Patti Smith

Patti Smith possesses some qualities that are fast disappearing from most American rock &
roll: passion, flamboyance, a sense of the epic, a belief in the music itself as a revolutionary
force. As a moony high priestess of art, forever building altars to herself, she's a bore -- as
pretentious as a college sophomore who's just discovered decadence, as ingenuously
egotistic as a spoiled five-year-old. But as a demagogic purveyor of barbed, gutb... More >