I usually don’t go out on Friday nights, but this past Friday night Antonia and I went to OZ to see Patti Smith read from her impressionistic new memoir, M Train. It was a real hot ticket last week and we were lucky that Antonia had grabbed them immediately when the event was first announced. I’d seen Smith play live twice before, but never heard her do a straight book reading. It turns out we got a little bit of both: Smith read several sections from her book while making fun of her own outfit and making some hilarious asides about her book. When she was done she brought up Tony Shanahan to play acoustic guitar on a cool little acoustic set which included a dedication to Paris and a bombastic “People Have the Power” to close.

I haven’t started reading the book yet, but it sounded great on Friday night. Patti also sounded good back in 1979 when she played the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ…

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