Pathway to Paris at the Masonic, September 14, 2018

Live Nation presents Pathway to Paris featuring Patti Smith, Bob Weir, Flea, Eric Burdon, Tenzin Choegyal, and many others.
the California Masonic Memorial Temple Auditorium
1111 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 USA
7:00 PM, Friday, September 14, 2018

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[7:24 PM] lights down, opening movie by Steven Sebring: Letters from Home
[7:27 PM Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon out to talk and perform]
Jesse Paris Smith & Rebecca Foon segment

1. [7:27 PM] ? (unidentified instrumental: piano/cello duet)
   [add unidentified little girl to read a lament for seven extinct creatures]
2. [7:30 PM] ? (unidentified instrumental: piano/cello duet + reading)
   [little reader off; Patti Smith out to read her poem, Prophecy’s Lullaby]
3. [7:33 PM] Prophecy’s Lullaby
   [7:39 PM JPS-RF segment ends; Jesse & Rebecca speak; introduce Imany]
   
   Imany Segment
   [7:45 PM Imany enters with an unidentified performer on acoustic guitar]
4. [7:46 PM] You Will Never Know
5. [7:50 PM] There Were Tears
   [7:54 PM Imany segment ends]
   
   [7:55 PM speech from Bill McKibben]
   [7:57 PM speech from Pennie Opal Plant]
   [8:02 PM Patti Smith out to introduce Flea; quick remarks from Flea]
   Watch the next part on YouTube
   
   Flea Segment
6. [8:03 PM] ? (unidentified loop jam #1)
7. [8:08 PM] ? (unidentified loop jam #2)
8. [8:11 PM] ? (unidentified loop jam #3)
   [8:15 PM Flea segment ends]
   
   [8:16 PM speech from May Boeve of 350.org]
   [May introduces three young women from ThisIsZeroHour.org: Jamie Margolin, Arielle Martinez-Cohen & Elsa Mengistu for more talk and whooping up the crowd]
   [brief bit of dead air]
   [8:25 PM Jesse & Rebecca back out to introduce Tenzin Choegyal]
   
   Tenzin Choegyal Segment
9. [8:26 PM] ? (unidentified tune; TC: Tibetan lute; RF: cello; JPS: reader)
   [add Tibetan kids choir]
10. [8:34 PM] ? “Om Mani Padme Hum”
    [8:40 PM Tenzin Choegyal segment ends; all off]
    
    [8:40 PM Jesse & Rebecca back out to reintroduce Bill McKibben]
    [Bill McKibben speaks; break for audience post card-writing activity (more dead air!)]
    [8:54 PM lights down, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau out to speak, then introduce Suluit]
    Watch the next part on YouTube; HHS posted a snippet of the band rehearsing just before the gig.
    
    Suluit Segment
11. [8:58 PM] ? (unidentified song-story: The Legend of The Mother of the Sea)
12. [9:06 PM] Jump
    [9:11 PM end Suluit Segment]
    
    1000 Cities movie
    [9:16 PM Jesse & Rebecca speak; introduce ?Myra from ?UN Development]
    [various sponsor thanks]
    [9:19 PM Patti Smith out to introduce Eric Burdon]
    
    Eric Burdon Segment
13. [9:20 PM] In the Pines
14. [9:27 PM] Mother Earth
    [9:33 PM Eric Burdon segment ends; dead air]
    
    [9:37 PM Nikolaj Coster-Waldau back out to introduce Olafur Eliasson; TC, RF & JPS out to add atmospheric background music]
    
    Olafur Eliasson Segment
    [9:39 PM Olafur Eliasson talk]
15. [9:43 PM] (lantern music and talk)
    [9:54 PM Olafur Eliasson segment ends; dead air]
    [9:55 PM Nikolaj Coster-Waldau back out to introduce Patti Smith]
    
    Patti Smith Segment
16. [9:58 PM] Peaceable Kingdom (dedicated to the parents of Rachel Corrie) »
17. [10:01 PM] People Have the Power (recited as poem)
18. [10:04 PM] Pissing in a River
19. [10:10 PM] Because the Night
    [10:14 PM Patti Smith segment ends; long stretch of dead air while things get set up for Weir]
    [10:21 PM Patti Smith back out to introduce Bob Weir]
    
    Bob Weir Segment
20. [10:21 PM] Loose Lucy
21. [10:29 PM] Only a River
22. [10:35 PM] Peggy-O
    [add Ramblin' Jack; Bob switches from acoustic guitar to electric]
23. [10:43 PM] Friend of the Devil
    [Ramblin' Jack departs]
24. [10:48 PM] the Other One
25. [10:56 PM] Touch of Grey
    [11:03 PM Bob Weir segment ends]
    [one more movie while the crew sets things up for the encore]
    
    Encore
    [11:06 PM Jesse & Rebecca out with thanks while the musicians get set up]
26. [11:08 PM] People Have the Power
    [show ends 11:15 PM]

• Tenzin Choegyal: dranyen (Tibetan lute), lingbu (transverse bamboo flute), vox;
• Flea: bass, trumpet, loops;
• Rebecca Foon: cello, vox;
• Imany: vox;
• unidentified accompanist to Imany: acoustic guitar;
• Jesse Paris Smith: piano, keyboards, Tibetan gongs, percussion, vox;

• May Boeve
• Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
• Olafur Eliasson
• Jamie Margolin, Arielle Martinez-Cohen & Elsa Mengistu
• Bill McKibben
• Pennie Opal Plant
• Steven Sebring

Suluit

• Nukâka Coster-Waldau: vox;
• Peter Kibsgaard: drums, vox;
• Karina Møller: hand percussion, vox;
• Kristoffer Jul Reenberg: keyboards;
• Hans-Henrik Suersaq: hand percussion, vox.

• Eric Burdon: vox;
• ?John Joe?: guitar;
• Tony Shanahan: bass;
• ?Davey M?: piano, keyboards.

• Flea: bass;
• Tony Shanahan: piano, harmony vox;
• Patti Smith: vox.

• Ramblin' Jack Elliott née Elliot Charles Adnopoz: acoustic guitar, vox;
• Alex Koford: drums, harmony vox;
• Don Was: contrabass;
• Bob Weir: guitar, acoustic guitar, vox.

• Rebecca Foon: cello, harmony vox;
• Flea: bass;
• Alex Koford: drums, harmony vox;
• Tony Shanahan: guitar, harmony vox;
• Jesse Paris Smith: piano, harmony vox;
• Patti Smith: vox;
• Don Was: contrabass;
• Bob Weir: ?acoustic guitar, vox;
• (most everyone else out too, to dance and sway and sing along during the chorus).

Whoa! This section is incomplete for now, sorry!

Transcribing my hand-written notes took me so long that I need awhile to recharge; hopefully I'll get back to this before I forget all my impressions from the evening! Fortunately, a good chunk of the night (maybe all of it?) is available from the official pro-shot video posted to YouTube, so worse comes to worse, I can watch and try to remember what I was thinking when it was live!

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

Whoa! This section is incomplete for now, sorry!

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