3/7/2023 0 Comments Ramones leave home rar![]() His problem goes in the other direction- often the vocals are mixed so high as to actually diminish the impact of the rest of the group's perfected din. Reverb, echo, doubletracking, close miking and consistent backups- they are the sort of 'protection' that aid any singer in the studio, and JOEY is no exception. As well, the pro treatment JOEY's vocals receive provides a jarring contrast to the tracks from the previous album. TOMMY's drums show a marked jump in qualitative texture, but on several songs this adjustment is negated by how low the drums are in the mix. What faults there are in mixing approach are merely a matter of balance. (Of course, each are now present in BOTH channels.) Clearly working from the aural power of the first batch of demos (see RAMONES: THE EARLY DEMOS), then adding a crisp studio sheen resulted in a flavor somehow more powerful AND more commercial simultaneously. ![]() ![]() JOHNNY's guitars are more layered, ringing and crunchy, and DEEDEE's bass has far greater presence and depth in tone. Their efforts resulted in an overall sound improvement that is immediately apparent. He also enlisted the engineer who would, over the course of the ensuing decades, rise to become the band's most important and entrusted studio confidante: ED STASIUM. TOMMY brought aboard Toni Bongiovi (the soon to be famous JON BON JOVI's cousin), with whom he had previously done time at THE RECORD PLANT studios (they most notably worked on JIMI HENDRIX's Band of Gypsys together). TOMMY seemed determined to have a bigger hand in steering the band's sound this go around, and although by this point CRAIG LEON no longer worked at SIRE, it remains unclear whether the group would have sought his production oversight a second time- no matter how much he had staked personally in the RAMONES' signing to the label. Such was the frenetic pace at which bands would release albums in the 60s and 70s, although surely nobody will ever top CCR, who concocted their three greatest LPs-Bayou Country, Green River and Willie & the Poor Boys-over the course of the calendar year of 1969.) Unfortunately not released until well after the Xmas season, LEAVE HOME placed an even less impressive #148, although in England it almost made the top 40. (The third, ROCKET TO RUSSIA would follow early next November, just 18 months and change since the appearance of the debut. Quickly reassembling to begin work on a followup in October, the resultant LEAVE HOME hit the shops in January 1977. Despite intense (but admittedly polarized) press notoriety- plus their first key dates playing the West Coast and overseas in England- the record ascended no higher than #111 on Billboard's album chart. The RAMONES' first album was released at the end of April 1976. ![]()
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