Lenny Kaye, talking of Patti Smith - Living, Loving, Thinking, Again

Eleanor Morgan “Lenny Kaye on 'learning how to gallop' with Patti Smith” http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/10/lenny-kaye-patti-smith

パティ・スミス・グループのギタリスト Lenny Kayeがパティ･スミス姐さん*1について語る。
1971年紐育におけるパティ･スミスとの出会いについて；

Patti Smith first met Lenny Kaye in 1971, seeking him out after reading an article he wrote in a magazine named Jazz And Pop, calling him to tell him how much it had affected her. He was working at a record store in New York at the time, and she showed up one day to meet him. It was the start of a creative partnership that has stretched out over 30 years, resulting, among many other things, in the albums Horses, Radio Ethiopia and Easter.
"She just started visiting me," says Kaye, on the phone from his apartment in New York. "We'd sit and listen to records we loved, like My Hero by the Blue Notes." What was she like then? "Warm, and she giggled a lot." Their friendship was easy from the start, which meant it was a given that he'd play guitar for Smith at her first ever live performance, a poetry reading at St Mark's Church in Manhattan. "She asked me to accompany her on a few poems. I just went over to the loft she shared with Robert Mapplethorpe, and did these chordal riffs under Patti's chants." People responded well, he says, but neither of them "dreamed" they'd ever be in a band or make a record. To them it was just "a moment", and it would be three years until they played music together again.

HORSES

アーティスト: PATTI SMITH
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発売日: 1997/08/01
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There is a running theme in Kaye's stories about the early days: how they all, especially Patti, craved one thing – freedom. "It even comes down to her poems and lyrics. She has such a strong sense of cinema and the narratives and journeys her words took reflected that. They were the sound of movement." Smith, as Kaye says, "is an artist who moves in different directions, and who doesn't like constraints". So, outside of society is where she wanted to be? "Yes, because society meant boundaries. She defied categorisation, and still does. She's not just the 'punk priestess', or the 'rock poet'; she's an incredible torch singer and has put herself on the line. Her concerns are global. 'People Have The Power' was on posters in the Spanish revolution!"

Outside of Societyは今度出たパティ･スミスのベスト･アルバムのタイトル。記事ではさらにファースト･アルバムHorsesのことが語られる。この記事のタイトルがHorsesに因んだものだというのは言わずとも知れたことだろう。

DREAM OF LIFE

アーティスト: PATTI SMITH
出版社/メーカー: BMG
発売日: 1997/08/01
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