Patti Smith Group - Pale Blue Eyes/Louie Louie

[@joelspringman523]

Patti 🥰❤❤❤❤❤❤ Incredible!!! I don't why you pull on my heartstrings so much, but you just do! Why do I adore you so much?!!!

[@philstutt]

I love all Lou Reed's and Patti's work. Put them together and this is heaven!

[@china027]

Patti Smith & Band make my world happier! Her voice and their insruments have so much raw energy.

[@angelinatiger]

linger on pale blue eyes thought of you as my mountain top thought of you as my peak thought of you as my everything that i had but ijust couldnot keep linger on pale blue eyes makes me cry every time I LOVE YOU PATTI SMITH may you linger on for eternity thank you for ALL of it patti

[@scarlet000begonia]

God I love that woman. She's such a legend.

[@joelspringman523]

Me, too. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@magz693]

Patti. You just kill me with this one. So sweet!

[@Land748]

How can you critisize Patti ? She's awsome, beautiful soul and personnality, i love her.

[@89501234]

is there anything better than a great song sung with such raw power and passion?

[@Goatchild90]

The Velvet Underground and Patti Smith, 2 of my favourite things

[@amirsaah]

I hate the word "cool", but Patti Smith is so cool. I can watch this over and over again and she is breaking me to pieces each time.

[@30phyllis]

yes. she's a living goddess.

[@marcuspbrody]

nice version... great patti smith

[@Broatch6]

♥️ Patti + The Velvets

[@evergrin0]

Can't express how much I love this woman!

[@Lionsmiley16]

caída del cielo.. que enorme poeta y que voz

[@greattsutom]

great!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@classof80extant]

A goddess. Thank you very much!

[@dougzilla]

I used to have a bootleg LP of this performance. I have been looking for it for years. Thanks for posting this.

[@marker011]

That was pretty freakin awesome.

[@venisfurs]

Beaitiful song, well done!

[@amabille16]

she was so beautiful

[@truddy3971]

Still is.

[@whsonic]

@shiningarainbow John Cale produced Patti's first album "Horses", but he did not play a tour with her. On guitar is Lenny Kaye, on bass Ivan Kral, on drums Jay Dee Daugherty. Lenny and JD are still with her.

[@psychedeliccandy680]

timeless!

[@geekfreaklover]

Yes True. Pale Blue Eyes was about Loues old university sweetheart named, i think, shelly.

[@pureecstasy]

i think this is great

[@Mrjrjrloreto]

OH PATTI PATTI HOW I LOVEEEEEEEEEEE YOU FOR SHARING YOUR ART!

[@cieggou]

thanks

[@pureecstasy]

ARRESTING. she injects that unique quality which makes this really cool.

[@BB-xm6hy]

"Lou Reed WRIT this song". ahhhh.

[@rodrigoemauz1422]

Lindo!

[@Timmybear]

I had it on tape for years, 'til it snapped. Luckily, I found it elsewhere on the 'net. I do have another bootleg lp of hers from roughly the same period.

[@JOOODYJOOODY]

there will never be anyone else anywhere near like her

[@frankmaherjr2700]

when I first heard Patti so this song it was on my favorite live album. Teenage Perversity I cried and I cried to alot of her songs she's wonderful. I need to know if there is anyone who filmed the Teenage Perversity concert? I'd give anything to see it. But it was in Santa Monica Auditorium in 76. and although I was young I was way into Patti by my 13th birthday

[@klotski]

I think she was just taking a pretty sly dig at Nico for jilting Lou. Pretty funny- especially following it up with Louie Louie. Excellent video.

[@whsonic]

@missZiggy549 I'm sure that this is Lenny on guiter (4:33). John Cale never was so skinny. And when you look at 4:37, it's Ivan on bass (google him in google images). I just read that John Cale toured for a while as Patti's opening act (I always thought he played only at a few shows in NYC, like on the "Live at the Bottom Line 1975" bootleg). So it could be possible that he joined her band for a few songs at each or some shows even outside New York.

[@BluBerryCrush]

sometimes i feel so happy.. sometimes i feel so sad........oh so so fine !!

[@tricyclesinskirts]

@MrJaysync i agree with you up to a point. the whole manly, gruff thing is a stereotype and does not necessarily mean that a woman who sings that way is a lesbian. she sang that way because that's the way her voice sounds, not out of a need to assert her sexual orientation, which is straight anyway. i'm sure a lot of women, some lesbians, emulated her just because she was so different at the time. patti's own style was inspired by rock and roll hero worship (jim morrison, keith richards etc)

[@minodude01]

ive heard (but dont know) that this song was maybe written about the Velvet Underground drummer, maurice tucker

[@losttango]

I agree, minty girl, Patti brings something quite new to this, a sense of pain that doesn't really come out in the original. Trying to sing it like Reed would have been a dumb idea - you can't really top the original, so best to take it in a different direction.

[@miroesse]

I've been also surprised by that... Anyway very nice cover!

[@flyingtoothpaste]

even when she's drunk her voice sounds great

[@johnned4848]

Is this concert available? It looks like it was broadcast in Swedish television

[@Reinadec0raz0nes]

Patti rulessss!! does anybody knows where i can find the lyrics for louie louie???thanx!

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

I love the sound of JD’s snare drum. Just saying..

[@geekfreaklover]

Not true. It's a bout a university girlfriend called Shelly. Lou meet up with her again once she was married, but she snubbed his advances. This was about the time of the third velvets record. Another song written with her in mind was Perfect Day.

[@Ardsgaine]

Yeah, I dunno either. I listened to it again, and I'm still right. ;)

[@andrejskostanenko8030]

!!!!

[@Raymantico]

Rock chick in a t-shirt? Man, she invented it.

[@tricyclesinskirts]

@MrJaysync yes.

[@classof80extant]

Good grief, you sound like me! No one ever has before. Good luck and fare thee well; it can leave a strain sometimes if I'm not sort of careful. Post-Meta-dewy epiphany-modern realism with a good story in for fair measure.

[@MrJaysync]

@tricyclesinskirts are you sure?

[@Kmaster1337]

He actually did NOT write this song for this Swedish boy. Shelly, a college girlfriend of his provided the subject matter.

[@klotski]

Or a boy. It's just a guess. But I don't think accuracy is crucial if she was being cheeky. She also might not know where Nico was from. *shrug* They didn't have Wikipedia back then.

[@SadorDundara]

l'ho sempre detto a mia madre: "io dovevo nascere al posto tuo!"

[@sienewton1124]

no one knows what i feel about this

[@bapyou]

Ha ha. Patti. Listening to this I realized how a singer like Patti couldn't exist without someone like Bob Dylan before her. Dylan, like Patti, doesnt have a great voice in the conventional sense.

[@tricyclesinskirts]

@MrJaysync not necessarily.

[@warmwarmerdisco]

this song will get me bi

[@dannylmeats]

@missZiggy549 I know rock and roll, Tell you what, there are a few bands you should check out, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, The Velvet Underground and The Rolling Stones, these guys could play purely excellent tune and match it with vocals that actually add something, rather than dominate and subtract. Let me know what you think of them...

[@jimrader5299]

"for a Swedish boy", haha,, what jive. patti was always good at tributes , or plugs, of anyone famous that came to mind. mention enough famous people and you'll become famous too.

[@RuddyIPA]

Why fuck up such a great song with Louie louie?

[@MrJaysync]

@tricyclesinskirts nope, it's quite clear, manly, gruff, this is lesbian iconography 1-0-1. don't get me wrong though saw her live this year and she spat Gloria something hellish, one of the realest things i've ever seen.

[@tpk535]

Better than Lou Reed.

[@andrejskostanenko8030]

Умка поёт круче

[@johnbreen-gp4ry]

Sings better? Maybe, but performs better, no one performs better then Patti.

[@Ardsgaine]

This is awful. It doesn't come close to matching Reed's version. It's like she's deliberately trying to sound bad. Reed's version gets its power from being sung by a rather mediocre voice that is trying to reach above itself to express a sweetness of emotion felt towards its subject. It is both raw and sublime. Smith gets the rawness alright, but she completely misses the sublimity.

[@herbertluthe6850]

not to my satisfaction. her voice just doesn't fit. nice try still.

[@MrJaysync]

ahhh i see it's a gay-thing, a lesbian thing, bad man-ish gruff 'singing' right?

[@dannylmeats]

@missZiggy549 I understand Rock and Roll, i love the stuff. This ain't it. I had to come back on this page to respond and was again amazed at how bad she sounds, if she's got something no one else has, lucky everyone else.

[@dannylmeats]

I've heard the name Patti Smith but never heard much of her stuff. I'm a big fan of Lou Reed and the VU, i like the guitar on this, but the vocals are abhorrent.

[@MrJaysync]

was her voice ment to sound this bad, on purpose? whats going on is it ment to be some kind of 'abstract' tribute or is she really just taking the piss?

[@italianaqueer]

she is not drunk...she is the best

[@54spiritedwill54]

i think this is great