Patti Smith Group
The Tower Theater
Upper Darby, PA, USA
May 13th, 1979

Complete FM Broadcast
WIOQ-FM


CD 1:
1st set
01 - Privilege (Set Me Free)
02 - Till Victory
03 - So You Wanna Be (A Rock And Roll Star) [The Byrds]
04 - Mr. Tambourine Man [Bob Dylan]
05 - Citizen Ship
06 - It's So Hard [John Lennon]
07 - Redondo Beach
08 - Poppies
09 - Patti on Mother's Day
10 - Tomorrow [Annie musical tune]
11 - Jailhouse Rock [Elvis Presley]
2nd set
12 - 25th Floor
13 - Kimberley
14 - 5-4-3-2-1 [Manfred Mann]

CD 2:
15 - Be My Baby [The Ronettes]
16 - Secret Agent Man [Johnny Rivers]
17 - Revenge
18 - Dancing Barefoot
19 - Because The Night
20 - Frederick
21 - Seven Ways Of Going
22 - Hymn
23 - Gloria (In Excelsis Deo) [Them]
24 - Pumping (My Heart)
25 - My Generation [The Who]


Original Lineage -

"This is straight from reel to reel and the sound quality is superb. One of the best Patti Smith performances I ever heard!"
1st generation reel to reel > behringer ultra curve pro deq 2496 audio equalizer > tascam audio cdrw750 > plex tool professional XL > wav > flac.

New Lineage -

original flac files > wav files (Flac Frontend) > retracked and edited wav files (Cakewalk Pyro 2005) > new wav files (Cakewalk Pyro 2005) > new flac files (Trader's Little Helper, aligned on sector boundaries and encoded level 8)


CD 1: 14 tracks, 66:32
CD 2: 11 tracks, 63:05
TT: 129:37

Excellent sound quality, IMHO.
9.5/10


As I did NOT tape this concert, this will be VERY short and sweet. I grabbed this around April 10, 2006 from either Dime or TTD. It is an excellent FM broadcast from a radio station in Philadelphia, PA. Thanks to the unknown taper and uploader. If you are unfamiliar with Aunt Patti or you would like a superb FM show of hers, here is the place to start. Her comments are hilarious and she is truly unique. Poetess, priestess, shaman, visionary, wackjob, substance abuser, retard : you be the judge. This is an excellent quality show both in sound quality and in content. It offers an accurate glimpse of the artist circa 1979. I will post a sound sample for those wanting reassurance but trust me, if you are a fan or just want a superb quality Patti Smith show, GET THIS NOW !!! Mr. Natural knows that you will be groovin' to this one, so don't let him down.

That's about all that I can think of to say, so let's wrap this up...
No buy, no sell, no mp3. Please seed this as long as you can. Well, thanks for reading this and Mr. Natural would like to add these few comments: have fun, don't freak out and above all, enjoy the show!!!

uploaded by jojogunne on 2008/09/13

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reseeded by rockcat on 2011-10-22 (updated info file, created new fingerprint and .md5 files. FLAC files are unchanged except for fixing wrong titles where appropriate).

The artwork included here does not exactly match the CD side breaks, but it's good so I included it anyway. Of course, you're free to burn these tracks to match the artwork.