Before I start bagging on the situation, I must say that Marky and the band were amazing. This is the closest you can get to seeing the Ramones in 2024. I can’t believe that Marky can do 85 minute punk rock sets every night, at 71 years old! Just amazing.
OK, so the Goldfield staff were cool as usual. Thanks to Chad for bringing the show to town. I video’d all of the openers with permission, but I had a hard time getting the OK from Marky. I asked the merch guy, who happened to be in the band Jerk! and he thought it would be ok to film him, but I have been burned on that before.
At the last minute, thanks to Eddie Jorgensen, I was able to ask the manager for video permission. His reply? “You can do the first 3 songs”… the ol’ first 3 songs rule was dreamed up by the makeup and hair spray crowd for photographers to get their pictures while they were still looking pretty.. it doesn’t make much sense for a bunch of 50+ dudes in a punk band. I complied, but found it funny.
3 songs equals about 6 minutes in Ramones time, so here you go. In the span of 6 minutes, I had 2 things go wrong- they played loud enough to make the floor vibrate, so it is “vibraty” for a song or so until I pop the camera up on the toe of my shoe… and I put in a new battery to film his 3 songs, and the battery almost immediately poops the bed. So, there is a cut a couple minutes in. Fastest battery change ever!
If you want to hear the entire show, come back tomorrow.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Video equipment: Panasonic Lumix GH5S w/ Lumix G Vario 14-140mm, F3.5-5.6 Power O.I.S. Lens
Audio Equipment: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder
Audio/Video synch in pluraleyes 4