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PATTI SMITH GROUP - "My Generation" * (Arista) (45' rprri) :: The "A" side, "Gloria," you've heard; it's "Generation" (recorded live in Cleveland, Ohio with John Cale on bass) that you'll want to own this for. The band is loose, even sloppy — Patti so stoned she can't even remember the third verse, Cale so drunk that the bass solo sounds like an eighth-grader attempting Entwistle..,