PATTI SMITH, ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE AND CHELSEA HOTEL’S OTHER COLORFUL RESIDENTS IN 1970!

Amy HabenJuly 31, 2015

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Amazing video from 1970 of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe’s book cluttered room in the Chelsea Hotel. This footage appears to be shot by a German film crew in order to make a documentary. Voyeuristically, we follow many diverse personalities under that legendary roof into their personal space. A model, gay couple, drunk piano man, etc.. My favorite part is towards the end, when 24 year old Patti plays with some of Warhol’s silver balloons in a whimsical manner.

-Amy Haben

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Carol Kaye started as a jazz solo guitarist, working the club scene of 1950s LA, when she was asked to work on some studio tracks for Sam Cooke. Though she loved the bebop jazz scene, Carol was a single mother with three kids and so to the studios she went, eventually switching to bass. She ultimately changed the very sound and role of that instrument in pop music as a member of what drummer Hal Blaine dubbed The Wrecking Crew (but which Carol has called The Clique). By any name, these were the session musicians who shaped some of the biggest hits of the 1960s, after which she went back to playing live gigs and working in movies and television, writing and teaching, which she is still doing in her 80s. Michael Shelley talks with the amazing Carol Kaye for PKM. Read more!

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