{"id":258,"date":"2008-08-16T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2008-08-16T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T19:37:07","slug":"the-ramones-may-9-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"THE RAMONES &#8211; May 9, 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockinrochester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ramonestkt.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[258]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-259\" title=\"ramonestkt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rockinrochester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ramonestkt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ramonestkt.jpg 174w, https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ramonestkt-163x300.jpg 163w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of My Favorite Shows &#8211; THE RAMONES &#8211; May 9, 1985<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The place was oversold &amp; packed tight, you couldnt squeeze another drop of sweat into the room. One of those shows that, if there&#8217;d been a fire everyone would have been a goner.  Hot as hell inside, and once they went on the whole place just exploded into moshing &amp; surfing under massive blasts of Red White &amp; Blue light.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Too Tough to Die Tour, which was considered a comeback album of theirs in the 80s. They had just played town a few months earlier, opening for Billy Idol at the War Memorial.  Richie was drumming then, and thats a part of their career that gets overlooked.  For my money he was the closest thing to Tommy.<\/p>\n<p>They played like a fury and the body to body compression was so severe that it kept jamming my Walkman recorder. Only 3 songs survived on tape &amp; I&#8217;m presenting 2 of them here: Blitzkrieg Bop and Rock &amp; Roll Radio<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get a sense of how crowded it was, compare the audience here with the other clips. Unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has pix from this show, email them to me &amp; I&#8217;ll post &#8217;em. info@click2vu.com<\/p>\n<p>Duane<\/p>\n<p>RAMONES Live at Scorgies<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.click2vu.com\/scorgieMp3s\/BlitzkreigBop_Rock_n_RollRadio.mp3]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of My Favorite Shows &#8211; THE RAMONES &#8211; May 9, 1985 The place was oversold &amp; packed tight, you couldnt squeeze another drop of sweat into the room. One of those shows that, if there&#8217;d been a fire everyone would have been a goner. Hot as hell inside, and once they went on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[70,166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}