Patti Smith's FINAL Bowery Ballroom New Years Eve Show

Patti Smith is joined on stage by Michael Stipe for what she announced will be her final New Year's Eve show at Bowery Ballroom after 14 years there.  I feel so blessed that my friends and I got to witness this spectacle 7 years in a row.  Patti, her band and her special guests will be greatly missed.

B - L - O - N - D - I - E ! ! !

Another great night out... Another great Blondie show.

Music Box at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa.  Atlantic City, New Jersey.  16 September 2011.

Blondie played a tight set of classics peppered with eight songs from their new album "Panic Of Girls".  The new songs were played with a furious punch that only subsided for one of the album's key tracks: a darkly sentimental heartbreak ballad "China Shoes", which created something of an "eye in the storm" at the center of the set.  The entire show packed a freshness and intensity that underscored their intent to remain a current, modern band that remains creative and vital nearly 40 years after their initial inception.  Bravo to ALL... and, of course, a hearty round of praise to Debbie Harry, who only became more focused, hyperkinetic (and undressed) as the show progressed.  Young upstarts and newly-established buzz bands take note:  THIS is where you want to be many years from now.