Warner Music Entertainment
Posted: September 28th, 2007.
Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, Tommy, Marky, Richie, and C-Jay the Ramones will always be the first family of punk. Together more than 20 years, the Ramones inspired legions of followers as they refined their signature garage-flavored, ear-shattering, pop-skewed sound with a string of now-classic, loud-and-fast punk rock records and 2,263 concerts. Rhino sends you back to rock rock, rock n roll high school with a double-DVD that captures the essence of the Ramones legendary racket with more than four hours of rare and unreleased performances. ITS ALIVE 1974-1996 will be available October 1 at regular retailers.
More than four years in the making, Tommy Ramone served as music supervisor for this collection. Arranged chronologically over two DVDs, ITS ALIVE 1974-1996 relives some of the bands best performances with live footage of more than 100 songs, including Sheena Is A Punk Rocker, Blitzkrieg Bop, Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue, Beat On The Brat and I Wanna Be Sedated. With more than four hours of impossible-to-find and unreleased live footage, this collection will make you feel like youre standing in stale beer at CBGB shouting along with Dee Dee as he counts off, One, two, three, four!
The DVD also includes previously unreleased footage filmed on New Years Eve in 1977 during the bands incendiary performance at The Rainbow Theatre in London. The entire concert was released in 1979 as the Its Alive album, considered one of the best live records ever. The DVD features 14 songs in 5.1 Surround Sound taken from the show including Pinhead, Were A Happy Family, and Havana Affair.
Nine performances recorded in 1982 at the US Festival in San Bernardino, CA are also featured here in 5.1 Surround Sound. The band fires off hit after hit, blazing through The KKK Took My Baby Away, Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment, and Rock n Roll High School. During the show, the band also covers Chinese Rocks, a song Dee Dee wrote, which was recorded by Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers.
Spanning the Ramones entire career, the DVD follows the band from its earliest performances at CBGB, to their last international performance in Argentina. ITS ALIVE 1974-1996 travels around the world with the Ramones, capturing priceless performances in the U.K., Germany, Sweden, Spain, Argentina, Finland, Italy and the U.S. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, the band may be gone, but their sound and influence are indestructible.
Below are links to the 2 amazing live videos for the new Ramones DVD as well as a trailer:
- Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment (click here)
Blietzkrieg Bop (click here)
Trailer (click here)
The Ramones: It’s Alive 1974-1996 is out on October 1st on DVD and retails for £24.99.
Click on the Amazon link above for more information.
News page content input by Dominic Robinson, 2007.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.