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If you're reading this, you know that.
Fourteen studio albums, severat of
them rclassics. 2,262 live shows. A million nights spent banging down
the highway in a cramped van,
hauling their over-worked butts from
one dismal gig to the next. Never
breaking through - not big-time, not
the way they deserved to - but never
giving up. ;
A Ramones reunion was probably
never in the cards, but now it's off
forever. Joey Ramone died of
cancer in a New York hospital in
2001. Dee Dee Ramone overdosed
in LA. the following year.
Fortunately, the records remain,
and they don't sound quaint or
dated, not at all.
Their last album, Adios Amigos, true to form, tanked. This at a time when
bands like Green Day, the Offspring,
and Rancid bands a generation
younger than the Ramones, but still
fiercely inspired by their rhiisic - were
selling multi-millions. In, 1996,20 years after the release of their first album,
they poundeiJ but their final performances on a Lollapalooza tour.
The first four Ramones albums are
indispensable artifacts of the late-
Seventies punk world-quake; the
first two, especially, with their
thunderous fusion of Black
Sabbath, bubblegum pop, and
other pinhead preoccupations, are
exhilarating formal triumphs. (If
"formal triumph" isn't too poofty a
term to impose on four guys who
probably couldn't have cared less
about such a thing, and might not
even have grasped it.)
So you still can hear the records. But
if you never saw. the Ramones live,
well, you never will.
However, you can hear them live. The
band put out four live albums over the
course of its career, and the first of
these, an import called It's Alive, is
one* of the most explosive rock
concert documents ever released. It
was recorded at the Rainbow Theatre
in London on New Year's Eve 1977,
“The Ramones came in, looked around and said "Fuck it, let's school them'; and BANG a new genre was created and music was
changed forever.” - lann Robinson
when both the Ramones and punk rock
itself were at a dizzying peak. You have
this album, right? Let's move on.
One week after the Rainbow show, the
Ramones were back home in New York,
- booked into the Palladium, a wonderful
old dump on then-still-scummy East 14th
Street. It was a Saturday night, perfect.
The Runaways and Suicide opened. The
orowd, as you can hear, was mightily
jacked up.
never quite happened. A New York
crowd, all dizzed out about having
them back in town, and about being
part of that big punk takeover too.
(So they thought.) A New York vibe, 1
guess you could say. If It's Alive is
the greatest, of punk concert
albums, then this one is...what, the
co-greatest? Whatever. Be happy
we have it.
And I think that's what sets this show
slightly apart from the one captured on
It's Alive. A New York band, embarked on leading the great punk conquest that
I saw the Ramones a lot back In
those particular days. I don't know
if I actually saw this show (it was
the Seventies, who can
remember?), but I can tell you that
this is exactly what they sounded
like: no guitar solos, no pointless gab,
just a tsunami of sound - great breaking
waves of guitar roar. But clean,,
sculpted, pure. And the songs! Cresting
off of its first two albums, Ramones and
Ramones Leave Home, the band had.'
only recently released its third, the
formidable Rocket to Russia. And so.* •
every song they played that night was.
drawn from three of the most flat-out --
fabulous records in the annals of ■ punkdom. Which is to say, every song-
was a hit. (Well, you know what P,-
mean.) And there were 27 of them - 27 '
songs in a head-snapping 52 minutes.
That's our boys! ‘ ‘, /j
"They really influenced so many rock bands. Even though their music was a very
simple rock n' roll, it created a new genre in rock which of course was punk rock.
There's nothing like them." - Hilly Kristal »■
I guess we can thank the King Biscuit Flower Hour
engineers for capturing this performance with such
admirable clarity, allowing us to thrill anew to Joey's
every lovable faux-Brit vocalism, Dee Dee's inevitable
"one-two-three-four" kickoffs (or "ein-zwei-drei-vier" -
Dee Dee had a thing about Germany), and Johnny's
breathtaking speed-king Mosrite mow-downs.
Drummer-by-default Tommy Ramone is still on-board
here (he would shortly step back into producing), and
Tf his endearingly unadorned thwap-bap
II ■ propulsion is still a mini-wonder.
As I say, a great, great band. I can understand how
some people might pine for those old punk days,
bellyaching about why things just aren't as cool
anymore, as loud-and-fast, as blah blah blah.
Borderline-pathetic, but I can understand. The
Ramones, though? You can't miss the Rampnes. They
haven't gone away. Listen.
Kurt Loder, NYC 2003
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