PATTI SMITH GROUP

Wednesday, 23 May 1979

The Palladium
126 East 14th Street
New York, New York 10003
USA


Lineage:
Analog audience recording (recorded by John H): analog audio cassette (mono master) > two Maxell XLII {CrO2} 90-minute analog audio cassettes > CDRWs > EAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 > CD Wave > APE > WAV > FLAC8.
Transferred, edited and tracked by elegymart, 16 May 2015.


Total running time [2:21:38]
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01 So You Want to Be (a Rock 'n' Roll Star) [8:06]
02 Kimberly [5:56]
03 Privilege [4:55]
04 Dancing Barefoot [5:28]
05 Poppies [9:52]
06 Secret Agent Man [3:21]
07 Citizen Ship [5:54]
08 It's So Hard [4:13]
09 Jailhouse Rock [3:52]
10 Hymn [1:54]
11 25th Floor [7:20]
12 Till Victory [3:58]
13 Revenge [5:26]
14 5-4-3-2-1/Wave {REMOVED; OFFICIALLY RELEASED}
15 Redondo Beach [4:16]
16 Broken Flag [5:24]
17 Ask the Angels [3:46]
18 Free Money [6:54]
19 Because the Night [5:51]
20 Frederick {REMOVED; OFFICIALLY RELEASED}
21 Seven Ways of Going [10:56]
22 Mr. Tambourine Man [5:10]
23 Birdland [11:23]
-- encore 1 --
24 Gloria [6:39]
-- encore 2 --
25 My Generation [11:04]


Band line-up:
Patti Smith - vocals, clarinet, guitar
Lenny Kaye - guitar, vocals
Ivan Kral - guitar, bass, vocals
Bruce Brody - piano, keyboards
Jay Dee Daugherty - drums
Todd Rundgren - bass on t03
Fred "Sonic" Smith - guitar on t25


Notes:

This has only seen limited circulation, but at the request of Stonecutter, it was a good time to dig this one out on the occasion of its 36th anniversary.

The show was professionally recorded, but only two tracks have seen the light of day:

"5-4-3-2-1/Wave" (t14) was officially released on a 7" 3 song EP (Arista Records AS 0453 Promo; US, 1979); the other two songs were "So You Want To Be (A Rock'n'Roll Star)" and "A Fire of Unknown Origin." Arista mistakenly claims that "So You Want" is a live recording from the same show, down to the Thom Panunzio/PSG production credit, but it is only a truncated (3:56) version of the Rundgren-produced LP version (4:18).

"Frederick" (t20) was officially released as the B-side of a 12" 33 1/3 RPM single (Arista Records SP-62 Promo; US, 1979), with the studio cut of the song as the A-side; this selection of tracks is also the lineup for the commercially released American 7" single (AS 0427).

There are speed problems at end of t06; t01 cuts in; there are mid-cuts in t16 and t23; there's a quick dropout near the end of t08.

Enjoy,
elegymart