Supposably, one night Joey and Bruce met and Joey asked him to write a song for the Ramones. Bruce went home and wrote Hungry Heart, but before he could give it to them his manager Jon Landeau interceded, yelling at Bruce are you crazy, that's your next single!
Hungry Heart has never been my slice, and I've often tried to imagine how it would've sounded with them doing it instead of Bruce's version (prolly better.)
And now apparently last night the tables turned, and Bruce played a Ramones song for the first time ever:
The first request song of the night had the the E Street band tackling "I Wanna Be..." ...Where the Bands Are? ...With You? Nope -- try "I Wanna Be Sedated," a first, with Bruce telling the crowd, "Someone's trying to stump the E Street Band!" But Little Steven was having none of it. The band might have made their way through it without him, but with Steve on board? Steve, who has called the Ramones "coolest band since the '60s"? Who has described his Underground Garage aesthetic as "groups that inspired the Ramones, groups inspired by the Ramones, and the Ramones"? Fuggedaboutit. He looked positively gleeful as he conferred with Bruce and Nils beforehand, to make sure they all got it right. The crowd ate it up, with Bruce encouraging participation but hardly needing to.
The first hot chick that finds any video of this for me to post obviously gets a night of Xmas-loving in return.
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