The Boarding House was a club in downtown San Francisco that held about 500 people. The sound was great. It was probably the best club I’ve been in to see live music.
Patti Smith and her band were there on February 15, 1976, less than two months after Horses was released.
It’s an amazing show, and lucky for you and me, it got recorded. Patti Smith is still amazing, but this show (and others from ’75 and ’76, are exceptional.
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New Silversun Pickups’ song, “Cannibal.”
I like this one.
Live on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”:
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Twenty-Seven years ago, on February 19, 1987, a remarkable meeting of the superstars took place on stage at the Palamino Club in North Hollywood.
Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and John Fogerty joined Taj Mahal and the Graffiti Band, which included slide guitarist Jessie Ed Davis, guitarist Mark Shark, bassist Bobby Tsukamoto, drummer Gary Ray, and keyboardist Jim Ehinger.
George Harrison took charge of the jam session. He sang “Matchbox,” “Honey Don’t” and “Dizzy Miss Lizzy,” all three of which The Beatles did covers of, and Dylan’s “Watching the River Flow. He also shared vocals with Dylan on a version of Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue.”
At one point during “Watching the River Flow” Harrison improvised a verse and worked Bob Dylan’s name into it. Jesse Ed Davis, by the way, played on Dylan’s original recording of the song.
John Fogerty sang Elvis’ hit, “Blue Suede Shoes,” and before launching into his best known song, “Proud Mary,” which Fogerty hadn’t sung in years, he said, “OK we’re gonna do this ’cause Bob Dylan asked me to do this. Holy Mackerel.”
Taj Mahal sang “Johnny D. Goode” and “Willie and the Hand Jive” with Dylan, Harrison and Fogerty leaning into a shared microphone for the background vocals. Amazing!
What is unique about these jams is how relaxed the artists seem. Unlike so many superstar jams, this one doesn’t appear calculated. The artists are having a great time singing songs they want to sing.
And Dylan is seemingly comfortable in his role as rhythm guitarist, playing a Fender Jazzmaster (one of the types of Fender electric guitars which he played in the mid-’60s), occasionally adding very loose harmony vocals.
Dig the video, which is funky. Sound is pretty good.
“Matchbox,” Taj Mahal and George Harrison trade off on the verses, and Harrison sings “Honey Don’t” and “Watching the River Flow”:
Bob Dylan, George Harrison sing “Peggy Sue”, Harrison sings “Dizzy Miss Lizzy”:
John Fogery sings “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Proud Mary”:
Taj Mahal sings “Johnny B. Goode” and Willie and the Hand Jive” and “Hey, Bo Diddley”:
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Patti Smith sings “Dancing Barefoot” at the Apostel Paulus Kirche in Berlin on February 12, 2014.
By the way, in case you haven’t noticed, Patti Smith has never sounded better. She was always amazing live, but from the video I’ve seen this past year she is in top form.
Check out the awesome noir guitar from Patti’s son Jackson.
Patti reads from William S. Burroughs book “The Wild Boys”:
“Birdland”:
Also, here she performs “Banga” and “People Have the Power”:
The band:
Voice, guitar: Patti Smith
Piano, Bass, Voice: Tony Shanahan
Guitar, Bass, Special Voices: Jackson Smith
Drums: Sebastian Rochford
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Eddie Vedder was onstage last night, February 14, 2014, in Melbourne, Australia with Bruce Sprinsteen for an anthemic “Highway To Hello.”
Check out the rabid solo from Tom Morello.
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Check out London Grammar covering All Saints’ “Pure Shores” at BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge today.
The music starts about two minutes into the clip.
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Patti Smith performed at the Apostel Paulus Kirche (Apostle Paul’s Church) in Berlin on Feb. 12, 2014.
Check out some videos of the show.
“Because the Night”:
“Redondo Beach”:
“My Blakean Year”:
“Beautiful Boy”:
“Land”:
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Dig this audio from a 13th Floor Elevators show in Austin, 1966. Playlist: Gloria, You’re Gonna Miss Me, Tried to Hide, Roller Coaster, You Really Got Me
And here’s another broadcast of a live show in Austin.
Here’s the info accompanying the YouTube video: March 1966 on KAZZ FM from the New Orleans Club in Austin. Playlist: The Word, Monkey Island, Roller Coaster, I’m Down, Gloria, You’re Gonna Miss Me. The band: Roky Erickson guitar/vocals, Stacy Sutherland guitar, John Ike Walton drums, Tommy Hall electric jug, Benny Thurman bass.
Thanks to Doom and Gloom from the Tomb for hipping me to these!
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Yesterday I posted some great clips from Bruce Springsteen’s three shows in Perth, Australia.
Since then more clips have gone online — some of these are incredible quality, both audio and video — and you can check them out below:
“Born To Run” & “Dancing In The Dark” – Perth Arena, Feb. 5, 2014:
“The River” – Perth Arena, Feb. 5, 2014:
“American Skin (41 Shots)” – Perth Arena, Feb. 5, 2014:
“Shout” – Perth Arena, Feb. 5, 2014:
“Girls in Their Summer Clothes” – Perth Arena, Feb. 7, 2014:
“Atlantic City” – Perth Arena, Feb. 7, 2014:
“Thunder Road” – Perth Arena, Feb. 7, 2014:
“Out In The Street” – Perth Arena, Feb. 7, 2014:
“Rosalita” – Perth Arena, Feb. 7, 2014:
“High Hopes” – Perth Arena, Feb. 7, 2014:
“The Ghost of Tom Joad” & “Land of Hope and Dreams” – Perth Arena, Feb. 8, 2014:
“Dancing In The Dark” – Perth Arena, Feb. 8, 2014:
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Last night the Arctic Monkeys performed The Beatles “All My Loving” at Madison Square Garden in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of The Beatles appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
Not a bad rendition, but they really needed to pick up the beat a bit.
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