Love Goes To Buildings On Fire Quotes

“After some more rehearsing, the Ramones—named for Paul McCartney’s touring alias during his Beatles days, Paul Ramone—got themselves a two-night weekend gig at CBGB, August 16 and 17.”
― Will Hermes, Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

“Fred Smith’s replacement would be Gary Valentine, a New Jersey fuckup who liked to occasionally go out in drag and had a talent for songwriting. For a while he lived with Harry and Stein in Harry’s tiny one-bedroom at 105 Thompson Street; Stein was subletting his own place at 18 First Avenue off First Street to Tommy Ramone. Harry had a ’67 Camaro that opposite-side-of-the-street parking rules required her or Stein to move back and forth in the early morning, but it was beloved; on summer days she’d drive the guys to Jones Beach or Coney Island, looking like a modern version of a Shangri-Las song where the girl had the wheels and called the shots. While there was plenty of style-mixing,”
― Will Hermes, Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever