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Patti Smith has opened the door for so many other female rockers after her and her music has set high standards for the rock and roll genre. Smith being a poet as well as a songwriter gives her music a depth that you don't find often. Go be inspired and listen to Patti Smith sing live.
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Patti Smith hurt herself a bit at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire yesterday. Smith, 60, was in the capital performing one of her Rock N Rimbaud gigs, dedicated to the poet… Read full post »
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Tweaking the rock standard "Hey Joe" to incorporate details of the Patty Hearst kidnapping, Smith and band, with financial backing from Mapplethorpe, decided to finally start recording. They laid down the song at Electric Lady Studio on June 5, 1974, accompanied on lead guitar by Tom Verlaine, of the infamous band Television. "Hey Joe" was released with the B-side "Piss Factory" on their self-created label, Mer Records.
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Smith and Kaye and Verlaine did cherish pop brevity and style, hooks and drive, and they hated the glibness of the prefabricated corporate rock bands. Their response... was to try to return oxygen to rock's brain, which the Pistols and Ramones lobotomized. That's a harsh generalization, and it could never be said that Joey Ramone or Johnny Lydon is stupid. (Lydon's a jerk, but he's not stupid.) But Smith and Television never let entertainment value drag them anywhere, which can't be said of the Ramones or the Pistols, whose very images -- cool and fun as they may be -- exhibit a vaudeville mentality.
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