4 May 2001 (Atlanta Midtown Music Festival) review

["John Lettiere" <lettiere>]

This is from a friend of mine, who's more a Dylan fanatic than a Patti one
but I thought
his comments on Patti's performance were worth reading.


The first "main act" of the evening was Patti Smith. Jeez. This girl's a
world-class spitter. She let us know in no uncertain terms that she wasn't
gonna
be "f**king exploited up the a**" by her agent, promoter, the festival, web
sites, you name it. Turned in terrific performances of "Gloria" & "Because
the
Night", which were the only Patti songs I knew anyway. Attacked the onstage
camera man, yanked guitar cords out & spat. We got to about the equivalent
of
8th row by the time she went sweetheart, smiled, thanked us all & spat one
last
time. A very good performance.


John Lettiere GM
Preferred Computing Inc.
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