re: cassette

[Mitch Gart <mg>]

j.BOLt SThAR eNYCh wrote:

> 

>       If it's not a dub from the Giorno Poetry Discs then it's

> a Really Rare, previously unknown tape. I've been looking for

> such tapes for Years, and this is the First such I've heard of

> - and I know there are others on the list who are also on the

> look-out.



The tape I've got from about that time is a 60 minute one.

One side, around 25 minutes, is a very young-sounding Patti

doing a reading in 1972.  The other side is Jim Carroll doing

a reading, I think from 1973.  The two aren't performing together

although there is a connection:  in Patti's performance she is

supposed to be opening for Jim Carroll but then Jim doesn't show 

up and Patti has to stay on stage longer than she expected, so

she gets out a piece of paper with a story she's been working on

but hasn't finished, something about a dog, and reads that story.

The tape doesn't mention "Giorno".  It's from the St Marks Poetry
Project.  What's Giorno?



Nicki, does this sound like the same tape as the one you have?



This is the earliest Patti tape I have.  The stuff I've *really*

been looking for is some kind of tape of the early Patti with

Lenny (and maybe also Richard Sohl) doing readings over musical

backup.  The only thing I have is the really short Brian Jones/

Stocking Feet thing.  There were supposed to be lots of early 

shows with reading+music and there must be tapes out there somewhere.

Anybody have one?



- Mitch



BTW:  it's amazing how Patti's voice changed between about 1970

and 1975.  In the early 70's she has a high little-girl voice.

That would make sense if she was, say, 15 in 1970 and then 20

in 1975, but she was actually (get out calculator ...) 24 in 1970

and then 29 in 1975.  That's sort of late for her voice to change.