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PATTI SMITH - BROOKLYN 2022

February 10, 2023 – 7:14 am

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PATTI SMITH
76th Birthday Show - Brooklyn 2022 [no label, 2CD]
Live at the Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY; December 30, 2022. Very good audience recording.

Thanks to nulldogmas (neil d) for sharing the show at Dime.

nulldogmas noted:

Patti Smith’s annual birthday shows returned after a Covid hiatus, this time at the 1800-capacity Brooklyn Steel instead of Webster Hall, which holds 1500. Patti was in fine voice and an especially goofy mood (one long digression about socks gets its own track, and its own instrumental theme), there were some new covers, and the AT-853 cards did a good job of muting the boominess of the room.

A couple of notes: The crowd around me (on the riser at house left) was generally respectful, but twice people tried to push through the crowd to get to the front of the floor, and both times the woman to my right had to forcefully tell them that they were headed for a railing and needed to go a different way, which was loud enough even to be picked up by directional mics. (I’ve deleted a few seconds right after “Because the Night” where she and I both argued with one of these people, but didn’t want to remove any actual music.) And there’s a brief change in the sound for a few seconds in the middle of Lenny’s “Time” song medley where I shifted, though it’s less noticeable than I feared. Finally, the bangs audible toward the end of the show are from people popping the large balloons that were released from the ceiling during the singing of “Happy Birthday,” though Patti was apparently too distracted by Jesse presenting her with a cake to notice.

Enjoy, buy all of Patti’s records (and books), and I hope we’re all back next year for her 77th!

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Lineage:
Audio Technica U853 cardioid mics (4.7k mod) > Church Audio ugly battery box > Sony PCM-A10 > WAV (24/48)
Mixing and mastering: iZotope RX 9 (reduce clapping) > Sound Studio (light dynamic compression for loud peaks) > FLAC (16/44.1) > Tag > FLAC

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Disc 1
Track 101. Dancing Barefoot 6:56
Track 102. Redondo Beach 5:27
Track 103. Free Money 5:37
Track 104. Ghost Dance 5:39
Track 105. sock-changing interlude 3:47
Track 106. Because the Night 4:47
Track 107. My Blakean Year 6:30
Track 108. Nine 9:00
Track 109. Pissing in a River 5:38
54 mins

Disc 2
Track 201. Time Won’t Let Me [The Outsiders]/If I Could Turn Back Time [Cher]/Time Is on My Side [Kai Winding] 11:17
Track 202. One Too Many Mornings [Bob Dylan] 5:15
Track 203. Peaceable Kingdom 6:12
Track 204. Ain’t It Strange 8:03
Track 205. Summer Cannibals 4:18
Track 206. happy birthday 2:12
Track 207. Time Has Come Today [The Chambers Brothers] 6:25
Track 208. People Have the Power 5:53
Track 209. Gloria 9:46
60 mins

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