Best Part 1:53 Joey "I DON'T WANNA GO DOWN TO THE BASEMENT!!!" (silence) Tommy: "Oh, c'mon! Let's do Loudmouth, alright?" Johnny: "F**k it! F**k it!" Dee Dee: "No! I wanna do 'I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement' too!" Johnny: "That's 3 against 1." (someone in the audience taunts them) Dee Dee: (looking their way) "Really?!?" Tommy: "F**k you all!" Johnny: "Play! Finally!!!" Dee Dee: "ONE!!! TWO!!! THREE!!! FOUR!!!" this was my best attempt to transcribe what they said. It was hard to hear some words This, in a nutshell, was the Ramones.
@@EatPieYes Neither do you.....the CGBG's crowd at that time were drunks, homeless, transvestites, lesbians, jobless, drug addicts and by and large useless at having a life....they had no idea about ANYTHING...and your point "The CBGB crowd probably did, otherwise they wouldn't have been there" is just stupid....they were all losers and didn't have anywhere else to go at the time...if you think that the crowd at CGBG's in 1974 were hip and could see into the future then you are deluded....they were only there to score drugs or some good time ass in the toilets
@@EatPieYes Not a crowd at all. Two people. One of them was holding the camera. This was when it cost $50 to shoot 2 minutes worth of film footage, so most people only made home movies on holidays or special occasions. Someone saw something here.
Oliver Kalamata I didn't understand how Joey was in this. In all the live shows of the Ramones, I've never seen Joey dance this much, so much sass into it too.
Someone had an actual portable VIDEO CAMERA in '74?? And got it to the Bowery in one piece? And, obviuosly, got it home intact!?! What a present. Thanks.
They picked up quite literally where the New York Dolls and Stooges left off. You can even see it in their early stage gimmicks. Joey's dance moves are borrowed from David Johansen and Iggy Pop. Johnny's leopard print jacket looks like something Ron Asheton would have worn a year prior.
This is 6 months after the very first time they had ever played in front of an audience. Amazing history. It's like seeing a video of the Beatles playing in a bar.
I have the book on Joey ramone & the Ramones written by his brother, Johnny ramone said they would record as many shows as possible, and watch what looks the best and sounds the best. One of the things was to get Joey to be glued to the mic & not to move. Johnny told him he looked better standing than on the ground, and well Joey changed and stayed that way till the end. Also in hear you can hear the feed back from the guitar after songs, so after Johnny used a foot switch to stop the feedback after a song
they were too excited, yk so they carried like during any other rehearsals they do They were playing as they did, for sheer fun like if there was no Public. No act, just an intimate show. They will soon switch to their usual curt dudes later, Blues Brothers like: "No m'am we are musicians, LET's GO"
I'd settle for better windows into the past, so I can't alter history. Hell if I wanna prevent myself from being born through something I thought was completely unrelated. And yes, that's Back to the Future reasoning.
@@tylurmackinnon6217 they supposedly formed in 1975 but anyone that gives the Pistols credit for starting anything makes me mad, and yes richard hell started the hair and the ripped clothes trend
The fact that these guys never played like « professionals », never bothered with solos, complex song structure or style is mesmerising. Just pure rock and roll, raw, in your face pure energy and pleasure. Straight to the point and way too fast and loud with at least 10 years ahead of their time. Thank god this guys existed and dit what they did non stop till the end….long live RAMONES !
@Anon54387 this statement isn't just ignorant, it's just straight up wrong; if you bothered listening to anything past their first 4 records you'd know how musically diverse they actually are
@@job1481 they did care but not that much I think, Johnny and joey has the same haircut till their passing, all four dressed always the same, they cared about the STYLE in the way that they stayed true to punk rock ideals
Jim P: When Joey went down into the crowd, the next thing I expected to hear was "Mr. Osterberg, Mr. Hyman ... Mr. Hyman, Mr. Osterberg." Johnny had the right idea, I think.
@@frankgrimes7388 I like stooges a lot more than Alice Cooper but they had the I'm 18 song which really influenced Ramones it's the first song they played together or something
For years and years, “I don’t wanna go down to the basement” and “loudmouth” were my #1 and #2 favorite songs of all. It is really such a thrill to see them at it like this.
@@zantetsu8674 You are speaking from a position of ignorance, clearly. I don't think Ramones are the best punk band ever, but they're up there and their influence is still felt today in the genre.
@@manuelper I believe what really made the Ramones stand out from other punk bands was a couple of things like their uniforms, Joey's singing, and straight power chords. The reason why I said it, a lot of 70's punk bands including the Sex Pistols still had some blues chords progression in especially when they comes in their guitar solos. Plus bands that came after them had tried to sing like Johnny Rotten or Joe Strummer. Not many punk singers tried to sing in a similar fashion like Joey.
I saw them there many times. What a shithole that place was, you took your life in your hands just getting there. You had to travel in a large group. But man the shows we saw there were life changing.
@Jeff Baker Deborah Harry and Chris Stein had an apt a few blocks from cbgb's ,a crappy 2nd or 3rd floor apt and i helped them lug their equipment to cbgb's one night
@@Whoochtar hey man I agree with you, I dont think a hollywood movie would do these guys justice, i was just saying that this guy was probally talking about a movie movie. I would want a good movie ab them made though, by people close to them
Tommy was the engine that powered the Ramones, imo they weren’t the same after he left, still great just a bit different, He was my favorite Ramone RIP
So pivotal and groundbreaking. It’s understandable how people at the time didn’t realize this.. but there’s nothing like it before it and it floored the way for an entirely new approach to rock music that has lasted decades
All we ever hear about these days are the pretenders to the crown of greatest band of all time: Stones, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Floyd etc etc ad nauseum. See now the power and the majesty of the true, the one and only greatest band of all time: The Ramones. This is what started me and my friends on our own punk rock journey, thanks to these punk rock gods. Hell, when my cat heard this, even he wanted to start up a punk rock band.
I first heard of them in a Rock Scene magazine in '74 in the new bands section.... Looking just like this. Pretty amazing to invent a sound like this so different from everything else at the time and courageous to take it on the road.
i love how strong their personalities were too lol when they played they seemed like they were all trying to get pent up rage out like any good punk band would do
I don't remember if I read it on Monte Melnick's book, or in Commando (his book), but Johnny said some ballet company recorded this, and the got to see it, so they could fix those kind of things. Tommy and Johnny told Dee Dee to play with a pick, and Joey to stand with his mic stand, without moving.
Incredibly seminal. It does not get any more raw and real. Great footage! Insane that it's 1974. Totally carrying the torch dropped by the Stooges and Dolls into the next dimension. The after effects of this band were immense and are still felt today. I love that while the fat cats of the music game were living lavish, these dudes were in the trenches crafting their audio atomic bomb. A musical revolution was on it's way and the playing field was soon to be leveled haha.
@@random_hero_88 I’m excited for him and I think he’ll pull it off. He was just interviewed about it and I think filming starts in January so it’ll be awhile yet.
When I first saw them in the early 80s they had come back from a world tour where they packed huge soccer stadiums. 100,000 in Brazil. They came to New Haven & played a back room in an auto dealership on Branford Hill in front of maybe 30 or so people.
DeeDee, I saw him in Copenhagen in the early 1990s. Fantastic. I'm a bit more than an hour they played 50 Ramones songs that I knew, a couple that I didn't know, and 3 of his own songs. Job done, fast, efficient and well.
I met, photographed and followed the Ramones during their first CA tour, August 1976. I stayed at the same dive hotels as they, in my own room, on my own dollar. One night Dee Dee told me they were gonna show some early black and white footage. He was shy and embarrassed (as usual). He told me Joey was drunk. Dunno if that's true, but that's what he said. He loved Joey, but was always so brutally honest. It's wonderful to see that footage again.
wow, I remember when hand made small announcements of these shows of 1974 were all over the bulletin board of my school, Queensborough C.C., NY, I didnt get to see them until 1976 at Max's
Eerie that Johnny the guitar player died on this day exactly 30 years later. I’m almost 25 and the fact that he was doing this at 25 is unreal and he was the oldest.
I saw them on their last tour. Im in nc, it was summer, they played in the afternoon in summer heat n left their jackets on for half the set. Lol. I always wondered if they put en in a freezer first, or something. Johnny rocked it.
Little moments in time encapsulate so much... They’re so raw, here. Not a great recording but you can see how hungry they are, the purity. Just a good old fashioned rock and roll show. Great footage, camera guy! RIP Icons
Saw the Ramones at CBGB in 1974. More than once. What a thrill to find this video. At the end of a set Ramones raced offstage (punk urgency) and there was no backstage to disappear to. I headed into the ladies room - and there they were. They had great ideas about stage presence.
Awesome! I was in a mental hospital a few years back and a fellow patient was this little old lady who used to see the Stooges play at the Grandee Ballroom in Detroit back in 1968. She was such a sweetheart. They really treated her like garbage; told her she was going home, only for her to find out "home" was a nursing home as she was loaded onto a bus. We talked on the phone a few times after I got out, but then all of a sudden she was not allowed to take any calls, apparently because her ultra-conservative daughter had power of attorney over her, or some nonsense. She drew a beautiful picture of the Taos Gorge from memory with a purple marker, and I found it earlier today as I was going through my art stuff. Goodbye, Liz, and God bless.
I don't know why, oh yeah.......but a rural kid from Louisiana had his entire worldview opened up by these guys when I first heard their record in Junior High back in 1978....
They argue about Loudmouth or Down to the Basement; Johnny: 'Fuck you all, Loudmouth...' '1. 2. 3. 4' All of them: Play down to the Basement XD brilliant
The birth of New York Punk! This is fascinating. The Ramones had yet to crystallize their band uniform. Johnny's outfit reminds me of something James Williamson or Iggy Pop would have worn during the Raw Power era. But the sound and stage presence is very much there. Joey stalks the stage like a praying mantis LOL.
Amazing that this band would completely alter the course of rock and roll for the next four decades and the reverberations are still being felt to this very day.
