Lenny Kaye’s 70th Birthday Celebration
Bowery Ballroom
27 December 2016


This set was recorded full econo-mode, straight to my new Edirol R-05s built in mics. Then copied from SD card to my Mac and cut into tracks, volume boosted and exported to FLAC with Amadeus Pro 2. Fingerprints created with xACT; Torrent file ands upload facilitated with Transmit.

I am providing the highest quality file I have at 24/48 audio. Re-convert as you need for CDs or other uses but please do not trade other then original files. (as if I could stop you) If you do not like the way I record or the equipment I use, wait for another upload.

So this was billed as a Patti Smith show Celebrating Lenny Kaye’s 70th Birthday and I hoped the spotlight would be firmly on Lenny and it was. What a great show this was. Never question my love for Patti but it was great to see Lenny get the majority of the spotlight for once.

This was a full on Lenny show starting with four songs from The Lenny Kaye Connection, then some acoustic Do-Wop before Patti and then wrapping it up with a bunch of Nuggets. Sining and playing his heart out Lenny is a true legend and one of the best.


I hope you Enjoy!

Tracks:

**The Lenny Kaye Connection -Charlie Ross-Keys, Paul Dugan-Bass, David Donen-Drums**
1. Luke The Drifter
2. Tell-Tale Heart
3. Still Life
4. I’ve Got a Right

**Lenny Kaye and Tom Clark - Acoustic Set**
5. Poor Little Fool
(Ricky Nelson cover) (>)
A Teenager in Love
(Dion & The Belmonts cover) (>)
Bristol Stomp
(The Dovells cover) (>)
Coney Island Baby
(The Excellents cover) (>)
Last Kiss
(Wayne Cochran cover) (>)
Tears on My Pillow
(Little Anthony & The Imperials cover) (>)
Dear Schoolgirl
(>)
Earth Angel
(The Penguins cover) (>)
A Teenager in Love
(Dion & The Belmonts cover) (reprise)

**Lenny Kaye, Tony Shanahan, Jay Dee Daugherty, and Andy York**
6. Band Intros
7. Crazy Like A Fox
8. Riding The Avenue
(Slaves of New Brunswick cover)
9. Naked as the Day You Were Born
(The Weather Prophets cover)
10. Going Local
11. The Things You Leave Behind

**Patti Smith and Her Band**
12. Jesus Is Just Alright
(The Art Reynolds Singers cover)
13. Astronomy
(Blue Öyster Cult cover) (With Albert Bouchard - guitar.… more )
14. Free Money
15. Mercy Is (Patti and Lenny only)
16. Pissing in a River
17. Happy Birthday
18. If 6 Was 9
(The Jimi Hendrix Experience cover)
19. Capitol Letter
20. Rock n Roll Nigger

**Nuggets Set - Lenny Kaye, Tony Shanahan, Jay Dee Daugherty, and Andy York**
21. My Little Red Book
(Burt Bacharach cover) (Lenny Kaye vocal)
22. 7 & 7 Is
(Love cover) (Tony Shanahan vocal)
23. Night Time
(The Strangeloves cover)
24. Pushin' Too Hard
(The Seeds cover)
25. Journey to the Center of the Mind
(The Amboy Dukes cover) (Tony Shanahan vocal)
26.I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
(The Electric Prunes cover) (>)
No Fun
(Iggy and The Stooges cover)
27. You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
(Johnny Thunders cover)




PS: Please Don't Sell This

PSS: For the inevitable requests;
I’m really sorry but I can’t offer other bit depths. There is only so much time in the day and I love to contribute music to this venue and hope that folks enjoy these shows too. So I put to the best of what I have and hope users will take a little effort to get the output files they need. It should be a one step process, I know it is with the Mac based software recommended below. I hope it is just as easy with the windows options.

On the Mac I think XLD is great; you give it a batch of files and it will out put pretty much what ever you need and will easily convert these 24bit flacs to 16bit AIFFs you can burn to CD. It will also allow you to clean up the metadata if you roll that way. Right click to apply to batch. While definitely worth a donation it is totally free, check it out. http://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html

For windows, I would love to hear more current suggestions but I have always heard great things about Traders Little Helper. http://tlh.easytree.org/ But I do not use it nor am I 100% sure that it will take a 24bit flac and give your a 16bit wav in one motion. I have also heard good things about http://www.foobar2000.org/ I also had http://www.voxengo.com/product/r8brain/ recommended as a straight bit conversion for free that will take what I gave and give you swell CD quality. GO!

As with all of this windows stuff all the same caveats apply - I don’t use it and have not tried it. Still I would continue to welcome any current confirmation or commentary to help make this note more helpful.

Thanks.