Patti Smith Frolicks, Jeff Tweedy Checks Out His Son's Band: Lollapalooza Video

While Lollapalooza was packed with controversial and legendary performances, Rock Daily captured some of the fest's more candid, unexpected moments too. Check out this footage of Patti Smith rocking "Because the Night" (and snapping some photos of dogs backstage), plus shots of Wilco's Jeff Tweedy taking in his son's band, the Blisters (Spencer Tweedy is the one tearing through the drum solo). Check back tomorrow for footage from Iggy and the Stooges, Regina Spektor, My Morning Jacket, Snow Patrol and Ben Harper.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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