Patti Smith Is An Idiot

And The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame yearly inductions are for @ssholes. The same guys that decided to build their museum in Cleveland should be trusted to vote on dudes like Grandmaster Flash?

Patti Smith goes in to the RRHoF today and she isn't even worthy of being called an @sshole. Read her opinion being inducted in today's NYT, and try to hold back your most recent meal:

My late husband, Fred Sonic Smith, then of Detroit’s MC5, was a part of the brotherhood instrumental in forging a revolution: seeking to save the world with love and the electric guitar. He created aural autonomy yet did not have the constitution to survive all the complexities of existence.

First - MC5 were a one-hit wonder from Detroit. Their 1968 live rocker "Kick Out The Jams", with its single of the same name, is a kind-of classic. To say that this donated anything more to the world than being the first successful garage band is read said 14 year old's journal and, like, go, "Totally!" They didn't want to change the world, let alone save it. They wanted to smoke weed and bang chicks, leading the way for other Motor City greats like The Stooges and Ted Nugget to the exact same thing. Their next album, which was all about the hits, baby, was awful and the group disbanded shortly thereafter to raise kids and live in the real world.

Secondly - I may never read the New York Times again. I know its a Monday, but they let this idiot write about herself for 11 paragraphs? That garbage is "Fit to Print"?!? I'm amazed the piece isn't peppered with quotes from Jim Morrison or Wavy Gravy. Where are the "I love Fred" or "Mrs. Johnson is a B-I-T-C-H!!!!" doodles?

Tonight the above-mentioned will join Michael Stripe, Eddie Van Halen, and many others in getting up to pat themselves on the back and pretend to not notice that they have become the exact losers that they sought to wrest control from when they made the music that
got them to the podium.

Except Michael Anthony. He's been one wrong note away from the Bar-Mitzah circuit for 25 some years now and loves just who he is at this very moment.


And Patti - Your husband was a sh*tty guitar player.