Suffers slightly in comparison to the two vocalists on the original, but a fine reading (and the way the lyrics are just a bit vaguer about what's just a ____ away, shot or kiss or whatever else, makes the original more haunting).
I like the LATER show, though it's still not quite up to SUNDAY NIGHT/NIGHT MUSIC...
Patti Smith gave one of the most electric performances I have ever seen, touring for the Easter album in 1978 (I think) at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio where the Sex Pistols had eariler performed. Love it and her music still. Listened to the HORSES alnum just the other day.
Patricia Abbott is the author of more than 125 stories that have appeared online, in print journals and in various anthologies. She is the author of two print novels CONCRETE ANGEL (2015) and SHOT IN DETROIT (2016)(Polis Books). CONCRETE ANGEL was nominated for an Anthony and Macavity Award in 2016. SHOT IN DETROIT was nominated for an Edgar Award and an Anthony Award in 2017. A collection of her stories I BRING SORROW AND OTHER STORIES OF TRANSGRESSION will appear in 2018.
She also authored two ebooks, MONKEY JUSTICE and HOME INVASION and co-edited DISCOUNT NOIR. She won a Derringer award for her story "My Hero." She lives outside Detroit.
Patricia (Patti) Abbott
SHOT IN DETROIT
Edgar Nominee 2017, Anthony nominee 2017
CONCRETE ANGEL
Polis Books, 2015-nominated for the Anthony and Macavity Awards
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Suffers slightly in comparison to the two vocalists on the original, but a fine reading (and the way the lyrics are just a bit vaguer about what's just a ____ away, shot or kiss or whatever else, makes the original more haunting).
I like the LATER show, though it's still not quite up to SUNDAY NIGHT/NIGHT MUSIC...
Patti Smith gave one of the most electric performances I have ever seen, touring for the Easter album in 1978 (I think) at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio where the Sex Pistols had eariler performed. Love it and her music still. Listened to the HORSES alnum just the other day.
Wish I could say I heard her live at least once. One of the rockingest voices on earth.
Saw her back in the day when her encore was "You Light Up My Life"--no joke!
As for "Gimme Shelter," it's just not the same without Mick, Keith, and Merry Clayton.
She always makes me think of Gilda Radner's "Candy Slice" doing "Gimme Mick" on SNL, surely the inspiration for Amy Winehouse.
Jeff M.
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