Patti Smith

[Jeff Dalton <jeff%aiva.edinburgh.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>]

[Doug:]
>> ... that Patti Smith's song "Wave" is the most incredibly powerful and
>> psychedelic song ever written by a non-Kate Bush person?  Huh?
>> For shame on you guys!

> Gosh, I've been holding forth on Patti Smith since 1976 or so. 
> No one (present company excepted of course) listens. But I would offer 
> her all my assets and several years indentured servitude to do another 
> album like HORSES and another tour like the 1977-78 one. Really.
 
Right!  Patti Smith is great!

I still remember spring '78 when I first played Easter.  It blew me away,
the most amazing thing I'd ever heard.  Now, though, I tend to like the 1st
two LP's better.

I don't know that it's possible to make anything like Horses today.
But then again, who could have expected it in 1975 either?  Given
Patti's Ethiopian enthusiasms, though, I would think that she would
have to somehow take account of the current situation.

-- Jeff