By Request: "Hey Joe" by Patti Smith · Aug 2, 11:15 AM by Don
Adrian writes:
Don, I have an odd mp3 repost request. Can you please e-mail me about a Patti Smith song you posted on March of 2007. Thanks, Adrian
I’m not sure why it’s an odd request, but 99.9% of all requests are honored. Thanks for checking out Timedoor, Adrian!
Here is some info about the song I found on in a Wikipedia article about the song, “Hey Joe”:
Patti Smith released a cover of the song as the A-side of her first single, “Hey Joe/Piss Factory,” in 1974. The arrangement of Smith’s version is based on a recording by blues guitarist Roy Buchanan that was released the previous year (and dedicated to Hendrix). Smith’s version is unique in that she includes a brief and salacious—some would say tasteless—monologue about fugitive heiress Patty Hearst and her kidnapping and participation with the Symbionese Liberation Army. Smith’s version portrays Patty Hearst as Joe with a “gun in her hand.”
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The song showed up again on the 1977 “Hey Joe/Radio Ethiopia” EP.
mp3: Patti Smith – Hey Joe (Version) :: from the “Hey Joe/Radio Ethiopia” single (1977)
Video: Patti Smith performs “Horses” and “Hey Joe” on a 1976 episode of the Old Grey Whistle Test.
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