Re: (TV) Fwd: tv @ meltdown report

[Jay <piazzasanmarco@yahoo.com>]

Patti Smith and her original band (Kaye, etc.) put on
the best rock and roll show I have ever seen several
years back in the ATL.

--- Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In message
>
<20050622011535.48230.qmail@web54304.mail.yahoo.com>,
> robin 
> dunn <rdunnrn@yahoo.com> writes
> >from babel-list.
> 
> Interesting.
> For a 3rd point of view, Tania (my wife), although
> she quite likes Patti 
> Smith, found her intrusion into Television's set
> "gratuitous and 
> embarrassing", "inappropriate and completely broke
> the mood of the 
> evening".
> 
> After the band left the stage, who should appear
> wandering around in 
> front of the stage but La Smith herself; cue an
> invasion of hip young 
> things milling around while she drifted around
> touching hands and, for 
> all I know, changing water into wine. The bullshit
> factor increased by a 
> power of 10. I felt like I'd just come along to
> watch the backing band.
> 
> Hey, it's her festival, she can do what she likes
> but I'd rather watch 5 
> minutes of Tom & Co. than 90 minutes of faintly
> embarrassing PS 
> histrionics. On the other hand, she is an Icon,
> undeniably important in 
> the history of rock music, an inspiration to many
> and, I'm sure, a 
> lovely person - and I am a miserable old bugger.
> 
> And yes, I'd love to see the run-through of "Horses"
> on Saturday. I 
> mean, who wouldn't?
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