1978 ink w/ water color Patti Smith
Patti Smith playing the Fillmore-i've seen Smith play a number af places over the years. I also saw her exhibit at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh in '02. I was fortunate enough to get her to sign an old copy of Seventh Heaven for me. I have talked to Lenny Kaye many times who is a brilliant man and a hot guitar player. All this and i have no photos of me whith them. Well maybe i can think of something by the time they play the Fillmore. I remember living in this trashy hotel at the east end of Market with flyers of the Dead Kennedys, Patti Smith, the Avengers plastered all over the walls. I was quite young. It was 1978 and the sound was strong, fresh and new and i explored it to the fullest. Smith has evolved so wonderfully over the years, like a dark raven growing in the light. Turning, wanting, tempting you with her words dancing barefoot in your mind. In my mind. In all our minds whether you think so or not. That music changed things, made me feel, feel so deep and dark, helped me to see the light. I can still see hints of that time walking around today, here in S.F. It makes me smile, a little smart ass smile, but a smile. Smith is a rock/poet goddess and has changed the way we all see words. "i was a wing in heaven blue, soared over the ocean, sored over spain, and i was free, needed nobody, it was beautiful, it was beautiful"(p.s.).David K Bruner