"Sex. Death. Divinity. Violence. Grief. Money. Family. Art. Defiance. Ecstasy. Transfiguration. Dancing. Destruction. Rock 'n' roll conjoined to singular visions. They were all essential to Horses, Patti Smith's debut album, which was released on Nov. 10, 1975. It was the first full-fledged, major-label album to emerge from the tiny but explosive New York City scene that coalesced at a proudly scuzzy Bowery bar, CBGB."
"Television, the band led by the guitarist, singer and songwriter Tom Verlaine Smith's sometime boyfriend had discovered the venue and inaugurated the scene with its early gigs; Smith brought her fledgling band there soon afterward. Smith had emerged in the early 1970s as a poet with a vivid stage presence. To stand out at readings, she tried musical backup; she chose her guitarist, Lenny Kaye, by asking him if he could sound like a car crash."
Horses was released on Nov. 10, 1975, and combined poetic sensibility with raw rock energy. The record emerged from the nascent New York CBGB scene, which Television helped inaugurate. Patti Smith transitioned from poetry readings to musical performance and selected guitarist Lenny Kaye by asking if he could sound like a car crash. Kaye had compiled the 1972 Nuggets anthology, which framed a garage-rock aesthetic later tagged punk. The band expanded with keyboardist Richard Sohl and guitarist Ivan Kral, refined songs through residencies at Max's Kansas City and CBGB, and completed its lineup with drummer Jay Dee Daugherty in June 1975. A contract with Arista led to a September recording produced by John Cale at Electric Lady studio.
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