Re: happy birthday
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 27 May 1998 15:14:20 +1000
I saw her too (at a rock festival in 1997) and yes, Lenny Kaye was on
guitar. Talk about transfixing. There were people all around me in the
audience crying, just whispering `I can't believe I'm watching Patti
Smith!!!' She's much more of an underground thing over here. I wish Tom
Waits would tour, I love him to bits but to my knowledge he's never come to
Australia. I'm hanging out for Neil Young, too - there's always rumours
he'll come one day.
P.S. My mother has always told me the legend of the Bob Dylan concert at
Sydney Showground in the pouring rain in the '60's. You had to walk across
the ground on bricks because the whole thing was flooded and they actually
had to bring in new rules about outdoor performances after it because the
conditions had been so ghastly. Fantastic performance though I'm told -
around his folk-rock period.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
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> From: WILL HOCHMAN <hochman@uscolo.edu>
> To: 'bananafish@lists.nyu.edu'
> Subject: RE: happy birthday
> Date: Wednesday, 27 May 1998 0:47
>
> Lesley, was lenny Kaye backing up patti on guitar?
>
> On Tue, 26 May 1998, PODESTA,Lesley wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > On Sun, 24 May 1998, Malcolm Lawrence wrote:
> > >
> > > > WILL HOCHMAN wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Bob Dylan is 57 today, though his words are "Forever Young," will
> > > >
> > > > Was anyone else on the West Coast lucky enough to see any of the
> > > recent
> > > > shows he did with Van Morrison and Joni Mitchell? I got to see the
> > > > Vancouver show and both days at the Gorge. All three of them gave
> > > > stunning performances. Great shows all the way around, especially
> > > > getting to hear "Senor" and "Stuck Inside of Mobile," not to
mention
> > > > "Love Sick" "Cold Irons Bound" and "Till I Fell In Love With You."
> > > (And
> > > > Night Ride Home, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Happiness Is The Best
> > > > Facelift, Big Yellow Taxi and Woodstock) (And Domino, Jackie Wilson
> > > > Said, Tupelo Honey, Cypress Avenue and "That's Life" dedicated to
> > > Frank
> > > > Sinatra). I have all the setlists if anyone is interested.
> > > >
> > > > Malcolm
> > > >
> > > >I've seen them all too Malcolm. (Although Bob Dylan in his Jesus
> > > phase with Tom Waits was just awful). Joni Mitchell is fantastic. VM
a
> > > longtime love. But nothing will ever surpass seeing Patti Smith live.
> > > It was my adolescent fantasy to see her perform and when she finally
> > > came to Australia I felt as though I had died and gone to heaven. (I
> > > was sitting in the audience, trying to be cool, waiting, chatting,
> > > making conversation. And then she walked out on stage and I was
> > > propelled to the front where I just stood transfixed. Sigh).
> > The best, most passionate performance from a
> > poet/performer/artist that I've ever experienced.
> > Lesley P.
> >
> >
>