Patti Smith Quartet
Pierre Boulez Saal
Berlin, Germany
October 14, 2023


1. crowd
2. Peacable Kingdom - People Have The Power
3. intro to Ghost Dance
4. Ghost Dance
5. Autumn Song (poem by Paul Verlaine)
6. Wild Leaves
7. intro to Guiding Light
8. Guiding Light (Television cover)
9. intro to My Blakean Year
10. My Blakean Year
11. Boy Cried Wolf
12. Nine
13. Dancing Barefoot
14. intro to Beneath The Southern Cross
15. Beneath The Southern Cross
16. band introduction
17. The Wind Cries Mary (sung by Tony Shanahan, Jimi Hendrix cover)
18. Work (Charlotte Day Wilson cover)
19. All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover)
20. intro to After The Gold Rush
21. After The Gold Rush (Neil Young cover)
22. Pissing In A River
23. Because The Night
24. Gloria


Band Members
Patti Smith - lead vocals, guitar
Jackson Smith - guitar
Tony Shanahan - bass, keyboard, vocals
Seb Rochford - drums


Recorded by: johnnyinthebasement
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Comments:
On the final night of her three concerts at the Pierre Boulez Saal, Patti seemed energized, she moved around a lot more than before. It seemed the day off between the second and third concert had done her well.
Again, she opened with "Peaceable Kingdom", her song about the struggle in the middle east. The songs she had added on the second night were performed again - "Wild Leaves" and "Work". In the course of the concert, I actually wondered whether she would play all the same songs from the second night. The surprises came later. During Patti's "bathroom break", Tony Shanahan and the band played "The Wind Cries Mary" instead of "Fire". Then, after "After The Gold Rush" Patti talked to Tony, who then informed Seb as Patti went and talked to Jackson. Right then, I knew Patti had decided to stray from the planned setlist. At this point during the first night, she had done the same thing, playing "Grateful" instead of "Pissing In A River" because of trouble with her voice. "We'll play it another night", she had said then. "Pissing" being my favorite song of hers, I had hoped she would stick to her promise. Then, when the first notes of "Pissing" were played by Tony, it seemed to me she had remembered that promise. With her voice in full control, she performed an incredible version. Another surprise was the encore. Previously, she had played "People Have The Power" as the encore and I fully expected she would do it again this time. But no, once again departing from the written setlist, "Gloria" was performed.
Some of her comments or intros to songs from this night are notable as well. As on the second night, “Ghost Dance” was dedicated to indigenous people, who, in Patti’s words “should always have a voice, even in the center of parliament.” A clear comment on the failed referendum in Australia. As usual, "My Blakean Year" was dedicated to the worker. This time to doctors especially, since three of the band/crew had taken ill in Berlin on three different days and went to see three different doctors who were all in attendance that night.
"Beneath The Southern Cross" was again introduced as a song of remembrance and of life. This time, Patti also dedicated it to all the people who are “now in a state of limbo. Feeling part alive and part dead, being displaced from their homes, sent on a walk through a world that is no longer theirs.” With the current situation in Israel and Gaza, it was easy to guess whom she was referring to. Departing from the established lyrics of "All Along The Watchtower", she ended the song with: "And the wind cried… How? How? How?"

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