I'm pretty sure I've seen video of this, but that might be wrong since I can't find it (it might just be that I saw someone talking about it somewhere). Either way, it's funny:
On May 16 and 17 1976, a few months after the release of her debut album ‘Horses’, Smith played two nights at the Roundhouse in Camden. Her sets (which you can hear on YouTube today, thanks to a bootlegger) incorporated plenty of songs from the album: ‘Gloria’, ‘Redondo Beach’, ‘Free Money’, ‘Land’ and ‘Kimberly’. The crowd included a good chunk of London’s nascent punk scene, including members of The Sex Pistols. On stage with the Pistols at the 100 Club a couple of days later, Johnny Rotten launched into a rant about the gig: ‘In we go to the Roundhouse the other night, see the hippy shaking the tambourines. Horses, horses, horse-SHIT!’ Awkwardly, two of the Patti Smith Band were standing in the audience.
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