Hello everybody,
On February 2, 2022, I will bring you a streaming special event, only for my Substack paid subscribers. Live from Electric Lady Studios in New York, my longtime collaborators Lenny Kaye and Tony Shanahan will join me in performance at 8pm EST. We’ll play you some songs, and I’ll do readings from my books, and we’ll talk. To get access, please subscribe:
Before the event, my subscribers will receive an email with a special ticket link and instructions for joining the event. For those of you on the other side of globe, there will be a replay available for 24 hours.
Over the next couple weeks, I’d love for my subscribers to requests songs and readings they’d like to be included. I’ll send a note about that soon.
Have a good day, looking forward to hearing from you…
🎵🤩Just seeing this one year later! Shame on me! ☺
⚘Patti you've been my Punk Rock and foremost Female Rock Idol since I first heard your songs where I'm originally from in Canada & during the '70's!!
I still Rock out to your 'Easter' vinyl LP Album I've owned since then!!🎵
It's now vintage and I keep it in mint condition. Cover too.👌
I'm thrilled to find you here today!! Keep Rockin dear lady!!
From your Life-long Fan!!
~ Linda in Arizona 🎶🥰🌵❤
Patti I just got to a book to read and
It's called threw the doors of perception and substak good works l need you your poetrress fan juliet William aka Gina bass player I would like to send you sm
Some poems songs etc thanks
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Just been able to watch the Tibet and Electric/Substack performances on replay. Bande à part! What a magic and yes, cosmic constellation this band is! Thanks so much for your generosity and for turning it into something so personal. "Lightning Striking (...)" - couldn't wish better for a product placement. Nearly finished, but, huh, it's a never-ending goldmine, so it will probably last forever :). What a warm, friendly and "light" book for the reader. So complete yet not overloaded. Few books really achieve this, to incorporate not only the musical and surrounding aspects through space and time, but also the feeling. And it's great fun, just like hanging around. Pretty humble, too. An absolute favourite read (and compilation)!
Patti, I love that we are in 2022 and doing what was done in the 19th century, parallel worlds.
Thank you, Patti, Tony and Lenny.
For any of Patti's Substack subscribers still unable to find the show: go back to Mandolin, make sure you've signed up for Mandolin, then google "mandolin.com patti smith" to find it.
I'm back to say my sweet husband helped me find the show.... and it was exquisite! Thank you so much, Patti, Lenny and Tony for giving us this terrific sendoff for the Year of the Tiger!
I'm a subscriber to Patti Smith's Substack and got an invite to the 2-2-22 event a few days ago, but never got the link. How do I watch the show?
What a performance!! Patti and the boys are the best. It was so nice of them to do it for us. I had a really good time. Thank you so much.
Why am I not receiving an email from mandolin? I am a sub stack subscriber of Patti
Should have a list of subscribers and that’s who gets in…
This is a Substack issue
It keeps bringing me back to this page, too. I click get a ticket and here I am
Watching the livestream and can’t believe (the coincidence) that Patti held up Janna
Levin’s Black Hole Survival Guide which I finished yesterday. Whoa.
Looking forward to seeing you!
go to Mandolin.com and set ups an account...I finally got on!!
Nothing works
I didn’t get the invite, but am a subscriber
Nothing yet
Nothing happened here… anyone else?
Anybody successful?? In getting on?
Nope
I got an email invitation and here I am, 8:00 , what’s going on?
Cannot open anything either
Do you think it needs to be straight up 8 o’clock?
I don't think so...usually there is a chat room etc...
It says we need to create a nick name to chat… whatever
Has anyone else keep circling back to this page??
Yes
Yes!!
I cannot get in....help!!
I received an email invitation and here I am… clueless
I can’t get a ticket either. Been a substack subscriber since she started. Bummer🖤
WHF is this thing? Asking people to subscribe again?
cannot figure out this system. When one hits buy ticket it comes to this page...youch, confusing.
Yes, Me too. cant seem to get a ticket.
I've done everything to get tix but have failed every time. Oh well. Would have loved to participate but too complicated for this dumb ass.
I would love to participate but do not have a clue as to how.
Would love to listen to you again Patti, but problem to purchase a ticket (after creating an account and subscribing). Hope, Mandoline can help. Love from Berlin
I am also having problems getting ticket for show. I also just subscribed to substack today. I hope Mandolin.com will help. I've tried. But no luck.
Hello everybody, I just got my ticket, I asked for it at the left bottom where it said "help?".
Then what?
I cannot find a way to purchase a ticket. Can you help?
Estoy suscrita pero no me deja conseguir los boletos seguí todas las indicaciones y nada.
I also can't find a way to get the ticket. I'm logged in, went to mandolin and there is no ticket there for me. Hope to get a response like the rest of those who have posted. Excited to attend!
I subscribed last night but have not received an email with link to the event. I cannot figure out how or who I need to contact. Does everybody on here have their invitation already? Or does it come via email closer to the event time tonight? Thanks.
looking for where to get ticket if i need one..i go to mandolin and when i hit get tickets it takes me here..??
I already subscribe.
It will be one a.m. here in Scotland - I'll have to watch the recording after.
Song requests:
For your own songs??
Wow - how long will you be playing for, can you do them all? :)
I don't think I've ever heard you sing "Lo and Beholden" live
Other artists?
There are so many wonderful songs you could do great justice to it's hard to pick.
KT Tunstall says she wrote "Suddenly I See" thinking of you in Robert Mapplethorpe's photo on Horses. Would be good to cover one of her songs, probably "Feel It All" I think you could convey the poetry and even give it a deeper meaning.
I’d love to hear you sing My Funny Valentine.
where do I log in? Also I love Cairo.
my mom Helen's birthday...02 02 1922.... (1922-1993) special day all the way around
Wow so exciting! Re requests: Because this damn pandemic has reshifted focus onto small joys, at least for me anyways, - I’d love to hear your version of Lou Reeds Perfect Day
Looking forward to this. Requests? Oh, so many lovely songs - Trespasses, Jackson Song are two favorites. I have enjoyed your recent late-night-hellos. Not sure if you're still looking for suggestions of things to read in the videos but here's one anyway: Cross That Line by Naomi Shihab Nye. I will be watching from Louisville, CO where we have recently gone through the extreme effects of climate change as a fire raced through our town on December 30th. My house still stands and our neighborhood was spared. People asked me what I took with me as I ran out of the house ahead of the fire. I said that I only had time to grab my laptop. I later said "Everything is irreplaceable and completely replaceable" although after thinking about it I knew I would have missed all the plaid shirts I inherited from my Dad when he died last year.
Hi Patti this is so great and will likely be the highlight of my week . Even if I can't watch it live since it'll be 2am in Basel, I'll definitely watch it soon after.
I would love to hear free money and beneath the southern cross. Maybe you could read your favorite Rimbaud poem.
I always enjoyed reading the travel episodes like your trip to french guiana. Maybe you could read part of it from Mtrain.
Thank you and a nice day to everyone here and best wishes from wintery Switzerland,
Nora 👋
Warm thoughts from Ardens, Patti 🖤 What a gift, a live performance for your subscribers…I am so much looking forward for 2.2 ! It is also a very special day to me, as it is my beloved grandpa’s birthday. I actually wanted to make a special reading request, and prepared a picture to send you especially for that, but I just realized that we cannot publish pictures on Substack, so I will try to share it with you on Instagram. Anyway, I am on a creative process to write a show for 2023, I am working both with puppetry and live stage magic…And it would mean the world to me if you could read your poem « Wilderness », which is so dear to me. Also, I would love to hear you read some Emily Dickinson, especially « Whoever disenchants A single Human soul… » …
Sorry in advance for my broken english, I will never thank you enough for being what you are, and inspiring me so much in my daily life. Merci, du fond du coeur. Tendres pensées depuis Charleville-Mézières. 🖤
I would love to hear you perform a favorite hymn!
Dear Patti,
My 10 year old daughter Penelope would love you to perform “Frederick”, it’s one of her fav songs. She is looking forward to the 2-2-22 and so are we (my husband and me).
We will be watching you from Singapore. We love you!
Warm hugs from Penny, Elena and Simone
Coucou Patti
This is so awesome, Patti. Thanks for performing online again. This request might be a tough one, but 25th Floor has been on my mind lately and I would love to hear it live....For me the song is about the power of Rock n roll to give us strength and push us to create.If you can't play it on the 2nd, maybe @ the shows in NYC in February? (I sure hope they happen this time as I know you all do, too.) Many thanks for being so awesome.
Hello again, Patricia. I hope I'm not being too pesty. I have another song request. Will you please perform 'Lean on Me'
I will greatly appreciate it.
Thank you 🙏
https://youtu.be/c_72UC9npjg
Hello, Patricia. I imagine you are having your usual glorious day as i am 😊
I would like to request one of my favorite songs by Bruce Springteen.
Radio Nowhere
i just want to feel your rhythm 🎶
❤
Yaya
https://youtu.be/HpdKECVnoRs
And also: We Three (I´m sorry for suggesting this one over and over again), Wing, Frederic, 1959, Mother Rose, Cartwheels. Flying- from your book Woolgathering.
Hi Patti, here´s my suggestion: Streets of London (Ralph McTell). To read or to sing. I think both´ll be catchy. I hope I can stay awake to experience the real live moment of the stream. Lots of love, Nathalie
Dear Patrica. It breaks my heart to tell you that I will no longer be able to continue my subscription. I am a victim of police injustice violating my religious beliefs and my disabled of MS which he might have thought to be a mental illness. He kept turning off his bodycam so it will be his word against mine. I will be losing everything including my Baba Boo. My beautiful canine companion who choose me to be his Mama. He has been with me through the loss of my Husband who took his own life, and the loss of my big brother who was the happiest and most pure hearted person I ever knew. I hope The Melting will become a book someday. I will miss witnessing your magic unfold with every series. This community has been a lifesaver. I will miss you. 😢
Well your post is pretty vague I mean really vague so I guess it's your word against theirs
I didn't feel the need to give details as I am not making a formal statement here. I am having an MS attack and I'm not able to regulate my emotions well at the moment. I was pulled over for an expired tag as it had simply slipped my mind. I was pulled over in front of my home and made to wait in the car for 40 minutes when I respectfully asked him permission to use my bathroom and he denied me and kept me in the car and when I shifted slightly to hold a full bladder he went for his gun and I've never felt so much fear in my life. I'm a Hindu and I was wearing a head scarf as I do in deep grief 😔
I love this community. It is the only safe place for me on the internet as I am too sensitive to use social media and much of the internet is littered with bad news which is detrimental to my spiritual well being. I feel embarrassed by my comment and was about to delete it when I read your message. I hope this clears things up for you.
And the reason I will lose everything is because I cannot use my car to get nourishment at my Temple where they provide vegetarian meals cooked with love and served woth compassion which I desperately need now. Some people in this world need a lesson on compassion. Too many human hearts have gone cold. 😭
Will they deliver if you request them to. Be well and prayers for you
Thank you, Ron 🙏
Yes Mam. Try and find a way to continue to stay with us here. I'm probably one of the few conservatives on this site but Patti unites us in her special way. Stay strong Yaya🙏
I deeply appreciate your kind words. Be well, Ron 🙏
I just called them and the restaurant is closed on Sundays. I'll need to wait for num nums tomorrow. 😔
All is balanced the Land of Justice
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Privilege (Set Me Free) from the Easter album
https://youtu.be/sChR4I-mOSM
Ok Patti and fans I think I got it. I believe you are between the 2 and 3 minute mark. Enjoy Patti and fans
Hey Patti! 2.2.22 is also the second day of the Lunar New Year (Year of the Tiger). Looking forward to the show, thanks for doing this! ♥️
Hi Patti, I hope you are still checking comments for suggestions for your show.
I was just listening to Michael Stipe singing Night Swimming and thought you might do a beautiful rendition of it. Just a thought! ❤️
Patti I'm smiling big right now. I was just watching a clip from Bob Dylan winning the album of the year award for Time out of mind on the American Music Awards. And out in the audience there you were smiling and raising your hands celebrating. I time stamped the clip but I can't post it here. But you're there🙂
Patti my request is Hank Williams "I'm so lonesome I could cry.: You sing that song so beautifully your voice was made for that song. You have so many of your songs to choose from so I also request Libbys Song.
That's how I feel right now. I love Hank Williams. I second your request.
Road to Peace Tom Waits
We live in Sarasota and have tickets to your lecture/performance/ exhibit. Can't wait for event and the exhibit.
I am so looking forward to seeing and hearing you on 2.2.22 Patti! I have no requests. Just seeing you in real time is going to be great and I know you’ll put something together that will be perfect in the moment❤️
Dear Patti, it will be about 3am for me but I’m going to try mightily to stay up. A quick question. In The Writer’s Song you shared with subscribers photographed and amended, you scratched out something and wrote in two words: is it bonzai or banzai. Google tells me banzai is a battle cry which seems more meaningful here. Am I right? Much love and thank you for being here with us so richly for so long. For me you go back to the 70s when I was a student in apartheid South Africa. 🙏🏽
This sounds glorious! I'd like to offer two song suggestions: "We Three" and/or XTC's "Rook". I'm eagerly anticipating this event. Thanks to you all.
Thank you again for your suggestions. This will be an intimate performance, but we will adapt certain songs to our configuration. Looking forward....
Looking forward more! 😍
It will be most wonderful to hear you sing Wonder
Hello, Patricia. i need the strengh of 10 billion elephants for something of great importance i need to do on today in the Canyon. Will you please come in Spirit and walk beside me as i sing:
~Wonder~
People see me
i'm a challenge to your balance
i'm over your heads
How i confound you and astound you
to know i must be one of the wonders
Of God's own creation
And as far as you see you can offer me
No explanation
(modified)
O, i believe
God smiles
And shines on me
Cry as i let out my sorrow
i pray for a tomorrow
Laugh as i know that i will be
Eternally happy
😆 🤣 😂 😹
Your attendance will be deeply appreciated.
With Love and Patience and with Faith,
Yaya Yawning 🙏
can't wait, patti. your performances, both musical and literary, are always inspiring.
I would love to hear you play Frederick or summer cannibals. Sending love from New Zealand xo
Patti, could I request Kimberly please. Family has been so important more than ever lately, love you wrote this for your little sister. This is so generous of you and so looking forward to hearing you Lenny and Tony. Just recieved my copy of Lenny's new book today.
Do you think sometime you may be able include some Bertolt Brecht?
Lotte Lenya is a favourite voice of mine.
Thank you so much for being there for us all.
Take care!
I love Kimberly ! A sweet song, a sweet soul.
Thank you everybody. Such great feedback and suggestions. I plan to do this again, but for the first one I will use as many of your suggestions that I can.
Anything you want! I love hearing about your adventures 💕. I can feel you in your words.🙏🫂😎🔮💫
A poignant day for me as my dear Dad died on 02.02.2018. However, I love the day, as for me it is a time of reflection of all the joy he gave me, and the wonderful long life he had, and although terribly missed, I do not feel sadness as much any more. It was his time. Grief takes time, and you mentioning the other joys of this date, reminds one how important it is to enjoy the moment, and enjoy your turn. Soooo Patti, and All, enjoy. Be happy, be safe, and Patti, what a lovely event. x
What an amazing gift! Thank you for doing this! I would really like to listen to you perform fireflies.
Greetings from Norway.
Landing...I love Radio Ethiopia
Arthur Rimbaud ? « We are not serious when we are 17 years old ». I know this text by heart in French and would love to hear it in English ♥️♥️
me too
Wonderful! And Groundhogs Day is my actual birthday! 63rd. I will spend birthday with you! I spent your 70th Birthday with you at the Riviera in Chicago! Thank you for your generosity in sharing on Substack. Looking forward to your live event. And thank you for the live shows last year. 50 year celebration of you and Lenny together was so fun and enlightening. The stories. Your friendship. Have a great show! Anything you do will be ok with me. Pissing in a River has a special place in my heart. Glad you got out if that factory and become the woman you are today!
Happy Birthday! Mine 1/22! We are power #'s!💗🌟👍👍
Thank you! Happy Birthday Eve! Best wishes to you! Power #s❤
Song requests: "Dancing Barefoot" and "Ravens". Reading request: "The Clock With No Hands" from M Train. Thank you for doing this! Can't wait!
Thank you so much for doing this! With love from Germany ...
"Wild Leaves" would be beautiful to hear again or perhaps something with your clarinet!
Thank you, so excited for this. It'll be 1am in the UK, so I'm grateful to know I can watch the evening afterwards instead. As it's Joyce's birthday, perhaps you might read part of the Wake? Bless you Patti
Thank you, thank you! XO "Frederick" is special for me . . . I'm just grateful to have this portal. What a treat to have a live event to share. Stay safe and warm, much love to you and yours.
thanks for this! would love to hear Grateful ..Wild Leaves and anything else you feel like playing x
me too lena!
Dancing barefoot.....pl..e..a..s..e??
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Can't wait! 💜
What a wonderful way to wake up with such a surprise! Please do a reading from M train! Thank you for being you! ❤️
Patti, oh my goodness! What a lovely surprise!!! Thank you!! I love your classics. :) People, Dancing Barefoot, Wing, Nine, Peaceable - anything. Looking forward to it! Thank you!❤️❤️
Patti - I got my refund for your cancelled April 2022 concert in Auckland, New Zealand. I am very willing to reinvest it in another yearly subscription to help keep your body and soul together! You are so brave to embrace the new technologies in order to continue performing in this shattered world. Looking forward to whatever you dream up to perform. Thanking you for continuing.
Thank you very much, perhaps there is a song you'd wish to hear.
To see you sing and sway to Dancing Barefoot would be a dream!
Constantine’s Dream is my humble request. I adore this song (a masterpiece)and I have not seen you sing it live💕but I understand the requests will be many and varied. Patti thank you for your constant motion of creativity along with your soulmate musos.
time to subscribe. My request: play what feels right on the day : )
Thank you. I always celebrate 2/2 and 22 is a power # so this year is especially auspicious and now a celebration w/you. How could anything be better?
Lou Reed’s Perfect Day would really make 2/2/22 a perfect day! I also remember reading that Leonardo D’Vinci used to write backwards
I am so excited -Thank you, Lenny & Tony for taking the time to offer this to us. I would love to hear the lullaby from the film 'Noah' - "Mercy is" -It is a beautiful song. I am also looking forward to reading Lenny's new book.❤️
What a wonderful gift for my birthday month ❤️. 2.2 is my favorite holiday, it marks the halfway point between winter solstice and spring equinox. Thank you. Sending love from the Pacific Northwest
Love it!! This is so incredibly generous . . . something wonderful to look forward to! Thank you, Patti!
I am SO excited about this! What a good time we will all have!
Hi Patti, thanks for the message, looking forward to 2.2.22
I have a special request, don’t know if it’s possible, January 21 is my son Max’s 30th birthday, I hope you can post on Instagram that day so you can wish him a happy birthday? If you are not too busy that day, of course. It will just be so wonderful…
Thanks, good night and much love
I'd very much like to hear you sing 'Godspeed' - my favorite [reminds me of someone extraordinarily precious].
I'm looking forward to 02/02. Thank you, Patti.
- Erica
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With regards to requests for 2.2.22: I really enjoyed the concerts you did with Philip Glass, performing works by Allen Ginsberg. It would be great to hear you read one of his poems.
2.2.22 -- it's a date. On my calendar. Grand way to start my birthmonth Yay! My request would be if you could consider performing Birdland. Thank you Patti
Sounds absolutely wonderful and always a treat of a beautiful kind.
Oh wow! What a treat! Anything and everything really!! I so do love Farewell Reel.
Would love to hear you sing dream of life!
Also love your rendition of changing of the guard.
What a dear friend you are and haven't even met you...
From Christine k
Free Money! That would be lovely. So looking forward to this. Thank you.
Dancing Barefoot would be wonderful to hear if you are up to it.
Thank you Patti.
Could you recite, as you recited, 7 years ago, on the French TV show "La Grande librairie", with François Busnel, your song "People have the power"?
Thanks again for these videos. You are so funny. You made me laugh!
Saw the interview with Quest for Craft recently. Liked the part about Jimi so maybe 1983 or any song by him be cool.
Yes, it would certainly be appropriate to do something by Jimi Hendrix from Electric Lady studios. Angel maybe, or Little Wing? Really looking forward to this.
Thank you Patti. So sorry you won’t be performing in Australia so really looking forward to the 2nd. A reading of Georgia O’Keefe, Eddie Sedgwick or Marianne Faithfull from Babel would be amazing. And Dancing Barefoot. ❤️
Something to look forward to. Thanks again Patti . Your writings and treats and surprises have really been so special to me while experiencing our different nyc during these times. You’ve been so generous from the start sharing like the friend I feel you are.
I've always harbored the wish that you would sing Gershwin. I'd love to hear your sparse version of "They Can't Take That Away From Me." "The way you wear your hat/ The way you sip your tea" are lyrics that feel tailor-made for you. I also think you'd do a sublime version of Carmen Lombardo's "Seems Like Old Times." Oh, and I second the request below for Bowie's "Heroes."
Thankyou Patti, we were so looking forward to seeing you in Australia and now this will be a lovely chance to join you albeit online. I would love to hear Beds are Burning, we saw it in Dublin and were truly moved with your spiritual connection to this ancient land
Oh goody🎶 Thank you Patti, Lenny and Tony. A special night🌹☕️🖤 Can’t wait🕊
Please please pleeeeease sing The Jackson song. That has great meaning for our family and my daughter even has a line from it tattooed on her ribs.
Finally a good news in 2022 🙃🙃🙃💐. Ta Patti keep safe and healthy ☕🌈☕ as downunder missed you a few Easter's ago 🙃🙃
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ this is the most beautiful news! As Ticketmaster refunded me for your cancelled concert in New Zealand, I decided to use the money to subscribe so this is just perfect!!! Thank you! Sending much love!
Thank you so much Aleksandra. I was very sorry not to come to New Zealand, such a beautiful country.
Maybe one day when all of this is over you can come again ❤️
A great idea, thank you Patti! 2.2.22 is a magical date. I'd love to hear "My Blakean Year" - I like the rhythm of that song. And it would be great to read some passages of "Devotion", a really beautiful story! Thank you for your charming posts, each of them is unique! Sending love from Vienna❤️!
Looking forward to this so much ! There are so many songs I would love to hear ……“My Blakean Year” “My Madrigal” “Broken Flag” ” We Three” …… so so many ! Whatever you choose to sing or to read will be a treat for sure ! 🌹
Very exciting Patti! I always love what you choose to sing or recite but suggesting This is the Girl, Dancing Barefoot, Frederick, Gloria, Redondo Beach...I could go on but won't...
Wow! I want expecting such rad news!!! Something beautiful to look forward to!!! Thank you!!!! 🥰💕🎉⭐️
I love all of your songs, but since I haven’t been able to see you in person, which I loved so much because I’m going on 78 but your shows make me feel 28, I’d love to hear you do Gloria, Horses, or any of those rollicking, rocking, sing along, get up and dance Patti classics!!! Thanks for whatever you decide!!!
Would love to hear you sing Harbor, a song I recall with such fondness from your 1975 or so residency at CBGB.
OMG …. That’s exciting news! Thank you Patti💗💕
I like Marianne Faithful as well (by the way, she turned 75 on December 29th). Would be great, if you read the chapter "marianne faithful" from your book "Seventh Heaven"
Wonderful idea, Patti. I would love to listen to your version of David Bowie´s "Heroes"
you are the cutest thing, writing the date backwards...tee hee, love you
I would love to hear "Ask the Angels". Such a powerful and danceable track!
🙂 If I have to miss because of work will I still be able to watch another time. Love you Patti
Yes you have 24 hours.
Great🙂
Wonderful! How exciting. ❤️❤️❤️
I would love to hear “Pissing In The River!” Best wishes to you, Lenny and Tony! ❤️
Wonderful idea! I will be there the 2 2 22 ! Could you read a page of Devotion ? I like a lot this story ! Thank you 🙏
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Wonderful! How about blessing us with "I Was Working Real Hard" That would truly knock everyone's socks off!
Fantastic! I’ll be there ❤️
WOW WOW WOW! I wasn’t subscribed to your podcast but now am. I’m hoping that’s all I need do is wait for the link. Thank you!! I’ll think of songs, etc!
Oh, this is exciting! Can’t wait for February.
When I first saw the video, it looked like the book title was in Cyrillic, like you were reading a book in Russian! One of my favorites among your tunes is Summer Cannibals, if you could include it on 2.2.2.2.2.2, or whatever, that would be a treat!! love ya Patti !
What a wonderful day 2/2/22 will be!💖
Hoping you could read even a portion of your lovely piece, "The Woolgatherers." Thanks for the magic you bring.
See you on the 2nd Patti!!! I would love to hear you Lenny and Tony perform "Piss Factory"! It would be so great!!!
For GroundHogs Day - What if you recreated one of your pieces from your St. Marks reading w/Lenny Kaye -some 50 yrs ago ..? (you pick)
We love your Substack too Patti. You bring warmth and inspiration to my day with every post. I'm looking forward to 2.2.22 Thank you. I would love to see you read Elegie. Perhaps fitting for these times...
Thank you so much ❤️
Patti, I had unsubscribed because I have a very poor command of English and translations are not always enough to transcribe the subtleties of the language.
I subscribe again because I miss your posts and I love you too much to stay away from your writings.
I dream of a new album in 2022 and one or more concerts in France.
I love you so, so much Patti 💙☕️❤️
I have read your comments before. You seem very adept. If you have questions, post them and I will try to help.
Thank you so much dear Patti 💙☕️❤️
Wow! Fun! See you all on 2/2
Thank you ♥️
Will you always be there.. please🙏
Can't wait. Thanks Patti. Still waiting on Lenny's book.
Hello, Patricia. You are divinely adorable. I'll be there on 2222 with bells on! Thank you dearly for this wonderful news of a wonderful evening. I'm overjoyed with tickling excitement.
Always with love,
Yaya
My friend Marcia’s birthday! My groundhog lady and I have been friends and to have adored you since 1976. Is there such a thing as a subscription gift certificate?
Yes! There is an option to gift a subscription. Go to Patti's home page where all the posts are listed. On the top and to the right of her name you will see 'give gift'
thank you Yaya
You're welcome, Patricia
Fantastic!!!! Thank you!
You're welcome, Mary
Yay! Very excited. Thank you so much. A request: maybe a bit of the poem Liberte by Paul Eluard?
Really looking forward to the event Patti. I'd love you to read a passage of your choice from your book, Babel. I'm currently rereading it. Also, I'm from South Wsles in the UK and it's said that to be Welsh is not to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth but to have music in your blood and poetry in your soul. . . So to have you read something from Dylan Thomas would be a very special treat....thank you. X
Sublime 🙏💥🌌 pure treaure, thank you × a mill'
Already subscribed so looking forward to it. Thanks so much.
Thank you. Treats in store!
Electric lady which you are....I'll be there with my favourite hat on to hold my ideas in place.
So loved your spontaneously looking up from Lenny's book to say, "Oh hello, everybody." Mr. Rogers couldn't have done it better. We feel it. :-)
SO FUN!!!!! Thank you Patti!
NICE!!!! What a great way to welcome the year of the Water Tiger!! I'll be tuning in from the northern shores of Gitchee Gumi! (Lake Superior!) I will be so happy to have you there with me!
Oh! I forgot to make a request! At the Water Protectors rally on Gitchee Gumi last summer, I was so happy to hear a team-up of indigenous voices and young activist musicians cover Ghost Dance! Seems fitting to request that!! ❤️
SO NICE...merci Patti
so nice of you Patti!
“Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!” Mikhail Bulgakov. And he does. I love The Master and Margarita. I've read it many times in many translations. I think he might be waiting for you to read from his book - a gift to humanity. To think that it was written in the times of Stalin!!
My recommendation....
In Brazil, February 2nd is the Day of Yemanjá. In the afrobrazilian tradition of Candomblé - a cultural and religious manifestation that transformed from its origins in West Africa to become what it is today -, Yemanjá is the orisha or spiritual entity associated with the sea. Mother Yemanjá. In places like Bahia, where the festivities around the orishas are very strong and beautiful, February 2nd is a day to go to the sea and give presents to it's sort of goddess, Yemanjá... That is mostly done with flowers but also with small decorated boats, lit up with candles, all drifiting outwards as the chants are sung by the crowd back on the sand. It's a sight to be seen. It's an auspicious date.
In case it might be of interest, here's Maria Bethania, Brazilian singer from Bahia singing a song known to all of us here in Brazil about this date of February 2nd!
https://youtu.be/lpS0JtkwTgk
Yay! Perhaps you could sing "Paths That Cross" for all of us who miss you at the Fillmore
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Exciting!!!❤️
Thank you patti. i finally subscribed. Finally because I have meant to for months but between being a grandparent/caregiver for the first time, my 95 year old mama who I have also been caregiving part time, and the possible freedom from Covid restrictions, work, and a million tiny details of life, I never did. You inspired me to do a substack myself. I am not nearly as consistent as you are though. And sometimes I just get embarrassed by what I share and end up waiting too long to post it. I tend to overshare .... but then I tend to feel like a coward for undersharing. what a balance it all is. Anyway, I'm going to go back to listening to the rest of this offering, I stopped the video to subscribe.
I love your Substack. I'm on a digital diet so I haven't read much else on Substack, but what I've seen has been wonderful. Thank you, Linda. 😊
Thank you yaya that means a lot to me.
Excellent :) Thank you!
It is such an intimate and personal song and I have always wished to hear “farewell reel” played live or streamed. I often share the lyrics and the song with friends enduring loss. It communicates such grace and is always a comfort
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Woo- woo!! Wonderful…thank you so much 😃
YAY!!! Super, super excited about the performance on Feb 2/22
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Thank you so much. Every time you post it makes my heart sing. And a concert! That is wonderful.
Great news. These virtual events lift my spirits so much since live venues are shuttered or it's too risky to go.
that’s amazing! i love the way you are increasing things here in substack, now exploring this image part. can’t wait to watch it <3
Great news !!! Thanks. It will be late in France, but anyway :) Will attend with joy !