The Ramones in London: the spark that lit the fire
by Pete
The British punk explosion of 1976-77 can pretty easily be traced to one night in London: July 4th, 1976. That was the night the Ramones came to town. It was their UK debut, opening for the Flamin’ Groovies at the Roundhouse in Camden.
In attendance were current and future members of the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Buzzcocks, and the Damned, among countless others I’m sure. The quality is pretty bad, but it’s still amazing to listen in on such an important night in music history. A 35 minute set that shaped the future of music. Pretty sweet.
The Ramones
Live at the Roundhouse, London
July 4th, 1976
Intro / Sound Issues
Loudmouth
Beat On The Brat
Blitzkrieg Bop
I Remember You
Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
Glad To See You Go
Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
53rd & 3rd
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
Havana Affair
Listen To My Heart
California Sun
Judy Is A Punk
I Don’t Wanna Walk Around With You
Today Your Love Tomorrow The World
Happy Birthday Joey Ramone
May 18, 2009 - 9:25 pm
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The world is worse off without the presence of Joey Ramone. Eight years ago (8!) last month, Joey lost his battle with lymphoma – he didn’t even see his 50’s, and that’s a tragic shame. I think often about how strange it is to live in a world without Joey Ramone and Joe Strummer. It [...]
Pleasant Dreams
February 11, 2007 - 1:07 pm
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I guess it’s because ‘Pleasant Dreams’ had just been released about the time I discovered them, that it still ranks up there as one of my favorite Ramones albums. I was all of 11 years old when I heard my older brother listening to the Ramones, and soon enough, there I was in front of [...]
The Ramones Live in 79
November 30, 2006 - 10:32 pm
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Posted in Punk | 13 comments
Tonight it’s a full-on late 70’s punk rockin’ assault, as the Ramones rock Northwestern University. Coming to you from way back in October of 1979, this is a supercharged set from Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Marky. It’s quite shitty to think that three out of those four are no longer with us. Johnny died [...]
Chop Suey with Joey and the Girls
January 27, 2005 - 9:52 pm
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There’s an eighties movie called ‘Get Crazy’. It starred Malcolm McDowell, who freaked everybody out as Alex in ‘A Clockwork Orange’. I haven’t seen ‘Get Crazy’. But on the soundtrack is a Ramones contribution called “Chop Suey”. It was an outtake from my favorite Ramones album, ‘Pleasant Dreams’. It’s a more pop-oriented album than their [...]
May 22, 2008 - 10:48 pm
It’s still downloading, I can’t wait to listen to it. You’re absolutely correct – Brit Punk started right that night. Thanks for yet another bootleg classic!
May 24, 2008 - 3:26 pm
Just downloaded, and have to wait to listen, as I’m currently committing the halcyon Springsteen Roxy show of 1978 that you uploaded for me (and for all, last August) to CD. Damn, is my place going to have the roof shaking tonight! Thanks for making this available, Pete.
As an aside, and because I can’t help evangelizing, Joey Ramone wanted for many years for the Ramones to play a Sparks song live, but they never did. A shame, too! Sparks is currently in London performing each of their 21 albums, one each over 30 nights, with about 7 down. Each is being webcast live, and it’s great, great fun. Sparks is an aquired taste for many, and happily, Joey, like Morrissey, got it.
Back to the Ramones, it’s almost spine tingling to imagine the future gods on hand that night. What a great piece of rock history.
May 24, 2008 - 5:48 pm
Well Dave, as great as this Ramones show is, if you truly want the house shaking tonight, you need a great quality Ramones show. And that is Rock & Roll College. Oct. 13, 1979 at Northwestern University. So grab it & rock it!
May 28, 2008 - 7:06 am
This is an amazing gift.
There seems to be some problems with some of the songs – both in the zip and on the site.
Songs 3,4,5,6,8,11,12,13,15 & 16 throw the error:
” Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file.”
This happens when I click the mp3 on the page and when I try to play the file from the zip.