I came across this very cool eight minute film, “Raven,” that Ivan Kral made about Patti Smith and her band in 1975. It’s beautiful, and maybe four minutes into it Patti starts reciting her poetry.
“Raven,” from Prelinger Archives, directed by Ivan Kral with voiceover by Patti Smith.
These others have audio of Patti Smith reading her poetry.
Patti Smith Poetry Reading, 1973 NYC
Patti Smith: Poetry Reading at St. Mark’s Church, NYC (1972)
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Lauryn Hill’s first show since she was released from prison took place November 27, 2013 at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC.
Excellent review over at Consequence of Sound.
Sound is funky on this cell phone video, but you get a sense of the scene.
“Consumerism”:
“Lost One”:
Here’s a short clip in which Hill’s son raps:
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Two clips from Bob Dylan’s performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, November 26, 2013. This is not the greatest video or audio, but it gives you an idea of what it was like. “All ALong the Watchtower” sounds pretty great.
“All Along the Watchtower”:
Here’s a portion of “High Water (For Charley Patton)”:
Here are a few reviews:
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Photo from Robert Wilson’s Instagram page of the Royal Danish Theater.
Tom Waits and Robert Wilson are staging a play, “Death car,” based on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, according to The Eyeball Kid.
The play is scheduled to Premiere on November 7, 2014 in Copenhagen.
Apparently they’re casting the play right now. This went up the other day on Robert Wilson’s Instagram page:
“#casting #BONNIE & #CLYDE with Tom Waits in #Copenhagen at the #Royal #Danish #Theatre”
Here’s The Eyeball Kid’s translation of a press release from the Danish Royal Theatre:
The production Death car reunites Tom Waits and Robert Wilson, who collaborated on productions like The black rider and Woyzeck, for the first time in 14 years.
Death car is inspired by the story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a romantically involved couple of bankrobbers that defied authorities and caused a national media frenzy in the US in the 1930’s.
Their dramatic life is packed with feaurures that continue to fascinate present day audiences all over the world: a sheer lack of respect for banks and authorities, fast cars, weapons, violence, a love story, a desperate escape and their inevitable death.
The play is produced by Nicolai Vemming / UnlimitedArts in collaboration with the Royal Theatre and a number of international partners.
The play will move on to Germany, Norway and The Netherlands following the Copenhagen run, according to a Danish paper.
This is a weird one. I’ll let the folks who did this speak for themselves:
What might some of the rock ‘n’ roll era’s greatest stars have achieved and what might they look like now, if they had not died before their time? To explore these tantalizing questions, Sachs Media Group partnered with photo restoration and manipulation company Phojoe to create this gallery of images. It is a heartfelt tribute to the memory of beloved artists who helped shape generations of music fans, in order to keep their memory alive for future generations.
Here are some insights about the Kurt Cobain image:
Insights by Dr. Reebee Garofalo and Elijah Wald: “Given his aversion to celebrity, had Cobain lived he would likely have continued to work with Nirvana but also explored smaller, less commercial projects with other players, trying to recapture some of the anonymity and artistic freedom of his early years. He would probably have pursued artistic outlets offstage and behind the scenes, eschewing the limelight and using his fame to bring attention to young musicians on the cutting edge, as well as exploring his deep interest in Americana styles by producing and collaborating with older roots artists.”
Dr. Reebee Garofalo, a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he taught for 33 years. Dr. Garofalo is an internationally known scholar of popular music studies who has written numerous articles on music and politics, racism, censorship and the globalization of the music industry. Among his recent publications is Rockin’ Out: Popular Music in the U.S.A.
Elijah Wald, a musician and frequent writer about music, including more than ten years as world music writer for the Boston Globe. In recent years he has written books on such diverse subjects as Delta blues, Mexican drug ballads, hitchhiking and a broad social history of American popular music. He has authored eleven books, including How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music.
To see images of Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Karen Carpenter and others as they might look if they were still alive, head here.
A book of photos by Ringo Star, “Photograph,” was published earlier this year. Turns out the Beatles’ drummer and sometime singer is a pretty good photographer.
You can check out a gallery of his photos (24 of them) at the CBS News site and there are nine different photos by Ringo at The Hollywood Reporter. It’s definitely work a look if you care about the Fab Four.
For his final piece of street art in NYC, Banksy attached a huge balloon that said “Banksy!” to the side of an abandoned building on OCtober 31, 2013.
Three men tried to remove the balloon from the building that same day and were arrested. Police have confiscated the balloon piece, which an art dealer told the New York Times is worth between $200,000 and $300,000.
Police deflated the balloon which is currently being stored on the third floor of the Police Department’s building on Pearson Place in Long Island City, a police spokeswoman told the New York Times.
“I don’t have it as art on the invoice,” Deputy Chief Jack J. Trabitz told the New York Times. “We have it as a balloon.”
For more of this story, head to the New York Times.
At some point yesterday (Oct. 31, 2013) Banksy added this image of a t-shirt to his website with this text:
“And that’s it. Thanks for your patience. It’s been fun. Save 5pointz. Bye”
Below the shirt:
“Now available – the official Banksy New York residency souvenir T shirt
(you have to take the jpeg to a copy store and make it yourself)”
As you probably know by now, the painting he “vandalized,” “The banality of the banality of evil,” sold at auction yesterday for $615,000 to someone using the tab “gorpetri,” for bidding.
If you missed my previous Banksy posts, here’s an easy way to check them out: Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, day seven, day eight, day nine, day ten, day 11, day 12, day 13, day 14, day 15, day 16, day 17, day 18, day 19, day 20, day 21, day 22, day 23, day 24, day 25, day 26, day 27, day 28, day 29, day 30, day 31. Plus: “A Consideration Of The Politics Of Banksy’s Syria Video,” “Source For Banksy’s ‘Concrete Confessional’ Revealed,” and “Banksy Update: NYC Mayor Attacks Street Artist.”
The bidding continues for the thrift store painting that Banksy “vandalized.” As of 4:55 PST, five minutes before the end of the auction, the bidding had reached $350,600.
Banksy added the Nazi to this landscape, along with his autograph in the lower left corner.
Laurie Anderson published this obit in The East Hampton Star today:
To our neighbors:
What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.
Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we’re city people this is our spiritual home.
Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!
Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.
Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
— Laurie Anderson
his loving wife and eternal friend