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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
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Patti
Smith
The Last
Show [no label, 3CD]
Live
at CBGB's, October 15, 2006
Patti Smith played
the last show at CBGB's on October 15, 2006.
She told David Fricke
of Rolling Stone magazine: "It was an honor to be the last group, and
I really thought about what that meant, what kind of responsibility that
was. I thought about all the people that played there and that we lost
- about Hilly [Kristal, the owner] and the whole history. I just wanted
to do a night like any other night, sort of like the nights at the beginning
but without being nostalgic. And I tried to choose material that was specifically
CBGB's. Tom [Verlaine] and I wrote "We Three." "We Three" was actually
written about CBGB. The intro is "Every Sunday I would go/Down to the
bar/Where he played guitar." That's about seeing Tom [and Television]."
During her show,
Smith told the crowd: "This is not a fucking temple - it is what it is."
Anyone else could start a club just like it, she said, anywhere in the
world. All it takes is the will.
"It fulfilled a need.
There wasn't any place for people to try new ideas and new things, to
go out on a limb and make mistakes. But when our band went to London and
Brussels and Denmark, kids even then were so intimidated about CBGB. I
said, "Screw CBGB. It's nothing. What makes it is the people and their
collective energy. The people make CBGB. You can all start your own."
That was always part of our philosophy."
"CBGB validated our
mission. I didn't just want to revolutionize rock & roll, or merge
poetry and rock & roll. The real thing was to keep rock & roll
in the hands of the people, keep it as a grass-roots and cultural voice,
not something that was big and glamorous and materialistic. The real heart
of rock & roll is its revolutionary cultural voice."
"We are still who
we are. I did my duty to the club. But my band - we still have our own
identity. And that's what we do. We were doing the same thing in 1974.
Our message then was, rock & roll was losing its power. We have to
take it over again. But it was not a message for myself. It was a message
for new generations, the people after us. I considered us a bridge. You
could walk over us and get to the other side."
As Fricke noted:
"At the end of a three-and-a-half hour show, on the last night of music
at the New York club CBGB, Patti Smith read a list of the fallen, just
a few of the musicians and spirits who were so important to the room's
legend but couldn't be there for the October 15th wake. They included
the Cramps' Bryan Gregory, the critic Lester Bangs, singer Helen Wheels,
guitarist Robert Quine, Johnny, Joey and Dee Dee Ramone and Smith's original
pianist Richard Sohl. As her band played at soft funeral-march volume
behind her, someone in the audience yelled out, "You missed one." Smith
smiled. "We remember everything," she said with maternal assurance. Then
she pointed out that CBGB was expiring at thirty-three - the same age
as Jesus."
"The weight of the
occasion finally got to her then - that this magic would never happen
again on this stage. Smith was on the verge of tears, somewhere between
sadness and ecstasy, as the crowd shouted "G-L-O-R-I-A" with her. But
she quickly recovered for a final benediction. "Jesus died for somebody's
sins, but not" - Smith and the band paused dramatically - "CBGB's!"
Thanks to MattMan
and stevemtno for sharing these tracks, which were broadcast on Sirius
satellite radio.
Click on the highlighted
tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality, stereo MP3s - sample
rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never
been officially released.
with
Jay
Dee Dougherty
Lenny Kaye
Tonny Shannahan
Special Guests:
Richard Loyd
(from Televsion)
Flea (from
Red Hot Chili Peppers)
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