BFrank Posted June 18, 2003 Report Share Posted June 18, 2003 Any fans out there? Last night I saw her at a small club here in SF (tonight she plays The Fillmore). What a great show! She poured it on for well over 2 hours and the crowd left exhausted. I've always liked her, but this is only the third time I've seen her in concert and a great treat to see the show in a small venue. She doesn't seem to have lost a beat. The band was as tight as ever, including "lifers" Jay Dee Daugherty (who I went to high school with, actually) on drums and Lenny "LENNY!" Kaye on guitar. She performed stuff covering the full gamut of her career - from early tunes like "Free Money" and "Ask The Angels" to more recent songs like "1959" and "Summer Cannibals". A nice touch was the lead in to "Rock & Roll Nigger" which is called "Babelogue" on record, but she read "Spell" from Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" in appreciation of City Lights books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jad Posted June 18, 2003 Report Share Posted June 18, 2003 (edited) Found "Easter" on vinyl at a garage sale last weekend and am enjoying it quite a bit. I've always passed on her stuff before, but 25 cents seemed like a good price. I've been getting more into the early NY punk scene lately. Television's "Marquee Moon" has been on heavy rotation in my CD player lately. Must be getting older, starting to prefer poetry to power chords (apologies to Johnny Thunders). Edited June 18, 2003 by Jad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted June 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2003 Although, Jad, there was no shortage of power chords at that show the other night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacman Posted June 19, 2003 Report Share Posted June 19, 2003 i love Patty Smith. i've seen her twice (way back in the late 70's). she puts on a great show. i believe i have all of her recordings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kulu se mama Posted June 24, 2003 Report Share Posted June 24, 2003 i made my wife go with me to a small club here last summer. she is not much of a music fan, and she absolutely loved it. she knew nothing going in, but the next day she made me give her some of my patti cd's for her car. the cool part during the concert - it was a small, loud, smoky club, and someone down in front brought their toddler. patti stopped the show mid song and made them leave. she explained that she loves kids, and this was no place for a kid. that was cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Adam Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 Seeing her in a couple of weeks in LA... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 I've tried to like her; I met Lenny Kaye a few years ago, good guy - but I just find her to be a poseur - "Christ died for somebody's sins but they weren't mine -" cripes, the religious/hyprocrisy thing was tired when I was a teenager - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 Lenny Kaye grew up in the same town as me, but he was probably gone by the time I got there. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted October 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 Seeing her in a couple of weeks in LA... I've got tix for 10/20 here in SF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 I'm seeing her with Philip Glass!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 I'm seeing her with Philip Glass!!! That wouls be fun. Where is that? Allan, she has a lot more going on than one line from one song. And I think she's pretty great live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 (edited) well, I like her prose - but as a singer songwriter I just find here to have a sort of reverse-feminist macho with literary and intellectual pretensions - I just don't find her songwriting compelling; the Christ line is, to me, representative. Don't know if you've read the book New York Rocker by Gary Valentine, but it neatly sums up the whole pretentiousness of that scene with Burroughs et al (and Burroughs Senior, except for Junky, is a lesser writer, IMHO, than Burroughs Junior, but that's another thread) ; Smith, like Richard Hell, to my way of thinking, was smart and sharp but was like a lot of smart, sharp people I've met who just didn't know enough to carry off the kind of poetry or to which they aspired - I feel the same about Tom Verlaine in many respects. And I like a lot of Hell's work - but ultimately they are classic examples of their reach exceeding their grasp - too many intellectual shortcuts (if I can I will cut/paste a section from the liner notes of my cd which is relevant to this in some respects) - they knew enough to know what they should have known, from a literary standpoint, but that's really it. and I am in an admitted minority in thinking this, I should add - Edited October 3, 2008 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 well, I like her prose - but as a singer songwriter I just find here to have a sort of reverse-feminist macho with literary and intellectual pretensions - I just don't find her songwriting compelling; the Christ line is, to me, representative. Don't know if you've read the book New York Rocker by Gary Valentine, but it neatly sums up the whole pretentiousness of that scene with Burroughs et al (and Burroughs Senior, except for Junky, is a lesser writer, IMHO, than Burroughs Junior, but that's another thread) ; Smith, like Richard Hell, to my way of thinking, was smart and sharp but was like a lot of smart, sharp people I've met who just didn't know enough to carry off the kind of poetry or to which they aspired - I feel the same about Tom Verlaine in many respects. And I like a lot of Hell's work - but ultimately they are classic examples of their reach exceeding their grasp - too many intellectual shortcuts (if I can I will cut/paste a section from the liner notes of my cd which is relevant to this in some respects) - they knew enough to know what they should have known, from a literary standpoint, but that's really it. and I am in an admitted minority in thinking this, I should add - I know it's not a poll, but I don't agree with you on almost all of the above. Just my 2 cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 I'm seeing her with Philip Glass!!! That wouls be fun. Where is that? Allan, she has a lot more going on than one line from one song. And I think she's pretty great live. UCSB In February. Part of series which also includes Sonny Rollins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 I'm seeing her with Philip Glass!!! That wouls be fun. Where is that? Allan, she has a lot more going on than one line from one song. And I think she's pretty great live. UCSB In February. Part of series which also includes Sonny Rollins. Wow, close enough to seek out.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted October 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2008 I'm seeing her with Philip Glass!!! That wouls be fun. Where is that? Allan, she has a lot more going on than one line from one song. And I think she's pretty great live. UCSB In February. Part of series which also includes Sonny Rollins. THAT'S interesting. I need to go to SB sometime in the next several months on personal business. That might be a good excuse to make that trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted September 14, 2019 Report Share Posted September 14, 2019 Seeing her in Detroit Monday night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted September 14, 2019 Report Share Posted September 14, 2019 Lucky you! I saw her last summer, fantastic. Mind you, she always seems on top of her game when I see her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted September 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2019 I haven't seen her in a year or two, but try to catch her whenever she comes through SF. Usually at the Fillmore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted September 15, 2019 Report Share Posted September 15, 2019 In Paris a couple of weeks ago: Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Garrett Posted September 16, 2019 Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 Ran across this interesting 2015 piece from the Voice on Twitter earlier today: A Step-By-Step Walk Through ‘Just Kids’ and Patti Smith’s New York Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted September 20, 2019 Report Share Posted September 20, 2019 New NY Times article: Patti Smith, Making Paris Swoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted September 20, 2019 Report Share Posted September 20, 2019 Thanks for posting. No matter how many interviews I read they always bring a smile to my face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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