Patti Smith’s exciting little ditty (January 1975)

This small article in Issue 10′s “Hot Pix” section constitutes the first mention of Patti Smith in the magazine’s pages (unless you count her own writing, of course — she wrote an article about Television in Issue 9). Within a year, she’d be on the cover, the subject of regular features and referred to simply as “Patti” — but at first, it seems Rock Scene didn’t quite know what to make of her music, describing her version of “Hey Joe” as “unusual” and referring to “Piss Factory” as an “exciting little ditty.”