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CND in the News
CND in the News: 25-31 August 2005
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1Singer Patti Smith Slams George Bush
http://www.times.spb.ru/story/15411
U.S. singer and musician Patti Smith attacked business and President George
W. Bush at a press event in St. Petersburg on Thursday, where she received
an excited response from the local journalists and fans.
“The world right now is really f***ed up,” she said addressing
the 100-strong crowd that gathered at the “505” record shop
on Bolshaya Konyushennaya Ulitsa. “The world right now is being
run by a**holes like George Bush and pharmaceutical companies, these greedy
people who don’t care about the environment, who don’t really
understand the poor, who don’t understand other cultures. We are
the underground and we have to get strong, because the world is being
run by business.”
Smith performs at the Music Hall on Friday. Boldly, Smith turned the press
conference into something less formal; she never took her seat or used
a microphone, standing up, speaking loud. She also took an acoustic guitar
and gave an emotional performance of “In My Blakean Year”
from the 2004 album “Trampin’,” her most recent.
“People Have the Power,” proclaimed Smith, 58, during a brief
link-up with Radio ROKS, a local station. She wore a CND (Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament) badge and a small pin representing Commandeur
of the Order of Arts and Letters, France’s highest cultural decoration,
that she received from the French Ministry of Culture in July.
According to Smith, who helped to change rock music as a punk singer and
poet in the 1970s, major record companies are doomed to die out.
“They have been greedy and they will crumble, and I think that the
independent industry is the only thing that will live,” Smith said.
“Now with today’s technology, young people don’t even
need record companies. They can gather some money, make their own CDs,
they can share them, they can download them. To me that’s fine,”
Smith added. “Rock and roll is not a business, it’s a voice
that we can use politically, artistically, poetically. ... And hopefully
new young people will infuse new blood into that idea. That’s what
my band was trying to do,” Smith said.
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