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NUMBERS!! how about songs that start with numbers on 11:40 - Jul 16 by DJR
The original was described as garage rock or proto-punk, so probably fitting to include it on a Ramones' album of covers.
[Post edited 16 Jul 11:44]
Don't know if I am being a bit too precious, although it might be fortunate that FeelingBlue no longer posts, but I still feel that The Ramones cover is a bit of a botch (and early Love were not so much a garage punk rock band as, with the exception of Lee, not the best musicians in Los Angeles - there was an article in, I think, Zigzag magazine called, I think, 'Snoopy In Love' which had a comment about some members in the band being in tears after the recording of 'Forever Changes' was complete because everything they had contributed had been replaced by The Wrecking Crew.) Anyway I was looking for a decent Robert Plant YouTube of his live covers and couldn't find one good enough but I did find this curiosity from Deep Purple, Ian Paice was well named because even at a later stage in life he can drum at a fairly extreme pace...but also vary his pace.
NUMBERS!! how about songs that start with numbers on 14:13 - Jul 17 by WeWereZombies
Don't know if I am being a bit too precious, although it might be fortunate that FeelingBlue no longer posts, but I still feel that The Ramones cover is a bit of a botch (and early Love were not so much a garage punk rock band as, with the exception of Lee, not the best musicians in Los Angeles - there was an article in, I think, Zigzag magazine called, I think, 'Snoopy In Love' which had a comment about some members in the band being in tears after the recording of 'Forever Changes' was complete because everything they had contributed had been replaced by The Wrecking Crew.) Anyway I was looking for a decent Robert Plant YouTube of his live covers and couldn't find one good enough but I did find this curiosity from Deep Purple, Ian Paice was well named because even at a later stage in life he can drum at a fairly extreme pace...but also vary his pace.
It is certainly the case that not all the covers on that Ramones album come off but a few do including Dylan's My Back Pages and CCR's Have You Ever Seen the Rain.
As regards musicianship (or lack of it), this is a great anecdote but it is rather self-deprecating because the Ramones set out to do what they did and played it with precision.
"When Joe Strummer, the lead singer of the Clash, approached the Ramones after seeing them play in 1976, he was worried that his band's musicianship was still too rough for them to begin performing.
"Are you kidding?" Johnny Ramone answered him. "We're lousy, we can't play. If you wait until you can play, you'll be too old to get up there. We stink, really. But it's great."
EDIT: Johnny Ramone even invented a unique style of guitar playing.
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