Re: Der Tagesspiegel interview/"Without Chains" - translation

["Dennis Moore" <clayboy56>]

I cried several-day-long "
Patti Smith honours skirt classical authors on its new album. A
discussion over Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain - and Murat Kurnaz

Mrs. Smith, allegedly you thought for years about the Cover album,
which appears now under the title Twelve ". What stopped you?

I plan this plate since the late Siebzigern. But when I had arranged a
list at that time and me presented, how I would sing the pieces, felt
that simply not okay. I was not yet ready and than singer saw myself
also less, but rather than Performerin or Rockaktivistin. Until my
deceased man Fred, which was a great musician, taught a quantity to me
over my voice. Only after it I had the feeling to be sufficiently
qualified to convert around the work of other artists.

And how! By the pieces, which I have since 1978 in the head, only
three remained remaining: Acres You Experienced? ", Gimme Shelter
"and White Rabbit ". At those there was none past.

Whereby you bring White Rabbit "on a so mystische way that one hardly
recognizes it.

That was the most difficult Song, which concerns the conversion.
Simply because of my admiration for Grace Slick. It wrote this Song,
and the text is great. But the crucial is their voice - one of the
most important statements of a female artist in the Sechzigern. There
were so many large singers. Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Martha Reeves,
Joan Baez and, and, and. But if we talk about skirt' n' roll and what
it embodies, then it only Grace Slick created to keep up with their
male colleagues. I do not have the feeling, as if I could compete with
Grace, but I want to salute to her with my version.

And which is with Everybody Wants ton of Rule The World "from Tears
For Fears? With it you might surprise all those, which see in you the
Wdchterin skirt.

I did not intend first to take up it. I could not even do it. There
but then I sat in my Lieblingscafi and gr|belte over it after, which
runs in such a way in this world everything wrongly, and rang out this
nice small Pop Song. I sat there and thought: Wow, it brings it in a
sentence on the point. "Thus I decided to concentrate me on its
political core statement. But then I had to state that he has
something - he is easy to sing, had a nice rhythm, and he makes fun.

Still Jimi Hendrix remains. Is it correct that you met it briefly
before its death?

Yes, few hours, before it flew to London and never returned. It gave a
party for the inauguration of its Electric to lady of Studios. And I
spoke approximately 20 minutes with it. It concerned its Studio, of
which it was very proud, and over its future plans. Then it had to the
airport. All I retained the things, which he told me, in the heart.
And as soon as I was able to take up, have I mean first single Piss
Factory "and my album produces Horses "in Electric lady - exactly
like the new plate.

Do they suffer from a Hendrix Obsession?

I would not call it Obsession. I regarded it simple as the largest
skirt star, whom America had ever. Because for me it had everything.
It was beautiful, projecting SAM, a mad technician, a mad Performer,
and I had loved its texts. It was very respectful a Visiondr, and in
handling other musicians.

Pleases you, like the Hendrix Estate the deduction administered - or
above all: markets?

In order to be honest, had I unite problems to receive a release for
my version. There there were doubts, because I parts of the text as
poem rezitiere. However the lucrative robbing has its that it did to
do nothing with it. Therefore it changes for also nothing in my
appreciation it opposite. I think, he was a young man, who made a few
error. And the largest was to lose its life. It was a terrible
accident.

Contrary to Kurt Cobain, over whose suicide you were very disappointed?

I was even correctly furious over it. Simply, because I could identify
myself with Nirvana - with its world and its fan. The so-called Grunge
Kids looked like my own family. I could develop a relationship with
them, to the kind, like her dressed, to her attitude, and I liked the
music. I did not have notion of Kurts private life or of its pain. I
could do it only by its music. And I was in such a way shocked, when I
had heard of its suicide that I cried several-day-long - and my man
Fred with me. I mean, we was old enough, in order to be its parents.
We had the feeling the fact that it makes a mad job and would have a
large future. It seemed to me, as if these recent, talentierte Bur its
life simply so wegschmiss. Nevertheless I like Nirvana, it great Songs
wrote, and I wanted one of it covern. Indeed Heart Shaped box ",
which possesses a very strong text. But then I decided for Smells
Like Teen Spirit ". Simply, because I heard it in the car and this
vision had, how one could bring the Song on completely different way.
In the kind of Mountain Music, thus this knarzigen Country music,
which loved Kurt very much. We took up it then with banjo and Fiddle.

They wrote a Song over Murat Kurnaz. Will you also publish?

In any case one. It is called Without chain ". I do not know, why the
boy was kidnapped and arrested, but I had written this Song for it -
as emotional reaction to the whole action. Because if I look at myself
this young man, which is 24 years old, then ask myself I: How would I
react, if my son travels somewhere and five years long by a government
were arrested, only because it a suspicion against it preserve? A
terrible conception. Do you know, what the absurd at its release was?
When they let go having it finally, they sent it back to its parents.
But even in the airplane it had to carry still chains, because the
government insisted on it. How ill is?

There is a committee of inquiry, which analyzes the omissions of the
German policy in the case Kurnaz.

The world is a large club, which is steered from greed to power and
economic advantage. If you do not go through in the war games, then
with the money plays. There is not our governments, that direct the
fate, but companies, that rise with them to bed. I know still that I
was in Germany, before America marched into the Iraq during the large
choice. I met Schrvder and his wife with a garden party, he said that
he does not think anything from of Bush idea to march into the Iraq.
Thus I asked it completely directly: If you to be selected, remain
you with your opinion? "And he said: , That I become. "He did that.
But it US newspapers tituliert as traitors. I was ashamed, as for
everything that Bush did. We must use our voice. That is one of the
reasons, why I always loved skirt' n' roll - because he gives us the
possibility to make the people attentive on certain things things such
as love, Sex, art, poetry. In addition, on social, political and human
things.

Did you feel it as satisfaction, few weeks ago into the skirt and roll
resound to OF Fame to be taken up?

Actually I would prefer it, if the skirt' n' roll is not characterised
with prices. Simply, because it should be an open, free thing - and
there outside belongs to humans. It is our revolutionary cultural
voice, and I could not bear it as the best female singer or to be
distinguished such a thing. That would be an offense. But as a part of
the history skirt' n' roll to be recognized, is an honour.

The discussion led Marcel differently.