Here's tonight's playlist. Went pretty well, I think. No requests this time. But anyway, no show that opens and closes with the Ramones can be that bad. Tonight's vinyl surprise find was that live Heartbreakers album, esp. interesting to me since I'm reading Please Kill Me and in fact just recently went thru the section where Dee Dee Ramone was talking about "Chinese Rocks" and the controversy over its authorship. The back jacket of DTK does credit the song to Dee Dee, Hell, Thunders and Nolan. Which is apparently total crap. Dee Dee wrote the song, I think he said, on a dare from Hell to write a better drug song than Lou Reed's "Heroin". Both agree that Hell added a few lyrics, but neither can remember which ones. But either way Johnny Thunders had nothing to do with it. Still and all, it's pretty interesting to hear a live recording from that tour after reading about how influential it was in the development of the UK punk scene.
(the Ramones version of "Chinese Rocks" is better anyway)