![]() ![]() The single for the album was a cover of a Tom Waits song off of 1992’s Bone Machine called “ I Don’t Wanna Grow Up.” The Ramones were putting out ¡Adios Amigos!, which would be their last studio album, and Clowes was a well-known figure in the comix scene who had released Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron a couple of years earlier. I spent like five years like, OK, there’s gonna be another one-No, they were the best, and nobody else came close to that.Ĭlowes saw the Ramones play at Irving Plaza after they’d gotten a little too big for CBGB-most likely the March 4, 1980, show.įast-forward to the mid-1990s. Like, I never found anything I liked as much as that. The trouble was, that’s still my favorite one. Maron: Do you remember the first punk record ? Clowes: It was the first Ramones record. As he told Maron, “I was like the guy punk was made for, because it was destructive of all the stuff I hated.” And of all the punk bands in the world to choose from, one stood out: were making Manhattan such a vital artistic locale.Ĭlowes’ unbridled hostility towards the hippies that came before him and their arena-ready rock and roll (think Led Zeppelin) actually made him an ideal audience for the seething musical forms percolating right around that time. I learned a lot I didn’t know about Clowes-I hadn’t realized, for instance, that as a Pratt student who was born in 1961, Clowes was actually bouncing around New York City the same time that Blondie, Lydia Lunch etc. On a recent episode of WTF, Marc Maron had an expansive chat with the renowned comix artist Daniel Clowes, the mind responsible for Eightball, Ghost World, Wilson, and the 2016 release Patience.
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