PATTI UNDERGROUND
Bootlegs, B-sides, out-takes, alternate takes
Punk apocrypha and ephemera
for the fanatic and for the neophyte
You know what your daddy said, Patti?
he said, he said, he said
Sixty days ago she was my little girl
now there she is with a gun in her hand
Hey, Joe
The fourth and final chapter
in our Patti Smith
exposition and saga
Isabella
We are floating
Jesus died for somebody's sins
Before the rhinoplasty
I kid Patti,
her nose was never that big
Patti's Pads
Talisman, sacred fetishes
and brainiac amours
Beauty will be convulsive
or not at all
Andre Breton
The artist will be obsessive
or not at all,
RAY Man
Proof of struggle, stigmata
and accompanying occultation
Back in age of rock mags
information was otherwise hard to find
Patti her bad self wrote for several and
William S. Burroughs wrote
a regular column for Crawdaddy
a regular column for Crawdaddy
I've got these two myself
my "A Rock and Roll Star" 45
is the more scarce and desirable US release,
US record companies were so nasty
they put out only small numbers of 45s with
pictorial sleeves then switched to generic
"Ask the Angels" has the PSG version
of "Time Is On My Side"
on the flip-side
"Ask the Angels" has the PSG version
of "Time Is On My Side"
on the flip-side
"We like bootlegs,"
I think that's what
sings Patti at the end of Birdland on
Teenage Perversity and Ships in the Night
the LP in the middle on which someone
has redrawn the lost cover sheet
Here's my copy
with the cover sheet
loosely inserted
Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti
A book Guise and Dolls recently published
combines their works with contemporary Andy Warhol,
Bob Colacello just had a memoir in Vanity Fair
spilling what Warhol actually thought of Robert
Gamine
Patti in action
actually for a San Francisco
bookstore signing gig
Recent posters from foreign tours
reprint images of the same
old wild barn-stormer
The red button below
traffics in that old cartoon
Not very impressive button collection
Three are PSG issues which
they'd toss to the crowd
The others are knock-off junk
Patti's worn-out Rimbaud shirt
Her various incarnations
from High school prom to Shaman
Patti is too much of an artist
to be reduced to a show-biz cliche
aware of the metamorphosis
needed for a long life in music
A Chaplinesque
chiaroscuro image
around 1978
Late period Patti Smith Group
her apparent squeeze filled in
for Richard Sohl on that tour
Root Connection
exhibition taking place
at illustrious Mills College
A librarian here Robert Byars
donated his butterfly collection
Re-emergence
after a long chrysalis,
wool gathering in woodshed
Things are goon happen fast
and you're not gonna get all of them
Patti became
a Buddhist professional mourner
sitting at Ginsberg's
death bedside
dark matter
comprises most
of the universe
emptiness
comprises most
of the mind
Guitar pick
horse photo badge
Rock n Rimbaud
the Hermann Hesse Museum
Trampin
to
those dusty old fair grounds again
Some strange music
draws me in
makes me come on
like some heroine
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