‘The Bowery Electric’
“The Bowery Electric” performed live at CBGB, May 19, 2002. That’s CJ Ramone, Marky Ramone, Daniel Rey and yours truly. Filmed by Mick Brin.
I was working at Brill Media back then, and I went to rehearse for this gig at lunchtime. I was running late and basically walked in on the Ramones, mid-song, thrashing away at full power in this tiny practice space. Amazing. After running through “Bowery Electric” a few times, we called it an afternoon – but on our way out we overheard David Bowie rehearsing in another room, and just stood outside the door listening, in awe, for like ten minutes. Then Marky gave me a lift back to work. Nobody at Brill’s had any idea how that production schlep in the corner spent his lunch break.
All I ever do on my lunch break is eat, with the extremely rare chance of “afternoon delight”.
Such a waste.
You are living the dream, Brother!
John, if Riff Randell were an ugly dude instead of a cute chick, she’d be me.
I want to get a boring office job just so I can try to have an awesome secret adventure on every lunch break.