"Summer Cannibals" is a
rock song written by
Patti Smith and
Fred "Sonic" Smith, and released as a lead single from Patti Smith 1996 album Gone Again.[1] The song derives from a song Fred "Sonic" Smith wrote and played with his pre-Sonic Rendezvous Band, Ascension in September 1973. Ascension included
Michael Davis on vocals and John Hefti on bass.