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Patti Smith at the Minetta Lane: Words and Music
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A sweet Audible Original Art+Music performance by Patti Smith that includes her son and daughter playing in the band with her as she reflects (briefly, less than ninety minutes) on a few key events, focusing especially on the two most important men in her life, Robert Mapplethorpe and Fred "Sonic" Smith. They alternate stripped-down versions of her best-known songs with her brief account of her life, drawing on already published anecdotes (and actual prose) from her published writing, principally M Train.
That probably sounds like faint praise, but as she gets older, I have grown fonder and fonder of the artist, writer, and person Patti Smith, who liberally quotes other writers (and they play a song with a Rilke poem as lyrics) in all her works, urging me to reread them. So, as a memory trip, given it tells me little new, it maybe merits a three-star rating, but as an experience it bumps up for me to four stars. I liked it a lot.
That probably sounds like faint praise, but as she gets older, I have grown fonder and fonder of the artist, writer, and person Patti Smith, who liberally quotes other writers (and they play a song with a Rilke poem as lyrics) in all her works, urging me to reread them. So, as a memory trip, given it tells me little new, it maybe merits a three-star rating, but as an experience it bumps up for me to four stars. I liked it a lot.
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Feb 28, 2024 09:14AM
I liked this too. Patti Smith and I have a varied connection. I bought Horses when it came out not knowing what to expect and she became a hero. She was also the only concert I walked out of. I have really enjoyed the bootlegs I've collected (The closing of CBGBs in particular) I have enjoyed her latest books; which I listen to as audio books, She seems to handle herself with such grace.
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Oooo this sounds delightful. Great review!
Todd wrote: "I liked this too. Patti Smith and I have a varied connection. I bought Horses when it came out not knowing what to expect and she became a hero. She was also the only concert I walked out of. I hav..."I was never a huge fan of her music, though have now, since reading all her books, picked up a lot of her music, and appreciate her stuff.
s.penkevich wrote: "Oooo this sounds delightful. Great review!"Ty, it's fun!
I really liked the audio book of "Year of the Monkey." I'd recommend that.
yeah, I bought that one in hard cover. At this point in my life I am shedding books by the thousands, slimming the collection down to "essentials," trying to use the library and audiobooks more and more, but I am keeping all the Smith hardcovers I can get my hands on.
