Post #658511 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Nov 11, 2012 8:38 PM

Priceless story! Thank you.

On 2012-11-11 15:22, Or Got Rum? wrote:
....As the soon-to-be singer for Minor Threat and later Fugazi, Ian MacKaye recalled:
I have great memories of seeing the Ramones in 1979 in Virginia, a bit further out in the suburbs at a place run by the marines. It had almost a Hawaiian theme, an old-school bar/lounge kind of place, with cocktail waitresses and stuff. There was a huge line of people waiting to get in the show, and there was a skirmish at the front of the line, and the word spread like wildfire and came down the line that there was a dress code, and you couldn’t have torn jeans. But you were going to see the Ramones-everyone had torn jeans! It just rippled: Dress code, they won’t let you in with torn jeans. Suddenly-it was in a little shopping mall-people made a beeline for the pharmacy and started buying needles and thread. There was a whole fucking parking lot of people sewing their jeans up trying to get in this gig.