Patti Smith and Jim Carroll, Circa 1970 Photo by Wren D'Antonio
I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized as the best poet of his generation.
-Patti Smith
You’re growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it’s good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies… so we can dance.
-Jim Carroll
Dave Treganna, Dave Parsons, Jim Carroll and Stiv Bators, NYC, 1981, unknown photographer
Do not see that piece of shit movie (Okay, I haven not seen it, but it looks like a piece of shit). Go to a bookstore and buy The Basketball Diaries or the album Catholic Boy. I have bought that book four or five times because it is never returned once it has been lent.
Theresa Kereakes took that picture of the Daves, Jim and Stiv backstage at the Palladium, they opened for The Ramones as The Wanderers