12/25/2023 0 Comments The ramones poducer![]() BLOG: Why Joey Ramone was the ultimate punkĪnother track that the lads gave the ‘soft-rock’ treatment to as they were always hoping for a chance of radio play.10 Legendary Gigs That Made CBGB Famous.What have The Ramones ever done for us?.With an intro right out of the Young Rascals I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore, the ‘brudders’ from Forest Hills take a biographical jab at their previous mind-altering outcast life sighting LSD and DDT as an early influence, topped off with daddy’s financial crisis. Ironically, Mark is ‘Drum Syncing’ to Tommy’s track in the film! There is a great scene in Rock n Roll High School with Riff and the band marching down the halls of Vince Lombardi High to this song. We used their version as a template for the arrangement and the backing vocals. During the early 2000’s a fire inspection by the NYFD demanded that the speakers be removed as they deemed them a hazard in case of emergency.Ī far cry from Bobby Freeman’s latin flavoured original, this is again screaming out Beach Boys. This method was the only reverb used during the mixing of the entire original LP. ![]() Using a pair of Neumann U-87 mics, we returned them to the Neve desk and blended them into the mix. We sent a tape delay to a pair of JBL 4310 speakers that were placed in the stairwell. The very obvious reverb that one hears on this song during the Lobotomy chant sections was achieved by using a stairwell that ran the entire height of the building. At the time we had very limited ‘outboard’ gear, not one reverb plate or digital reverb device was yet in place. Rocket To Russia was the first record to be mixed at the new Power Station studio. The original LP faded before Joey says “Where are my safety pins” as the band didn’t want to be associated with the hard-core punk piercing trend. Carefully listen for a toilet flush, lion, alarm clock, my DJ impression, a bunch of friends at an actual party, my daughter Sara crying and my dog Finchley barking. Tommy and I had a blast doing the audio montage to accompany Joey and Dee Dee’s bantering in the outro section. Talk about juxtaposition!Ī brilliant song about a dysfunctional tribe. They later became Baillie And The Boys and had several top ten country singles in the 90’s. In addition, we brought in my boyhood friend Michael Bonagura with Kathie Baille and Alan LaBeouf for a Beach Boys backing vocal vibe. This is yet another example of the Beach Boy influence as Johnny and Tommy asked me to play a plunky guitar bit that was similar to Little Honda. Both songs were remixed at Power Station during the Rocket To Russia sessions. ![]() Sheena and I Don’t Care had been recorded earlier in the year at Sundragon Studio where we had recorded Leave Home. This previously unheard alternate version is included on the Rocket To Russia Box. Whilst perusing the multi-tracks for the box set I discovered that we recorded a new version of I Don’t Care at Mediasound but we opted for the ‘B-Side’ version on the original LP. Joey wrote Here Today, Gone Tomorrow the following day. Joey’s brother Mickey taught him the chords to Alice Cooper’s I’m Eighteen and he immediately penned this tune. This ‘softened down’ mix was resolved in the kick-ass tracking version on the RTR Box. We attempted to slightly mimic this by adding ‘clean’ and acoustic guitars, doubling them and featuring them in the mix as opposed Johnny’s tracking guitar. I recall the band sighting The Steve Miller Band’s success with that soft-rock California sound. You can hear him counting to himself on the track during the pauses, one can distinctly hear this on the Rocket To Russia Box bonus material. My favourite Ramones ballad ( I Want You Around comes in second). We had SO much fun recording the backing vocals in the isolation room in Power Station Studio A. Inspired by the Beach Boys, this east coast answer to Surfin’ Safari was the second track that we recorded upon entering Mediasound on August 21, 1977.
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