Dillo/ Buttsteak '11, part 1: In which we cover the Ramones

Catching up on old business now, we're delving into a batch of songs that started back in July of '11 during a visit to the Cardillo-Canada compound down in the woodsy outskirts of Chapel Hill, NC.  As fate would have it, this ended up being in the middle of a swampy, mind-melting 105 degree stretch down there, so we weren't going much of anywhere between, say, 10A and 6P.  Paulie and I locked ourselves in their tiny spare room with a guitar and a bass and an ample supply of beer and started laying things down. 

"Danny Says" is a Ramones classic from their "End of the Century" (1980).  Seems as if they were a bit homesick for Queens, being stuck in L.A. during Christmastime, recording with a lunatic and trying (in vain) to break through to mainstream success.  As that fine record was a Phil Spector production, I couldn't resist the Hal Blaine tribute on the drums, nor the glockenspiel.

"Chinese Rock", as befits a scuzzy song about scoring heroin, was written either by that bizarre happy/ tragic trainwreck Dee Dee Ramone and/ or NYC punk pioneer Richard Hell and/ or textbook drug casualty and self-destruction icon Johnny Thunders of the Heartbreakers.  Needless to say, we tried to put the fun back into narcotic dependence and the dirty downtown NYC of the late '70s.  This is not the last you'll hear from Dillo's zany little synth drum box...

JK

Danny Says:       https://www.box.com/s/wss9qsnriag3ynkeld0a


Chinese Rock:   https://www.box.com/s/a6aem8xlwexzch9sqzdp