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Indeed, Love and Theft is an album of memories, of old genres and antique grooves. The songs have a sense of history and a sense of discovery; hearing them is like finding a stack of vintage records in an old uncle's attic. The opening track, Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum, churns to a boogie-woogie-ish beat; the radiant Moonlight evokes Tin Pan Alley crooning and Western swing; and on the song High Water, Dylan pays tribute to blues pioneer Charley Patton. "All my songs, the styles I work in, were all developed before I was born," says Dylan. "When...
...COMIC POTENTIAL Alan Ayckbourn, a British delicacy long underappreciated in the U.S., gets treated right in this deft off-Broadway production of his London hit. Janie Dee is brilliant as a robot actor of the future, in a comedy whose laughs are more than skin deep...
There was nothing remotely like the Ramones' pile-driver attack. Nothing fancy, no filigrees or solos. Johnny's guitar emerging from the Marshall stacks behind him was like a storm-surf breaking on your face. You could feel the pressure on your chest, just like you could feel Dee Dee's down-picked tonic eighth notes (no one ever strummed in the Ramones) in your stomach and bowels. Tommy's drums were metronomic, massive with almost no fills, just sledgehammer kick and snare...
...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...
Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones by Dee Dee Ramone with Veronica Kofman Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, edited by Legs MacNeil and Gillian McCain...