tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055500416539063727.post206849279694115092..comments2018-09-05T03:43:30.665-07:00Comments on my jigsaw scrapbook: RAMONESTobi Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02052149126555935296noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055500416539063727.post-40594470856613850322009-11-07T01:37:28.047-08:002009-11-07T01:37:28.047-08:00elvis costello-radio radio live on SNL
http://vime...elvis costello-radio radio live on SNL<br />http://vimeo.com/2875978<br />it's dated 12/17/77, which makes sense--third grade--we were living in Naselle, WA a logging town in the middle of the woods. within two years we moved back to olympia.<br /><br />i remember when we got the record and listened to the lyrics having a conversation with my mom about media consolidation and democracy and realizing what an amazing thing it was that we had witnessed<br /><br />when KYYX went off the air jean fenske and I stayed up all night listening and this was the last song they played. when the Tropicana got closed down, i listened to this song again and again and again and again.Tobi Vailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052149126555935296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055500416539063727.post-68192403843907245932009-10-29T23:49:24.360-07:002009-10-29T23:49:24.360-07:00we're a happy family we're a happy family ...we're a happy family we're a happy family we're a happy family me mom and maggie! so, not sure this nostalgic testimonial to the power of the ramones really captures what they meant to me as a kid--but writing this i was looking back to hearing them for the first time in 1979. we lived in a logging town in the middle of the woods, somehow my parents discovered punk and new wave. i remember seeing elvis costello on tv and then DEVO...they went to portland to go record shopping....i'll have to ask them about this and they brought home ROAD TO RUIN and really this was it. within a year we had moved back to Olympia and my dad was in a band, they were going to SF and Seattle to see shows, my mom was waking us up in the middle of the night to teach us how to POGO! true story, in 1981 after they came home from seeing the Specials at the Show Box. well we understood this group. it was joyous, it was primal "1 2 3 4" and apocalyptic. my parents were back in school in the early 80s and sort of on the sidelines of the post-punk scene here in olympia. by the time high school started in 1983 i was ready to break out on my own and check out the local hardcore skate scene. i was a dork, but i had the ramones on my side. they were my group and they led me to the life i wanted to live --i remember one night summer 1984 at a Swamp House party all the punx pogoing to sheena is a punk rocker and PINHEAD and i was like, YES, this is IT!!!!!! so really the Ramones were kind of sacred to me, the aethiest's holy water...this is not even to mention that Rock N Roll High School is a film centered on anti-authoritarinism and female desire that goes unpunished and is rewarded, the 'good girl' has sex and likes it and the 'bad girl' is an artist who get the Ramone's to cover her song! <br />so what was I thinking in 1990? well I had just been convinced by Robert Christie that the later Ramone's records were actually good and I think I wrote this shortly after his interview in Snipe Hunt came out. I'll have to look for this. I think I was trying to give them credit for making me "cool" and saving me from a life of dreary small town boredom but I don't know if this piece does much more than scream I LOVE YOU JOEY I LOVE YOU JOHNNY I LOVE YOU MARKY I LOVE YOU DEE DEE and maybe that's all that needs to be said.Tobi Vailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052149126555935296noreply@blogger.com