1978. Kinda.
Aug. 13th, 2013 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningIt's like 1978 all over again. Last week I went to a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition; tonight I saw Patti Smith perform... with Philip Glass. She read poetry by herself, Allen Ginsberg and Robert Louis Stevenson, accompanied by Glass, and sang acoustic versions of Dancing Barefoot and Pissing in a River, accompanied by Thomas Shenihan (?). They finished with People Have the Power, with both Glass and Shenihan.
I'm a huge Patti Smith fan, and have been since I first heard Horses in 1976. The only time I saw her play was in 1978, after Easter. Her performance tonight was electrifying - Dancing Barefoot and Pissing in a River are both deeply emotional songs, and always send a shiver down my spine. I had to stop myself singing along.
Philip Glass's playing was wonderful, too. I am not a fan of poetry - at least, not a fan of reading on paper. But hearing it spoken with a piano accompaniment tonight was rather special.
I'm a huge Patti Smith fan, and have been since I first heard Horses in 1976. The only time I saw her play was in 1978, after Easter. Her performance tonight was electrifying - Dancing Barefoot and Pissing in a River are both deeply emotional songs, and always send a shiver down my spine. I had to stop myself singing along.
Philip Glass's playing was wonderful, too. I am not a fan of poetry - at least, not a fan of reading on paper. But hearing it spoken with a piano accompaniment tonight was rather special.