GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!On this week's Big Show, I mention The Ramones "53rd & 3rd" as being from 1999, because I was having a brain fart and that was the date of The Ramones Anthology: Hey Ho Let's Go, from which the track came.
Great. Now I've become just like the over-coiffed, empty-headed, local-TV drones who'll read any blame thing the teleprompter puts in front of them . . . and mispronouncing half of it. Because they're not from here and ain't learned much because they won't be here long.
It's embarrassing, really. Of course, while "53rd & 3rd" was released on the 1999 anthology, it first was released on The Ramones' self-titled first album in 1976.
As I said previously . . . GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Then again, my contemporary exposure to the Ramones in that time period was playing the crud out of the "Blitzkrieg Bop" single on Baton Rouge High's FM station, WBRH, circa early '78.
Woulda played it sooner, 'cept that 'BRH didn't go on the air until September 1977, and I didn't get my FCC license -- you needed one a them to go on the air back then -- until January '78.
And believe me, playing "Blitzkrieg Bop" was dicey enough back then. If we'd had "53rd & 3rd" -- a song about drug dealing -- available to play, we probably would have . . . and then promptly been sent to Siberia by the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, not noted for being a haven for deep thinkers or cultural mavens.
I mean, this was the bunch who slapped us down for playing the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen" in late '77. And that was merely insulting the Queen of England.
Anyway, back to the point: I'm middle-aged and prone to fits of "Old-Timer's Disease" when the brain don't work so good. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.
And you can bet I've gone back into iTunes and put the correct original release date on each track from the anthology CD.
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