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RAMONES - RAMONESMANIA WE GOT THE AIRWAVES
from: ramonesmania.com
Photo by Maggie St. Thomas
Rockin' the NYC club SPIRIT where Blondie, The Strokes, Sonic Youth, Tommy Ramone, C.J. Ramone, Elvis Ramone, frequent Ramones record producer Daniel Rey, the unstoppable JOAN JETT, Andrew WK, Alan Vega (Suicide), Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Bill Stephenson, Mark Sheehan, Jed Davis & Bandcamp. And rock they did.
Jed Davis & Bandcamp got the evening kicking with a tremendous high energy set which included the now classic song "I Still Remember You", produced by Tommy Ramone. The crowd was in awe all evening as Blondie pulled out all the favorites...non-stop, and the Strokes blasted away and held nothing back through 11 songs, new hits and older ones. Oddly the Strokes never performed any Ramones songs in their respective set which I think the crowd was expecting every now and then. I was.(?) Sonic Youth was intense as always n' super tight, in addition to long time punk, Alan Vega from SUICIDE).
The night however belonged to the Ramones on stage, in SPIRIT and in song, and the best set was the Ramones Tribute that included Daniel Rey, (opening their set with a blistering rendition of "Wart Hog") and C.J. Ramone, as the foundation with rotating lead singers which included Andrew WK, Josh Homme and Tommy Ramone amongst others (singing I Wanna Be Sedated). Closing that group set on vocals was punk goddess JOAN JETT, introduced to the crowd as the "only possible female Ramone if there ever could have been a female Ramone" (something like that).
JOAN JETT, forever young looking, came out to a roaring reception by the packed house and ripped into the vocals on 4 classic Ramones songs that where so tight and on-the-mark that for a split second, you could have almost closed your eyes and have been back in time at a real RAMONES show (SPIRIT is right! yikes!-almost I said). The classic "Rockaway Beach" was perfectly mauled by JOAN JETT, C.J. Ramone and Daniel Rey like a chainsaw, just as it should have been. "Cretin Hop" was more of the same. Every song they did was the same; relentless, loud, fast, and it felt like the roof was gonna' split open or something. 1-2-3-4! The crowd was locked and loaded. It was pure punk again for 12 minutes during that set. A classic punk performance if ever there was. - wow! DJ Strip superbly provided the momentum on the turntables in between sets of the bands.
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