in Berlin. Everytime I saw him all I could do was smile. At dinner I sat across from him but I couldnt say anything, I just waved and smiled. I felt soyoung. So happy. For my young girl self so deeply loved him.



    a small entreaty

    May I be nothing
    but the peeling of a lotus
    papering the distance
    for You underfoot
    one lone skin
    to lift and fashion
    as a cap to cradle
    Your bowing head
    an ear to hear
    the great horn
    a slipper to mount
    the temple step
    one lone skin
    baring this wish
    May Your hands be full
    of nothing
    May your toys
    scatter the sky
    tiny yellow bundles
    bursting like stars
    like smiles
    and the laughter
    of a bell (1994)




    TM You studied Tibetan Buddhism and the Dalai Lama when you were 13?

    PS Before then11, 12. I was leaving the Jehovah Witnesses so I was studying other religions. My frame of mind was that if you left a religion you had to find another one. I realized after time that that wasnt necessary. I fell in love with Tibet because their essential mission was to keep a continual stream of prayer. To me they kept the world from spinning out of control just by being a civilization on the roof of the world in that continuous state of prayer. The prayers are etched on wheels, they feel them with their hands like braille and turn them. Its spinning prayer like cloth. That was my perception as a young person. I didnt quite understand the whole thing but I felt protected. We grew up at a time when nuclear war seemed imminent with air raid drills and lying on the floor under your school desk. To counterbalance that destruction was this civilization of monks living high in the Himalayas who were continuously praying for us, for the planet and for all of nature. That made me feel safe.

    TM Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

    PS When I was a child, Jehovahs Witness was a completely misunderstood religion. We used to go door to door, and people would throw buckets of water on us and curse at us. It was awful. I dont agree with the dogmas of any church. Theyre just man-made laws that you can either decide to abide by or not. Buddhism is a lot like the truest aspects of Christianity. Its based on caring for one another. Like Jesus gave to us an 11th commandment: Love one another. You can have aesthestic, scientific or philosophic differences, but if you saw somebody in trouble, wouldnt you give them a helping hand?

    TM Giving and forgiving.

    PS Wait a minute Do you have this thing where you start thinking something and your mind takes it over and its not in a language that you can translate yet so youre sitting and waiting but youre minds likeits like in those movies where the computer starts talking to itself and locks the guy out. Sometimes I sit here and I feel like a shell harboring my brain and my brain is faxing different thoughts to other parts.

    TM (whispers) Look, a Dunkin Donuts.

    PS Is there? Oh man, Id love some coffee and a french crueller with chocolate.

    TM Here, let me get it for you.



    Saturday night performance, Smith Baker Hall, Lowell.

    This poem is dedicated to the members of Sonic Youth.

    from high on rebellion

    what i feel when im playing guitar is completely cold and crazy. like i dont owe nobody nothing and its a test just to see how far i can relax into the cold wave of a note, when everything hits just right (just and right) the note of nobility can go on forever. i never tire of the solitary E and i trust my guitar and i dont care about anything. sometimes i feel like ive broken through and im free and could dig into eternity riding the wave and the realm of the E



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