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#1 stipeeyes

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Posted 05 April 2012 - 05:00 AM

On April Fools day April 1st.  Patti sent an email around from her website about her new song.

Also on that day Michael Stipe reported on his tumblr about Patti's new song.

It's on remhq as well. Michael has rubbed it in that he already has her album which is of course on heavy rotation.  :)

http://www.pattismith.net/

It's a great song and it will be on Patti's new album called Banga which will be released in June.

I'm looking forward to it.
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Posted 05 April 2012 - 07:57 AM

CBS Sunday Morning did a piece on Patti this past weekend. While I haven't been able to find that segment online, they did post this article about her on their website. There is also a special one hour long interview available as an exclusive webcast that includes a Q & A with the studio audience as well as a couple of performances from Patti. If you're feeling so inclined, you can watch that here.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:35 AM

The segments are kind of hidden.  You have to do a search on her in the website.

Here is the link to the videos.

http://www.cbsnews.c...htype=cbsSearch


I of course love this part of the article.

And she got help from unexpected places. On the Valentine's Day after her husband's death, she was sitting alone after her putting her two children to bed: "And the phone rang. And I answered and this voice says, 'Hello, you don't know me. But my name's Michael Stipe.' And I knew who Michael Stipe was because I loved his music. I loved REM. And he told me that he was in Barcelona, that he was somewhat intoxicated, and that he knew we didn't know each other, but he knew that I had lost - sorry - that I had lost my love, and that it was probably my first Valentine's Day without him in a long time. And that he called to ask if he could be my valentine.
"that was how I met Michael Stipe over the phone, through a beautiful gesture. And I hung up the phone and I felt really happy. I did. I went to bed happy!"(That surely would make me happy too)
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Posted 05 April 2012 - 12:42 PM

Those clips are all part of the hour long webcast, not the actual piece that ran on Sunday Morning.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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Posted 05 April 2012 - 06:29 PM

View PostDriver Nate, on 05 April 2012 - 12:42 PM, said:

Those clips are all part of the hour long webcast, not the actual piece that ran on Sunday Morning.
The part about Michael was on the CBS Sunday morning.

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Posted 05 April 2012 - 08:12 PM

I was looking for the entire segment that appeared on Sunday Morning. I'm not sure how they decide what to put online or to not put online as the piece they did on Gregg Allman some time ago appeared on their website in it's entirety.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids

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Posted 07 April 2012 - 03:17 PM

Thanks for sharing that interview.  She's talked about Michael Stipe's 1995 Valentine's Day call before but never in so much detail.  He certainly called her at the right time given that she was at a very low ebb following the deaths of her husband and brother in 1994.

As for "April Fool," I'm really liking it.  The lyric is somewhat atypical for Smith but what really puts it over-the-top for me is Tom Verlaine's playing on the outro.  His playing makes the song very reminiscent of Television's 1978 LP Adventure.

I'm looking forward to her new record in June.

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 09:18 AM

View Poststipeeyes, on 05 April 2012 - 11:35 AM, said:

The segments are kind of hidden.  You have to do a search on her in the website.

Here is the link to the videos.

http://www.cbsnews.c...htype=cbsSearch


I of course love this part of the article.

And she got help from unexpected places. On the Valentine's Day after her husband's death, she was sitting alone after her putting her two children to bed: "And the phone rang. And I answered and this voice says, 'Hello, you don't know me. But my name's Michael Stipe.' And I knew who Michael Stipe was because I loved his music. I loved REM. And he told me that he was in Barcelona, that he was somewhat intoxicated, and that he knew we didn't know each other, but he knew that I had lost - sorry - that I had lost my love, and that it was probably my first Valentine's Day without him in a long time. And that he called to ask if he could be my valentine.
"that was how I met Michael Stipe over the phone, through a beautiful gesture. And I hung up the phone and I felt really happy. I did. I went to bed happy!"(That surely would make me happy too)


Awww!
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Posted 11 April 2012 - 10:32 AM

I don't suppose anyone taped the whole thing did they?
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