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"Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:13:35 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
From: "Douglas W. Corkhill"
Subject: de l'ame pour l'ame
Imagine being given the opportunity to see and hear a musical artist perform one of their most influential albums, in its entirety, in the sequence it was recorded. The mind is boggled; Bruce Springsteen playing Born To Run from front to back. The Rolling Stones and Let It Bleed, or Sticky Fingers. Bob Dylan Revisting Highway 61.
For two nights in new York City last week rock singer-poet-priestess-goddess Patti Smith celebrated the 30th anniversary of her debut album Horses doing just that. She did not recreate the songs, rather reinterpreted the music as both she and horses have matured. Held at the gorgeous Brooklyn Academy of Music it was truly an occasion of rock meets art.
For me, the decision to attend one of these shows was simple. I have admired Smith's music for years, introduced through her collaboration with Springsteen on Because the Night in 1978, and have seen her play in small clubs in North Carolina and in New York City on her birthday twice. In my never ending quest for the perfect concert moment I knew this show would be special - and I was going.
I didn't realize just how special upon entering the concert hall, with its high, ornate ceiling, gilded balconies and box seats hovering like saucers flying beside the stage. I didn't realize how special when I was handed a program from the usher, complete with a playlist and biography of the band. It wasn't until the lights dimmed, they walked on stage and Patti sang the first line of Gloria; "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine," that I knew that this was not your average rock and roll show.
Patti and the band attacked the first four songs with unbridled passion. Patti was pumped during Gloria, relaxed in Redondo beach, channeled her poetic soul for Birdland and unleashed a frenzy in Free Money. Flea, bass player with the Red Hot Chili Peppers playing now with Patti, was barely able to contain his energy, marching in place and then hopping during the first sides' final cut.
"Side two," Patti smiled and said before Kimberly. Both the band and the audience took a collective breath at the start before Flea got funky on the bass, Lenny Kaye ripped some surf guitar and then Patti and Lenny danced to the song's sweet ending. Patti recited a poem to Jim Morrison before Break It Up, then pounded on her heart singing "I feel my heart breaking."
The centerpiece of the album, the three part opus Land, was completely reworked. The opening ode to "Johnny" was reworded, the Land of a Thousand Dances portion churned with ferocious energy and the concluding La Mer was replaced with lyrics that invoked the streets of Tanagers. In spite of the changes the crowd was the most responsive of the night, on their feet and dancing in the aisles.
Everyone - Patti, the band, the audience - took another deep breath as Flea turned bass duties over to long time drummer Jay Dee Daugherty and picked up the trumpet for the album ending Elegie. Promising "We'll be right back," Patti led the band off stage to the fifth (or was it the sixth?) standing ovation of the night. Horses was complete but the night was not yet over.
Unlike the first set, which was a unified whole, the second set was a pastiche. Proving her past was both punk and psychedelic Patti played clarinet on a mesmerizing cover of Are You Experienced? After reminding the audience that the day (December 1) was International Aids Day and railing against governments and corporations that don't do more to make medicine available to the poor around the world, she and Lenny played acoustic guitars on a simply sublime Southern Cross. Patti kept her shoes and socks on while going out into the audience during Dancing Barefoot, then began Because the Night serenading a stuffed Gumby doll. The set ending Rock and Roll Nigger included both a snippet of Land's lost La Mer as well as a reprise of Gloria's opening line.
Returning for an encore that truly felt earned and not scripted, Patti invoked her late husband Fred "Sonic" Smith. She told of how when the two of them wrote the song People Have the Power in "oh...1987," her daughter was kicking her from inside the womb. This night daughter joined mother onstage for the finale. "She'll probably kick me again after the show," the proud mom said before ending the night with the fist pumping anthem.
In the program Lenny Kaye writes of the "great privilege and honor" it is for them to "share this milestone moment of Horses' lifeline in Brooklyn." Also in the program, just above the playlist, is "de l'ame pour l'ame." Translated literally, this means "from the soul, for the soul". Thank you, Patti; my soul is enriched for having been there.
Doug (sad because they were out of "Horses Changed My Life" buttons by the time I got there)"
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