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14 June 1980, Punch & Judy Theater, Grosse Pointe, Detroit, MI, USA
"Punch and Judy Theater Benefit Concert, Second Annual Detroit Symphony Benefit Concert"
Neo Boy, The Tapper Extracts, High On Rebellion, St Matthew; chapter 28, Hymn, The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Bob Dylan), unknown song, unknown song, Sadness of the Soul, Sarabande, Dissonance, The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game, I Concentrate On You (Fred Astaire), All in My Mind, Who is the Lantern (new song?), We Send this Little Prayer to You (new song?), City Slang, The End (The Doors), Star Spangled Banner

Note: Fred Sonic Smith, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Richard Sohl, Gary Rasmussen, Scott Asheton and Friends. Patti was not on stage for the whole concert.
9 October 1981, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Sonic Rendezvous Band
No Setlist

Note: poetry reading
10 October 1981, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Sonic Rendezvous Band
No Setlist

Note: poetry reading
17 March 1990, Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY, USA
"That’s What Friends Are For: Arista Records 15th Anniversary Concert"
People Have the Power, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan)

Note: Patti Smith and Fred Sonic Smith
6 April 1991, Nectarine Ballroom, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
"Happy Trails: Benefit for AIDS"
(first set): Piss Factory, Mitty, Babelfield, (second set): Sweet Nothing (Fred Sonic Smith), Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry), Heaven and Earth (Scott Morgan), For Your Love, Empty Heart (Nanker Phelge), My Generation, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan), Paths That Cross, Ghost Dance, Dangerous (Scott Morgan), Rivers of Babylon (Brent Dowe, Trevor McNaughton), People Have the Power, Happy Trails (Dale Evans)

Patti Smith with Fred Sonic Smith, Lenny Kaye, Jay Dee Daugherty and the Sonic Rendezvous Band (Scott Morgan, Gary Rasmussen and Scott Asheton)
8 July 1993, Central Park, New York, NY, USA
Amelia Earhart, Piss Factory, Mitti, December, Writer’s Song, Song For Somalia, Libya, Babelfield, Memorial Song, Poem For Rudolf Nurejev, People Have the Power, Cowboy Truths, Think of Me (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart), Wave, Paths That Cross

Note: Poetry reading, with songs performed acapella.



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