Patti Smith at the City Winery…

Patti at the City Winery…in homage to Allan Ginsberg…humble…funny seething…with Phillip Glass and her daugther…holy…holy….holy…Walt Whitman’s “Manhattan” mad…frothing…poetry the way it ought to be..

Patti Smith

I have been following Patti Smith since 1978 when I first saw her on Bob Dylan’s birthday over at the old Pallidium…I was very young then…fourteen years old…I get the set list that night and I have been getting them ever since. During those times I was in private highs school with a lot of assholes who made my life hell. Patti was a way out. She represented authenticity. Her words bought me another universe.. a universe that was far realer than the one I was in. To put on Horses was to transported to this magical place. And from that time I have never lost that sensation when I hear Patti but especially when I am at her shows. Here is a video I made from shots I took of her at the Beacon back in the fall of 2007.