JeffersonHack meets the ultimate rock’n’roll visionary, PattiSmith
that no amount of talking to her, no amount of uncovering her past or looking at her photographs or reading her texts will reveal. A visionary and a mystic, Patti has held on to that sacred quality most of us have erased to make it easier to get on with living. For the artist, the poet, it’s the gift that makes them respond to the world in an original and extraordinary way.
The world-changing events of September 2001 and the subsequent invasion of Iraq have been key themes in Smith’s recent output. In artwork she recently exhibited at the Andy Warhol Museum, we see the skeletons of the Twin Towers silk-screened with a meditative fastidiousness. On her last albumcall out to the souls of those who condone acts of war and perpetrate religious hatred. “Suffer not your neighbours affliction,” she begs, but, “extend your hand, extend your hand.
Patti Smith, however, managed to give death the cold shoulder. Her performances in the 70s were unconventional, unrehearsed; she would bend and twist, and hurl herself around the stage. She would simulate masterbation, howl her babelogue and pump her fists in the air, invoking, challenging the audience. In 1977 she fell off the stage in Tampa, Florida, and broke two vertebrae in her neck. It laid her up for a few months but didn’t lay her out; she recorded Easter in 1978.
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