I'm working on this piece for my journal that's a What if [Marvel Comic Geek Alert] Bo Diddly had the influence that Chuck Berry did on Rock and Roll, and the subsequent new history of Rock and Roll, with the Animals, the Troggs, and the Pretty Things as the kings of the Brit Invasion instead of the Beatles/Stones/Who axis, followed by the New York Dolls ect becoming superstars in the 1970's... but that's going to have to wait until I'm drunk enough to post it... until then...
I spent too much money on CD's the other night. I got that Animals 2 CD set, the Suicide live 1980 CD and the reissue of The Ramones Rocket to Russia CD. It's that last one that I want to write about a bit here.
I'm a late comer to The Ramones, and have only in the last couple years really understood their magic. I have been picking up the reissues of their albums and finally got around to buying the Rocket to Russia disc.
It's a great album, maybe their best, I don't know I think that with any of their first 4 records you can't go wrong, but this one has Sheena and Rockaway Beach..... but what blew my mind was a flyer and photo in the liner notes. The photo is from 1977 and has Tommy & Johnny posing wiht Fred Sonic Smith, and the Ashton Brother in Ann Arbor Michigan.
The Flyer is for a show at the Second Chance 516 E. Liberty Street on March 28th. I gather that the flyer is also from 1977.... gimmie a mo, I gotta hit google.....
(damn Scott Morgan looks young on that flyer... not the guy who I used to run into taking back his beer bottles for the deposit 3 years ago) anyway.....
the this in this..... My sister was born on March 20th, 1977 at our house in Ann Arbor Michigan. Ok, so what you say, the show happened 8 days later in the same town....but what I haven't said is that she was born at home on purpose and she was delivered by the motorcity midwives, one member of which was Lannie SInclair (one of the wives of John Sinclair of the MC5 fame.. we went to picnics for the Motorcity midwives that I have vauge memories of)... anyway they came to Ann Arbor to our house to deliver my sister from some concert in the big D, Detroit. My brother and I have always joked that my unpunk rock sister was delivered into this world by a bbunch of midwives who had driven into town from seeing the Sonic Rendeivous band show... what's the chance that that was a Ramones and Sonics show??? I'm sure that somewhere out there, all their concert listing from that 1977 tour would tell me if the Midwives had come from seeing the Ramones to deliver my sister.... but really it's not all that important... what is important is the fact that no matter how I was raised that I couldn't avoid punk rock and it's effects. My sister is one of the most unpunk people you'll ever meet in a lot of ways, so that Action Rawk punkness of the Stooges and the Ramones must have settled on me and my brother. I have this image of use as little boys sleeping while these women came to our house and left their Rock and Roll Mojo for us as their delivered my sister....
Now I don't recall the time that Dee Dee lived in Ann Arbor, or when GG Allin lived at the YMCA next to the bus station that I had to sit at waiting to head home all the time, and I don't recall seeing the Misfits on the street or the Necros (who lived in town), I never ran into any member of the Damned, or spoke to John 'Negative Approach' Brannon when he worked at the Army Surplus store that I bought my BDUs and Field Jacket at, but all that stuff was around........
Post Note.... The Second Chance is now called the Necto, it's your basic gay dance club, lot's of boys and asian girls with out coats in the dead of winter. They had live music there up until 1987 or so, Black Flag played their second to last show there and Ministry is reported to have been the last band to play their stage.
I feld Ann Arbor in 2002 for a better life. Live music has gotten harder and harder to find in the People Republic, musicians who once lived there can't afford the cost of a home and it's all yuppies now... but once it was the birth place of punk rock.....
take that for what it's worth.
I spent too much money on CD's the other night. I got that Animals 2 CD set, the Suicide live 1980 CD and the reissue of The Ramones Rocket to Russia CD. It's that last one that I want to write about a bit here.
I'm a late comer to The Ramones, and have only in the last couple years really understood their magic. I have been picking up the reissues of their albums and finally got around to buying the Rocket to Russia disc.
It's a great album, maybe their best, I don't know I think that with any of their first 4 records you can't go wrong, but this one has Sheena and Rockaway Beach..... but what blew my mind was a flyer and photo in the liner notes. The photo is from 1977 and has Tommy & Johnny posing wiht Fred Sonic Smith, and the Ashton Brother in Ann Arbor Michigan.
The Flyer is for a show at the Second Chance 516 E. Liberty Street on March 28th. I gather that the flyer is also from 1977.... gimmie a mo, I gotta hit google.....
(damn Scott Morgan looks young on that flyer... not the guy who I used to run into taking back his beer bottles for the deposit 3 years ago) anyway.....
the this in this..... My sister was born on March 20th, 1977 at our house in Ann Arbor Michigan. Ok, so what you say, the show happened 8 days later in the same town....but what I haven't said is that she was born at home on purpose and she was delivered by the motorcity midwives, one member of which was Lannie SInclair (one of the wives of John Sinclair of the MC5 fame.. we went to picnics for the Motorcity midwives that I have vauge memories of)... anyway they came to Ann Arbor to our house to deliver my sister from some concert in the big D, Detroit. My brother and I have always joked that my unpunk rock sister was delivered into this world by a bbunch of midwives who had driven into town from seeing the Sonic Rendeivous band show... what's the chance that that was a Ramones and Sonics show??? I'm sure that somewhere out there, all their concert listing from that 1977 tour would tell me if the Midwives had come from seeing the Ramones to deliver my sister.... but really it's not all that important... what is important is the fact that no matter how I was raised that I couldn't avoid punk rock and it's effects. My sister is one of the most unpunk people you'll ever meet in a lot of ways, so that Action Rawk punkness of the Stooges and the Ramones must have settled on me and my brother. I have this image of use as little boys sleeping while these women came to our house and left their Rock and Roll Mojo for us as their delivered my sister....
Now I don't recall the time that Dee Dee lived in Ann Arbor, or when GG Allin lived at the YMCA next to the bus station that I had to sit at waiting to head home all the time, and I don't recall seeing the Misfits on the street or the Necros (who lived in town), I never ran into any member of the Damned, or spoke to John 'Negative Approach' Brannon when he worked at the Army Surplus store that I bought my BDUs and Field Jacket at, but all that stuff was around........
Post Note.... The Second Chance is now called the Necto, it's your basic gay dance club, lot's of boys and asian girls with out coats in the dead of winter. They had live music there up until 1987 or so, Black Flag played their second to last show there and Ministry is reported to have been the last band to play their stage.
I feld Ann Arbor in 2002 for a better life. Live music has gotten harder and harder to find in the People Republic, musicians who once lived there can't afford the cost of a home and it's all yuppies now... but once it was the birth place of punk rock.....
take that for what it's worth.
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