GABBA GABBA HEY
On the official Ramones website
www.officialramones.com a fantastic site, run by the 5th Ramone creative genius Arturo Vega who'd been with the band from the very start, designed the T-shirts and wound up as lighting director, they had a competition with a stack of Ramones related questions including writing a song and a story involving the RamonesSo, I put my mind to work, and here's what happened
Prize #1, the Gabba Gabba Hey sign, goes to Murray (member #206) from Edinburgh, Scotland. He got ALL the 10-pointers right, all but one of the 30-pointers, and missed only one 50-pointer - the one about the number of shows the Ramones played. Hey, Murray, how did you come up with the number 2,262? Just one more and you would have gotten it right. He also wrote a great song called "I Told You So" that goes like this:
I told you so
I told you so
I didn't want you to go
And I told you so
Just feeling so close
Just feeling ... so
I didn't want to let go
And I want you to know
Just feeling so close
Just feeling ... so
And I want you to know
That I want you to hold
... And I told you
I told you so
... And I told you
I told you so
... And I told you
I told you so
... And I told you
I told you so
And his story, about how he met the Ramones in 1988, has the ring of truth and spontenaiety at the same time. Was it faith, or did he get lucky?
I'd got the number of shows wrong cause I'd read the number from Eddie Veddors liner notes to 'Were outta here' the album of the final gig
I had met the Ramones in 88 and turned it into an honest 'punk fiction' for the competition
So the fanaticism that had its roots in hearing 'Sheena is a punk rocker' on the radio in 1977 finally paid of big time and I ended up with this Gabba Gabba Hey sign to hang from my walls
