Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story (45 page)

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Authors: Dave Thompson

Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Composers & Musicians, #Entertainment & Performing Arts, #Music, #Individual Composer & Musician

“Anita Pallenberg in a South American Bar,” 77

“Annie Had a Baby,” 80

Another Side of Bob Dylan
(Dylan), 20

Apocalypse Now
(Coppola), 227

Arcade, Penny, 50

“Are You Experienced?” 251

Arista, 108–109, 121–122, 128–129, 168, 172, 177, 208, 212, 238.
See also
Davis, Clive

“Around and Around,” 20

art, visual, 10–11, 15

art exhibitions, 170, 238

Asheton, Kathy, 137

Asheton, Scott, 137

“Ask the Angels,” 136, 137, 151, 155, 159

Association, the, 28

Auden, W.H., 78

Auguries of Innocence
(P. Smith), 254

“Autobiography,” 64

Avail, 246

Ayler, Albert, 143

“Babel,” 138

Babel
(P. Smith), 162, 166, 167, 172, 178, 188

“Babelfield,” 142, 162, 172, 177, 209

“Babelogue,” 168

“Baby Ice Dog,” 105

Back Bog Beast Bait
(Shepard), 61

Back in Spades, 252

Bad Brains, 246

Baez, Joan, 13, 20, 48, 112, 113

“Ballad of a Bad Boy,” 59–60, 64, 80, 153, 210

“Ballad of Hagen Waker, The,” 97

Ballard, Hank, 80

“Banana Boat Song,” 8

Bangs, Lester, 174

Bard, Stanley, 44

Basketball Diaries, The
(Carroll), 51–52

Bators, Stiv, 107–108, 126, 247

Bay City Rollers, 108

BBC, 63–64

Beach Boys, 120–121

Bearsville Studios, 181

Beatles, the, 25, 28, 35, 41

“Because the Night,” 169–170, 172, 173–174, 176, 180, 197, 209, 216, 249

Beck, 210

Bee Gees, 117, 174

Belafonte, Harry, 8

“Beneath the Southern Cross,” 213, 216

benefit concerts, 187, 193, 206, 208, 229

Berrigan, Anselm, 236

Bertolucci, 197

Betrock, Alan, 103

Better Books, 67

Big Brother and the Holding Company, 37

Big Ego
(Giorno Poetry Systems), 173

“Birdland,” 110, 121, 126, 247

Blackburn, Paul, 34

Blair, Tony, 237

Blake, William, 31, 241, 253

Blank Generation
(Kral and Poe), 105

Blonde on Blonde
(Dylan), 217

Blondie, 80, 103, 108, 144, 165, 166, 174, 185, 247, 248

Bloomberg, Michael, 246

“Blowin’ in the Wind,” 217

Blue, David, 113

Blue Bitch
(Shepard), 76

Blue Öyster Cult, 62–63, 74, 79, 104, 145, 159

Bockris, Victor, 65, 67–68

Bohn, Chris, 187

Bolan, Marc, 59

Boney M., 174

Born to Run
(Springsteen), 166

Bottom Line, 153

Bouncing Souls, 246

Bowie, David, 81, 103, 136, 240

“Boy from New York City,” 174

“Boy I’m Going to Marry, The,” 127, 187

“Boy in the Bubble, The,” 251

Brancusi, 129

Brazier, Chris, 174

“Break It Up,” 110, 121

Brecht, Bertolt, 58, 241, 242

Brentano’s (bookstore), 30

Bringing It All Back Home (Dylan), 58

Brody, Bruce, 153, 180

“Broken Flag,” 184

Brown, Andreas, 78

Buck, Peter, 250

Buckley, Jeff, 210, 213, 225

Buckley, Tim, 35, 213

Buddhism, 9–10

“Buffalo Ballet,” 135

Bull, Sandy, 97

“Bumblebee,” 142, 173

Burchill, Julie, 150

Burdon, Eric, 104

Burnett, T-Bone, 112

Burroughs, William, 49, 67, 86–87, 163, 173, 184, 241, 253

Bush, George W., 235–236, 237, 240

Byrds, the, 182

Byrne, David, 135

Byron, Lord, 19

Calder, John, 67

Calder and Boyars, 67

Cale, John, 29, 117–122, 127, 135, 153, 163, 180, 212, 218, 242

Callas, Maria, 2

Carroll, Jim, 51–52, 57, 62, 69–70, 87, 126, 226, 248, 253

Carroll, Rosemary, 211

“Cash,” 239

Cassidy, Shaun, 102

Cave, Nick, 240

CBGB, 86–88, 101, 104–105, 106–107, 109, 144, 164–165, 170, 180, 228, 246–248

censorship, 128–129, 154

Chalk Farm Roundhouse, 133

Chamberlain, Cathy, 77

“Changing of the Guards,” 251

Chapin, Harry, 154

Chelsea Girls
(Warhol), 44

Chelsea Hotel, 43–44, 47–49, 63–64

“Chelsea Hotel #2,” 44

“Chelsea Morning,” 44

“Chestnut Mare,” 113

“Chiklets,” 136

Childers, Leee Black, 50, 69

Christgau, Robert, 156, 186

Christian, John, 50

Christianity, 175–176

Christy, June, 2

Chrome, Cheetah, 248

“Citizen Ship,” 182

“City Slang,” 193

civil rights movement, 11–12

Clapton, Eric, 64, 117

Clark, Pete, 244

Clark, Tom, 226

Clash, the, 152

Clinton, Bill, 230–231

Cobain, Kurt, 206–207, 251

Cochran, Eddie, 227

Cohen, Leonard, 44

Cohn, Nik, 185

Colby, Todd, 236

“Cold Turkey,” 186

Coleman, Ornette, 253

college, 14–15

Coltrane, John, 14, 35, 42

Columbia Records, 238

“Come as You Are,” 206

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, 113

Connor, Chris, 2

Cool Cats, the, 3

Cooper, Tim, 243

Cooper Union, 33

Coppola, Francis Ford, 227

Coral Sea, The
(P. Smith), 222, 241–242

Costello, Elvis, 240

County, Wayne, 49–50, 69, 75, 81, 87, 105

Cowboy Mouth
(Shepard and P. Smith), 60–62, 96

“Cowboy Truths,” 204

Crabtree, Lee, 63

Craven, Hal, 70

Crawford, Brother JC, 129

“Crazy Like a Fox,” 56

Creem
(magazine), 64, 66, 105, 142, 218

Crenshaw, Marshall, 226

Crisp, Quentin, 76

Cromwell, Link, 56.
See also
Kaye, Lenny

Cros, Charles, 39

“Cry Me a River,” 80

Currie, Cherie, 125

Curtis, Jackie, 49–51, 76, 173

Curtis-Hixon Hall, accident at, 159–161

Cypress Hill, 211

Dalai Lama, 9, 203

Daley, Sandy, 45–46, 55

Dalí, Salvador, 19, 253

“Dance of the Seven Veils,” 180

“Dancing Barefoot,” 182, 209, 216

“Dark Eyes,” 217

Darkness on the Edge of Town
(Springsteen), 166, 176

Darling, Candy, 49

Darts, 174

dating, 11–12, 13–14

Daugherty, Jay Dee

Cale and, 180

comeback and, 210, 212–213

Dream of Life
and, 197

“Gimme Shelter” and, 251

joining band, 110

Kral and, 103

“Little Johnny Jewel” and, 96

on P. Smith’s fall, 160

“Pumping (My Heart)” and, 137

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and, 248–249

touring and, 187, 215

Trampin’
and, 238

writing credits and, 168

Davis, Clive, 108–109, 119, 121, 123, 172, 194, 236.
See also
Arista

Davis, Michael, 129

Davis, Miles, 14

de la Rocha, Zack, 249

Dead Boys, the, 107–108

Dead Man Walking
soundtrack, 210

“Dead to the World,” 214

Dean, Tommy, 106

“Death by Water,” 66

Death in Venice
(film), 85

Deerfrance, 119

“Denis,” 174

Derringer, Rick, 63

Desire
(Dylan), 114

Detroit, move to, 171, 189, 191

Detroit Energy Asylum, 208–209, 212

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, 187, 193

“Devil Has a Hangnail, The,” 59

Di Carlo, Jamie, 69

Dictators, the, 246

“Distant Fingers,” 110, 136

DNV (Richard Sohl), 85–86, 110

“Doctor Love,” 46

“Doctor Robert,” 25

“Dog Dream,” 77, 206, 209

“Don’t Hang Me Up, Jesse James,” 59

Dont Look Back
(documentary), 47

“Don’t Smoke in Bed,” 207–208, 209

Doors, the, 28, 37, 42, 72, 81, 248.
See also
Morrison, Jim

Douglas, Jack, 136, 140–141

Dowd, Tom, 117

Dream of Life
(P. Smith), 197–200, 207, 214, 251

dreams, remembering, 3–4

drugs, use of, 138

Dylan, Bob

Brecht and, 58

comparison to, 230

Ginsburg and, 58

Grossman and, 55

guitar and, 56

H. Smith and, 48

influence of, 19–20, 21, 120

innovation and, 42

at Max’s, 95

Neuwirth and, 46–47

religion and, 175

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and, 248

Rolling Thunder Revue and, 111–115

touring with, 215–217

E Street Band, 166, 246

Earhart, Amelia, 66

Early Work, 1970–1979
(P. Smith), 211

“Easter,” 162, 164, 165, 166

Easter
(P. Smith), 165–170, 172, 173, 175, 181, 202, 222

Easy Rider
soundtrack, 53

“E-Bow the Letter,” 229

“Edie Sedgwick,” 162

education, 11, 14–15

Electric Lady, 92, 212, 251

“Elegie,” 121, 122, 243, 246, 247

Elliott, Ramblin’ Jack, 112, 114

Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 124

Empire Burlesque
(Dylan), 217

“End, The,” 227

Eno, Brian, 95, 136

Eric Emerson and the Magic Tramps, 94

Ethiopia (Abyssinia), 138

“Even the Cowgirls Get the Blues,” 180

“Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” 250–251

Ezrin, Bob, 136

Faces, 48

Factory, the, 32–33, 34, 44, 253. See
also
Warhol, Andy

Faithfull, Marianne, 43, 66

Falconetti, Renee, 66

Fancy, 98

Fanny, 83

FAO Schwarz, 36

“Farewell Reel,” 209, 214, 224

Fear
(Cale), 118

Fellini, Federico, 13

“Female,” 25

“Femme Fatale,” 50

Femme Fatale
(Curtis), 50–51

Ficca, Billy, 87

Fields, Danny, 45, 57, 85

Fillmore West, 98

“Fire of Unknown Origin, A,” 59, 77

“Fireflies,” 209, 213

“5–4-3–2-1,” 186

Flame, 166

Flea, 243, 251

Fleischer, Walt, 72

Fliegler, Ritchie, 180

“Florence,” 204

“Footnote to Howl” (Ginsburg), 228

“For Bob Neuwirth,” 64

“For Sam Shepard,” 64

“For Your Love,” 186

Forced Entries
(Carroll), 52

Fowley, Kim, 125

Foxe, Cyrinda, 50

Franju, Georges, 74

Frank, Anne, 12

“Frederick,” 182

“Free Money,” 4, 121, 132, 151, 155, 159

Freedom in Exile
(Dalai Lama), 203

Friedman, Ed, 49

Friedman, Jane, 74–75, 84, 92, 118, 125, 163

Friedman, Lewis, 76

G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 162

Gabriel, Peter, 251

Gadbois, Hearn, 200

“Gandhi,” 239

Gardner, Ava, 13, 83

Genesis, 96

Genet, Jean, 202

“Georgia O’Keefe,” 79, 162

“Get Off of My Cloud,” 41

“Ghost Dance,” 167, 202, 209, 210, 216

“Gimme Shelter,” 249, 250, 251

“Gimme Some Lovin’,” 164

Ginsberg, Allen

death of, 225, 226

first reading of, 67

Gotham Book Mart and, 78

influence of, 178

Jewel House reading and, 203–204

meeting, 49

P. Smith’s performance and, 57, 75–76

recordings of, 58

Rolling Thunder Revue and, 112, 114

tribute to, 229

Giorno, John, 57, 173

“Give Peace a Chance,” 237

Glass, Philip, 173, 239

Glaudini, Robert, 61

“Glitter in Their Eyes,” 233

“Gloria,” 93, 103, 110, 128, 130, 133, 152, 175, 189, 219, 223, 243

Godard, Jean-Luc, 41, 197

Godfather, The,
soundtrack, 56

“Godspeed,” 137, 166, 170

Goldsmith, Lynn, 170

“Gone Again,” 213, 223

Gone Again
(P. Smith), 213–214, 222–223, 225–226

Goo Goo, 87

Goodbye and Hello
(T. Buckley), 213

“Goodnight Irene,” 114

Gore, Al, 235

Gorey, Edward, 78

Gotham Book Mart, 78

Graceland
(Simon), 251

Graham, Bill, 37, 98

Grandmaster Flash, 248

Green Party, 235–236

Grossman, Albert, 55

Guantanamo Bay, 245

Guitar, Johnny, 61

guitar-smashing, 152, 156

Gung Ho
(P. Smith), 230, 231–233

Gunhill Road, 76 “Ha! Ha! Houdini,” 162

Hagar, Sammy, 249, 250

Hamill, Janet, 36, 37, 138

Hamilton, James, 48

Hanson, Amy, 253–254

Hanson, Ed, 182

Hardin, Tim, 35

Harris, Emmylou, 114

Harris, Shayne, 102

Harry, Debbie, 80, 103, 108, 126, 185, 246

Hart, Grant, 232, 233

health issues, 6–7, 159–165

Hearst, Patty, 90–91

“Heart of Glass,” 107

“Heart-Shaped Box,” 251

Heartbreakers, the, 95

Helen of Troy
(Cale), 127

Hell, Richard, 80, 87–89, 95, 126, 163, 165, 185, 196

“Helpless,” 250

Hendrix, Jimi

death of, 42, 71–72

“Elegie” and, 121, 122

guitar and, 140

“Hey Joe” and, 91

Kaye compared to, 111

Meltdown and, 241

Old Grey Whistle Test
and, 131

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and, 248

studio of, 92, 212

Twelve
and, 251

Hendryx, Nona, 76

Hepburn, Audrey, 202

Her Kind, 58

“Hey Joe,” 91–93, 131–132, 163, 209, 212

High Action Boys, 226

“High on Rebellion,” 140, 167, 168

“Histories of the Universe, The,” 173

Hit Factory, 29

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