the patti smith setlists - 1975

1 January 1975, Annual New Year's Day Reading, The Poetry Project, St Mark’s Church, New York, NY, USA
Parade

Note: Poetry reading.

NB: From 30 January 1975 the line-up of the Patti Smith Group was Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Richard Sohl and Ivan Kral.

3 February 1975, Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: Supporting Eric Burdon.

14 February 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
No setlist

15 February 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
We’re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together, The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game, Birdland, Space Monkey, Break it Up, Gloria

Late show
Any Day of the Week, Piss Factory, We Three, Free Money, Harbor Song, Land

Note: The Patti Smith Group with Tom Verlaine.

20 March 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
We’re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together, Redondo Beach, Sherry, Space Monkey, Birdland, Break It Up, Gloria

Late show
The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game, Magellan, We Three, Free Money, Distant Fingers, Land

22 March 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Piss Factory, We Three, Free Money, Break it Up, Land, The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game

23 March 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

27 March 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

28 March 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
We’re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together, The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game, Birdland, Space Monkey, Break It Up, Gloria

Late show
Piss Factory, We Three

Note: with Television as opening act. Incomplete setlist (may be from the following night).

29 March 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

1 April 1975, Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY, USA
No setlist

3 April 1975, Barnard Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Nigger Book, Seventh Heaven, Jeanne Darc, What Makes Ruda Ivory, Picasso Laughing, A Fragment of Youth, Rape, Rimbaud Dead, Balance, Gibralto, Oath, All the Hipsters Go to the Movies, Sonnet, Piss Factory

Note : This show was early evening, before the CBGBs shows began.

3 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

4 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

5 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

6 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

10 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

11 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

12 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

13 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

17 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
First set:
We’re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together, Redondo Beach, Birdland, Space Monkey, Distant Fingers, Gloria
Second set:
Space Monkey, Distant Fingers, Gloria
Third set: The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game, Magellan, We Three, Free Money, Piss Factory, Snowball, Land, Prayer

Note: with Television. Three sets each.

18 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

19 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

20 April 1975, Jewish Y, Philadelphia, PA, USA
No setlist

Note: Poetry reading.

20 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

24 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

25 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

26 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

27 April 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: with Television as opening act

30 April 1975, George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
No setlist

5 May 1975, Tohill Center Theater, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA
No setlist

6 May 1975, Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven, CT, USA
No setlist

11 May 1975, Sheep Meadow, Central Park, New York, NY, USA
"The War Is Over!"
Piss Factory, Land

28 May 1975, WBAI, Free Music Store, New York, NY, USA
We’re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together, The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game, Birdland, Redondo Beach, Space Monkey, Snowball, Distant Fingers, Break it Up, Gloria, Sheherazade/Down the Aisle of Love (The Quin Tones)

NB: In late 1975 the line-up of the Patti Smith Group was Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Richard Sohl, Ivan Kral and Jay Dee Daugherty.

25 June 1975, The Other End, New York, NY, USA
No setlist

26 June 1975, The Other End, New York, NY, USA
Time Is On My Side (Norman Meade), Break it Up, Piss Factory, Gloria

Note: Incomplete setlist. Bob Dylan was in the audience.

27 June 1975, The Other End, New York, NY, USA
No setlist

28 June 1975, The Other End, New York, NY, USA
No setlist

29 June 1975, The Other End, New York, NY, USA
No setlist

18 September 1975, Arista Music Convention, City Centre Music Hall, New York, NY, USA
Birdland, Redondo Beach, Break it Up, Land, (encore): Free Money

21 September 1975, Arista Music Festival, City Centre Music Hall, New York, NY, USA
No setlist

Note: Patti Smith shared the bill with Barry Manilow, Melissa Manchester, Loudon Wainwright III, Eric Carmen and Linda Lewis.

23 October 1975, Gerde’s Folk City, New York, NY, USA
Sweet Surprise (Eric Andersen)^*, Archer's Song (improvisation)

Note: Rehearsal for Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Review. ^* With Eric Andersen.

29 October 1975, The Poetry Project, St Mark's Church, New York, NY, USA
"Benefit for His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche"
Histories of the Universe, Seven Ways of Going

Note: Poetry reading.

14 November 1975, Joyous Lake, Woodstock, NY, USA
No setlist

15 November 1975, Larry Richardson’s Dance Gallery, New York, NY, USA
"Rock ‘N’ Rimbaud IV"
Early Show (8.00 pm)
Privilege (Set Me Free) (Mel London/Mike Leander) , Ain’t it Strange, Space Monkey, Snowball, Free Money, Pale Blue Eyes (Lou Reed) , Pumping (My Heart) , Seven Ways of Going, Gloria

Late Show (11.00 pm)
Privilege (Set Me Free), Ain’t it Strange, Space Monkey, Snowball, Free Money, Pale Blue Eyes, Pumping (My Heart), Seven Ways of Going, Gloria

17 November 1975, Boarding House, San Francisco, CA, USA
No setlist

18 November 1975, Boarding House, San Francisco, CA, USA
No setlist

19 November 1975, Boarding House, San Francisco, CA, USA
Seventh Heaven, Improvisation, Picture Hanging Blues, Free Money, Ain’t it Strange, Redondo Beach, Edie Sedgwick, Today I Met the Boy I’m Going to Marry (Ellie Greenwich/Tony Powers) , Improvisation, Radio Ethiopia, Improvisation, Improvisation, My Generation (Pete Townshend), Gloria

21 November 1975, Long Branch, Berkeley, CA, USA
No setlist

23 November 1975, Long Branch, Berkeley, CA, USA
(First set) Privilege (Set Me Free), Ain’t It Strange, Space Monkey, Redondo Beach, Free Money, Pale Blue Eyes/Louie Louie (Richard Berry), Seven Ways of Going, Gloria, (Second set) Birdland, Pale Blue Eyes/Louie Louie, Pumping (My Heart), Land/Gloria, Band of Gold (Holland-Dozier-Holland)

Note: The setlist of each set is incomplete.

29 November 1975, The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Redondo Beach, Pale Blue Eyes/Louie Louie, Land, (encore): Time Is on My Side

Note: Incomplete setlist.

17 December 1975, Bijou Café, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: Two performances at 8.00 pm and 10.30 pm.

18 December 1975, Bijou Café, Philadelphia, PA,
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: Two performances at 8.00 pm and 10.30 pm.

19 December 1975, Bijou Café, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Note: Two performances at 8.00 pm and 10.30 pm.

20 December 1975, Bijou Café, Philadelphia, PA, USA
We’re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together, Privilege (Set Me Free) , Ain’t it Strange, Space Monkey

Note: Two performances at 9.00 pm and 11.30 pm. It is not known if this setlist is the Early or Late show. Incomplete setlist.

December 1975, Bijou Café, Philadelphia, PA, USA
We’re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together, Privilege (Set Me Free) , Ain’t it Strange, Kimberly, Free Money, Redondo Beach, Pale Blue Eyes/Louie Louie, The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game, Land

Note: Exact date unknown.

26 December 1975, Bottom Line, New York, NY, USA
Early Show
We’re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together, Privilege (Set Me Free), Ain’t it Strange, Space Monkey, Redondo Beach, Free Money, Pale Blue Eyes/Louie Louie, Pumping (My Heart), Birdland, Gloria, My Generation^*

Late Show
We’re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together, Privilege (Set Me Free), Ain’t it Strange, Space Monkey, Redondo Beach, Time Is On My Side, Free Money, Pale Blue Eyes/Louie Louie, Pumping (My Heart), Birdland, Land/Gloria, Time Is On My Side, My Generation^*

Note: Special guest ^*John Cale.

27 December 1975, Bottom Line, New York, NY, USA
Early Show
No setlist

Late show
Mafia (Lloyd Parks) (acapella), Nigger Book, Sally, Rape, Lullaby (I Was Working Real Hard), We’re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together, Privilege (Set Me Free), Ain’t it Strange, Space Monkey, Redondo Beach, Free Money, Pale Blue Eyes, Louie Louie, Pumping (My Heart), Mafia (with the band), Birdland, Land/Gloria, (encore): Time Is on My Side, My Generation ^*, Dedication

Note: Special guest ^*John Cale.

28 December 1975, Bottom Line, New York, NY, USA
Early show
No setlist

Late show
No setlist

Late late Show
No setlist

Note: Special guest John Cale.

Television: 31 December 1975, CBGB, New York, NY, USA

Psychotic Reaction (The Count Five)

Note: Patti joined Television on stage at 5:00 am on the morning of 1 January 1976.