The Ramones
The Ramones – music not for sleeping.

The Ramones – live at The Club, Cambridge Mass. – May 12, 1976 –

It’s the Monday morning before Christmas, and I will bet you are most likely going insane with packing, leaving and going someplace; either driving and looking at weather reports or stuck in traffic on the way to the airport and wondering if you’re going to miss the flight – or doing last minute Christmas shopping, dodging freak-outs and and racking your brain over how much is left on your credit card – or avoiding answering the phone, preferring to forget the whole thing and wish everybody else would – or crawling out of bed wondering if it’s the day after Christmas yet.

Any and/or all of these things need some motivation – things to get you moving, or at least upright and functioning.

And that’s where this concert by The Ramones comes in. Recorded live at The Club in Cambridge Massachusetts on May 12, 1976 it’s a healthy blast of high-voltage with music, rather than an air-horn, to get you up and running and ready to face the week and holidays in general.

So our little contribution to your peace of mind, or your cue to get motivated comes from the right place at the right time, compliments of The Ramones this morning.

My suggestion, of course, is to crank this up and leave it on – put it on repeat – take it with you – play it in the car. As long as everybody around you is going insane, so can you – but in a good way.

Hit play and you don’t need to thank me, honest.

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