{"id":258,"date":"2012-06-13T07:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T07:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/?p=258"},"modified":"2012-06-13T07:03:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T07:03:56","slug":"video-patti-smith-on-letterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/258\/video-patti-smith-on-letterman\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Patti Smith on Letterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-15937\" title=\"Patti Smith Banga\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Patti-Smith-Banga.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"234\" \/>Last week we heard the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2012\/06\/patti-smith-fiona-apple-share-new-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\">studio version<\/a> for the title track to Patti Smith&#8217;s new album, <em>Banga<\/em>, and now the live rendition has hit screens across the country via Smith&#8217;s return to the <em>Late Show with David Letterman<\/em>.\u00a0Complete with a drummer multi-tasking as a barking dog<!--more--> (an allusion to the canine in\u00a0Mikhail Bulgakov&#8217;s <em>The Master and Margarita<\/em> that the tune was named after), longtime right-hand man Lenny Kaye, and a wholly original cut that channels the avant-rock\/poetry scene where she first found musical roots, Smith&#8217;s latest appearance was about as memorable as ever &#8212; save, perhaps, for her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_GAtTR0A3KU\" target=\"_blank\">&#8217;98 take<\/a> on &#8220;Because the Night&#8221;. Without further ado, watch things get a little bit weird yet completely inspiring thanks to its many unexpected moments below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gxYid-L05xw?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"540\" height=\"295\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we heard the studio version for the title track to Patti Smith&#8217;s new album, Banga, and now the live rendition has hit screens across the country via Smith&#8217;s return to the Late Show with David Letterman.\u00a0Complete with a drummer multi-tasking as a barking dog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,40],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-letterman","tag-patti-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}