5 years ago (2017), on this day (April 4), Johnny Depp and Joe Perry were the special guests on Patti Smith’s show, at the Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles, California.
On that day, Johnny and Joe played guitar on the last two songs: during Patti’s 1998 song “People Have the Power” and during Patti’s cover of The Who’s “My Generation”
Patti Smith, 1974, “The Lookout” by Frank Stefanko. A million things to love about this: Patti’s hairy legs, her Keith Richards t-shirt, the hole in her socks, the kitty…..
- Ann Demeulemeester, White Shirt, S/S 1992. - Ann Demeulemeester, Art Installation “Woolgathering”, 2000. - Patti Smith, Selfportrait,1971. - Ann Demeulemeester, Tank Top “Woolgathering Collection”, S/S 2000. - Still from documentary “Dream of Life” (2008). Ann Demeulemeester and Patti Smith bringing flowers to the grave of English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake.
“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
Described in the flyer to the left as “A Religious Entertainment,” the show [Femme Fatale: The Three Faces of Gloria] was created by Jackie Curtis, a drag artist who first performed in Tom Eyen’s “Miss Nefertiti Regrets” at La MaMa in 1965. The show combined familiar religious and movie scenes with “bizarre contemporary situations,” according to the rave review published in the newspaper Show Business by Frank Lee Wilde.
A nice find in the archives of La MaMa E.T.C., an experimental theater company in New York and CLIR Hidden Collections recipient—a show featuring Patti Smith prior to her higher publicity rock n’ roll days.
For the full, high resolution poster, check out their blog post.
