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  Patti Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Patti Smith Group was signed by Clive Davis of Arista Records, and 1975 saw the release of Smith's first album Horses, produced amidst some tension by John Cale, formerly of The Velvet Underground.
Although Smith has never had a RIAA certified record, has had just one Top 20 single, and has yet to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she is regarded as one of the most influential and important artists in rock history.
Smith was an active supporter of Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign, touring with him and playing "People Have the Power" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" before crowds of thousands at the campaign's "super-rallies." She also performed at several of Nader's subsequent "Democracy Rising" events.
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 Wave (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This was the least commercially successful of the Patti Smith Group's four albums, even though it continued the evolution towards radio-friendly mainstream pop with Todd Rundgren's production, and demonstrated on the previous album, Easter.
The band broke up after this album was made, and Smith went on spend many years in semi-retirement after her marriage to Fred Sonic Smith and the birth of their children, Jesse and Jackson.
The 1996 remaster/re-issue included Smith's original version of "Fire of Unknown Origin." Blue Öyster Cult's version was released on their album of the same name in 1981.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wave_(album)   (229 words)

  
 Television (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Television was a part of the early New York punk rock scene, contemporaries of bands like the Patti Smith Group and the Ramones.
This led Hell to leave the group and take his songs with him, forming The Heartbreakers in 1975 with former members of the New York Dolls, and later forming Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
Fred Smith, briefly of Blondie, replaced Hell as Television's bassist.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Television_(band)   (1049 words)

  
 PATTI SMITH ­ ROCK & ROLL NIGGER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Smith is duidelijk fier op haar carrière, maar ze heeft in de loop der jaren heel wat vrienden verloren met wie ze muziek heeft gemaakt en die pijn blijft knagen.
Patti Smith is geboren op 30 december 1946 in Chicago en ze wist al vroeg dat ze artieste wou worden.
PATTI SMITH: I felt that that mission was accomplished and I felt that it was time for me to move on and study other things and learn more about myself as a human being and study art and to pursue my relationship and learn about life as a wife.
www.cucamonga.be /interviews/PattiSmith0802.htm   (3146 words)

  
 Patti Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Smith is such a profoundly good artist that it's dangerous to try to surmise what she wanted to accomplish with this material.
It wasn't until Smith had become the toast of New York City and traveled to the West Coast for a handful of shows that she added guitarist Ivan Kral and Daugherty to form her Group and become a dedicated houserocker.
Like Television, Smith is considered one of the pioneers of punk rock, yet her group and Verlaine's influential band had a different set of intentions from those of the Ramones and the Sex Pistols.
www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/music/reviews/06-13-96/PATTI_SMITH.html   (1374 words)

  
 Why Patti Smith Mattered
Smith was one of the genre's most prolific artists regardless of medium.
Smith was also one of the few (if not first) women to succeed in rock music without becoming a sex symbol.
Smith moves from the hedonistic perspective of a male rock musician in "Gloria" to the scene of locker-room violence with a backdrop of 1960s soul classics in "Land." "Land," an anthem to the underdog, weaves the tale of the hero, Johnny, getting beat up in the locker room.
www.inch.com /~jessamin/patti.html   (915 words)

  
 Carl Petter's Bluesite: rocktheology
Patti (Patricia Lee) Smith was born December 30, 1946 in Chicago, but grew up in Philadelphia and later New Jersey.
Patti Smith Group were among the first punk/new wave groups signed to a major label.
It shows Patti Smith in an androgynious pose, dressed in fl trousers, white shirt and a tie around her neck — "my Rimbaudian pose" as she describes it — avoiding all the stereotypes attributed to female rock artists at that time.
www.carlpetter.com /rocktheology/patti.htm   (588 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)

  
 VH1.com : Patti Smith : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
Smith's music was hailed as the most exciting fusion of rock and poetry since Bob Dylan's heyday.
Smith was born in Chicago on December 30, 1946; her parents moved to Philadelphia when she was three, and then to the nearby, less urban town of Woodbury, NJ, when she was nine.
In early 1977, Smith was performing in Tampa, FL, when she twirled herself right off the stage; she broke two vertebrae in her neck and was forced to take some time off to recuperate.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/patti_smith/bio.jhtml   (1543 words)

  
 AE160D Unit 17: Patti Smith Group
The Patti Smith Group was the first success story to come out of the CBGB's scene, as well as the first to draw large audiences into the unknown club.
It was this primary musical innovation of The Patti Smith Group, fusing rock and roll with poetry that would go on to have a heavy influence on bands of the 1980's such as R.E.M. The commercial high point of Patti's career was the 1978 single "Because the Night", co-written by Bruce Springsteen.
Although Patti's reputation as being political, opinionated, and outspoken often precedes her, the legacy she created endures as one that established the changing roles of women in rock, and the changing sounds that defined an era.
arted.osu.edu /160/17_PattiSmith.php   (396 words)

  
 T-Shirt Fiend: Patti Smith singer tshirt
The Patti Smith Group was signed by Clive Davis of Arista, and 1975 saw the release of Smith's first album Horses, produced amidst some tension by John Cale, formerly of The Velvet Underground.
The line-up, all hand-picked by Smith, comprised an extremely diverse array of actors and musicians, from Tilda Swinton and Miranda Richardson, to the London Sinfonietta, to a Siberian throat-singing group which performed Purple Haze (as part of a tribute to Jimi Hendrix).
Smith was an active supporter of 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.
tshirtfiend.com /patti_smith_singer_tshirt.php   (1468 words)

  
 Patti Smith: pattismith.net: wegottofly
Patti Smith and Kevin Shields perform the project conceived for Patti Smith's Meltdown this time committing the work and other original pieces to tape.
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met in 1967 and lived in the Chelsea Hotel in 1969 and 1970.
Patti Smith (b.1946) is an American musician, singer, and poet.
www.pattismith.net /wegottofly.html   (320 words)

  
 'Easter' by Patti Smith Group - A Review
Patti Smith, the vocalist and driving force behind the band, comes from an art and literature background, and her poetry figures prominently in her music.
The first of Smith's idiosyncratic monologues is featured, but it's the only one on the album that culminates in an orgasm, as far as I am able to determine.
Smith's vocals are best enjoyed, in my opinion of course, when she is reaching for the higher registers, as here, and the piano is high in the mix at times, giving a much-needed extra instrumental dimension.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loz/Easter.htm   (769 words)

  
 Patti Smith - Horse: Legacy Edition - Arista/Legacy - CD
Forming the strong Patti Smith Group, she, like others of her era and musical persuasion, and buoyed by essential appearances in the NYC scene, most notably CBGB, helped to reshape a seemingly stagnant rock era back into a fresh and dynamic force.
The elements of Smith's music is her poetic intensity and 4 very good musicians, together touching off a firestorm of a new way to listen to music.
Smith’s performance is as impassioned as her original work, right down to the sneer at the beginning of “Gloria.” 30 years later, Horses stand well among classics.
www.musictap.net /Reviews/SmithPattiHorsesLegacyCD.html   (606 words)

  
 The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music - Patti Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
patti smith is a new york city poet cum performer whose 1975 album horses is regularly cited as an influence by folks like courtney love (hole) and michael stipe (REM).
When Patti sings of anger and angst, it comes from experience, is believable, and eloquent, where Alanis's and others' seems like playacting.
Patti Smith proves that she can be every bit as much of a knockout now as she was years ago.
ectoguide.org /genre/rock/smith.patti   (1302 words)

  
 Patti Smith - trampin' - Columbia Records - CD
With the release of Arista's Patti Smith compilation, Land, it was somewhat stated in the liner notes that Patti may have recorded her last.
Patti Smith ended her long standing affiliation with Arista, largely because the label was dramatically different in scope than it was during her early days.
Smith eventually left the hectic schedule of Rockdom to raise children during her marraige to MC5 alum, Fred Smith.
www.musictap.net /Reviews/SmithPattiTrampinCD.html   (673 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.
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.
And on songs like "25th Floor," Iovine, Smith and her group were able to accommodate both the urge to rock out and the need to expound.
home.neo.rr.com /pummi/bdiog.html   (399 words)

  
 Patti Smith at CBGBs
And even at the performance's lowest points, Smith never let the audience forget that she is the consummate definition of a rock artist.
Smith eventually simmered down and displayed the trademark quirks that make her such a compelling performer.
Smith oozed apprehension in the face of "Horses" freeform narrative and tried as hard as she could to focus on the task at hand.
www.rock-the-world.com /patti.html   (616 words)

  
 Patti Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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.
Patti herself was brought up in suburban New Jersey by a Jehovah's Witness mother and an atheist father.
In the early 1970's, Patti and her good friend guitarist Lenny Kaye (who was also a local rock journalist) began a musical partership which evolved out of their mutual affinity for 60's garage rock and 50's beat poetry.
www.comnet.ca /~rina/patti.html   (323 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Easter: Music: Patti Smith Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Patti Smith cowrote her first big hit, "Because the Night," with Bruce Springsteen, and that track was the force behind this album's ascent of the U.S. Top 40.
Patti Smith isn't the kind of girl you'd want to bring to meet your church-going mother: she's outraged, angry, and profane, and meeting her music for the first time can have the impact of slamming into a brick wall.
I heard that Patti Smith is punk rock and her husband is Fred "Sonic" Smith and blah blah blah.
www.amazon.ca /Easter-Patti-Smith-Group/dp/B000002VQP   (1265 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Music: Land (1975 - 2002), Patti Smith, CD, Digi-Pak
Patti Smith, like the protagonist of fellow Jersey native Frank Sinatra's best-known song, has always done it her way.
Patti Smith completed her contract with Arista Records after 27 years by assembling this compilation, which serves as both a best-of and rarities collection, one disc devoted to each.
Having scored only one hit single, "Because the Night," Smith was not constrained by chart performance, and she seems to have chosen the songs that still mean something to her (though in an interview she claimed to have taken fan preferences into consideration).
music.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=2B06VQH3IQ&ean=78221470827   (415 words)

  
 Gendron, Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde, excerpt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
But it was the Patti Smith Group, with an already acquired notoriety in local art and rock circles, that really set the CBGB scene in motion when they paired up with Television on a two-month residency in the spring of 1975.
Patti Smith was both of and not of the first wave, an originator and intermediary more than a full-fledged participant.
In the narrative of the CBGB scene, Patti Smith is more important for what she gave to the scene than what she got from it, and in what she gave, more important in providing exposure and audience than in shaping the aesthetics.
www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/287378.html   (2893 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Easter [Remaster] - Patti Smith Group at Epinions.com
It seems that for both Dylan and Smith (artists near one another in my personal pantheon), their near-death experiences pushed them in an altogether different direction, right at points in their career when it seemed like they could push their own radical art no further.
The three late-'70s albums that followed "Horses", leading up to Smith's ten-year seclusion, explored different aspects of Smith's relation to the mainstream, and "Easter" is the most successful of the three, both in terms of artistic coherency and in terms of mainstream appeal.
But the fact that this album has endured despite Smith's questionable relevance (which, fortunately, her new album "Trampin'" has reestablished) is testimony to her staying power, her sincerity, and the simple compellingness of most of what she does.
www.epinions.com /content_143030783620   (915 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Horses: Music: Patti Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
By the mid-70's, Smith had been a regular poetry-reader in New York City clubs for years, and with a deep admiration for The Rolling Stones, it was only natural to set these poems to music.
Smith had a gift for being able to paint vivid pictures with her prose, as evidenced by a pair of 10-minute long epics, "Birdland" and "Land" (which consisted of 3 sections--"Horses", "Land of A Thousand Dances", and "La Mer").
I first came across Patti Smith on the B.B.C. 2 music show "The Old Grey Whistle Test", I can't remember the year but I think it was round the middle of the 70's.
www.amazon.co.uk /Horses-Patti-Smith/dp/B000002VQQ   (1435 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Smith, Patti
There's bad news for Patti Smith fans hoping the New York music icon will hit the road soon in support of her two-CD career retrospective, LAND 1975-2002.
Smith's drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, who has played with her for 27 years, is recuperating from a serious motorcyle accident that occurred shortly after the March 19 release of LAND.
The career of revered punk poet Patti Smith will be celebrated with a two-CD set featuring a full disc of previously unreleased material.
www.jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/S/Smith_Patti   (184 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Easter: Music: Patti Smith Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In the spring of 1978 Patti Smith released what would be her only top 5 single in the U. K., "Because the Night" which was co-written by Bruce Springsteen who wrote the music and of course "Patti" wrote the lyrics.
As that track finishes hold onto your hats “Patti” rage is burning she begins a rant called “Babelogue” which introduces the angriest song on the album “Rock n Roll Nigger” which is very unsettling to listen to.
Of her early work, Easter is Patti's most accessible album and owing to the inclusion of Springsteen's beautiful "Because the Night" it became her biggest seller - she had managed to adapt her poetic gifts to appeal to a mainstream rock audience.
www.amazon.co.uk /Easter-Patti-Smith-Group/dp/B000002VQP   (930 words)

  
 Bob Gruen, Rock and Roll Photographer - Patti Smith at Village Underground
June 6, 2001 - The Patti Smith Group are playing a three night gig at the new Greenwich Village venue "Village Underground".
Patti Smith group plays at the Village Underground with an American Flag background.
Patti smiles as she plays guitar, in fact she smiled a lot at this show.
www.bobgruen.com /potda/0601/PattiSmith/PattiSmith.html   (281 words)

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