Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye- Jim Carroll Tribute @ St. Marks

Patti & Lenny perform Jim Carroll's People Who Died at Jim's Tribute @ St. Marks Church
February 10, 2010

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Music

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• Patti Smith
• Lenny Kaye
• St. Mark's Church
• Jim Carroll

[gymnastix]

@ccipollini1984 Excuse my misposting comments intended for the Tube user "@robertaglass," above your remarks. It's sometimes hard to see these small postings, and when so doing so, I should always use the 150% screen view.

I shall let the Tube host here know of my errors, hope he or she will eventually remove my extraneous remarks.

[gymnastix]

@robertaglass Even some Catholic funerals have high masses, with lots of singing,sometimes bagpipes in durges, by fraternal particpants such as firemen, policemen attending the service of a departed "brother."

As Jim Carroll was a "Catholic Boy," poet & singer-songwriter, I'm guessing he'd approve friend & ex-lover Smith's tribute.

[gymnastix]

@robertaglass @robertaglass Also, not all rites of passage and mourning are so stoic, a common practice of Buddhists to chant loudly, in a celebratory manner (to praise and rejoice the departed-but-transitory soul for a life well-lived, and and for that spirit's continuation through reincarnated form); and in Judaism to to wail loudly over the departed.

[gymnastix]

@ccipollini1984 Smith may deal with death in what seems an unconventional, some may say "exploitive," manner. But, in light of all those younger loved ones of hers who died prematurely, this seems to be Smith's accepted role, as the "high priestess of mourning."

I personally think it's a coping strategy for her, to which she's entitled, all things considered.

[gymnastix]

@ccipollini1984 Smith has also watched more than her fair share of friends and relatives go to early graves (and in a relatively short span of time), from her husband, Fred "Sonic" Smith (of the band The MC5), to her keyboard player, Richard Sohl, to brother Todd, Mapplethorpe, and most recently Carroll, among others.

[gymnastix]

@ccipollini1984 But, to be fair, Smith and Lenny Kaye (her long-time accompanist, also heard here) each had personal connections to Jim Carroll; Smith having dated and lived with Carroll (along with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe) when she first moved to New York, and Kaye having played in Carroll's back-up band after the original Jim Carroll Band dissolved.

[gymnastix]

@robertaglass You are not the first person to say ths about Patti Smith, which was at least part of the motivation behind the late comic actress Gilda Radner (who also "died, died') having performed her satiric take-off on Smith in her "The Candy Slice Group" sketches on "NBC's Saturday Night" (not yet re-titled "SNL" in those days) in the late 1970s/early '80s.

[ccipollini1984]

@robertaglass

then don't watch the vid, bitch

[robertaglass]

patti Smith is so annoying. This is horrible. horrible.

[Fermufri]

Genial, bravo!!