Re. Patti's anger

["Anthony J. Rzepela" <rzepelaa>]

Alison Armstrong wrote:

> Then on Friday night there was 
> an asshole of all assholes (not the "holy" kind either) who continually 
> shouted out idiotic remarks such as "Peace and Noise, Patti, Peace and 
> Noise,"  "Robert Mapplethorpe," "Sam Shepard" and other meaningless 
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The one time she did hear this on Friday, woo-boy, the
lights dimmed, as they say. She looked really pissed, 
shook her head, and continued.

>      Patti performed with such mesmeric focus and stregth, gave so much 
> of herself despite all this imbecility and obnoxiousness, but I was 
> getting the impression that the experience was taking its toll on her.  
> She said something to the effect that performing at CBGB's these four 
> nights had damaged her as a human being.  At times like this I think I 
> can perhaps understand some of what's she's saying.  To try to 
> communicate something of great importance and perception to an audience 
> containing even a few of these loudmouthed shitheads must be 
> demoralizing.  

Okay, here's something I noticed. Despite Mr. "Robert 
Mapplethorpe", Friday's show had the least amount of 
this strained attempt at dialogue that afflicts her 
shows so much. MAN, was that nice. I did like the requests
for "Freebird", though. That was kinda funny. :)