Patti Smith - London 1976 +

PATTI SMITH
London 1976 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Roundhouse, London, May 17, 1976 - very good audience recording?; plus bonus tracks from 1975 and rare interviews. Ripped from vinyl.
Reviewing a 2007 concert at the Roundhouse in London, Kevin Harley wrote in The Independent: “You’ve got to have faith when it comes to Patti Smith. In May 1976, playing her first-ever UK shows at the Roundhouse, she aspired to alchemise rock ‘n’ roll, politics and poetry in an outsider’s bid for revolution and transcendence. The conviction holds firm: Smith’s concerts are testimonies to a belief that rock has to strive to matter.”
While Smith’s belief in the power of rock has not wavered, as her 2010 year-end Bowery shows continue to indicate, not many were fortunate enough to witness Smith’s early shows in the United Kingdom.
But thanks to booomboom, who shared these tracks from an ultra rare vinyl on Dime, fans can now celebrate in this slice of Patti Smith history.
Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality MP3s - sample rate of 224 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.
London Roundhouse, May 17, 1976
Track 01. Free Money (7.0MB)
Track 02. Pissing In A River (7.0MB)
Track 03. Pumping (My Heart) (4.4MB)
Track 04. Ain’t It Strange (12.2MB)
Track 05. Gloria (11.1MB)
Track 06. Time Is On My Side (5.6MB)
Poetry reading at St. Mark’s Church, January 1, 1975
Track 07. Histories Of The Universe/Seven Ways Of Going, Parade* (13.4MB - megaupload link)
This track is also offered as a free download here. (According to the wikipedia, 12 albums are available for free download in MP3 format by Giorno Poetry Systems at UbuWeb.com).

November 29, 1976
Track 08. Hungerthon Interview WNEW (8.2MB)
Live at Central Park, May 11, 1975
Track 09. Piss Factory (7.9MB)
Track 10. War Is Over (2.0MB)
Track 11. Land (11.9MB)
With Scott Muni (?), early 1976
Track 12. Radio Interview WNEW (20.6MB - visit the html page to download the track)
Track 12. Radio Interview WNEW (megaupload alternative link)
* Also found on Cash Cow - The Best of Giorno Poetry Systems, 1965-1993 (discontinued).
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