Dee Dee Ramone
Live At the Spa Club cassette
(Tapehead City)
Preserved are nine numbers from one of Dee Dee's final spectacles. Absent is the Ramones' characteristic discipline (attributed to drill sergeant Johnny). In its stead, near-shambolism recalling the Thunder Syringe-Mates splashes wall-to-wall. Start-stop-starts are not uncommon. But once the players lock into sustained formation, they throw out all the smash-up belligerance Punk promised at CBGB's circa '77. This scribe ranks Dee Dee as perhaps the subgenre's foremost songcrafter (equalled only by Dictator Adny Shernoff). In grained tones, the storied back-alley celebrity issues hipness that can only be birthright.
Recommended: "Beat On the Brat," "Please Mr. Postman," "Born To Lose," "Chinese Rock," "I Wanna Be Sedated," "Horror Hotel," "Locomotion"
Videos: entire show
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