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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Horses, Easter, Twelve, Trampin', Radio Ethiopia, Land, Wave, Dream of Life, Gone Again, Itunes Originals - Patti Smith, Gung Ho, the Coral Sea, Peace and Noise, the Patti Smith Masters, Hey Joe / Radio Ethiopia, Set Free. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Horses is the debut album by American musician Patti Smith, released in 1975 on Arista Records. The record was a key factor and major influence on the New York punk rock scene. A member of the Mercer Arts Center crowd and a friend of Richard Hell, Patti Smith came to CBGB for the first time to see The Neon Boys perform. A veteran of independent theater and performance poetry, Smith was developing an intellectual, feminist take on rock 'n' roll when she released Horses. At the time she recorded Horses, Patti Smith and her band were favorites in the New York club scene along with Blondie and The Ramones. The former's influence can be best heard in the track "Gloria", a radical retake on the Them garage rock classic. "Birdland"'s music, in particular, owed more to the jazz music Smith's mother enjoyed than to the influence of punk. When recording this song, which was improvised by the band in Electric Lady Studios, Smith has said she imagined the spirit of Hendrix watching her. The lyrics of "Birdland" are based upon A Book of Dreams, a 1973 memoir of Wilhelm Reich by his son Peter. Several of the album's songs"Redondo Beach", "Free Money", "Kimberly"were inspired by moments with members of Smith's family, while others"Break It Up", "Elegie"were written about her idols. "Land" was already a live favorite and featured the first verse of Chris Kenner's "Land of a Thousand Dances" and contains a tribute to her long-time idol Arthur Rimbaud." Guest musici...http://booksllc.net/?id=22996 ... Read more

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Chapters: Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Todd Rundgren, Jonathan Richman, Nico, Captain Beefheart, Richard Hell, John Otway, Rio Reiser, Richard Lloyd, Iggy Pop, Bryan Ferry, John Cale, Gene Vincent, Syd Barrett, Marc Bolan, Arthur Lee, Johnny Thunders, Steve Peregrin Took, Mick Ronson, Peter Hammill, Alex Chilton, Roky Erickson, Nick Lowe, Link Wray, David Johansen, Dave Faulkner, Andy Shernoff, Brinsley Schwarz, Ivan Kral, Sky Saxon, David Peel, Wayne Kramer, Dickie Peterson, Ivan Julian, Jayne County, Mick Farren, Bryan Maclean, Michael Erlewine, David Thomas, Ron Asheton, Wilko Johnson, Dave Brock, Patrick Vian, Kim Salmon, Alan Vega, Hasil Adkins, Randy Holden, Ken Forssi, Paul Rudolph, Sean Bonniwell, Jobriath, Stefan Weber, James Williamson, Ross the Boss, Michael Davis, Laurence B. Miller, Niagara, Peter Laughner, Martin Rev, Bette Bright, Scott Asheton, Andy Ellison, Scott Thurston, Mickey Finn, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Johnny Echols, Rob Tyner, Gene Tyranny, Gypie Mayo, Bill Legend, Ben Miller, Urban Blitz, Richard Strange, Dennis Thompson, Stoner, Leigh Stephens, Phil May, Ethan James, Tim Blake, Peter Dilemma, Jimmy Recca, Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 488. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Don Van Vliet (pronounced ; born Don Glen Vliet, January 15, 1941) is an American musician and artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, which was active between 1965 and 1982, with whom he recorded 12 studio albums. Noted for his idiosyncratic singing voice with its wide range, Van Vliet also occasionally played the harmonica, saxophone, bass clarinet, piccolo oboe, shehnai and keyboards. Often impossible to categorize, Van Vliet's music blended rock, blues and psyc...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=63283 ... Read more

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Chapters: Itunes Originals - Patti Smith, Itunes Originals - Barenaked Ladies, Itunes Originals - Moby, Itunes Originals - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Itunes Originals - Jars of Clay, Itunes Originals - Goldfrapp, Itunes Originals - Fiona Apple, Itunes Originals - R.e.m., Itunes Originals - Keith Urban, Itunes Originals - Ben Folds, Itunes Originals - the Flaming Lips, Itunes Originals - New Order, Itunes Originals - Alanis Morissette, Itunes Originals - Pj Harvey, Itunes Originals - Something for Kate, Itunes Originals - Sarah Mclachlan, Itunes Originals - Death Cab for Cutie, Itunes Originals - Sheryl Crow, Itunes Originals - Ben Lee. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: iTunes Originals is a series of digital releases available exclusively through the iTunes Store. It was developed and produced by longtime KCRW DJ and film music supervisor Chris Douridas, who recruited Stephen Marsh to provide audio mastering for the albums. Each release features the music of a single artist. The releases typically contain more than twenty tracks (some more than thirty), which include music from the artist's body of releases, new recordings (of both previously released and sometimes unreleased songs) specifically for the iTunes Originals, and spoken word tracks that explore the artist's history and work, and/or discuss the next song. Some releases have also included video, both previously released, and originally created for the iTunes Originals. The songs recorded exclusive for the albums are usually recorded live in a recording studio. Most iTunes Originals albums are available in the United States iTunes Store, with availability in other countries' music stores varying with each release. Occasionally there are Originals available only in other countries; one nota...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22572203 ... Read more

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The Doors. Creem Special Edition, Summer 1981. Special issue devoted entirely to the Doors, with an appreciation by Patti Smith and an assessment by Lester Bangs ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 début album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Patricia Smith was born in Chicago on December 30, 1946. Her mother, Beverly, was a waitress and her father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant. She spent her entire childhood in Deptford Township, New Jersey. raised the daughter of a Jehovah's Witness, she claims she had a strong religious education and a very good Bible education, but left organized religion as a teenager because she felt it was too confining and much later wrote the opening line ("Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine") of her cover version of Them's "Gloria" in response to this experience. Smith graduated from Deptford Township High School in 1964. The family was not well-off, and Smith went to work in a factory. Patti Smith was voted "Class Clown" in her senior year. She gave birth to a son on April 26, 1965, but she put him up for adoption. In 1967, she left Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) and moved to New York City. She met photographer Robert Mapplethorpe there while working at a book store with a friend, poet Janet Hamill. Mapplethorpe's photographs of her became the covers for the Pa... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22995 ... Read more

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76 page souvenir program from Laurie Anderson/Lou Reed/Patti Smith performance/reading at Baryshnikov Arts CenterMarch 23-24, 2007 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, Patti Smith, Bob Geldof, Modern Talking, Joe Jackson, Coldwave, Nouvelle Vague Musicale Yougoslave, Rupert Hine, Ian Dury, the Mission Uk, Spandau Ballet, Tubeway Army, Klaus Nomi, Synthpop, Blue System, La Vierge Du Chancelier Rolin, Ludolust, Holger Hiller, Darkwave, François Kevorkian, Andreas Dorau, Anne Clark, Freur, Ndw, Limahl, Dance-Punk, Synth Wave, Ata Tak, Pieter Nooten, Howard Devoto, Mick Karn. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Elvis Costello (né Declan Patrick MacManus le 25 août 1954) est un auteur-compositeur-interprète anglais d'origine irlandaise. Son nom complet est souvent écrit Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus; pourtant, le nom Aloysius n'était pas un de ses prénoms de naissance, n'ayant été ajouté par Elvis Costello qu'à l'époque de la sortie de l'album King of America (en rapport avec le fait qu'Aloysius était l'un des noms du personnage joué par le comique Tony Hancock dans son émission Hancock's Half Hour). À cette époque, il se demandait en effet s'il n'allait pas abandonner son nom de scène au profit de son vrai nom. Elvis Costello fut l'un des premiers membres de la scène Pub rock, apparue au milieu des années 70, et sera plus tard associé aux mouvements Punk Rock et New Wave avant de s'affirmer en tant qu'artiste véritablement original à partir des années 80. Ayant jonglé avec plusieurs genres, un critique écrira de lui: "Costello, encyclopédie vivante de la Pop, peut réinventer le passé à sa propre image". Declan MacManus est né au St Mary's Hospital de Londres, et a vécu à Twickenham, étudiant à l'équivalent de l'époque de la St Mark's Catholic Secondary School aux alentours de Hounslow. Grâce à son père, qui aimait la musique (Ross Ma...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Beautiful Photographs Beyond Words
This collection of color photographs of flowers by Robert Mapplethorpe is stunning beyond words. Just when you thought that nothing else could be done with the overdone photographing of Calla Lilies, Mapplethorpe graces this book with eleven new shots of them, along with Orchids, Tulips, Poppies and a Rose or two. It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Mapplethorpe's work that some of these magnificent color shots are quite phallic in nature.

It is appropriate that the artist selected flowers for some of his last work since he like flowers was here for such a short time. (It is futile to speculate as to how many beautiful books he would have published by now had he lived.)

A short but moving introduction is included by his friend Patti Smith: She ends her comments with lines:

"A flower that grew from years of flowers./By one who caused a modern shudder/and was favored by his mother./It is the wall that conceals all the tears of a relatively young man/with nothing but glory in his grasp and what he would be/grasping is the hand of God drawing him into another garden."

For those who will never afford a Mapplethorpe, this book is a beautiful substitute.

Not quite the best available
While the photos are stunning, the presentation is a little rough.While most photos are presented with a blank page opposite there are a few photos that face other photos.This is a little jarring but worse is the two photos that are printed across the facing page.The spine break really detracts from a pair of beautiful photos.
Mapplethorpe was a genius with a camera and this book gives us many reminders of his skill.The publisher, however, lacks the artistic eye that would have prevented the distractions of a few photos that are damaged or badly placed by the layout.Minus a star because it could have been layed out better

just plain beautiful
Even though Mapplethorpe is better known for his controversial black and white nude photos, this book demonstrates his careful delicacy with not only the flowers but also the controlled lighting and the subtle colors. I have loved this book since the first time I leafed through it in studio photo class.

Stunning
Unbelivable intensity out of such simplicity. Here is Mapplethorpe's ultimate genius, astoundingly powerful from such simple set-ups. The colour, composition, lighting, choice of vases and flowers: All the basics but brilliantly done.
I saw Mapplethorpe's famous exhibition in Philadelphia just before he died,the exhibit that was banned at the Corcoran in D.C., then siezed for a while in Cincinnati.The flower photographs were dye-transfer prints, which made the colour surprisingly intense; some were almost 3' tall. People would stand for a long time in front of those, enraptured, sensing the work on several different levels at once.This book does a good job of bringing that to you.You can look at this book over and over again, put in on a coffe table to start converstaions or, after having not seen it for a while, rediscover it to be awed and inspired anew once again.
The edition I have is a 1990 paperback 12" in height; the pictures are presented one to a spread, so that there is a blank white page accross from the flower, which is a very classy touch, completely the correct way to do it.

Perpetual Spring Provides Creative Inspiration!
This book deserves more than five stars.It is the finest set of flower photography that I have seen before, and presents more dimensions of what a flower can mean that I would have thought possible.

I took a course of creativity from author Dan Wakefield a number of years ago.One of the many excellent exercises we did was to take a flower and write as much as we could about what we observed during an hour.At the end of the time, I was bursting with new ideas for all kinds of things.Try it sometime!

Seeing this marvelous book by Robert Mapplethorpe (that would earn a G rating if it were a motion picture) reminded me of that exercise.I had the same feeling as I examined each image, and had a great desire to start taking notes.

The essay, A Final Flower, by Patti Smith helps put these great works in perspective.Mr. Mapplethorpe found it "as easy to hurl beauty as anything else.""He came, in time, to embrace the flower as the embodiment of all the contradictions reveling within [him]."He was inspired by "their sleekness, their fullness, Humble narcissus, Passionate zen."As such, he found flowers to be "worthy conspirators in the courting and development of conflicting emotions."

The images themselves evoke more complicated views than any others of flowers that I have seen.The closest to his style is that which Georgia O'Keeffe used in her painings.But there are more dimensions to these photographs.

For example, a single flower may evoke a part of a human body, but it will also stimulate an impression of a human emotion contained in the flower image separate from the body part.Further, the shadowed background behind the flower will add movement and context that greatly expand the meaning of the overall image.Mr. Mapplethorpe also displays a genius for using varieties of color together to express complicated rhythms that make looking at the images a lot like listening to a drum beating a distinctive tattoo.He also employs juxtaposition (to make one thing appear to be part of something else), allusions to emerging and receding, and contrasts to great effect.

The technical quality of the images is superb.The lighting, detail, and composition of each image are precisely as must have been intended.Each image is an exquisite gem.Although I liked all of the images, some appealed to me more than others.Here are my favorites:

Irises, 1988; Rose, 1989; Orchid, 1977; White Longstem Flower, 1982; Orchids, 1982; Orchid, 1986; Flowers in a Vase, 1985; Orchids, 1987; and Poppy, 1988 (second one).I would like to specially praise the astonishing Calla Lilies (1985-1988) for their amazing beauty and inspiring qualities.

Where else can something simple display so much important meaning and complexity about nature and the viewer?I suggest that you consider looking at leaves, rocks, and feathers as possible additional sources of inspiration.Try your hand at arranging tableaux that use the vocabulary of Mr. Mapplethorpe's work here.

May your heart and mind be suffused with the wonders around you . . . creating a meditation inspired by nature! ... Read more