Patti Smith will play her “Horses” debut album on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the LP. Guitarist Lenny Kaye and the drummer Jay Dee Daugherty are also there, both of whom were involved in the original recording of 1975.
In addition to Kaye and Daugherty, Smith ‘band also includes the keyboardist/bassist Tony Shanahan, who has been on tour with her for thirty years, and the guitarist Jackson Smith.
On “Horses” tour, but not in Germany
The anniversary tour begins on October 6th in the 3Arena in Dublin and includes concerts in Madrid, Bergamo, Brussels, Oslo, London and Paris. Then toured Smith through the USA. Really read: Unfortunately, appointments in Germany are not included.
After all, the singer can be seen as a Patti Smith quartet in summer for eight gigs in Mainz, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Kulmbach, Dresden and Cologne. There is certainly one or two songs from “Horses” to be heard. But not the complete album live.
20 years ago, Patti Smith had completely brought “Horses” to the stage for the first time, at the Meltdown Festival in London, which she was allowed to curate that year. After the turn of the millennium, celebrating complete studio top sheets at concerts became a new nostalgia trend-partly with surprising results.
“Horses” was produced by Velvet Underground by John Cale and served many later songwriters as a blueprint for starting rock business. The poetic, sensitive texts not only reveals a daring musician, but also a large poet.
Tribute concert for Patti Smith
Even if the year 2025 did not start as well for Patti Smith, it is all about the Godmother of Punk. On March 26th you will take place in honor of a tribute concert in the New York Carnegie Hall. Under the title “People Have the Power: Celebrating the Music of Patti Smith” Michael Stipe, Kim Gordon, Matt Berninger from The National, Karen O, Sharon van Etten, Ben Harper, Courtney Barnett, the Kronos Quartet, Angel Olsen, Alison Mosshart from The Kills and many others appear to honor Smith and her work.