A lovely soul at Music Vault (a beautifully curated YouTube channel) has uploaded some amazing footage of Patti Smith from a 1979 show at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic. The Jersey girl could not have been met with a more enthusiastic home turf crowd, and it’s a really great performance. Smith is at home onstage, sweet and familiar—at one point she introduces a song by Lenny Kaye to a cheering crowd by saying, “Oh thank you; I have to go to the bathroom.”

She’s going a bit hoarse throughout, but it only seems to add to the growl of an animal performance. This was just after the release of Easter, her most commercially successful album, but the show has some great material from my fave, Horses. Check out the sexy rendition of “Redondo Beach,” which gets the sapphic intro, “Redondo… Beach… is the beach… where…women… love other… women.” She also absolutely destroys “Revenge,” and does a few mournful bars of “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.”

Check out the rest of the show on their Patti Smith channel.