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...TIME'S John Buckman. "It's no joke, no novelty act. We're not clowns." The nice thing about the Ramones is that one can take them seriously and have a good laugh at the same time. Tunes like Sheena Is a Punk Rocker and Rockaway Beach are feckless, speedy japes that play fast and loose with rock styles and traditions even as they pay tribute to them. Onstage, the boys look like aging incorrigibles, the bottom four students in the remedial class at vocational high school. They play with headlong, madcap and deliberately amateurish intensity punctuated...
...know. The sixties died long before Phil Ochs wandered into his sister's bathroom in Far Rockaway, New York. And Marc Eliot makes a good case that Ochs did too. Phil Ochs went down slowly, painfully, and the actual moment of his death only confirmed what Ochs had guessed from the evidence of Chicago, or Kent State, or Chile. And by the time Ochs actually made his final break, the parts of his life that might have made his death the tombstone of his time had long since withered away...
...really need your dose of spine-crunching bass and screaming, indecipherable lyrics, you'd do well to catch the Ramones at the Paradise (967 Comm Ave, Boston), Friday through Sunday at 9. New wave and all that, y'know? Actually, the Ramones, authors of that disgusting hit single "Rockaway Beach," are the kind of group that gives some of the more serious New Wave artists a bad name. Avoid, unless you want to see teenagers no more talented than...
Many of those, of course, were caused by gale-force winds and snow and ice storms. From the Canadian border to Virginia, the East Coast was battered by rain, sleet, snow and exceptionally high seas. New York City officials reported that 25% of Rockaway Beach was swept away by the pounding surf, while in Maine a combination of heavy rains and brutal winds wiped out coastal bridges and flooded shoreline cottages. Ohio Governor James Rhodes declared a snow emergency and called out 150 National Guardsmen to help Cleveland dig out from under massive drifts that had smothered the city...
Phil Ochs took his life last Friday at his sister's home in Far Rockaway, but his memory and his dreams will live on. He takes his place in the family of American poet-revolutionaries--alongside Joe Hill and Woody Guthrie--who devoted their lives to justice and human liberation. It can now be said of Phil Ochs, as Ochs had sung of Woody...