Thanks for getting this video to 10,000 views! This was a project that I hastily slapped together in a few hours. Glad to see that you have all enjoyed it though! I also wanted to give a special shout out to "MomoeKaitenMokuba" for being the person who synced the 1975 CBGB footage. I forgot to credit them before using that clip in the footage, so I want to give them credit where it's due. Edit: I’ve been working on an updated and extended edition of this video, which is about halfway done now and will hopefully be uploaded soon. After doing some additional research I discovered that I missed a few clips and songs from 2 different shows in the compilation. These additional clips have hardly been shared or seen by anybody and I want to share them with you guys. After that I plan on uploading more Rush content and remastered footage so stay tuned for that as well! Edit 2: Wow 200,000 views! Thanks so much for the support on this video. The updated version is still happening, I've been busy with school and other life stuff but I do intend to finish the video as soon as possible, so stay tuned for that.
Just curious, is there any more early (I mean before their first album) footage you could slap together? Or perhaps release all of it? This is honestly the only place that I've come come across any Ramones material that's *this* early.
@@riisitau The other early footage that I’m aware of is the MPCS studio footage from January 1976. Which is right before the band recorded the first album. It’s been on RU-vid for a long time labeled as “Arturo’s Loft” even though it wasn’t recorded at Arturo Vega’s apartment. Hardly Ramone enhanced the audio on that footage since it’s super distorted. The only thing I might be able to improve is maybe upload a non watermarked version of the first song, since every single version out there has burnt in Japanese subtitles on Loudmouth. Hardly Ramone got around it by digitally zooming on for the part where the subtitles are. Here’s the link to the footage: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RZGFOpMjhoo.htmlsi=qmn48oNdmGenfQDy As for more footage to compile, I did find more footage of the April 10th 1979 show (last show in the upload) on RU-vid. I had a buddy of mine enhance the audio and I just got the results back today. I read that more footage than what I found also exists but if don’t find it shortly I’m just going to compile the extra songs I found and upload that soon.
Saw them at least 10 times. You can't understand what it was like unless you saw the Ramones in person. Pure energy. BTW The Ramones were named after a pseudonym that Paul McCartney used in the 60's
If you lived in NYC, you never knew when the Ramones would show up in your neighborhood. They were known around the world but not really appreciated in their home town, so Jethro Tull would draw 20,000 people at MSG and the Ramones would be playing in a small club in Staten Island before a couple of hundred. I know because that's where I saw them, not in 1974 before they were well known, but around 1982.
I've seen them 4 times. but those 4 times were Incredible. 4th time was on my B day no less with Soc D opening for em. that was most Spectacular. Long Live R.A.M.O.N.E.S Gaba Gaba Hey !
even the ramones know how great the beatles were and their influence on more musicians in history than any other band ! never trust anyone who doesn't appreciate the beatles !@@jakebourland2212
I had no idea footage like this existed, this is absolutely historic. So often I've read that punk started with that one Sex Pistols gig, but nah this is it, years before that. And on film dammit!
Yes I’m 62 years old and remember the Ramones started it in USA and in England it was Eddie & the hot rods along with Dr Feelgood both from Canvey Island! The Pistols came later note also like me we all had Johnny Ramone haircuts not spike hair. 1974 was also the year THE STRANGLERS started another superb punk/New wave group still touring ( just)
People forget that these guys were at it for YEARS before they really broke huge. And not “punk rock” huge, but seen as a real band and not a cartoon. RIP guys
This is an amazing compilation. It’s hard to capture it just how loud these shows were, and the incredible energy. At least in my experience there was a lot more slam dancing in the pit than I can see on these videos.
Man I loved Rocket to Russia. My parents were considering letting me go to a Ramones concert in ‘77 or ‘78, but the Sex Pistols had developed such a bad reputation in the press that they eventually said no. But they let me go see Black Sabbath. Go figure. Gabba Gabba Hey!
I recently went to what used to be CBGB. I was never able to see Los Ramones since I didn't live in the US and I wasn't born yet. However, I felt enormous emotion when I was there when I saw the brand on the pavement and the license plate on it honor to Joey. Many people pass by there without realizing the historical value of that place. Without a doubt, the Ramones are a source of inspiration for those of us who love music.
I'm from Detroit but I was in New York in 1982 and at CBGB Omfug. It was in the Bowery in the middle of bum alley. Real skinny section of building in the block but it went back about a half a mile . Place was so skinny the stage was on an angle and still was small. A long hallway to the back and then downstairs to the John which was so well autographed you needed a Bic fine point pen to add to the walls. That was where he didn't want to go, down to the basement. I saw the Ramones every time they came to Detroit. They were like a machine. Dee Dee said ' one two three four ' and they played for twenty minutes, stopped for half a minute, one two three four and off for another fifteen- twenty minutes nonstop.
I've seen some of these clips here and there, so cool to see them all in one video. I remember seeing the Ramones for the first time in the summer of 1977 on Don Kirshner's Rock Show, I had just turned 13 and I remember it like it was yesterday. I had never heard of them before and was absolutely baffled, long black hair, leather jackets playing 150 mph music. When they played the cover of California Sun, I became very intrigued being a California kid and all, and then they played Rockaway Beach, and I wanted more. I finally got to see the Ramones in 1979 at UC Irvine in a basketball gym, they played for over an hour straight and it was like a machine gun hitting you in the forehead, and we ate it up. To me, The Ramones were the punk rock Beach Boys. R.I.P. Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, and Tommy .... you changed music forever 🙏
Fascinating to see that earliest footage where they hadn’t worked out the song transitions yet, Johnny and Dee Dee on different sides, and Joey still trying to figure out what his stage persona was going to be.
No, no it didn't - but you keep telling yourself that. You know, just forget about all the outstandingly brilliant music their contemporaries were putting out there, at the same venue - artists absolutely streets ahead of these simple boys in every single way. Richard Hell had more talent for Rock 'n Roll in his little finger than the entirety of the Ramones band, period.
@@matthewtrow5698Hell didn't have the songs the Ramones did, it's very easy to say that they were simple and they were but write something that comes close...
The Ramones and The Beach Boys are two of the most important band in all of music history and are consistently looked over in the best ever conversation
When you get to the color footage was around the first time I saw the Ramones, outdoors, in the daytime, in New Hampshire. WOW! A real eye opener. Saw them a couple more times, at indoor venues, it was amazing every time. Got a bunch of footage on DVD from throughout their career, the energy comes right out of the TV and into the room. RIP to Joey, Johnny and DeeDee. But Long Live Ramones.
By the way, Ivan Kral (credited with the first clip) was the bass player in the Patti Smith Group. The first time I saw the Ramones, it was when they opened for Patti Smith. That was a turning point for me, the moment when I finally got what this music was all about.
I’ve been to at least 12 Ramones shows… including the one at cbgbs in 79. This is the greatest collection of ramones clips I’ve seen, thank you. Also, I happen to meet Joey in lower manhattan about 1982, and shook his hand. I’ll never forget that. RSVP Jeff.
They had no idea they were changing music as most people new it simple play real fast and good lyrics and a good good vocal I have the Ramones on my Pandora station they were great I lived in Rockaway and when did he wrote the song it blew us all away chewing on a beat with my bubble gum hitchin a Ride to Rockaway f****** great 😃
The October 1977 date at 17:20 is from one of the shows they performed at CBs in their mini-residency there from October 27-30th of that year. These shows were significant because they were the FIRST shows Johnny played with his new white Mosrite after the blue one was stolen in Chicago just a week earlier on October 22nd.
Amazing to see CBGB's so clean and pristine! I don't see a single sticker or graffiti, and not a stain of that curious, unknown CBGB's grime that managed to find its way on literally everything! It's like watching a video of your old, beat-up AMC Gremlin when it rolled off the lot brand-new!
Gotta love The Ramones. They did it for themselves; didn't have to try and please anyone, just get out and have a good time. Don't care about this or that genre, don't care if the sound's crap, just get out and make noise their way. No mammas boy.
I remember these days like it was yesterday ! When the 9:30 club opened in DC , punk was relatively new . I was actually in CBGB’s but much later and before the show started but still ……. Icons that are still talked about today . The classic “ I may be old but I got to see all the really great bands , live !”
Saw Ramones every time they came to Detroit, saw Stiv Bators and Dead Boys in my neighborhood. ( Silver Bird Lounge ) Remember when Patti Smith was in Detroit and on radio interview she said Detroit ' had that nice boarded- up look ' Also she was in the studio same time as Ted Nugent who was messing with her and live on the air she told him to " get his fucking hands off of her "
34:02 Look how tight that was man, Johnny’s playing.. all those downstrokes and never missed a beat. You can hear Dee Dee doing exactly the same. This song especially captures the energy that was RAMONES.
Great film footage, The Ramones were certainly way ahead of the Sex Pistols, I mean 'Judy is a Punk' was a track back in 1974, this is undoubtedly proof that these lads were there years before the Pistols even formed to start rehearsing as the Sex Pistols, I would even go to say the Pistols were a manufactured band by McClaren. Is there any early footage of the Cramps at CBGBs I'm interested to see that 👍🏻
Sex Pistols went as big as they did because they had a ' political ' hit tune, God Save the Queen. Back in late 1970s I listened to shortwave radio often and I used to hear it played on shortwave stations. Only punk tune I EVER heard on shortwave.
I don’t think anyone has ever really claimed the Pistols were first. I think a Ramones gig in London is key to the British punk scene but the Pistols also inspired a lot of Brits to start. Both bans were great. McLaren ruined the Pistols as well as creating them. The Ramones were brilliant on their own. True originals. So were the Pistols… just a few years later.
Yeah! You can go back to the New York Dolls, The Dictators, Stooges, MC 5, all the garage bands in the late 1960’s. I Love the Pistols but, their style was already established in the underground in the states! They sang about different things, had a unique style and the timing was perfect for that time and place.
First saw them in a club in Buffalo late 70's - Of course they killed it!! Joey hung by his toes from the lighting scaffolding - anyone out there remember this stunt? I thought this was a regular part of the show but have never it since. Any video out there?
Wow ~ So Great to see early CBGB footage! Ramones def before they hit they hit full-speed (Ha!). I would love to see more of this era footage see the light of day!
Thanks for the nice comment! This really didn’t take long to make, it was very short compared to my ongoing project. I compiled all of these together in a few hours. I just got tired of having to look up each video individually and figured it would be cool to have it all together.
I can remember CBGB and getting lit. Not even close to 21. Do you think drugs were ever brought in the club? Lit. Never saw ramones there but saw Cro Mag, the replacements and meat puppets, and alot of lesser acts, There was a spot behind the club where people would hang. Then take the subway to LIRR get on the train back to long beach with the sun coming up. Pass Rockaway beach , atalntic beach then long beach, a place where poor people could live 5 min from nyc, and i lived 2 houses from the ocean. Had a little dog with a bad temper go to the beach with me every day, surf, and some days we would even half to elude the overweight dog catcher. Alas, that magical era of NYC is over, and there will never be another CBGB..
This is what started punk rock undoubtedly but a reversion back to stripped down rock 'n' roll in all in it's primeval simplicity and what was needed at the time. Seminal band.
I got to nyc in the early 80’s. Just after ‘the bad old days’ of the 70’s. But still close enough to get a sense of what it was like. By then hard core had mostly pushed this sort of punk aside. CB’s had the Sunday ‘hardcore matinee’. I was there often nursing Saturday nights hangover.
I personally hate the Ramones. Because they are absolutely not an original band. They didn't give anything new in image or in music. Their sugary music only makes feel sick. They're not punk rock, it's garage bubble gum.
Incredibly radical and original when you think about the popular music of the day being Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Yacht Rock, Zeppelin, etc. They completely deconstructed the music and built it back up on their own terms. Had tickets to see them at the Pier in NYC in the summer of 1983 but I couldn't get anyone to cover for me at Carvel. Big mistake.
Ramones started the PUNK SOUND. THEY created the genre called PUNK not the stooges or who or whatever the bands may have inspired Ramones but Ramones produced the punk sound. And yeah forget about the pistols they were good only at publicity and Ramones were always before them so jonny rotten can talk all he wants this video is the proof.
It’s cool to see them in a time line perfecting the perfect formula.This band is PERFECT.Everything about them.From the music,their look,their mental illnesses,their choreography on stage,even their bickering.Their developed their formula and the end result is THE perfect band.The greatest rock-n-roll band of all time and forever more.RIP,guys.So much of who I am today is rooted from yous.I don’t know if that’s really a good thing lol.But I love you guys.RIP
