Back in '77 I was reading the entertainment section of the Seattle PI and came across a show that weekend that might be fun to check out. The group was The Ramones and it was at the Olympic Hotel in the classy Georgia Room. I had never heard of punk rock or The Ramones. The day of the concert I had been presented my Eagle Scout award at an afternoon ceremony. I get home after the ceremony get cleaned up, put on a polo shirt with my bell bottoms and Famolare platform shoes (my suburban punk
ass outfit), jump in my '67 Goat and head downtown. When I arrived at the Olympic Hotel my world was immediately turned upside down. Holy crap, my imagined vision of punk rock was quickly snuffed out. The line into the hotel looked like the casting call for a Dracula flick. For the first time in my life I felt like the freak. Even though I stood out from the rest I new this was something I had to see. It turned out to be a life changing event. The music was the loudest and fastest I had ever witnessed. It was so loud that my brain was sonically damaged which intern caused me to almost slam my GTO into a jersey barrier on the way home. To give you an idea of just how loud it was I worked security at Scorpions/Iron Maiden concert in the early 80' at the UW, standing in font of the stage behind the security fence where the back of my head was positioned about 2' from the speaker stack with the gigantic woofer at ear level through the whole concert. You would probably think this would be the loudest music a human being could possibly be exposed to. Wrong,wrong, wrong! OMFG, the Romones had their amps turned up as loud as Nigel's amp in Spinal Tap. If you want to interrogate gitmo prisoners play some Ramones with the amp at the 11 setting.
Here is a download page for a Ramones concert recorded the night before the Olympic Hotel concert at Rocker Tavern in Aberdeen WA (dreary lumberjack town and hometown of Kurt Cobain). You will need 7 zip or another program that can unzip RAR files. There is an interview where this chick that is friends with the band named Arlene talks about the show. She was Johnny's first girlfriend and later married Joey's brother Mickey. Good stuff, very rare recording.
http://www70.zippyshare.com/v/77602124/file.html