i think they were being sarcastic or something, as it reads in the little booklet that came with "Ramones: Anthology (Hey Ho Let's Go!)": "...in London. We played there for the first time on July 4, 1976, while in America they were celebrating the Bicentennial. Outside The Round House during sound check, these cool-looking guys were hanging around. They said they were a band calling themselves The Clash, but that they were still just rehearsing and didn't feel they were virtuosic enough to play in public. "Are you kidding?" said Johnny. "I hope you're coming tonight. We're lousy. We can't play. If you wait until you can play, you'll be too old to get up there. We stink, really. But it's great." The house was sold out, the kids went crazy, there were riots in the streets, and the headline of England's leading daily tabloid that day was "Glue Sniff Shocker," a reference to the lower-class drug trash from New York that was celebrating July 4th in the motherland. "Shit, "said Dee Dee. "It's a good thing we split from these assholes 200 years ago. I hope they really don't think we sniff glue. I quit when I was eight."
i think they were being sarcastic or something, as it reads in the little booklet that came with "Ramones: Anthology (Hey Ho Let's Go!)": "...in London. We played there for the first time on July 4, 1976, while in America they were celebrating the Bicentennial. Outside The Round House during sound check, these cool-looking guys were hanging around. They said they were a band calling themselves The Clash, but that they were still just rehearsing and didn't feel they were virtuosic enough to play in public. "Are you kidding?" said Johnny. "I hope you're coming tonight. We're lousy. We can't play. If you wait until you can play, you'll be too old to get up there. We stink, really. But it's great." The house was sold out, the kids went crazy, there were riots in the streets, and the headline of England's leading daily tabloid that day was "Glue Sniff Shocker," a reference to the lower-class drug trash from New York that was celebrating July 4th in the motherland. "Shit, "said Dee Dee. "It's a good thing we split from these assholes 200 years ago. I hope they really don't think we sniff glue. I quit when I was eight."