Debbie Harry & Tiger Bomb (w/ Joey Ramone): Live in NYC, 1987

In honour of his new posthumous album, we've been celebrating the life and legacy of Jeff Hyman (a.k.a. Joey Ramone - more HERE). Yesterday, we mentioned an unheralded duet between Blondie's Deborah Harry and Joey Ramone and today we have a fine-sounding live set that features both of those CBGB's vets. Debbie's part of the set, is pretty aggressive featuring, amongst the Blondie tracks, covers of The Damned's "New Rose" and Suicidal  Tendencies' "Institutionalized" (yeah, you read that right!) Then Debbie brings out Joey for three storming tracks, including two Ramones classic and the then-recent duet between the two, "Go Lil Camaro Go". 






1. (00:01:00) Deborah Harry & Tiger Bomb - introduction by John Waters
2. (00:03:42) Deborah Harry & Tiger Bomb - New Rose
3. (00:03:00) Deborah Harry & Tiger Bomb - Danger (Red Light)
4. (00:03:16) Deborah Harry & Tiger Bomb - Liar Liar
5. (00:05:26) Deborah Harry & Tiger Bomb - Institutionalized
6. (00:02:40) Deborah Harry & Tiger Bomb - In the Flesh
7. (00:06:27) Deborah Harry & Tiger Bomb - Rapture
8. (00:02:52) Deborah Harry & Tiger Bomb - Comic Books
9. (00:03:38) Deborah Harry & Tiger Bomb - Attack Of The Giant Ants
10. (00:01:11) Debbie Harry introduces Joey Ramone
11. (00:02:11) Deborah Harry & Tiger Bomb (with Joey Ramone) - Go Lil Camaro Go
12. (00:01:54) Deborah Harry & Tiger Bomb (with Joey Ramone) - Loudmouth
13. (00:02:27) Deborah Harry & Tiger Bomb (with Joey Ramone) - Havana Affair  

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Blondie: Picture This Live (1978/1980)

Some of the choicer reactions to our first Blondie post:

draftervoi said...
My first contact was when my pal Neil wrote to them and bought a copy of their very first single "X Offender." They signed it! At the time (1976), they must have been surprised to get an order from the suburbs of San Francisco, as they had never played outside of the New York area.

BigScott1962 said...
Blondie was no doubt a band ahead of their time.....First album, Plastic Letters, and to a degree Parallel Lines and Eat to the Beat were great albums....Debbie had a voice that could be terrifying...Listen to "fan mail" on Plastic Letters...or just so damn CUTE (the line "Nitro...and accetalyne" from "The Hardest Part").....she also had, other than maybe Lita Ford, the finest ass in rock n roll in the late 70's...a musician friend of mine, now deceased, claims to have slept with her.....if he did, well, more power to ya bro.

Nazz Nomad said...
The first time I ever made out with a girl and got a girl semi naked, Blondie's video for "Dreaming" was on the telly.
Double bonus.

Woodworker said...
I went over to a friend's house to see his new projection tv and the first thing he showed was a Blondie video from MTV. I must have revealed my reaction, because my girlfriend got pissed for nothing right in the middle of the video.

Anonymous said...
People magazine's 1977 (or so) article on punk music had a photo of Debbie Harry crawling across broken glass---schwing!

Anonymous II said...
I can't remember the first instance but very early on in 7th grade i went to a party a friend threw. Heart of glass had just come out that week and he had the 45. he must have played a few hundred times during the nite. there was a strobe light on constantly , a long game of spin the bottle, a party crasher with weed who almost got us all in trouble, and a lifelong promise made to bum never to drink lite beer. Still love Blondie but will pass on ever listening to that particular song again.

Just8 said...
First time I heard of Blondie was when an article appeared in our local newspaper that the city council banned a forthcoming gig from 'soft-punk band Blondie' because there were afraid that there was going to be a fight at that gig.
Whether there had actually been fights at Blondie gigs or whether they just thought that everything with 'punk' attached to it was dangerous and should therefore not enter our city I don't recall anymore (I was probably eleven years old at the time).
And yes - they actually called it 'soft-punk' and went on to explain that the Sex Pistols were more 'hard-punk' and therefore a bit different.
Some time later (a couple of months, maybe), Blondie were allowed to perform in our town - and the same newspaper ran an interview with them where they explained that fights did not normally happen at their gigs, and that they were not into fighting at gigs at all (well, duh...)
And not long after that (weeks, perhaps), 'Denise' became a number one hit - and I really liked that song (still do), but at the same time thought: people were afraid of this?!?
Which led me to believe that if this kind of music provoked those kinds of reactions, all music before punk must have been incredibly boring...
It took me a little while to get rid of that prejudice.

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Blondie: Live at the Old Waldorf (1977)

Every generation gets the sex symbol it deserves; for many of us creeping towards puberty in the late 70’s Debbie Harry was our It Girl.

I remember seeing Blondie perform “Hanging on the Telephone” on TV at a tender age. Debbie Harry was doing her standing-still-at-the-mike pose and was decked out in a glowing-red dress. I didn’t fully understand my reaction to the line, “I'd like to talk when I can show you my affection” but it may have influenced my decision to buy a cassette tape of Parallel Lines soon thereafter.


Of course, a dream of Kristy McNicol may have convinced me to watch the execrable show Family but that phase passed. Blondie remained. However, these years later it seems that of all the class of CBGB’s graduates, Blondie still gets the least respect (well other than The Shirts or The Tuff Darts). The Ramones were lionized for milking every last drop from their distillation of rock history. Blondie accomplished the same thing but since they insisted on moving “forward” (in a manner –disco, rap, old reggae – not so different than the Clash) and had hits, they grew critically marginalized. Yet, as a singer, songwriter, bandleader and sex symbol Debbie Harry belongs on a rarefied list of performers (Maybelle Carter, Billie Holliday, Joan Jett et al) who re-defined the role of women in music. Plus, the hits Harry and her band (remember "Bondie is a band"?) livened up the radio and jump-started a thousand underground bands.


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Rock & Rule OST

So if Cheap Trick can be a suitable exemplar for seventies excess in the field of music then Rock & Rule can be seen as similar exemplar for film (even if it wasn't finished until 1983). Sure it wasn't Heaven's Gate but this cartoon (a retread of Nelvana's earlier rock n' roll fairy tale The Devil and Daniel Mouse which I saw on CBC TV on Halloween 1978) almost bankrupted its studio and ended an era in film, in this case the era of adult-orientated animation. The whole weirdly fascinating movie (which seems to be out-of-print) can be viewed on YouTube.



The film's soundtrack (it's greatest road block to re-release) featured Cheap Trick, Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Lou Reed and, in their sole appearance on MRML, Earth Wind and Fire. Like the film, it's promising and frustrating. The main players here, all key early punk influences with that one blatant exception, all had wildly erratic outputs in this era and this soundtrack is perfectly erratic. Cheap Trick are perhaps the most erratic band is music history, frequently switching from perfect power-pop ("Come On, Come On") to passable covers ("Ain't That a Shame") to joyless filler ("I'm the Man" one of their three songs herein). The Debbie Harry tracks are nice but forgettable, the Iggy track is pointless and while the first Lou Reed song "I'm Mok" is one of those expository songs common to old soundtracks, the second, "Triumph" is just that and it's one of his best solo rockers.

(Image of the Marvel Comics adaption borrowed from the Vinnierattole's excellent blog, make sure to read his history of the movie.)

Rock & Rule OST