Rock and roll icon Patti Smith played the New Year’s Eve show at the Fillmore, the final show of a three-show run and a day after celebrating her 69th birthday. Besides the expected highlights Check out photos from midnight as Smith and her band rang in the New Year. In addition to playing her iconic album Horses in its entirety (including the bonus track cover of The Who’s “My Generation”), the setlist also included Smith’s classic “Because the Night” and a song titled “Aquateen Dream,” which was a tribute to the recently-cancelled Adult Swim cult favorite TV show Aqua Teen Hungerforce.
Patti Smith @ The Fillmore in San Francisco, CA, December 31, 2015
Setlist:
Compacted Awareness (poem)
Gloria (Them cover)
Redondo Beach
(verse 1 – stopped for fan medical issue)
Happy Birthday (Mildred J. Hill cover) (for Patti Smith 12/30 and Lenny Kaye 12/27)
Redondo Beach (the rest of the song)
Birdland
Free Money
Kimberly
Break It Up
Land / Gloria (Them cover)
Elegie
Privilege (Set Me Free)
Pissing in a River (with Jesse Paris Smith)
Dancing Barefoot (with Jesse Paris Smith)
Aqua Teen Dream(with Jesse Paris Smith)
[Happy New Year!]
Because the Night
Beneath the Southern Cross (with Third Stone From The Sun)
People Have the Power (with Jesse Paris Smith)
Encore:
Footnote to Howl
My Generation
Three Match Breeze 