#1974 RAMONES

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"THE RAMONES ARE NOT AN OLDIES GROUP, THEY ARE NOT A GLITTER GROUP, THEY DON'T PLAY BOOGIE MUSIC..."

"...and they don't play the blues."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on American punk rock group, the RAMONES, c. 1974. Note Johnny Ramone's silver spandex pants still hungover on the glam rock of the previous years. 📸: Chris Stein (I think).

1974-ERA BAND OVRRVIEW: "At that point, we were still dressed in partial glitter because THE DOLLS were still the big thing in New York. I had these silver pants made of Mylar and these black spandex pants I'd wear too. I was the only one with a real perfecto jacket -- what the Ramones would later be identified with -- which I had been wearing for 7 years already. We were starting to throw in sneakers, Keds. I also had this vest with leopard trim that I had custom made for me. It was like the thing Iggy was wearing on THE STOOGES' "Raw Power" sleeve."

-- JOHNNY RAMONE (1948-2004), from his book "Commando" (2012)

Sources: www.johnnyramone.com/1974 & www.picuki.com/profile/fortbraggmagazine.

[cosmonautroger]

Ramones - Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue (CBGB 1974)

[spilladabalia]

Electric Wizard - Flower of Evil (a.k.a Malfiore) / José Ramón Larraz - Vampyres

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This will probably be a new feature, similar to the old monthly LUNAR CYCLE I used to do. I figured I would just post quick thoughts on films I’ve recently seen, while giving bigger/solo spotlights to more popular/important films. Let’s see how this goes.

Films reviewed:

BLOOD FOR DRACULA (1974)

VAMPYRES (1974)

FASCINATION (1979)

THE HUNGER (1983)

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1974

[punkrockhistory]

#knowyourroots

The Ramones made their first appearance at CBGB on this day in 1974

Judy Is A Punk - The Ramones CBGB 1974

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[kvetchlandia]

Anton Perich Dee Dee Ramone, David Johansen and Alan Vega outside of Max’s Kansas City, Union Square, New York City 1974

[metalcultbrigade]

On August 16th, 1974 The Ramones play their 1st public gig at CBGB in downtown Manhattan, N.Y. Happy 50th year historic gig date anniversary!

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Martin Sheen and his wife Janet Sheen with their children (from left) Ramon Estevez, Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Renee Estevez, 1974.

[bitter69uk]

“At four in the afternoon, Elizabeth Taylor sauntered onto the set, followed by her secretary, her hairdresser and her wardrobe mistress. She didn’t look puffy; she wasn’t that short and her eyes really were purple. She was already costumed in the one dress her character wears throughout the movie, a pink, green, yellow, orange and blue print Valentino that more than met the script’s requirement for something “garish and vulgar” and was said to have cost $22,000 including four copies to rotate during shooting. Her hair was teased up and out – the script again – but she still looked beautiful, “really beautiful”, as Andy put it. Her secretary and her hairdresser were a pair of Mediterranean musclemen named Ramon and Gianni, in matching tight white t-shirts and tight white trousers, accessorized with red patent leather belts, shoes and shoulder bags. Every so often between takes Ramon would pull a mirror out of his bag and hold it up in front of Elizabeth’s face; then Gianni would pull a teasing comb out of his bag and hand it to Elizabeth, who would fitfully tease her own hair higher. She looked almost mad when she did that, though one couldn’t be sure if she was just in character or almost mad.” From Bob Colacello’s juicy account of the tempestuous production of Italian-made psychodrama The Driver’s Seat in his book Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (1990), in which his then-boss – cadaverous pop art visionary Andy Warhol – makes a memorable guest star appearance as “a rich creep of undisclosed nationality and occupation” (dubbed with an incongruous British-accented voice!). The Driver’s Seat (aka Identikit) was released fifty years ago today (20 May 1974) and remains mesmerizingly strange. Suffering whiplash mood swings as a woman with a “date with death”, Taylor gives one of her definitive performances. The Driver’s Seat dates from my favourite Elizabeth Taylor era in the late sixties and early seventies when she was gutsily portraying variations of women-having-a-nervous-meltdown in oddball “failed art movies” (like Boom! (1968), Secret Ceremony (1968) and X, Y and Zee (1972)). Taylor goes full blast cray-cray in The Driver’s Seat and it’s awesome to observe.

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18 de septiembre de 1951. Nace, Douglas Glenn Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone). en Fort Lee, Virginia, Estados Unidos. Fue el co-fundador y bajista del grupo de punk rock Ramones. Aunque casi todas las canciones de los Ramones fueron acreditadas por todos los miembros de la banda, Dee Dee era el letrista y compositor más prolífico de la banda, escribiendo muchas de las canciones más conocidas del grupo, como "53rd & 3rd", "Commando", "Rockaway Beach" y "Poison Heart". Inicialmente fue vocalista de la banda, aunque su incapacidad para cantar y tocar el bajo al mismo tiempo le dio el lugar como vocalista al original baterista Joey Ramone.

Dee Dee serviría como bajista de la banda y compositor desde 1974 hasta 1989, cuando decidió hacer un breve paso en la música hip hop bajo el nombre de "Dee Dee King". Pronto regresó a sus raíces punks lanzado tres álbumes en solitario con canciones totalmente nuevas, muchas de las cuales luego fueron registradas por los Ramones.

Realizó una gira por el mundo tocando en clubes pequeños presentando sus canciones además de algunas de sus favoritas de los Ramones, continuó escribiendo para los Ramones hasta 1996, cuando la banda se retiró oficialmente. Dee Dee luchó con la adicción a las drogas durante gran parte de su vida, en particular con la heroína. Comenzó a usar drogas cuando era adolescente, y continuó durante su vida adulta. Parecía que en la década de 1990 se había limpiado, pero volvió a consumir un tiempo después. Murió de una sobredosis de heroína el 5 de junio de 2002.

[felixir]

50 years ago today, the Ramones played their first gig at CBGB OMFUG, 1974

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★ My fav bands: Cream, Led Zeppelin, The Damned, Misfits, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Motörhead, Mötley Crüe, W.A.S.P, Guns’n’Roses, Hole, System of a Down, Green Day, Deftones, Lunachicks, Rob Zombie

★ My fav movies: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), the Omen (1976), Lord of the Rings (2001-2003), Austin Powers: International man of mystery (1997), Thirteen (2003), Terrifier (2016)

[the-hottest-band-tournament]

Round Two

Dokken

Defeated opponents: The Crucifucks

Formed in: 1978

Genres: Glam metal, heavy metal, hard rock,

Lineup: Don Dokken- singer

Mick Brown- drums 

Jeff Pilson- bass guitar

George Lynch- lead guitar

Albums from the 80s: 

Breakin' the Chains (1981) (credited to Don Dokken)

Breaking the Chains (1983) (rerecording)

Tooth and Nail (1984)

Under Lock and Key (1985)

Back for the Attack (1987)

Propaganda: I’m gay. I don’t even know what else I can say there’s so much. 

Ramones

Defeated opponents: Blackfoot

Formed in: 1974

Genres: punk rock

Lineup: Joey Ramone – lead vocals

Johnny Ramone – guitar

Dee Dee Ramone – bass, backing vocals

Marky Ramone – drums

Albums from the 80s: 

End of the Century (1980)

Pleasant Dreams (1981)

Subterranean Jungle (1983)

Too Tough to Die (1984)

Animal Boy (1986)

Halfway to Sanity (1987)

Ramones Mania (1988)

Brain Drain (1989)

Propaganda: They are the iconic, prototypical punk band. What more needs to be said?

[weneverlearn]

AUGUST 16, 1974 -- That date should be a National Holiday, for it was the first time The @ramones played CBGB!

Not to mention it's the same day Elvis Presley (1977) and Robert Johnson (1938) died.

That clip above ain't from that exact date, but you get the idea.

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Great Guitarists 100 - Brian May, Angus Young, Johnny Ramone, and Tom Verlaine [CROSSBEAT (November 2009)]

Brian May An essential part of the Brian May story is his self-made guitar, known as the 'Red Special' because of its red body. It was completed by the 16-year-old and his father, who was an engineer, using wood from a century-old fireplace, and attracted a lot of attention at the time of Queen's debut as a 'magic guitar' that could produce violin and horn sounds in addition to the original sound of the guitar. The sound was ridiculed as that of a synthesiser, so it is famous that the band always stated 'no synthesiser' on their early albums. His two albums, 'Sheer Heart Attack', with its Tsugaru shamisen-like interplay, and 'A Night at the Opera', which includes the classic 'Bohemian Rhapsody', a jazz band-style clarinet and even the British national anthem, are two of his best-known albums. A masterpiece where you can enjoy "guitar orchestration". His solo work 'Back to the Light', you can hear the relaxed and unique tearful phrases typical of his love of Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix. It's also unique in that he uses a sixpence coin to produce it, rather than a regular pick. There are many artists who have been influenced by him not only in the guitar but also in the construction of the sound world, such as Green Day and My Chemical Romance for the dramatic side, and Foo Fighters for the hard rock side of his music. -Ikuyo Kotani

Representative albums "Sheer Heart Attack" (1974, photo) Queen "A Night at the Opera" (1975) "Back to the Light" (1992) Brian May

Angus Young Today he is universally recognised as a "rock 'n' roll guitar icon", but it wasn't that long ago that the true nature of Angus Young's guitar playing came to be appreciated in its own right. That's because AC/DC were treated as more metal than they should have been. They were too classically uninspired to be called heavy metal, and their playing was too bluesy and dated to be classified as punk. Therefore, I don't think his playing has ever been properly introduced, especially in countries like Japan, which likes to define its own musical categories. The source of Angus' playing can be traced back to the British beat of the 1960s, with blues-tinged garage bands such as the early Stones, The Yardbirds and Them. The Easybeats, with which his own brother George was a member, were also active in the mod circles at the time. The musical elements thus imbibed were even closer to pub rock than metal, so much so, in fact, that when AC/DC first entered the UK, the record company tried to market them as a punk band. His ironclad riff playing became a standard hip-hop sampling after the heyday of metal in the 70s and 80s, and has been found universal by the grunge generation of the 90s and the new garage generation of the 00s. -Sawada Taiyo

Representative albums "If You Want Blood You've Got It" (1978, photo) AC/DC "Back in Black" (1980) "Black Ice" (2008), same

Johnny Ramone A combination of gruff down-picking and concise riffs, no wonder he used to be a bassist. Of course, he doesn't play guitar solos. It's not that he had an idea, it's just that when he formed the band, that's all he could do, I suppose. But by mastering the only thing they could do, it became their unique personality. And what Johnny Ramone had done became the theory that "when you play punk, you need taste and guts, not necessarily technique". He is credited with getting a lot of young people to pick up the guitar and say, "If that's the case." To get an idea of the Ramones' rich musicality, it is necessary to listen to their mid- and late-period works. However, when it comes to the charm of the guitar, the three early albums with their bare-bones sound, namely 'Ramones', 'Leave Home' and 'Rocket to Russia', are the best examples of this. The Ramones' sound was perfected with these three albums and never rusted over the next two decades. No, on the contrary, it is now established as the Ramones punk genre. It goes without saying that the core of the band is Johnny's playing, who has been playing Mosrite guitars all his life. -Tomoo Yamaguchi

Representative albums "Ramones" (1976, photo) The Ramones "Leave Home" (1977) "Rocket to Russia" (1977)

Tom Verlaine Television was one of the leading figures of 70s New York punk, and had a huge influence on the later grunge/alternate and post-punk revival. The band released only two original albums and a live album before reuniting in 1992, and at the time sales were lacklustre, but today they are a charismatic presence that is recognised by all. The main attraction of the band was Tom Verlaine's innovative guitar sound. His trademarks were the Fender Jazzmaster and Jaguar. At a time when Gibson Les Pauls and Fender Stratocasters were at their height, these guitars were regarded as somewhat outdated models, but they attracted many musicians with their unique playing style, which involved wiggling the tremolo arm and applying a spasmodic vibrato. The ensemble with another guitarist, Richard Lloyd (who later teamed up with Robert Quine for many great performances), was also a vital part of the band, and their interplay on "Marquee Moon" was particularly impressive. After the band broke up, Tom started his solo career. He took on new challenges such as incorporating reggae into his music, while still delivering a sharp guitar sound. -Takanori Kuroda

Representative albums "Marquee Moon (1977, photo) Television "Adventure" (1978) "The Blow-Up" (1982)

Translator's Note: The only other reason that I'm translating this article, besides Matt, is because of Brian May. I love my soft intelligent men with curly hair 🥺💕