RE: Patti's BIRDLAND in two versions (Wilhelm Reich & Rimbaud) at the Cellar Door

[Phil Grabar <highwood_61>]

The first time I saw Patti was March '76 in Westport CT, and the set list was basically the same as these Cellar Door shows.  Real Good Time Together - with Patti pumping her fists -  gave me goosebumps, and by the time Ain't It Strange was over I was hooked for life.  It was my favorite song of the night - I loved when she did a bridge on the floor. I agree that the live version, as on Teenage Perversity and Ships in the Night, is better than on the record.

Phil

"Gart, Mitchell" <Mitchell.Gart> wrote: I love those 70's shows where she opened with Real Good Time Together,
Privilege, and Ain't It Strange.  What a great set of three songs.  I always
was crazy about the way they did Ain't It Strange live in those days.  I liked
it better than the version that was on Radio Ethiopia.  The live version is
slower, meaner, darker.

- Mitch

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From: owner-babel-list on behalf of L French
Sent: Sat 11/17/2007 3:34 AM
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Subject: Patti's BIRDLAND in two versions (Wilhelm Reich & Rimbaud) at the
Cellar Door



Thanks Steve and Andrew for the link to these fabulous complete concerts from
Wolfgangs Vault.. what incredible shows!

  One of the first Patti LP bootlegs I ever heard was IN HEAT, which had great
sound quality, but now finally hearing the complete Cellar Door shows, it's
anybody's guess why they only included five songs ("Real Good Time Together",
"Kimberly", "Redondo Beach"  "Pale Blue Eyes/Louie Louie") from all the great
material they had to choose from. And why they needed to include a sensored
version of "My Generation" is anybody's guess. Must have thought record stores
who accepted bootlegs would be offended by lyrics like "we don't give no
fucking shit!"

  Anyway, as J and Andrew point out the setlists and bio info on Patti at the
page are highly innacurate.

  Here's a more accurate version of the setlists and a transcript of Patti's
inmproved Birdland lyrics:


  Early Show  7:00 pm


  Were Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together
Privilege (Set Me Free)
Aint It Strange
Kimberly
Redondo Beach
Free Money
Pale Blue Eyes/Louie Louie
Pumping (My Heart)
Classic Patti rap:
  Johnny Carson - the colors of the spectrum - Surfin' Bird (The Trashmen) -
etc.
Birdland (classic Wilhelm Reich version)
Gloria
  My Generation


  ________________________



  Late Show  10:30 pm

  Were Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together
Slavery Days (Burning Spear)
Privilege (Set Me Free)
Aint It Strange
Kimberly
Redondo Beach
Free Money
Pale Blue Eyes/Louie Louie
Pumping (My Heart)
Jolene
Birdland (Rimbaud version)
Horses (white tea) / Gloria (snippet)
  My Generation


  Birdland at both shows is absolutely incredible... classic version at the
first show, and at the second Patti turns it into a complete stream of
consiousness rap starting with her religious  bio and merging it into a
Rimbaud bio...  priceless Patti!


  BIRDLAND (classic early show version)
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  Wilhelm Reich died in a federal penitentiary
for investigating and opening up and illuminating
the fields of UFO-ology, rock 'n' roll, orgasm and...
black silk ties

  Around the throat of the warden he knotted up his tie
and went out into the parole room
(the warden) told Wilhelm Reich's little son Peter
that his father had died
so every day Peter chewed up a little more black silk and spit it out
and waited for his father to come down and get him in a big, black UFO

  His father died and left him a little farm in New England
All the long black funeral cars left the scene
And the boy was just standing there alone
Looking at the shiny fields
Him and his daddy used to sit inside
And circle the blue fields and grease the night
It was if someone had spread butter on all the fine points of the stars
because when he looked up they started to slip
  Then he put his head in the crux of his arm
And he started to drift, drift to the belly of a ship
Let the ship slide open, and he went inside of it
And saw his daddy 'hind the control board streaming beads of light
He saw his daddy 'hind the control board
he was very different tonight
'Cause he was not human - he was not human

The little boy's face lit up with such naked joy
he was sitting alone in the big white truck
he was sitting on the street
he saw a spark fly up
he saw the red lights
inside the truck things started to get hazy
he was sitting there smoking another joint
oh, I wish they would legalize marijuana so that I could smoke dope on stage
'cause I like to be stoned when I listen to music
I like to put on  Mermaids turn the tide while you experience
Moon like miles while you lay on the bed
and fantasize  fantasize, oh, what a voyage
oh, take a little, little, little trip with me
oh, I remember just how it feels
even though I don't know him
I dont know him, but I know how it feels to be alien
he was rushing around the fields
fall on your knees, kid
No, daddy, don't leave me here alone
Take me up, daddy, to the belly of your ship
Let the ship slide open and I'll go inside of it
Where you are not human, you are not human

  But nobody heard the boy's cry of alarm
nobody there except for the birds
  up up up up up up
Oh, let's go up, up, take me up, I'll go up,
I'm going up, I'm going up
Take me up, I'm going up, I'll go up there
Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up
Up, up to the belly of a ship.
Let the ship slide open and we'll go inside of it
Where we are not human, we're not human
I'm quite human




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