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Setlist, Patti Smith/PS*G,
Thu 30 Oct 97, CBGBsNYC
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(All quotes are PS unless otherwise noted.)
"Day 3.../...Let's Do Heaven..."
"Where is 'Nobody to Home' from? *Winnie-the-Poo*."
Dead City
"A Song by Oliver Ray...So, did all you people buy
*peace and noise*?..."
Dancing Barefoot
"you'll do it...it'll be alright..." [aside, to crew]
1959
- Extended Intro to:
Revenge (Soul/ful Version)
"don't call me baby....see I like to be called baby,
but I'm real particular about who [calls me that]..."
Last Call
"...hank williams. dead at 27. thank god he left a few
songs behind...amen brother [unrelated to previous]."
So Lonesome I Could Cry
"...same people every night...
we're gettin' used to ya..."
Wicked Messenger
"... bob dylan...*World Gone Wrong*...
...drummer JD Daugherty, we wrote this
song [JD takes Bass, Tony to Drums]..."
- Tells Hipster Joke /
Finds Response Still Lacking...
Don't Say Nothing
- Extended Silence.
"...self conscious...I'm just reporting an interesting
experience..."
- Introduces Robert Hunter
Franklin's Tower (Intense Duet/Version)
- Both seem Inspired; Going right into:
New Speedway Boogie
("I don't know, but I been told /
If the Horse Won't Pull You Gotta Carry th' Load.../
One Way Or Another...")
- Patti improvises, within the song, a long
inspired rap about Altamont and
Performance/Communication, then, after:
"...back in about 15 minutes. drink some water..."
** INTERMISSION **
(about 30 minutes)
- Silence, Instrumental Twiddling, into:
Spell (Version: Clarinet Outro.)
- Silence, Instrumental Twiddling, into:
Waiting Underground (Extended Version)
"...I never said I was One; Do you think I Deserve
the Title? [Rock'n'Roll Nigger]...I'm really gettin'
tired tonight of gettin' my picture took..."
Whirl Away
"...what kind of state is that moon in? Ah, a New
moon?" [Goes into brief A/Cappela excerpt from
*Blue Moon*]...then:
Wing
- Silence, Instrumental Twiddling, into:
Sata A Masagana (song by Abyssinians) (Lenny Kaye)
- Patti joins in; As before a story of Sheba
and Soloman...and a Book of Gold...Walkin'
for Wisdom...She kep' on Walkin'...found that
place where he had stored the Word of God,
and Forgotten...Book of Life... Then, after:
"...InterNet...we did things more technologically
perfect last night for the Internet...tonight..."
Death Singing
"...I definitely wouldn't be up here if I had any
germs..."
About A Boy (Live Version - Intense)
"...I don't know what she said...It got a bigger laugh
than my joke..."
- Extended silence, then
Not Fade Away(Version)
- Incorporates a story about the Chicago Night
and Blind Lemon...Jefferson...He walked to
Freedom.... Afterwards:
"Lenny Kaye, JD Daugherty, Tony Shanahan, Oliver Ray.
Patti Smith,...God Bless You..."
- All leave Stage.
** We Call For Encore **
- All Return.
"...Michael Stipe says Hello,
He's thinkin' 'boutcha'..."
Wild Leaves (Superb Version)
- Denies, graciously, request(s) for
"25th Floor", many others.
"...I promise, as time goes by, before the Century
closes, I will do All of them [the Requests]..."
Gone Again (Powerful Version)
- All leave Stage.
Copyright © J. Bolt 1997