Patti Smith

PATTI SMITH Performs Goosebumps Version Of NEIL YOUNG’s ‘AFTER THE GOLD RUSH On Amercain TV

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Last night legend PATTI SMITH sung a stripped-down version of Neil Young‘s 1970
classic song ‘After The Goldrush’ on American TV show ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’. A genuine and heart-whole goosebumps performance that she started first with reciting a new poem.

She was on the show to promote her
new memoir ‘Year Of The Monkey‘.
Here’s the interview she gave…

Part 1

Part 2

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Warming Up For PATTI SMITH’s Concert In Belgium Tonight -Here’s ‘GLORIA’…

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Knockouts from the past…

5 August 2019


(pic by Turn Up The Volume!)

As PATTI SMITH will play my home country Belgium again tonight I will see her perform for the 5th time in the past 12 years. And every single time was a special event as Smith‘s ardent eagerness and ebullient intensity on stage is always omnipresent. To warm up for tonight my choice goes to a live rendition of the timeless Van Morrison classic ‘GLORIA‘.

A song Smith covered in her own special blistering way on her awesome debut LP Horses, a song which gets always a different forceful dimension when performed as I experienced before. See you tonight, Patti.

Here’s a historic 1979 live rendition from a German gig…

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PATTI SMITH – ‘Piss Factory’ (1974)…

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Sonic knockouts from the past…

21 February 2019

‘Piss Factory‘ by PATTI SMITH
The first recording of a song she wrote herself (with music from her pianist Richard Sohl).
It was actually a poem which recounted her teenage experiences in a baby buggy factory, expressing her assurance that she would not let this awful time kill her ambitions. It was the B-side to her cover version of ‘Hey Joe‘ and released independently in 1974. It was ten minutes of what seems like a free jazz piano driven performance with Patti Smith reading, actually half-spitting, her poem over it. Pretty spellbinding, pretty special. Lyrics here.

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PATTI SMITH Does THE ROLLING STONES – Here’s ‘GIMME SHELTER’…

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Besides her own extended and brilliant work legend PATTI SMITH loved to cover her favorite songs by her favorite artists. She even made a whole album of them, called Twelve back in 2007. One of the highlights was this Stones classic GIMME SHELTER. Here’s a thrilling live TV rendition of it….

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YESTERDAY’S CRACKERS – This Week: 25 Killer Tracks And 3 Top LP’s From 1978…

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The best of the past…

Every week Turn Up The Volume! jumps into the past! Relive 25 Crackers and
3 Top Albums per year/per week. Here’s another fabulous year to remember: 1978.

The 25 KILLER TRACKS…

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The 3 TOP ALBUMS…

– ‘All Mod Cons‘ by THE JAM –

Stream here…

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– ‘Parallel Lines‘ by BLONDIE –

Stream here…

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– ‘This Year’s Model’ by ELVIS COSTELLO –

Stream here…

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See/hear you next week for the year of 1979…