Tom Snyder, 1978: Horses behind her, Easter on the air
Tom Snyder’s 1978 conversation with Patti Smith catches her after Horses had already reset the New York rock map and in the year of Easter, when Because the Night put her on the radio. She treats the late-night chair as another stage, not a trap. Mischief and doctrine share the same sentences: fame as apprenticeship, instinct as method, and a flat refusal to sand poetry into polite chat. Watch the hands as much as the lines. She does not turn the voltage down for the camera.
