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	Encyclopedia: Fred Sonic Smith
		Smith was married to punk pioneer and poetess Patti Smith, and died on November 4th, 1994 of a sudden heart attack.
		Patti Smith is often confused with Patty Smyth - the former lead singer of the band Scandal.
		Smith still features lengthy poetic motifs that perform a kind of unconscious exploratory surgery on her mind, and that’s reassuring.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fred-Sonic-Smith (554 words)

	Fred "Sonic" Smith: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Fred Sonic Smith was born in West Virginia on September 13, 1949.
		In 1976, firebrand rock poetess Patti Smith [+] visited Detroit while touring behind her album Radio Ethiopia [+], and was introduced to Fred Sonic Smith at a party held at Lafayette Coney Island, one of the city's most celebrated hot dog stands.
		After Fred's death, Patti Smith [+] returned to recording and performing, often citing Fred's influence upon her work, and a steady stream of archival MC5 [+] releases brought his music to a new generation of fans.
	www.music.com /person/fred_smith/1 (886 words)

	Patti Smith: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The injury required a period of rest, and an intensive round of physical therapy, during which time she was able to reassess, re-energise and reorganise her life, a luxury which had been denied her in her early rise to fame.
		A box set of her work to that time was released in 1996 and a two-CD compilation including a cover of Prince (A male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign)) 's "When Doves Cry" and titled Land was released in 2002.
		Smith was an active supporter of Ralph Nader (additional info and facts about Ralph Nader) 's 2000 presidential campaign, touring with him and playing "People Have the Power" before crowds of thousands at the campaign's "super-rallies." She also performed at several of Nader's subsequent "Democracy Rising" events.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/patti_smith.htm (709 words)

	Salon: Patti Smith
		Smith has always seemed like nothing so much as a warrior, armed with poetry that could pierce like steel, fearlessly staking out her own territory even as she urged listeners to claim theirs, too.
		Smith's sadness rages and wanes -- even the layout of the songs seems to underscore the mutability of grief, its inability to be nailed down as one unchanging emotion.
		Smith's lyrics here are plainer, less turned, than her earlier work, but they never fall into the pseudomystical "We move with the sun and the planets" kind of pap that artists sometimes drag out when they get carried away with death and redemption as concepts.
	www.salon.com /weekly/music960701.html (896 words)

	Fred "Sonic" Smith - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1976, firebrand rock poetess Patti Smith visited Detroit while touring behind her album Radio Ethiopia, and was introduced to Fred Sonic Smith at a party held at Lafayette Coney Island, one of the city's most celebrated hot dog stands.
		While Fred Smith was married at the time, he and Patti immediately hit it off, and before long a low-key romance blossomed between them.
		After Fred's death, Patti Smith returned to recording and performing, often citing Fred's influence upon her work, and a steady stream of archival MC5 releases brought his music to a new generation of fans.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,494553,00.html (876 words)

	fred "sonic" smith (important to patti smith)
		As guitar heroes go, Fred "Sonic" Smith was one of the best, his musical legacy firmly established by his time spent as one half of the dual guitar arsenal that fueled the legendary MC5, and later fronting his own Sonic's Rendezvous Band and collaborating with his wife, Patti Smith.
		The first part was Patti reading poems from her book....Fred "Sonic" [Smith] and Patti came out and they lowered a screen, and on the screen they showed a film of a Jackson Pollock painting.
		Fred and Patti were working on new material and planning a return to recording at the time of his death.
	www.oceanstar.com /patti/bio/fred.htm (2331 words)

	Mack Aborn Rhythmic Arts - Remembering Fred "Sonic" Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fred (Sonic) Smith, a guitarist for the influential rock band the MC5, died on Friday at St. John’s Hospital in Detroit.
		Smith unleashed an ear shattering crush of sound during his heyday in the legendary MC5, and alter fronting his own band, Sonics Rendezvous in the mid-1970s.
		Fred picked up the pieces with his new band, and you could still hear plenty of the snap and crackle he had while fighting the great culture war.
	www.sonicsrendezvous.com /Sonic/remembering.html (1481 words)

	Salon Brilliant Careers \| Patti Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Much of the material on "Easter" had been in Smith's repertoire for years, and the songs that were new seemed more specifically about love and God, as if she were narrowing the parameters of a personal quest.
		In 1988, she and Fred released "Dream of Life," which disappointed fans and was ignored by everybody else, in spite of a great single, "People Have the Power." Nestled in an over-lush production, the rest of the songs seemed complacent rather than ecstatic; domestic tranquility resulted in ho-hum music.
		Smith's voice keeps getting darker and fuller, and she sounds like a stern angel of judgment on droning, baleful, minor-key songs with titles like "Death Singing," "Dead City" and "Last Call" (about the Heaven's Gate suicides).
	www.salon.com /people/bc/1999/11/09/smith/index2.html (1039 words)

	patti smith: fred's obit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Smith played guitar (along with Wayne Kramer) for MC5, and his thick, muscular riffs provided the ballistic brawn behind the band's sweaty mix of fist-pumping revolutionary rhetoric and head-banging incendiary protoo-metal.
		Smith raised two children (son Jackson, 12, and daughter Jessie, 7) with his high-profile wife.
		At the time of his death Smith was working on a compilation of Sonic's Rendezvous live material and writing songs for an upcoming album with Patti.
	www.oceanstar.com /~fi/patti/bio/fredobit.htm (299 words)

	MC5- Sonic's Rendezvous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As Fred passed John Sinclair, John remarked that "it must not be in the stars".
		I remember sitting and talking with Fred about the lack of a music scene in Detroit in 1975 when he predicted the soon to be realized local music explosion.
		Fred was always down to earth, the same person regardless of the amount of money in his pocket.
	www.furious.com /perfect/MC5/sonicsmith.html (1465 words)

	UNo MAS: Patti Smith, Back From Nowhere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the Eighties, Smith dropped out of sight, opting to devote her time to raising a family rather than the rigors of touring.
		PATTI SMITH: We recorded a lot of the summer, but we didn't finish because I felt I needed a break, so we'll finish it in the next week or two and it'll probably be out in June.
		Fred was part Indian and was proud of his heritage and it sort of has that feel in the song, so that's the title song.
	www.unomas.com /features/pattismith.html (1746 words)

	Patti Smith Group
		Patti Smith is a poet and rock singer who first gained notice when reading her poetry at gatherings in New York City in the early '70s.
		With 1978's Easter, Smith was definitely moving in a more commercial direction, especially by pairing with Bruce Springsteen for the hit single "Because the Night." That marked the high point of Smith's rock career.
		Patti Smith came back from the year-and-a-half break caused by her fall from a stage in January 1977 without having resolved the arts vs. commerce argument that had marred her second album, Radio Ethiopia.
	home.neo.rr.com /pummi/bdiog.html (399 words)

	Smith on Smith (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		To celebrate that legacy and to mark the 10-year anniversary of Fred Smith’s death, son Jackson Smith, also a guitarist has organized a tribute concert featuring the Sirens, Carolyn Striho, the Cyril Lords, Skeemin’ NoGoods, the Grande Nationals, members of the Paybacks and, possibly, a very special guest.
		Smith will be sitting in with a few bands.) In addition to selected MC5 and Rendezvous songs cropping up in the bands’ sets, an end-of-show group jam on “City Slang,” “Baby Won’t Ya” and “Sister Anne” is also in the works.
		Jackson Smith’s tribute and benefit show in memory of his father, Fred “Sonic” Smith, is Friday, Dec. 3, at the Magic Stick (4120 Woodward Ave., Detroit: 313-833-9700).
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=7045 (1210 words)

	Fred "Sonic" Smith, RIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Smith, the husband of the punk legend Patti Smith, was as great an inspiration to the first generation of punks as his wife was to the second.
		Also present were Lenny Kaye and JD Daugherty of the Patti Smith Group; Daugherty spoke at the service and Patti Smith sang "Wonderful World", which she said Fred had often teased her was actually "her song".
		Although his death was sudden, Fred Smith's health had not been good for quite some time; he was in hospital several days before the end.
	www.state51.co.uk /hottips/fsmith.html (526 words)

	Scott Morgan and Sonic's Rendezvous Band
		Sonic's Rendezvous Band arose, phoenix-like, from the ashes of four of the Motor City's finest proponents of high-energy rock - the MC5, the Stooges, the Rationals, and the Up.
		Then there was the creative tension between Fred Smith and Scott Morgan, itself a positive creative force and a limiting factor at various stages of the band's life.
		Fred "Sonic" Smith died on Friday, November 4, 1994, at St. John's Hospital in Detroit, several days after collapsing at the home he shared with Patti in St. Clair Shores.
	www.scottmorganmusic.com /scott_sonic.html (811 words)

	The Second Coming Of Patti Smith
		Confronting sins of the American Empire, commodity culture and greed with no frills, hard rock passion and urging her audience “to take things into your own hands,” Smith, at the age of 53, is resurrecting rock as a music of action and conscience.
		And, improbable as it may be, since returning to recording and performing in 1995, Patti Smith is making some of the most consistently inspired music of her life.
		And later on “New Party,” when she spews a venomous retort to a rosy report on the state of the union (“Why don’t you fertilize my lawn with what’s running from your mouth?”), there is no doubt she is inviting listeners to share in her contempt for official truth.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/cartermay2000.htm (1211 words)

	Sonic's Rendezvous Band - Ken Shimamoto's retrospective
		Fred was only into having Fred's way, so he when it came time to really step on the gas, Fred wasn't there.
		Fred was real pleased at that fact and James Allen was actually a real good guy and a good keyboard player, and sort of a funny dude.
		Fred says, "Well, let's just think about...we're on a subway and we're starting off in downtown Detroit, and we're going to go all the way out through the suburbs with it." It was kind of a cool premise...it went from inner city funk, rock, blues, y'know, into the rock thing out in the suburban thing.
	www.i94bar.com /ints/srb1.html (8409 words)

	Kim Wilde Encyclopedia: Smith, Patti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Patti Smith was raised in New Jersey and grew up with music from the Rolling Stones, the Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix and James Brown.
		In 1971, Smith was accompanied by guitarist Lenny Kaye for a reading in St Mark's Church, and this duo continued to work together for three years.
		Patti then married former MC 5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, and retired from active performing for much of the '80s.
	www.kimwilde.com /kwe/smithp.html (323 words)

	KNAC.COM - Features - Remembering Sonic's Rendezvous Band
		Scott Morgan: When Fred and I decided to try it again, we kept the name [Sonic’s Rendezvous Band]; I said, "I LIKE that name!" He didn't like the name; he thought that it should be a BAND name, not have his name involved.
		I think Fred wanted to come home and see Patti, because it was the beginning of their thing, and we were all thinking really that we've got a record coming out...we kinda thought that this was gonna be something big for us, too.
		I never really had a problem with Fred, between the two of us on a personal level, but on a business level, the way he got me out of the band...he was too detached, and willing to let things flow...if it was flowing in his direction, he didn't really mind.
	www.knac.com /article.asp?ArticleID=315 (15119 words)

	emplive.org - EMP Interviews - Patti Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Now in her mid-fifties, and with two teenaged kids, Smith has lost nary an ounce of the unequaled intensity and passion that's been on display since her classic 1975 debut, Horses, made her a rock ’n’ roll legend.
		In the span of a few years, she lost her best friend (photographer Robert Mapplethorpe), her husband (Fred "Sonic" Smith of the MC5), her brother, and close friends Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs.
		Patti Smith is one of the most inspiring people most of us could ever hope to come in contact with.
	www.emplive.org /explore/int_feature5.asp?pg=1 (733 words)

	Patti Smith: Her Gung Ho - StarIQ.com
		Smith has Venus (planet of art and love) conjunct her Jupiter (good fortune, excess) in the dark, mysterious sign.
		Smith, of course, is very much the baby boomer, and in true Capricorn fashion, continues to learn new lessons from her formative adult years (the 70s) slowly.
		Smith is the co-writer (with former lover Sam Shepherd) of the play Cowboy Mouth, and did begin the makings of a novel when she "retired" back in the 80s.
	www.stariq.com /Main/Articles/P0001191.HTM (912 words)

	Patti Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		With so much going on in Patti Smith's creative life, it's surprising that the 50-year-old rock and roll legend still has time to be a mom.
		It was a solemn work spurred by the deaths of her husband, MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith, her soulmate, Robert Mapplethorpe, and her brother, Todd.
		Smith has been dedicating much of her spare time to worthy causes—including one local Tri-Staters can benefit from.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/092597/20q.shtml (1331 words)

	Reviews
		Although Sonic's Rendezvous only laid down one single in the studio over the course of their five-year existence, an April 1978 show at the Second Chance (now the Nectarine Ballroom) was captured in all its raw power.
		Fred Smith’s guitar solos have that aggressive quality, Scott Morgan is a powerful vocalist and both drummer, Scott Asheton and bassist Gary Rasmussen play at a rapid fire pace.
		Fred "Sonic" Smith who’s with the group Sonic’s Rendezvous and was in MC5, and also happens to be the most important person in my life, has written some music for me, as soon as I can persuade him to give it to me, ‘cos he’s very secretive with his music.
	www.eldarentertainment.com /Rasmussen/Pages/GR_Clippings.html (2925 words)

	UD - Music Reviews - Patti Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The songs, many in 3/4 time because " that's what he (Fred "Sonic" Smith, her late husband) was teaching me when he passed away.
		At the height of her fame 17 years ago, Patti Smith left the music scene, married Fred "Sonic" Smith and moved to a suburb of Detroit to raise a family (son, Jackson 13 and daughter Jesse, 9).
		Originally Fred conceived the song to be about an American Indian priestess who rescues the tribe in a time of hardship, but Patti hadn't written the lyrics yet and when she finally wrote them they took a different turn.
	desires.com /2.4/Music/Reviews/Docs/patti.html (738 words)

	Patti Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Patti Smith was the lead singer/poet for the Patti Smith Group, which has since come to be regarded as a major influence on 1970's punk.
		Her only release during this time was the album Dream of Life, which was recorded with her husband and which appeared and disappeared with virtually no fanfare nor recognition in 1988.
		Smith continues to write poetry and is currently recording new material.
	www.comnet.ca /~rina/patti.html (323 words)

	CNN - Patti Smith returns to the stage - July 2, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Once upon a time, Patti Smith shook up the rock establishment in New York, in reaction to concerns that "rock and roll in the early '70s was getting a bit corporate," she says.
		She abruptly got a little domesticated, marrying MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith, and becoming a Michigan housewife with two kids.
		Much of Patti Smith's early songwriting was difficult for a mainstream audience to swallow.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9607/02/patti.smith (363 words)

	RuhrTriennale 2005-2007 - Patti Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Horses established the Patty Smith Group as a forerunner of the Britisch and American Punk- and New-Wave bands, and Patti Smith as an icon of the then flourishing women's movement.
		Eventually, Patti Smith found a companion through life with guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith and focused her life on her family.
		Her comeback with Dream Of Life (1988) was interrupted by the tragic deaths of Fred "Sonic" Smith and Richard Sohl.
	www.ruhrtriennale.de /en/presse/kuenstler/patti-smith (337 words)

	The New Yorker: Online Only: Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On the first track, the dead, in snow-white shrouds, are "waiting underground." "Don't Say Nothing" was written while Smith sat at the deathbed of her friend Allen Ginsberg and wondered why his passing wasn't treated as a national loss, like Victor Hugo's had been.
		Since Smith and the band have always been an improvisational group, much of the interest in the compilation derives from the live performances.
		That Smith is self-consciously wacky and unself-consciously joyous is only one of the reasons that audiences love her.
	www.newyorker.com /online/content?020311on_onlineonly01 (1147 words)

	Alt.Culture.Guide CD Playlist: Sonic's Rendezvous Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although Smith died a few years back, his wife —- the talented Patti Smith -— asked longtime associate Freddie Brooks to look through the band's collection of tapes with an eye towards releasing some of the material.
		Sonic's Rendezvous Band were a monster of a live band, with Smith and fellow guitarist Scott Morgan dueling like swordfighters in a death match, trading deadly, razor-sharp riffs with abandon.
		After all, like Neil Young once said, “it's better to burn out than to fade away.” For a too-few brief years, Sonic Rendezvous were the underground rock scene's brightest burning stars, blazing their way through hundreds of live shows.
	www.mondogordo.com /play32.htm (537 words)

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