That’s how I used to practice… and Sid Vicious as well.” “You could plonk their record on, grab hold of a bass or a guitar or whatever, and jam along. “It was a fresh, wild, powerful sound and it was easy,” The Damned’s bassist (later guitarist) Captain Sensible recalled in Everett True’s Hey Ho Let’s Go: The Story Of The Ramones. Ramones’ UK debut concert, slated for July that year, was hotly anticipated. Released by Sire, Ramones was first issued in the US on April 23, 1976, and the ripples quickly spread across the pond. By this time, however, the eponymous debut album by NYC punks Ramones had already been inspiring the nascent scene for six months.
The Damned eventually won this race, with their incendiary “New Rose” beating Sex Pistols’ notorious “Anarchy In The UK” to the punch by several weeks.
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The album is quite layered and structured and took full advantage of the studio technology of its time.During the autumn of 1976, several of the burgeoning British punk scene’s leading lights vied to be the first onto vinyl. “But if you jump to the conclusion that the sound of the recording was just the sound of the band live, you would be mistaken - even though that’s what I was trying to convey. “Capturing the energy of the live shows was quite important,” Leon told The Vinyl Factory. Eventually, he opted otherwise but employed this technique in a more diminutive setting between the album’s last two songs, ‘I Don’t Wanna Walk Around With You’ and ‘Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World’. Leon was so happy with this method of recording that at one point, he wanted to record Ramones as one single track with no breaks between the songs. It was such a creative success that the band then used this method for Leave Home and Rocket to Russia, creating a triptych of albums that can be hailed as siblings of one another, with each one building on what came before. “We recorded the songs in the same order that we played them in our live set at the time,” Johnny later explained. Three days were used for backing tracks and four for vocals. Remarkably, the band recorded the album over the course of just one week. When Joey Ramone asked Bruce Springsteen to write him a song Perhaps the most famous of all, though, is the doubling of the vocals, which gives Joey Ramone’s delivery the warmth that is so iconic. In addition to this old school method of recording, the band and producer, Craig Leon, added more contemporary techniques such as overdubbing. The guitars were recorded through their separate stereo channels, the bass on the left, the rhythm guitar on the right, and the drums and vocals mixed in the middle of the stereo mix.
Wanting to emulate the excitement of the Liverpool band’s 1963 debut, they exaggerated techniques that The Beatles had used, including microphone placement and using a four-track recorder, giving the record an old school essence. I didn’t want the second album to be a letdown by picking through all the best songs for the first album and using the lesser songs for the second album.”įor Ramones, the band of non-brothers also took some defining pointers from their heroes, The Beatles. “We already had 30 to 35 songs, and we recorded them in the chronological order that we wrote them. “We had the songs for the first three albums when we did the first one,” recalled Johnny Ramone in Rolling Stone. This wealth of songs accounts for exactly how the band were able to release two masterworks in quick succession and set the world alight in the process.
Notably, after the sessions for Ramones, the band had so much material that it gave them their following two records, Leave Home and Rocket to Russia, which were both released the following year.
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