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...Tuesday brings us the Conference Board's consumer confidence measure, an index distinguishable from the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment survey in two ways. The UM number is bi-monthly, the CB is monthly; and the UM is proprietary, which means some paying customer has to leak it to Reuters before we can hear about it, while the CB's numbers are free to all. (This explains why the UM number is considered slightly more credible, though for my money the reports on consumers' emotional states have been singularly useless for most of this year.) That said, folks...
...WORLD TRADE BRIDGE Rush hour has arrived. In the first five minutes, 27 trucks leave Mexico and pull into the Customs checkpoint. One by one, the drivers wait to be processed, reading Spanish newspapers and comic books or talking on their CB radios. Eleazar Camancho Luna, 21, listens instead to Latin disco music. He makes five crossings a day--$20 for full loads, $15 for empty trailers that need to be returned--and works six days a week. Not bad for a single guy, he says. The Mexican trucks are serviceable but spare: Luna's lacks the global-positioning systems...
...says in "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk": "Where is a bar where nothing is happening? With nothing to lose if we tell them to let us play there one night a week?" They approached Kristal with the idea of doing a series of weekends at CB's, so the band might connect to the space like the Dolls had connected to the Mercer Arts Center. Kristal went...
...were putting down at rehearsals. Manager Tommy took over on the kit when drummer after auditioning drummer failed to understand the stripped-down style he was hearing in his head. When Tommy finally sat down behind the drums, the first Ramones lineup was complete. They found their way to CB's on August 16, 1974. Early sets were chaotic - 20 songs in 17 minutes - but promising enough for Hilly to bring them back 22 more times in '74 alone...
Reading various accounts while researching this article, I was impressed by how similar the reactions were to the Ramones. There were definitely people who didn't get it (Linda Ronstadt reportedly ran out of CB's screaming), and there still are, in fact, but for those of us who did, the effect was incredible. The band walked out on stage without ceremony and started with a four-count from Dee Dee: "One two three four" BAM! You could feel "the wind from the amplifiers" as Lenny Kaye...