Legendary Patti Smith on Her New Memoir "M Train" & National Book Award Winner "Just Kids"
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- In a Democracy Now! special, the legendary poet, singer, activist Patti Smith joins us for the hour. Her new memoir "M Train" has just been published. In 2010, her best-selling memoir, "Just Kids," won a National Book Award. "Just Kids" examined her relationship with the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who died in 1989. The new memoir focuses in part on Smith’s late husband, Fred "Sonic" Smith, who died five years later. Patti Smith is also celebrating the 40th anniversary of "Horses," her landmark debut album, which has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time by Rolling Stone.
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Patty is so intelligent, caring, thoughtful and a truly great, great, communicator.
right on!
Darn Tootin'.
I think it is wrong to pigeonhole her as Punk. She is too courageous to be a punk. There is an abrasive elegance to Patti Smith and her art. Even when abrasive, her work is proper and beautiful. All of us can learn so much from her. I have. She earns our respect for her as a role-model for the Rock Industry, Popular Culture and our efforts fighting for Social, Economic and Political Justice.
+Michael Reid Perry Very well said! I totaly agree!
+Jules Winfield, in "M Train" Smith makes a brief reference to having a wall-eye.
+Jules Winfield She has had a wandering eye since she was a young child, for which she had to wear an eye patch, but her parents couldn't afford the surgery that would have fixed it. Furthermore, when she was 30 she fell off a stage in Florida and hit her head, causing permanent damage to her vision. That is one reason she was never able to drive. However, I haven't seen her ever let those things or anything else hold her back. She is a strong, beautiful, inspirational woman.
+Jules Winfield I'm sure you didn't mean it in any bad way, just glad to give some info on her, she is my role model :)
Domina Elle Thank you for your insight. She is Punk, and so much more.
It's wonderful to know there is someone like Patti Smith out there in the world writing and performing
Patti Smith's Just Kids- the book read aloud by her is FANTASTIC!
thanks for the recommendation ! i have read that book of hers twice, but will look for that audio of her reading it 💞
Wonderful artist, Great book, So is M Train.
Patti is so warm in concert and her happiness shines through. It's good to see Patti coming into her own as we all grow older together!
She’s so humble. Such a gentle-woman. Gawd bless her soul.
She is so beautiful, a poet of such depth and awareness and her voice in song and poetry is
music and wisdom .
She speaks very thoughtfully, and intellectually, about artists and art.
I love Patti's guts - her amazing guts!
Looking at Patti in photographs always intimidated me growing up, so I stayed away from her art. Now seeing her here so gentle and wise I'm going to pick up her books and know her better. Thank you, Democracy Now!
In March 1976, I read Patti Smith's poetry -- unlike anything I had read, and Wow! I already had an album of hers, and went on, in a trance of inspiration from her poetry to create that summer a free concert series in my city showcasing young jazz musicians, to which thousands came. She was the living personification of "if you feel it, it has dignity. If you can dream it, you can do it."
More inspiring people please!
thanks for your comment, -- I knew smart and intelligent women who really liked her, too. Glad you mentioned CBGB, which of course ...... putting bands on can be a rush, so much (undiscovered) talent out there!
I am thankful for Patti Smith.
Astounding humility! She says she's not a musician, true enough, yet she's responsible for some of the greatest/best songs in rock history: Because the Night, Frederick, Horses, etc.
I started reading Just kids because it's the book of the month of the book club I attend to, I don't think I'd have picked this book otherwise but I'm glad this book encountered me by destiny or whatever. I can't put the it down and I'm totally in love with her and Robert Mapplethorpe. She is a genius and her smile is just pure poetry.
Patti is amazing.
She is real and genius and hope she lives to 100, and damn I miss her husband badly too, right on Patti.
pattys music an art was my safe place in life in the the 70's as a teen.. i also lived outside of detroit. saw her at several differant venues.. got to meet the band at a record store in sterling hts michigan. was great. the store no longer exists. saw her play at
the masonic temple, second chance lounge in ann arbor.. an a
u of m campus in detroit. i waited to meet her after one shows..and i got to but it was brief.. felt like she had no time for a discussion.. but after all it was after a show.. i was bummed but oh well.. fred played with them as well. but none the less she inspired me.. today i found the whole easter album on you tube an wow that took me back to 17-18 again. im 59 now. i cranked it up an belted out with some songs. funny how you remember words to music you havent listened to for many many years. i still have all her albums an ticket stubs from back then.. patty i still love you and every thing about you. awsome woman.. fan who lives in virginia now..
Klaus Adomei
Fascinating !
Later she wrote The Coral Sea : another tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe.
Short enough to be read at a single sitting , the book's prose reads like poetry . Frankly surreal , it charts a young man's voyage across the seas to find The Southern Star . It's a metaphor for the process of dying .
In the final lines the soul of Robert is freed from his earthly body by the Hand of God . The writing at the end - and throughout - is worthy of William Blake .
She is so incredibly brilliant and talented, but unlike so many famous artists, she has a genuine humility, which I find so endearing.
I've listened to "Just Kids" on CD, and I love it! I laugh, I cry, I feel as though I'm there *with* Patti Smith. I feel as though I'm *in* the story. :)
What a beautiful soul
Goddess, she's absolutely amazing.
thank you for posting this! love her
This is my new favorite thing. I needed to connect with this so badly today, and I hadn't known it til I heard it. Thank you so much!
PLEASE HAVE PATTI BACK TO THE STUDIO SOON AND OFTEN!
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Patti, you are wrong, so wrong - you ARE a musician and not just -a- musician but a truly special musician. NO ARGUMENTS; NO DISCUSSIONS ALLOWED! I Thank god for having you here on earth!
Patti Smith, is THE MOST PROMINENT poet and lyricist female who created a new order!
A legend
perfection
I adore her. she's a huge inspiration and influence on me as an artist. so brave, so beautiful and a great prophet & visionary in our times. Kate Moss has a wall eye too, so haters fuck off! If you only see the surface you, yourself have no depth. Listen to her. People Have The Power ought to be the anthem for Bernie's presidential campaign!
Just finished the book. We are by chance the same age. It helped me think about that which is inevitable. And I like coffee !
Patti Smith: another name 4 Goddess. Te adoro
I loved each of these books. I too like "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit." Walking with the people one has lost is a beautiful idea. I will try this.
Love
Patti te amo
OMD, Lafayette Coney Island is the best. I love their coneys, hearing she met Fred there sure made me smile!
Patti you have for me the same energy
Her and Janis Joplin were always my fav woman singers/artists~ Always will be!! 💕
LOVE IT/ TRUE GREENWICH ICON WITH AN NUCLEAR IQ
❤️‼️
Great freedom speech!!!
Just Kids = Superior.
🌹
There are some other humans that write as well ,,,, funny that ,,,l patti as much as I love you ,,,,,,,,, life goes on,,,,,I am proud of your amazing success l,,,,a little bit jealous ,,,,,never to worry life goes on,,,,,never know the reason why.,,,,we all know you are an icon okay ,,,,. Bob Dylan would say,,,,life goes on in this life
Never know the reason why,,,,love you girl ,,,💚
Currently reading M train, love it but to be fair it's my kind of book, like Naked Lunch but obvs way less gnarly
Anyone who’s read just kids knows she’s a poet before a musician, like she basically claims here
interesting woman!!
I believe just coz we are made to live ln communitys people think they are not as we once were "as tribes " sharmen sharwomen but we are once again hand in hand we are once again as tribes,
David Lloyd o.w.
Patti you and I , we have the same sickness .
which one?
Melancholia?
It’s like Joey never died
Like Luka Bloom*********
A female Dylan.
Daily life...
You know I love me some strong women, and it seems to me that, cents the internet is going to replace cable tv. I think Democracy Now needs to bring more women to the fore front.
Curtis Grantham
Curtis Grantham
Fuck me it's a Wewe!
I wonder why she never questions the questioner? She answers instead of saying 'What do you mean by that?' As though the questioner already knows exactly what they are talking about.
Read Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and you will never look at her the same way again. Like Courtney Live she operated by coupling with talented men and exploiting those relationships to the fullest. Don't bring it up though or she will cry sexism.
+robertaglass Legs also operating by coupling with talented men and exploiting those relationships to the fullest.
Climate change??? ... Ha-ha-haaa... LMAO!!!
IS THIS THE RESISTANCE? LOL
Legendary? That seems a bit hyperbolic.
+youngbuck189 well, back in the day, Patti Smith created an earthquake in the creative community, with the help of Malplethorpe and Springsteen and vice versa. At one point, she was Grungebands. She was the young poet.
she throwing up Illuminati gang signs
omgutubeismylife
Can you be more accurate? I want to know if she is
Wouldn't a robot be be more entertaining and cost effective than that young gal?
I swear looks like an old dude
Three witches...