the spanish song

[Sherwood, Harrison]

>From: 	jroca at gallonlaw.com

>Great time to be alive only 'cause that's the year I first heard Patti 
>Smith's HORSES album...the best album ever made, in this dimension or any 
>other.  Not only was it dangerous, rocking, irreverent, and fun, but it 
>would piss my father off to no end, which made it worth more than it's 
>weight in vinyl.
>
>Tribe

Oh, Patti, Patti, Patti... I would have crawled over broken glass just
for a ghost of a smile from her emaciated lips. And that's probably
about all I'd've gotten, too.

"Horses" is liberation through terror. She scared the living shit out of
me, this skinny, dangerous, fierce-assed, aggro woman with haunted
coal-black eyes and hairy armpits, shrieking poetry that equated sex and
death, daring you, _commanding_ you, to break something valuable just to
hear it shatter. Didn't think women were allowed to do that stuff....
Goddess, she was sexy!

(It's a measure of my worship for her that she can still empurple my
prose after 20 years!)

But "Horses" wasn't the best CBGB album; that honor goes to Television's
"Marquee Moon," which set standards that REM is _still_ obsessively
trying to live up to.

(And concatenating here from Ted Samsel):

>No one a fan of Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band?

Awww, poor ol' Root. His bass player installed my Sears Dispos-all in
1989. Told me Root lived about four blocks from me in Takoma Park.
Turned out he was the basket case I kept seeing at the grocery store
buying really weird food and muttering to himself. He's dead now, isn't
he?

>No one ever get a BAD sunburn at a Lynyrd Skynrd concert?

I'm sure _someone_ did, Ted. WEE-deedle-deedle, WEE-deedle-deedle,
WEE-deedle-deedle!

>(I played in a band that Stirling Morrison was in...on accordions)
>back in them there daze...

OK, NOW you're approaching Godhead. Maximum Cool, chum. My own Brush
with Greatness came when I shared a bottle of Gallo wine with Richard
Hell on a Chelsea rooftop. Oh, and David Johansson once puked on my leg
at the Ritz.

ObPynchon: Hey, that Pynchon's a pretty good writer!

Harrison "I move in this here asmophere where anything's allowed"
Sherwood


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