setlist & comments on 10/30/97 concert, cbgb's, nyc

[contributed by J. Bolt.]

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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



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