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From Lydia Smuft, Mar 6, 2009:
After settling in at the Big Apples Gramercy Park
Hotel, Bowie led the band through a week of rehearsals at the citys
RCA Studios. At nights, he and Geoff would hang out at the legendary rocknroll
haunt Maxs Kansas City. It was the coolest place in New York,
Geoff explained. On any given night youd usually find a Jagger,
Lennon or Lou Reed, as well as a couple of film stars.
David dragged me down there to see Biff Rose. Hed written
the anthem Fill Your Heart on Hunky Dory. But, to be honest, his set wasnt
my cup of tea and I think David was a bit underwhelmed.
Then another guy came on and sat down at the same piano and began
playing something equally gloomy. Wed have left there and then if
we hadnt had beers to finish. Just at the point where it was all
getting too much, he strapped on a Fender Telecaster and the band struck
up an anthem called Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?
We were blown away. That was the first time David and I saw Bruce
Springsteen.
Biff's Reply:
yes...Lydia.....no one could hear me that nite at
Max'sd Kansas City...cuz I'm not loud...Springsteen is loud and you're
in better shape to hear through reading what I sang that nite..I opened
thr show with "He's just a shell of a man..but if you hold him to
your ear you can hear the ocean roar...he's been looking back to appreciate
forward motion more...." Bruce is not capable of such poetry cuz
he;s dumb....and he writes dumb songs for the masses...the closest he
comes to anything interesting that has currency is Dancing in the Dark....he
and you are irrelevent...I am EARrelevant....You can get the rest of the
song on my fifth album Uncle Jesus and Auntie Christ (1972)....AFTER NOBODY
could hear me...cuz they were all jersey-ites waiting for their loud guy
with the black dude blowing up his asss.like a yankee plantation scion
and a slave uprising....I sang 'Dylan moved to Malibu and New York needed
a look like a jew...god bless you...ah joo..god bless you..." nobody
got it..you were drunk..Bowie is witless....he wanted to meet me...he
stared smiling like a corpse stuck up the Cheshire cat ... and I told
him 'Hey thanks for doing Fill Your heart but did you have to cop the
whole arrangement..I mean couldn;t you have done your own treatment of
it" He couldn;t ..being as he;'s an imitation.....like Bruce Sprinsteen's
initials...Bruce was appropriate for the early seventies like Dylan for
the early sixties..this perspective can now be absorbed..now that everyone
is dead except for the young who have HEARD of those "wannabees"
and would be has-beens..you are trapped in that gestalt and can't possibly
hear me...although many who read this may...Bruce's initials are what
he is..the slave uprising blowing up his ass that nite (Clarence Clemons)
has risen to the point of standing back to back with B.S. at the Super
Bowl halftime show as though they're about to march counting off a duel....Clarence
is slightly taller than B.S. like Obama is slightly taller than George
Bush..but I don;t think you "get" that analogy..still..you aren;t
the only one who now wants to know what was happening back then..I did
fifteen minutes to open the show...Andy Warhol was in the first row.,that
takes care of HIS fifteen minutes of fame...after B.S.'s second show encore
he said," Let's get Biff up here..." I got up..and played piano
with the E-Street band...I kept repeating "This really sucks..this
is just noise..." When I got off the stage...everyone was patting
me on the back saying 'That was great,Biff.." "No it wasn't"
I kept saying.."It sucked..it was just theatre..just noise...the
yankee scion of the old planation and the slave uprising..we're used to
that in the South...and doubly moreso now that Obama is the House Servant
and Osama is the Field hand..Obama's in the basement plotting revolution..Osama's
in the penthouse stemming the tide...." but you're out of it, girl...a
******** from yesteryear I can slap around at will and watch the B.S.
fly as poor Brucie doesn;t know WHAT to do..being as his fans want him
so to be their Working Class HERO but he's just another dumb Yankee sell
out piece of schitt making noise and money for the *****s to make a penny
buying his records at Wal_mart.....B.S is a relic of the PAST..I am a
relic of the FUTURE...I never made it BIG enough to make a come back..I
had to get down to bumming and a Second Coming...there will be none for
B.S. I judge...he gets blasted..YOU pay and pray attention now....as for
Bowie...uh...duh...show time..Serious Moon River....he has to stand in
line to kiss my ass to keep his "Yesterday's punk career in arears"....the
dude can;'t work th web...I am interNETional.they are not...."THEY"
have agents and managers to paste on cookie cutter masks for websites
so you buy their *****ing noise and uh..B'S....I mean how else can a Paul
Williams be a giant in the business...?....grow up ************ offense
meant..I;m sure none was taken.....you can't get to Heaven Lydia except
through me the Prince of Darkies....
For heavens sake! I thought you'd be thrilled to see
your name in the same article as Bowie and Springsten. Guess I was wrong.
- Lydia Smuft
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