February 10, 1971 [Live]

Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye (Author) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Mer Records
• ASIN: B002WZNY68
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #297,511 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #82 in Music > Blues > Regional Blues > New York Blues

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Patti Smith performs with guitarist Lenny Kaye for the first time at a poetry reading with musical accompaniment at St. Marks Church on New York's Lower East Side. The concert is a true historical document and one of the most important events in the birth of punk rock!

Track listing:

1. Intro (Anne Waldman)

2. Mack The Knife

3. Dedication

4. The Devil Has A Hangnail

5. The Wait For You

6. Oath

7. Cry Me River

8. Fire Of Unknown Origin

9. Picture Hanging Blues

10. Prayer

11. Ballad Of A Bad Boy

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "You are there, sonic warts and all...", January 13, 2010

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Ronald E. Drumm "Moe Loogham" (Binghamton, N.Y.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: February 10, 1971 (Audio CD)

Let the buyer be aware-this entire CD is about twenty-seven minutes long, including Anne Waldman's introduction. What sounds like two strategically-placed microphones captures the earliest Patti Smith recording that I've yet to hear. So, not a state-of-the-art recording then. But, for anybody wanting to hear how the Patti Smith Group all began, you can't get much closer than Patti's voice and Lenny Kaye's tiny guitar amp. Except for Patti's individual poems captured on the Giorno Poetry Systems LPs of the seventies, there aren't many other pieces of this era of the birth of N.Y. punk/new wave to be found. Look at this recording as a missing link. Thanks to Mer Records, and please madame, may I have some more!