Thursday, November 19, 2009

Yet Another Early Clue to the New Direction (Special Flogging a Dead Equine Edition)

From 1976, please enjoy the incomparable Patti Smith, my unrequited hearthrob for the last several decades, and a pretty fabulous live version (from Brit TV) of the classic title track from her debut album Horses. Eventually mutating into "Hey Joe."



As always, a Coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader who gleans the clip's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.

BTW, a chum forwarded this yearbook photo -- Deptford Township High School class of '64 -- the other day.


Words fail me, on several levels. Mostly, of course, I'm thinking she wouldn't have given me a tumble even then.

I'm also wondering what happened to Roger, but perhaps we don't want to know.
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20 comments:

  1. dave™©11/19/2009 12:12 PM

    Two (or more) song medleys?

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  2. steve simels11/19/2009 12:21 PM

    Nope, but that's a good one I may steal.

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  3. Kid Charlemagne11/19/2009 12:22 PM

    Loved the documentary of her. She was quite funny in that!

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  4. Maggie11/19/2009 12:23 PM

    Now, I just saw something about 70's music sucking.
    Not Patti.
    Terrific find.
    Thanks.

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  5. steve simels11/19/2009 12:28 PM

    Patti's the best. Bullshit quotient and all.

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  6. Alex11/19/2009 12:51 PM

    Cult heroes who finally got hit records with Springsteen songs?

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  7. Gummo11/19/2009 12:51 PM

    No guess on the clue, but I'm sure I've told my story about the day in the summer of 78 or 79 when I saw David Peel harrass Patti right out of Washington Square Park.

    He was (and probably still is) such a complete and total asshole....

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  8. steve simels11/19/2009 1:11 PM

    Hmm. Not ready to give another hint quite yet...
    :-)

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  9. jeff11/19/2009 3:16 PM

    Songs that are tributes to an artist/muse?

    I thought I was over Ms. Smith. Then a couple of years ago I ran into her while crossing the street, looking splendid in a long blue serge coat while staring right past me up the avenue. Suddenly, I felt like a lovestruck kid.

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  10. steve simels11/19/2009 5:44 PM

    I know the feeling.

    Okay -- the clue is something in the lyric.

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  11. Who Am Us Anyway?11/19/2009 6:45 PM

    Songs mentioning poets?

    Song mentioning dances?

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  12. steve simels11/19/2009 6:58 PM

    No and no.
    :-)

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  13. MBowen11/19/2009 7:37 PM

    Songs with guns?

    Here's something I wrote about Patti a while back, not long after she came out of retirement.

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  14. Brooklyn Girl11/19/2009 10:20 PM

    Songs about animals?

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  15. geor3ge11/19/2009 10:37 PM

    Songs with parentheticals?

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  16. dave™©11/19/2009 10:44 PM

    Songs featuring Van Dyke Parks?

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  17. dave™©11/19/2009 10:45 PM

    Songs by people who wouldn't give Steve a tumble in high school?

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  18. steve simels11/19/2009 11:02 PM


    dave™© said...
    Songs by people who wouldn't give Steve a tumble in high school?


    Yes, yes, you bastard -- you guessed it!!!!

    Okay, just kidding.

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  19. Dave11/20/2009 2:16 AM

    One of my favorite "celebrity spots" of all time was Patti Smith, surrounded by friends/family, many of whom looked much like her in countenance and apparel, chowing down on huge platters of smoked fish at Barney Greengrass on Christmas Day a few years ago.

    She's still skinny. Looks great actually. And the woman loves to eat. Cool.

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  20. Unknown11/25/2009 8:14 PM

    i think Roger is the guy who gets up on the water tower in "targets."

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