Bruce Springsteen - Because The Night | Herberg De Kelder

Because The Night

I think I am right that Patti Smith is now co-credited with Bruce as the author of this great song . . . . . . 

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Patti Smith 1971 (by the legendary Dave Gahr)

Amongst my favourite pictures of Patti and my favourite haircut of hers!

patti smith photographed by david gahr at the chelsea hotel in new york, 1971

Oh Sweet nothing . . . . . . Patti Smith reflects

 “Thinking about nothing. I remember my mother sitting like this. And I would ask,What is it mommy? And she would say, Oh nothing. And now I know what nothing is.” 

— Patti Smith

I recall my beloved mum doing much the same during her end of days care in the hospital resting her head in her hands “Whatcha thinking about mum?” 

‘Oh, nothing . . . . . ‘💜

Birthdays : PATTI SMITH

 Happy birthday to Patti Smith, born in Chicago, Illinois on this day in 1946. Love is a banquet on which we feed.

Now co-written thanks to Bruce acknowledging her variations

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Patti Smith on Stationers and Stationery . . .

As a family we had a passion for stationery it seems we share with Patti and my Dad’s first job was working, before he started a family and moved them from Merseyside down South, for Brown & Swapp Ltd in the North a stationers and printers so we get it from my dad at least, if not my great grandad too. My daughter shares a passion with all things paper, stationery and calligraphy and so on too! (well she does have a 1st class degree in Graphic Design!) 

Manilla envelopse! Ooooh! 

Patti shares her passion with Anthony Mason:

CBS Mornings 

Patti Smith - Live In Paris, 1978 |

 

Patti Smith - Live In Paris, 1978

Punk rock's poet laureate, Patti Smith ranks among the most influential female rock & rollers of all time. Ambitious, unconventional, and challenging, Smith's music was hailed as the most exciting fusion of rock and poetry since Bob Dylan's heyday.

If that hybrid remained distinctly uncommercial for much of her career, it wasn't a statement against accessibility so much as the simple fact that Smith followed her own muse wherever it took her - from structured rock songs to free-form experimentalism, or even completely out of music at times. Her most avant-garde outings drew a sense of improvisation and interplay from free jazz, though they remained firmly rooted in noisy, primitive three-chord rock & roll. She has a powerful concert presence, singing and chanting her lyrics in an untrained but expressive voice, whirling around the stage like an ecstatic shaman delivering incantations.

The Stooges may have defined the sound and attitude of punk rock, and the New York Dolls lent it some style, but Patti Smith gave it its substance. Imbued with an all-consuming passion for the verse of Arthur Rimbaud and the grit of early rock ‘n’ roll, Patti combined simplicity and intellect to help forge the most vital and honest musical form of the 20th century.After humble beginnings in Chicago and chasing her muse to Paris, Patti Smith eventually found her way to the artistic circles of New York in the early ‘70s. Her readings at St. Mark’s Poetry Project lead to performances including musicians like rock historian and guitarist Lenny Kaye and pianist Richard Sohl, who would later comprise her fully fledged rock band and contribute to a series of records that were as aggressive and daring as they were beautiful.

Here´s a bootleg called "Live In Paris, 1978". The sound quality is excellent. All but the last 5 tracks were recorded live in Paris in 1978 - performance is fair to good. This show from March of 1978 was a sort of spiritual homecoming for the woman that had once busked on the streets of the City of Light, immersed in the environs that had created her favorite poems. But the cobbled alleyways needn’t have served as her theatre this time around; the punk scene Patti helped nurture was in full swing and the recent release of the album Easter yielded her highest charting hit, “Because the Night,” co-written by Bruce Springsteen. The band is in top form as the rattle through a brief set, book-ending their palpitating version of Them’s “Gloria” with newer material that is just as transcendent - listen for a room full of raucous French fans chanting, “pah-TEE, pah-TEE!!”

The first 4 of the last 5 tracks were from "The Mike Douglas Show" in 1976 - performance is excellent. The very last track is from "The Today Show" in 1978 - Patti sounds a little bit worn out. The cover shows a picture of Patti's back (in Vietnam jacket) and pink cartoon hands with paintbrush and pen nib on index fingers.

Tracklist:

Ask The Angels 2:57
25th Floor 5:29
High On Rebellion 3:28
Till Victory 3:13
Set Me Free 3:37
Because The Night 3:18
Gloria 7:00

Ask The Angel
Free Money 3:43
I Was Working Real Hard 2:12
Keith Richard Blues 1:35
I Was Working Real Hard (Reprise) 2:26

Rave On Buddy | Patti Smith - Words of Love (Buddy Holly Cover)

Words Of Love (Buddy Holly Cover)
Patti Smith
Rave On Buddy Holly

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 Patti Smith - Not Fade Away / Memento Mori [Live At Montreux] 2005

feat Tom Verlaine

found at 

Le Ramasseur De Mégots

Birthdays - Patti Smith

 PATTI SMITH - Because the Night

Patti Smith ~ Because The Night (Live 2007)

Happy birthday to Patti Smith, born in Chicago, Illinois on this day in 1946

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Patti Smith - Tipitina's Uptown New Orleans LA 2010 | Voodoo Wagon

Patti Smith LIVE in New Orleans LA 2010

Patti Smith 

Tipitina's Uptown

New Orleans LA

2010-04-24

Soundboard @320

01. Intro---Be My baby

02. Redondo Beach

03. Free Money

04. Grateful

05. Ghost Dance

06. Beneath The Southern Cross

07. Pushin' Too Hard

08. We Three

09. Dancin' Barefoot

10. Ain't It Strange

11. Black Leaves

12. My Blakean Year

13. Pissing In A River

14. People Who Died

15. Wichita Lineman

16. People Have The Power

17. Perfect Day

18. Because The Night

19. Gloria

Patti Smith - Guitar, Vocals

Lenny Kaye - Guitar, Vocals

Jack Petrcelli - Guitar

Tony Shanahan - Bass

Jay Dee Daugherty - Drums

with

Jan Savage - Guitar (The Seeds) (Track 7)

Michael Stipe - Vocals (REM) (Tracks 15-16)

Peter Buck - Guitar (REM) (Tracks 15-16)

Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot, Redondo Beach : Acoustic versions |Le Ramasseur De Mégots

Dancing Barefoot (Acoustic)

Oh god, I feel the fever

Oh god, I feel the pain

Oh god, forever after

Oh god, I’m back again

Redondo Beach (Acoustic)

Redondo Beach is a beach

Where women love other

Women…

 

Le Ramasseur De Mégots

Photo of the week (month? year?) John Callaway - PATTI SMITH at Brighton Dome

Patti Smith @ Brighton Dome [25 June 24]… [Image © John Callaway 2024]

Johnny he say:

"So…for anyone who has hung around these pages before, you’ll know that Patti Smith has been a constant soundtrack for the past 48 years or so. A spiritual and poetic guide since somewhere around 1978. In truth 1976 was the moment that something clicked…Johnny found something he could relate to, with 1978 becoming the moment when abstract thought first became realised through witness….

And here I am again, for the nth time watching Patti live..this time the Patti Smith Quartet at The Brighton Dome. The rock and roll moves are here, at the Roundhouse in 2015, but I’m thinking icon… One photo, one moment in a timeline, one truth teller…

…and once again, Johnny gets the feeling he’s being surrounded by horses…"

 For JohnnyC . . . . .

Patti Smith - Horses (Live,1976)

Another chanteuse! Song of The Day II : Ronnie Spector : There Is An End (2006)

Speaking about femmes fatales singing about the ‘End’ (Doors reference - check me out!) then there is this . . . . again from Camberwell!

camberwellfoxes:

Ronnie Spector with Patti Smith There Is An End (2006)

"Featuring Smith on backing vocals, this great track is from Ronnie’s only release in the past ten years, The Last Of The Rock Stars. The album features Keith Richards, Joey Ramone, Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs etc and is well worth finding."

Camberwell Foxes Radio & Blog

Wow now here’s a revelation and as posted here by Le Ramassuer De Mégots, another from the Camberwell Foxes Radio & Blog! 

Who knew? Not me! Ronnie with Patti, Keef, Joey Ramone and Zinner from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs!

Patti Smith on motherhood and life after Fred (‘Sonic’ Smith that is) . . . .

ARTIST AT WORK 

Patti and the kids!     Photo by Frank Stefanko

I don’t know if I posted this before but I always find it so moving. Did you think Pop/Rock Stars always lived this life of luxury? Did you imagine they all must be minted? Did you even think what it was like to be a parent? A Mum to kids at home whilst being a counter culture heroine? I didn’t! . . . . . . . . 

Patti Smith on the biggest misconception about her...

The thing that bothered me the most was when I had to return to the public eye in ’95 or ’96 when my husband died. We lived a very simple lifestyle in a more reclusive way in which he was king of our domain. I don’t drive, I didn’t have much of an income, and without him, I had to find a way of making a living. 

Besides working in a bookstore, the only thing I knew how to do was to make records—or to write poetry, which isn’t going to help put your kids through school. 

But when I started doing interviews, people kept saying “Well, you didn’t do anything in the 80s,” and I just want to get Elvis Presley’s gun out and shoot the television out of their soul. How could you say that? The conceit of people, to think that if they’re not reading about you in a newspaper or magazine, then you’re not doing anything.

I’m not a celebrity, I’m a worker. I’ve always worked. I was working before people read anything about me, and the day they stopped reading about me, I was doing even more work. 

And the idea that if you’re a mother, you’re not doing anything—it’s the hardest job there is, being a mother or father requires great sacrifice, discipline, selflessness, and to think that we weren’t doing anything while we were raising a son or daughter is appalling. 

It makes me understand why some human beings question their worth if they’re not making a huge amount of money or aren’t famous, and that’s not right.

My mother worked at a soda fountain. She made the food and was a waitress and she was a really hard worker and a devoted worker. And her potato salad became famous! She wouldn’t get potato salad from the deli, she would get up at five o’clock in the morning and make it herself, and people would come from Camden or Philly to this little soda fountain in South Jersey because she had famous potato salad. 

She was proud of that, and when she would come home at night, completely wiped out and throwing her tip money on the table and counting it, one of her great prides was that people would come from far and wide for her potato salad. 

People would say, “Well, what did your mother do? She was a waitress?” She served the people, and she served in the way that she knew best.

Via Alan Light interview in Medium

Thanks Thatericalpter.com

Patti - study pastel on handlayed paper 1978 ©️A.M.Swapp

More from Moore | Thurston Moore's 'Sonic Life' memoir . . . . .

 

Patti Smith Group / John Cale / Television :: The Palladium, New York City, December 31, 1976

Posted on March 19, 2024

As mentioned in a recent Aquarium Drunkard Book Club, some of the most entertaining parts of Thurston Moore’s Sonic Life memoir come during his teenage years, way before Sonic Youth was even a twinkle in his eye. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Fan? From the suburbs of Connecticut, Moore made countless trips into NYC to soak in the punk/CBGB/Max’s Kansas City worlds, catching shows by The Ramones, Suicide, the Dead Boys, Sid Vicious … and Patti Smith, of course. Thurston paints an evocative portrait of this New Year’s Eve blowout, which doubled as Patti’s raucous 30th birthday party. He was dangerously high on mescaline.

Hear it for yourself …

Hear here . . . .

Proto punk legend Wayne Kramer dies at 75 : Kick Out The Jams!

 Best played WINDOW SHATTERINGLY LOUD!

First Fred ‘Sonic’ “Mr Patti” Smith went before but the very heart has been ripped out of the MC5 now . . . . . . 

From Guess I’m Dumb . . . . . . 

The Harder They ComeWayner Kramer

Wayne Kramer - The Harder They Come (1979)

R.I.P. Wayne Kramer

Photo of The Day “ PATTI SMITH [Marc Siegler]

 

Patti Smith by Marc Siegler

Today’s haul of pictures . . . .

  Heroes, Heroines, Super Stars n Swingin’ guitars

Billy Jean and Hank - ain’t she purty? And remember folks, Hank started the 29* club - speed kills!

So I’ll add another picture in tribute to Jeremiah who dropped by to comment . . . . . . great singers of the beginnings of ‘pop’!

Woody Guthrie & Lilly May Ledford, New York City. 

a pensive Nick Drake . . . how we often think of him

although he did smile sometimes . . . . . . happier days

Johnny Cash with a Martin guitar (with F holes no less - anybody any idea how much that would be worth now?! £4,000? More? $24,000? who knows - I’ll try n find out!)

Stephen with some of his collection whilst touring . . . . . phew!

Husband and Wife team, Patti Smith and Fred ’Sonic’ Smith  - I should start a series on couples or husbands and wives?!

Great shot of our Susan Tedeschi - look at those hands! Woman can PLAY!

So who do you reckon this is?

well I’ll tell you! The guitar connection is key here and of course it is an early shot of Les Paul! However did you know he is also known for being credited with the invention of the harmonica frame so you could play it hands free!? Know otherwise? Could be apocryphal but could be a complete myth too. Me, I choose to believe it!

* as dear pal Jeremiah ( he was a bullfrog you know?) rightly points out Hank Williams didn’t start the 27 club died at 29 and that ‘honour’ (sic?) goes to Robert Johnson long before anyone else! 

Here Robert Johnson with what we think is his beloved Kalamazoo (I have one for that reason!) the poor man’s Gibson, during the recession in America and Gibson rebranded a budget machine with the same woods and simpler structure and innards, mine is dated 1936! which would make it amongst the first ever made like his as he recorded with it that year!  I love it, have I said ?! Rings like a bell!

My Kalamazoo KG11 His was a KG14 - its in the frets! 1936 I am told - my pride and joy

Patti Smith - Live In Paris, 1978 | ZERO G SOUNDS

Patti Smith - Paris 1978 - here

 

Zero G says:

Punk rock's poet laureate, Patti Smith ranks among the most influential female rock & rollers of all time. Ambitious, unconventional, and challenging, Smith's music was hailed as the most exciting fusion of rock and poetry since Bob Dylan's heyday.

If that hybrid remained distinctly uncommercial for much of her career, it wasn't a statement against accessibility so much as the simple fact that Smith followed her own muse wherever it took her - from structured rock songs to free-form experimentalism, or even completely out of music at times. Her most avant-garde outings drew a sense of improvisation and interplay from free jazz, though they remained firmly rooted in noisy, primitive three-chord rock & roll. She has a powerful concert presence, singing and chanting her lyrics in an untrained but expressive voice, whirling around the stage like an ecstatic shaman delivering incantations.

The Stooges may have defined the sound and attitude of punk rock, and the New York Dolls lent it some style, but Patti Smith gave it its substance. Imbued with an all-consuming passion for the verse of Arthur Rimbaud and the grit of early rock ‘n’ roll, Patti combined simplicity and intellect to help forge the most vital and honest musical form of the 20th century.After humble beginnings in Chicago and chasing her muse to Paris, Patti Smith eventually found her way to the artistic circles of New York in the early ‘70s. Her readings at St. Mark’s Poetry Project lead to performances including musicians like rock historian and guitarist Lenny Kaye and pianist Richard Sohl, who would later comprise her fully fledged rock band and contribute to a series of records that were as aggressive and daring as they were beautiful.

Here´s a bootleg called "Live In Paris, 1978". The sound quality is excellent. All but the last 5 tracks were recorded live in Paris in 1978 - performance is fair to good. This show from March of 1978 was a sort of spiritual homecoming for the woman that had once busked on the streets of the City of Light, immersed in the environs that had created her favorite poems. But the cobbled alleyways needn’t have served as her theatre this time around; the punk scene Patti helped nurture was in full swing and the recent release of the album Easter yielded her highest charting hit, “Because the Night,” co-written by Bruce Springsteen. The band is in top form as the rattle through a brief set, book-ending their palpitating version of Them’s “Gloria” with newer material that is just as transcendent - listen for a room full of raucous French fans chanting, “pah-TEE, pah-TEE!!”

The first 4 of the last 5 tracks were from "The Mike Douglas Show" in 1976 - performance is excellent. The very last track is from "The Today Show" in 1978 - Patti sounds a little bit worn out. The cover shows a picture of Patti's back (in Vietnam jacket) and pink cartoon hands with paintbrush and pen nib on index fingers.

Tracklist:


Ask The Angels 2:57
25th Floor 5:29
High On Rebellion 3:28
Till Victory 3:13
Set Me Free 3:37
Because The Night 3:18
Gloria 7:00

Ask The Angel
Free Money 3:43
I Was Working Real Hard 2:12
Keith Richard Blues 1:35
I Was Working Real Hard (Reprise) 2:26

THE RADICAL HOPE OF PATTI SMITH - HARPER’S BAZAAR Interview 2022

 In case you missed it . . . . . . . this is worth a read . . . . . . . . from last year

Patti Smith - Harper’s Bazaar Interview 2022

Thanks to O My Soul for pointing me to this