teamed up again with Lenny Kaye

In 1973, Smith teamed up again with musician and rock archivist Lenny Kaye, and later added Richard Sohl on piano. The trio developed into a full band with the addition of Ivan Král on guitar and bass and Jay Dee Daugherty on drums. Financed by Sam Wagstaff , the band recorded their first single, ” Hey Joe / Piss Factory ” in 1974. The A-side was a version of the rock standard with the addition of a spoken word piece about Patty Hearst , a fugitive heiress. The B-side describes the helpless alienation Smith felt while working on a factory assembly line and the salvation she dreams of achieving by escaping to New York City. In a 1996 interview on artistic influences during her younger years, Smith said, “I had devoted so much of my girlish daydreams to Arthur Rimbaud . Rimbaud was like my boyfriend.”