“We want to continue to do Sedated as far as we can go with it. It’s the band’s first time to play with the Joan Jett tribute band, but Joey has sung with Cherry Bomb before when they cover, “I Want to be Sedated.”īoth the Ramones and Joan Jett are considered 1970’s American punk icons, so it should be really fun and intense show, he said. The Sedated will hit the Pub stage running and won’t start breathing again until about an hour later, he said. Johnny has the all-downstrokes down on his Mosrite guitar, but “When he gets on stage, he has a great time. The band is also working on their guitarist Johnny Sedated to get more of the famous Johnny Ramone scowl. It’s taken me a while to build that stamina.” With the Ramones, it’s pretty much Gatlin straight through. There’s no ‘Hello Cleveland, how you doing?’ all that stuff. “In most tribute bands, the singer has more time to pause between songs and guitar solos. When the 6’ 5” Joey Sedated joined the band, he though singing the Ramones would be like a walk in the park in Queens, New York. “It’s the best live performance the Ramones did and we really strive to replicate that experience the best we can.” Honestly, so many artists have covered this tune it’s the punk rock Stairway To Heaven.The group specifically emulates the 1977 Ramones live show in London, England recorded and released as “It’s Alive” (1979). Ska legends Operation Ivy, The Mr T Experience, New Found Glory, All Time Low, Justine Electra, Rob Zombie. Lily Black, Motley Crue, Red Hot Chili Peppers and U2 have all played their own version of the two and half minute ode to boredom. Tim (Timebomb) Armstrongfrom Rancidis on record doing a version.
So has Bruce Springsteen, The Go Go’s, Shonen Knife, The Dollyrots and Nouvelle Vague (well, you could have guessed that one). Green Day in one of their many other guises (in this case The CoverUps) did a version. British singer and part time Pogue, Kirsty MacColl covered it on her album Titanic Days.
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It’s also been covered by The Offspring in the movie Idle Hands when they play the movies high school prom. So after Road To Ruin, The Adictshad a go at it first as far as I can tell (1982). Even without the subject matter of boredom and drugs it’s an instant ‘I’m so cool the world bores me’ anthem. That’s why there are so many cover versions of it.
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The riff is a right of passage and as such, the first song many a punk has had a crack at when they finally get their first guitar. The breakfast nook was replaced with an expensive looking microphone and Axl wriggled and jived as much as the extras where Da Bruddas had just sat there, ignoring the chaos around them. Of course they missed the whole point of the bands ennui being the source of the cool. Guns N’ Roses liked the video so much they practically remade it for their Use Your Illusion single Garden Of Eden barely 5 years later. A very young Courtney Love is one of the dancers clambering all over the band in the video if you’re interested in that kind of Rock and Roll Archaeology. They are however joined by a cavalcade of extras who wander into frame, bang into them, twirl around, squeeze up to the fish eye lens and generally make chaos around the static cereal munchers. They’re there to eat cereal and watch TV. The one shot wonder shows the band in a long single (or so it would have the viewer believe) static frame sat at a dinner table. Ten years later when a break water compilation Ramones Mania was released in 1988 the song suddenly got released as a single in its own right (Aha! Mid-period) and issued with an iconic video. It was a B-Side to the She’s The One single from their fourth album (OK maybe mid-period was stretching things a bit…) Road To Ruin in 1978. I Wanna Be Sedated didn’t put the Ramones at the top of the hit parade. It’s influential beyond all reasonable expectations for a mid period punk band single that chugs along for two and a half minutes and it’s utterly brilliant in every single way.
I Wanna Be Sedated is one of the bands most loved most streamlined and most infectious tunes. The ‘I Don’t Wanna’s’ include such bobby sox boppers as: I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement, I Don’t Wanna Walk Around With You, Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight Tonight). Some say it marked difference between ‘Up Strike Ramones’: Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue, I Wanna Be Well, I Wanna Live, I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend and ‘Down Strike Ramones’.
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