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Happy Birthday, Joey Ramone! He would have been 61 today. Click for high-res photo

Happy Birthday, Joey Ramone! He would have been 61 today.

It instantly made half our album collection obsolete.
Producer Daniel Rey on the Ramones debut album, End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

The Friday Five: February 17, 2012

What do you do for Friday Fives? How do you get your kicks?

AC/DC - “What Do You Do For Money Honey” (Back in Black, 1980)
Yeah! Off to a good start so far. I absolutely love the chorus on this one.

Andrew Peterson - “Mystery of Mercy” (The Far Country, 2005)
Peterson has popped up on previous Friday Fives. This is a song of his that CCM act Caedmon’s Call recorded for their 2003 album Back Home and is one of the strongest tracks on this album.

U2 - “God Part II” (Rattle and Hum, 1988)
Meh track from a meh-ish kind of album. I never really got the point of Rattle and Hum, although I do dig their version of “All Along the Watchtower.”

Ramones - “Bop ‘Til You Drop” (Ramones Mania, 1988)
Just over 2 minutes of Ramones goodness. Nice.

Phil Keaggy - “Passing Thought” (Acoustic Sketches, 1996)
Looks like my iTunes is all over the place today. Acoustic Sketches is (true to its name) an acoustic album from criminally underrated and largely unknown CCM guitarist Phil Keaggy, and as the song title suggests, this is a sort of segue track on the album. Keaggy is an amazing guitarist. He does this thing live with digital delays where he lays down a guitar part and loops it, then starts layering on more and more parts so that he can play along with himself. This album was one of the backing tracks for my web programming years ago.

Michael Monroe Band performs “Blitzkrieg Bop” live at Kafe Antzokia, Bilbao, Spain on May 22, 2011

Good Bunnies Get The Carrots

Ramones Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Well it’s about time.

Punk pioneers the Ramones received a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Grammys. On hand to receive the award were Ramones drummers Tommy and Marky—Richie made a speech but apparently didn’t receive an award?!—and accepting on behalf of Johnny, Dee Dee, and Joey were Johnny’s wife Linda, Joey’s brother Mickey Leigh, and John Cafiero, who manages Johnny’s and Dee Dee’s estates.

Enjoy this playlist that includes the acceptance speeches, as well as some red carpet footage with Marky.

Here’s a Beatles/Ramones mashup by Mighty Mike called “For No Bop” combining “For No One” and “Blitzkrieg Bop”

Here’s a video of four of the songs the The Ramones played on a 1977 episode of Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert: “Loudmouth,” “Judy Is A Punk,” “Glad to See You Go,” and “Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment”

RIP Johnny

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RIP Johnny Ramone, died September 15, 2004
Photo © Scott Beale/Laughing Squid

Do You Remember…The US Festival?

Ramones perform at the 1982 US Festival

The Ramones was the second act that played the first day of the first US Festival as part of a lineup of punk and New Wave bands. Now, 28 years later, thanks in part to the technical ingenuity of festival organizer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, you can watch the entire (awesome) set from your personal computer in the comfort of your own home.

Here’s the setlist:

  1. Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio?
  2. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
  3. Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
  4. I Wanna Be Sedated
  5. Beat on the Brat
  6. The KKK Took My Baby Away
  7. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
  8. Chinese Rock
  9. Teenage Lobotomy

(via Slicing Up Eyeballs)

They only played for 30 minutes…because you just couldn’t take that 31st minute.
Joe Strummer about a Ramones show, from the aforementioned “Maximum Energy: The Gear of the Original Punks” article in the June 2010 issue of Premier Guitar

Gear of the Original Punks

The Ramones

We play so loud that the amps couldn’t take it. — Dee Dee Ramone, End of the Century: Story of the Ramones

Premier Guitar has a nice writeup on the gear used by the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash in their latest issue. Probably not any earth-shattering revelations here, but an interesting read nonetheless.