Boho Life: Photographs of a young Patti Smith (NSFW-ish)
When Patti Smith first met Judy Linn they were two young artists just starting out on their careers. It was one-nine-six-eight. Smith was a poet,…
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Amazing, forgotten Patti Smith Group show with Iggy, David Johansen & others (but no Patti), 1977
On March 9th, 1977, members of the Patti Smith Group played an incredible yet little-known gig. A recent accident had sidelined Smith, and it’s likely…
Patti Smith would have been stoked to pose nude in Playboy
Patti never made the Playboy scene, but she was a CREEM Dream at some point in the late 70s Bebe Buell was one of the…
Ghost Dance, the apocalyptic Native American religion behind the Patti Smith song
Lakota ghost shirt (via ndstudies.gov) Gary Snyder’s “Passage to More than India” ends with “the chorus of a Cheynne Indian Ghost dance song—hi-niswa’ vita’ki’ni—’We shall…
That time Mary Hartman and Patti Smith unwittingly formed a fantasy presidential ticket, 1976
Any discussion about the presidency in 2017 has to start with the notion that about 90% of Americans living or dead would be an improvement…
Punk, Patti Smith, William Burroughs & capitalism: A ‘conceptual conversation’ with RE/Search’s Vale
Vale with William Burroughs This interview with V. Vale was conducted by Michael Lee Nirenberg, director of the 2014 documentary Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine…
A young Patti Smith and Jonathan Miller star in a 1971 BBC doc about New York City
Jonathan Miller became famous in the cast of the great 1960s comedy show Beyond the Fringe, sharing the stage with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, and—I…
‘Dream of Life,’ impressionistic study of Patti Smith
Fashion photographer Steven Sebring exhaustively documented Patti Smith’s wanderings for 11 years after her return to public life in 1995. Of his movie Dream of…
Patti Smith on Bob Marley, comics, and opening her own pot cafe when she ‘grows up,’ back in 1976
‘The Two Faces of Patti Smith.’ photograph by Guillemette Barbet and art design by John Holmstrom. Over the weekend I was yet again getting in…
Patti Smith’s review of ‘The Beach Boys Love You’
The Beach Boys Love You, from 1977, is not everyone’s favorite Beach Boys LP, but it is Bucks Burnett’s. The onetime manager of Tiny Tim…