Patti flashback: Free and alive in 1975 (or 6)?

[L French <lrfrench>]

I was just listening to a recording of Patti performing at The Boarding House in San Francisco, which I believe was probably from November, 1976 and I must say this is one of the most unusual performances I've ever heard Patti give!   

The reason this show is so strange, is because it's basically one long Patti monologue, with only five or six songs thrown into the mix. If it is from November, 1976, it's even stranger, because two days later I actually saw Patti perform a brilliant, incredibly tight set in Hartford, Conn. - and it was only the second time I had seen her live!!  

Listening to the SF show now, I really liked the free-flowing improvisational nature of it, but I wonder what I would have thought if I heard this long seemingly endless rant as only my second exposure to Patti...  I think it might have actually turned me off to her.   

Anyway, there also seems to be some confusion about what year the show actually occurred... '75 or 76,  so if J or anyone else out there can shed any light on the correct year (and possibly even the venue), please feel free to add your thoughts. 

According to the PSG setlists it took place on 11/21/75 - but it seems to me that wouldn't make sense, since Andy Paley is playing on the keyboards (replacing DNV).   

Here's the set list which conveys some idea of the very loose nature of this show: 
 
PATTI SMITH -- FUCKED UP IN SAN FRANCISCO 
November 16, 1976  Live at the Boarding House  

Introduction & rap (Im all fucked up) 
Seventh Heaven (poem - interrupted for a sound check)
Guitar feedback Improvisation (Give me more light Moe) 
Rap: The New Jersey Triangle 
Rap: Think of a John Ford Movie
Jesse James (poem- Picture Hanging Blues)
Interlude: If I fell (The Beatles) one verse 
Free Money 
Aint It Strange (w/ totally improvised Alexander in Babylon lyrics)
Redondo Beach
Edie Sedgwick (poem)
Today I Met The Boy I'm Going To Marry (Darlene Love song)
Moroccan improvisation (w/poem - Ballad of a Bad Boy)
Radio Ethiopia (Lenny doing Iguana lizard lyrics) /  
Abyssinia (piano/guitar solo) 
Deep in the Heart of me ("The Ethiopian Crawl")  

Encores: 

A Letter to Johnny Carson - from Jesus Christ 
My Generation 
Gloria 

The Band:  Lenny, Ivan, Jay Dee, Andy Paley & Steve Foxx  

Now compare the SF set list to a show  just two days later - when I saw Patti for only the second time, at the Bushnell Auditorium, in Hartford Conn (on November 18, 1976) doing a truly killer show: 

Were Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together 
Kimberly 
Pissing in a River  
Pale Blue Eyes / Louie Louie 
Free Money 
Ask the Angels 
Redondo Beach 
Pumping (My Heart) 
Time Is On My Side 
Aint It Strange 
Radio Ethiopia / Rock n Roll Nigger 
Horses  
Gloria 

My Generation 

  
       
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