The Ramones

I first saw the Ramones at the dawn of the punk age in late ’76 or early ’77 at a club called the Savoy Tivoli in the North Beach area of San Francisco. 

I’d not heard music like this before - I heard the first album, where all the songs sounded the same to me and they were all like 2 minutes long; I liked the guitar sound, but I just didn’t get it - but when they came on and blasted that same music out over the PA, I got it to the point where I ran up to the front and jumped up and down in front of a PA bin the rest of the set. Yes, I liked this 'punk rock'. 

I saw ‘em a bunch of times after that; they played several times at the Mabuhay Gardens punk club, and I took these photos at one of those shows…. 

 

 

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Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco, 02/22/77

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