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About Patti Smith by Steven Sebring, Dream of Life:

By ROBERT KOEHLER
The titular rocker-poet gets a suitable portrait in Steven Sebring’s “Patti Smith: Dream of Life,” which runs radically against the grain of American-made pop music docs. The result of 11 years of filming (much of it in wonderfully grainy black-and-white 16mm), pic is designed as a stream-of-consciousness experience, following Smith as she revives her music career and considers every aspect of her life. Death, too, plays a stark role, and the textured, thoughtful results may prove too cerebral and abstract for auds beyond Smith’s hardcore followers, but long-term, this will be a loss-leader that gains much respect.

What Sebring — a fashion and pop photographer, painter and commercials maker — doesn’t know about doc filmmaking never hurts the film. Starting in 1995, when Smith recorded her comeback album “Gone Again” and toured with her idol, Bob Dylan, after having not performed live for 16 years, Sebring’s project clearly developed as it went along, and the effect of watching the film is seeing something in the making — like rummaging through Smith’s closet, and stumbling across interesting stuff.

In voiceover, Smith briefly sums up her background as the daughter of Chicago parents (Grant and Beverly Smith, both lovingly seen at home) and the cultural child of ’60s art-political foment. At 23, a fledgling and serious poet, she became friends with artist Robert Mapplethorpe and teamed with him for a series of works that belonged to the early phases of performance art. Other encounters (such as with then-hell-raising playwright Sam Shepard) proved crucial, and led her into rock ‘n’ roll.

“Dream of Life” distinctively treat the particulars of her early career in only glancing references, none of them in chronological order, with Smith sometimes seen obliquely. more…

Bandinha fina, Renaissance. Outra babe hipponga, Annie Haslam. Canta muito. Sonzinho muito bom tb. Este é um dos melhores disco deles. Pra quem não fraga, é um bom começo.

1973, Ashes are burning - Renaissance

aqui uma gravação meio tosca, mas dá pra ver que o tanto que o som é bom.

sem comentários… pra ela, pra música e pra banda…

Taí, filha dum indiano maluco que mudou os rumos da música inglesa na década de 60, Geethali Norah Jones Shankar no seu último disquinho.

Coisa fina.

2007, Not Too Late, NORAH JONES

E ai ela mascando um pouco sobre o disquinho.

Here they come now
See them run now
Here they come now
Chelsea Girls …

Bom, disquinho também obrigatório pros amantes da década de 60 ai.

1967, Chelsea Girl - NICO

Primeiro solo da Nico, acompanhado por John Cale e compania, vem na sequência do filme do Warhol de mesmo nome um ano antes.

Nico – vocals
Jackson Browne – acoustic guitar
Lou Reed – electric guitar
John Cale – viola, organ, guitar
Sterling Morrison – electric guitar
Tom Wilson – producer
Larry Fallon – strings and flute arrangements

Nada como pegar a namoradinha do Brian Jones e presentea-la com uma musiquinha ‘I’ll Keep It With Mine’, né? rsrs

Ps. não sei categorizar isso não.. que tipo de som é esse?

ok cotinha…. já que você não gosta…

deixa a bab ai…