This exclusive fly-on-the-wall opportunity is the next best thing to actually being in the band! Featuring an eclectic mix of celebrity guests including The Doors' Robby Krieger performing live with the Ramones, Eddie Vedder, Carly Simon, Gilbert Gottfried, "Grandpa" Al Lewis (of TV's The Munsters), Bono & U2, Debbie Harry and many more! See why the Ramones have stood the test of time with their simple yet immortal brand of music that's influenced generations the world over.
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Because no responsible father ever wastes a perfectly good shirt.Hey, Ho, Let's Go! It's the world-famous Ramones in their first officially authorized DVD! The Definitive Ramons DVD Containing Over 5 Hours of Material! Climb in the van, buckle up and hang on tight to experience life on the road with the founding fathers of punk rock, The Ramones! The band that started it all stars in this comprehensive video scrapbook containing over 5 hours of rare material spanning the Ramones' history-making career (circa 1979-1996), most of which is seen here exclusively for the first time anywhere! Vintage concert footage (shot on film in 1980, archived and nearly forgotten for over 20 years), rare TV appearances, backstage footage and lots more are set within the core: a plethora of home video from the Ramones' personal archives. Obtaining a replacement was a mere errand, devoid of ethical-cultural implications, $20, cleanly exchanged.Īnd this is how I ended up owning a Ramones T-shirt, a little snug, with a rip in the bottom, and wearing it with a clean conscience. But in a moment like that, the notion of conveying wisdom is as relevant as trigonometry offered to a quicksand victim. I wanted to explain that very truth - that just as emotional pain brings us closer to God, so a rip in our Ramones T-shirt brings us closer to Sid Vicious. We dads locked eyes in simultaneous understanding. There was a jagged rip, maybe two inches, trailed by a thread of hem. “The fence,” he exhaled over the cliff of his throat. He twisted himself sideways, pulling the tail of his shirt out to show me. Soon he came running, his forearm half-covering his eyes, the conflicted gesture of a 10-year-old boy Trying Not to Cry, which, if you are not made of obsidian, will break your heart in four seconds. The kids ran off to play, and the parents chatted on the patio. He wore it for the first time to a friend’s cookout. Before parenthood, vomit is not considered Something to Catch in Midair, Barehanded.) So when my son asked for a Ramones T-shirt for his 10th birthday because he “wanted one,” the request was so culturally complex that I chose not to probe it. (The relative grossness of vomit, for instance. Then I had children, which involves reconsidering everything you once believed to be true. But I had internal street credibility, which, in Ohio, where I live, is sufficient. Not that anyone else would notice, since no one ever notices when you’re not wearing a particular item of clothing, unless that item is your pants. The self-deprivation reinforced standards of cultural behavior that were important to me. I was comfortable with the fact that I did not own one. The iconic shirt had to be earned, on both sides. Or maybe it was that none of the shows were epic enough to justify it. Later, I attended several of the band’s shows myself, but it seemed too easy just to walk up and buy a shirt.
It required a depth of symbolic thought - something like what Bob Seger probably goes through when browsing at a Chevrolet dealership.
Rock ’n’ roll paraphernalia had to be hard-won, meaningful and scented with personal experience. What I didn’t realize at the time was how firmly that shirt would establish a complicated precedent. The closest I ever came to owning one was when, as a minor, I borrowed my older brother’s shirt from the “Pleasant Dreams” tour, his first-ever rock concert, which he attended with the brother of the B-level pop starlet Rachel Sweet and at which he purchased this garment with his last dollars. (Preferably at the Rainbow Theatre, London, New Year’s Eve 1977, but that’s not a deal breaker.) This is to have attended a Ramones concert, sweated, bled, transcended and then purchased one at a merchandise table en route to the concert-hall exit. There is only one acceptable way to own a Ramones T-shirt.
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