Patti Smith Group 70s LP You Light Up My Life SANTA MONICA Live PSG

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                                                            Patti Smith Group                               "You Light Up My Life"                                   Santa Monica 1978
Patti Smith Group, YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE, TAKRL / Amazing Korneyfone Record Label. Vinyl: MN, Sleeve: VG+. Cover shows light ring wear, spine is lightly chipped but readable. Vinyl is in incredible condition - no skips or scratches, little to no surface noise, even between songs. Lies flat with no warping - clearly a 40 year old record treated with extreme care!       Plays beautifully all the way through...

"This is a recording of Patti's May 12, 1978 concert at the Santa Monica Civic Center. Deluxe B/W cover. Unlike most of her other bootlegs, which were taken from radio broadcasts, this one was recorded on the scene from within the audience. The sound quality is excellent, and the performance is good to very good."   -------   http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/info/bootlegs.htm#lightup
“Most of the Patti Smith bootlegs come from around 1976, during her first significant touring after the release of her debut album, Horses, in the fall of 1975. This one is notable as a chronicle of the spring 1978 tour promoting her third album, Easter. Here, appearing on May 12, 1978, at the Santa Monica Civic Center, Smith is a more polished, less-spontaneous performer, and a more ambivalent one. The LP’s second side is given over to a selection of Easter songs — “Rock n Roll Nigger,” “Till Victory,” “Space Monkey,” “25th Floor,” and “Because the Night” — but the first side is more interesting. It consists entirely of cover songs, performed by Smith in her inimitable style. After playing the Who’s “The Kids Are Alright” and the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby,” Smith introduces “Time Is on My Side” by reciting a brief bit of her own verse: “Memory is just hips that swing like a clock/ Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock/Fuck the clock!” the Who’s “My Generation,” meanwhile, gets new lyrics: “I don’t need that fucking shit/Hope I die because of it.” After a surprise cover of John Lennon’s “It’s So Hard” comes an even more surprising choice from a woman who was just then experiencing her first and only singles hit. “Hi, we’re a Top 40 band, we’re the Patti Smith Group,” Smith says. “We’d like to do a little Top 40 for you.” And with that, she takes on Debbie Boone, doing a verse and chorus of “You Light up My Life.” Her mixed feelings about commercial success couldn’t be better expressed. This bootleg is one of the weirdest sets in the Patti Smith catalog. ” - [allmusic.com]


“It offers an accurate glimpse of the artist circa 1978. Patti’s stage banter is hilarious and she is truly unique. There is virtually no hiss in this recording. You can hear the taper talk to his cohorts but only very rarely. Otherwise there is very little talking. No distortion, no speed problems, vocals are sometimes a little muffled. Parts of the recording are ex- in nature but I would call the rest of it  vg +. The show appears to be complete to me. It’s a wild performance with a lot of Patti/audience interchange and stage banter. “

Complete set list:

"The Kids Are Alright", "Be My Baby", "Time Is On My Side", "You Light Up My Life", "My Generation" -- side 1
"Rock'N'Roll Nigger", "Till Victory", "Space Monkey", "25th Floor", "Because The Night" -- side 2