Patti and Lenny to celebrate Horses with West and East Coast mini tour

[L French <lrfrench>]

To clarify, it now seems that Patti and Lenny will be
appearing solo on the West coast, hence the more
intimate nature of the venues. 

However the complete band will be doing a HORSES show
in NYC at BAM, but not at MSG. However, it seem's
likely that Patti and Bono may team up for a duet on
DANCING BAREFOOT at MSG. 
  

PATTI SMITH and LENNY KAYE 

November 11 Seattle - Crocodile Cafe  
November 14 San Francisco - Great American Music Hall 

November 15 West Hollywood - The Troubadour  


PATTI AND FULL BAND 

November 21 Madison Square Garden (Special Guest:U2) 
November 22 Madison Square Garden (Special Guest:U2) 

November 30 NYC BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)  
December 1  NYC BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)

Meanwhile, here's some of Patti's comments which seem
to be appropriate from here appearance on last weeks
PBS special, SONGS OF PROTEST: 

PATTI: I grew up in a rural community, relatively
unsophisticated, and I kept in step with the rapidly
changing social and political climate through poets
and musicians. They were wide awake to the events of
our time, and they provided a voice to protest racial
discrimination, nuclear testing, the destruction of
the environment. Confrontational artists like Woody
Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Nina Simone, Joan Baez, and Phil
Ochs drew us from complacency to consciousness. Music
disseminated truth, and in the mouth of one such as
Bob Dylan, became a weapon of mass instruction.  

Our music is family unrelated by blood. As Walt
Whitman might say, it contains multitudes. The purity
of a child in her Sunday-go-to-meeting dress. The
chaotic debauchery of a rock-and-roll stars hotel
room. The emotional and physical release of gospel and
R & B. It is the sound of the hill country,
impoverished and free. It is the transient whistling
through a sad, postindustrial terrain. It is the
internal landscape of John Coltrane. The sensuous
agony of Etta James. It is three cords into hell. Our
music grants us a coat of invulnerability, a spring in
which we bathe with abandon, methods of response,
moments of respite, and a rite of self expression. It
is the porch song. Plunging youth. It is thick- veined
hands squeezing clusters of notes from an equally
thick neck. It is the Les Paul. The tenor sax. It is a
platter spinning in space etched with the words Tutti
Frutti. 



		
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