Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stumbles among them a voice hisses, "There is room here!" It's Adam. He whispers that he is a biologist from M.I.T. Maybe that explains the scrape. He was "designing an incurable virus," he says, when he realized what he was doing. He's been on the road for several weeks sorting things out. Daybreak and breakfast in Arizona. Sleeping bags are rolled. The poker game reconvenes. Jerry cheats theatrically. When someone pulls a hidden card out of his pocket, Jerry acts flabbergasted to see it. Everybody laughs. Dennis proudly reveals that he has been an art-class...
...Just Want to Have Something to Do", which opens the flip side of Road, take the band right back to their roots. It is pure punk, with a chorus that catches the essence of punk philosophy...
...Ramones, with their new album Road to Ruin, certainly reek of the back alleys and cheap drugs that keep them well on the punk side of the new wave. But if Vicious's last fling hides Road in the wreckage it will be quite a loss, for this latest release is the perfect album to let loose--loud--on your turntable for those moments when Fleetwood Mac just can't soothe your soul...
...that the Ramones will soothe you. But this album shows that the Ramones are really learning how to play their instruments. It boasts good hard rock and roll with no compromise with the middle of the road. The album only falls short when the band leaves the basic punk pattern and tries either lyrically or musically to make some real statement...
...forget the verbal and physical abuse that goalies take in their line of work. Remember the infamous Section 18 crowd at the old Watson Rink? Well, on the road, Harvard goalies found the dead chickens, smelly fish, and empty beer cans being hurled in their direction. Goalies also can't blot out terms of endearment like "sieve," "red light," "funnel," nor comments on their ethnic origin and parent's sex habits...