#453 Tommy Ramone on Rocket to Russia & Opinions on Tom Petty
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Sound Opinions
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2014
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot conduct a Classic Album Dissection of The Ramones' 1977 release Rocket to Russia, including a 2007 Sound Opinions interview with the late Tommy Ramone. Tommy died on July 11th and was the last surviving original member of the pioneering punk band. Later, Jim and Greg review a new album from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.
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| 0:00.0 | You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together. |
| 0:06.0 | Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. Ask to name the most influential punk rock album in history you'd be hard-pressed |
| 0:41.6 | to top the Ramones rocket to Russia. I'm Jim |
| 0:44.5 | de Regattis and I'm Greg Cox. We'll dissect the 1977 punk classic and hear |
| 0:49.2 | from the late Tommy Ramone and later we review the newest album from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. |
| 0:55.0 | That's all coming up on Sound Opinions. |
| 1:00.0 | This is Sound Opinions and later on in the show Jim we're going to review this new Tom Petty and the heartbreaker's album |
| 1:05.7 | Now you and I have both interviewed Petty a few times before including once in unison on an old version of sound opinions |
| 1:12.0 | Greg I'm sorry that episode's not in the archive because it's one of our favorite moments ever. |
| 1:17.0 | Tom Petty turned all 17 year old fan boy recollecting driving around in Hawaii beside his friend George Harrison on a bulldozer going |
| 1:26.2 | through Harrison's farm. Classic moment, I won't say what Harrison was growing, but Petty |
| 1:30.5 | had a good laugh about it. That's the review later in the show, but first we have some music news. Just a life |
| 1:44.0 | life birthday going down |
| 1:48.0 | last birthday is going down |
| 1:51.0 | going down |
| 1:52.0 | and last birthday is going down That is the way. |
| 1:55.0 | the last five deals on down. |
| 1:57.0 | Good and low. |
| 1:59.0 | On that good for the eye on the road. That is the Robert Johnson classic Last Fair Deal gone down. |
| 2:09.0 | Appropriate, Johnson being one of the many people who never got his fair deal from the music industry. |
| 2:14.0 | Greg, it's rare to have a coalition of labels in the music business agree on anything, |
| 2:20.0 | but more than 700 indie labels, including some of the most respected in the music world. |
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