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Over the remarkable twenty-two-year career of the Ramones the seminal punk rock band Monte A. Melnick saw it all. Monte was with the band from the very early CBGB dates to the final show in 1996, over 2,200 shows, working his way up to be their Tour Manager. Monte is the author of ‘ON THE ROAD with the RAMONES’ now out in a special BONUS EDITION on Amazon. The Ramones are Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winners, MTV Lifetime Achievement Award winners, Long Island Music Hall of Fame Award winners and inductees into The Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. Monte now works as the Audio/Visual Supervisor for The New York Hall of Science in Queens NY.

 

On The Road with the Ramones: Bonus Edition

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Ron Alexenburg , One of the most iconic people in the Recording Industry who has seen & worked with the Best then and now artists and still continues to bring to life his funny,charismatic personality in his life today! Ron is currently working on Memoirs,Documentaries and so much more!

Most of the Moments are things you had to be there for and what better way to experience them than to hear them straight from Ron himself .

This is going to be an all out memorable experience that will be one you will not want to miss!

PS, HAPPY BIRTHDAY is going to be celebrated as well and what a great way to celebrate your life than to share some of the most iconic moments that I myself was laughing, in awe of and just simply blow away! NOW A TINY BIT ABOUT RON!

 

Ron Alexenburg has over 50 years of experience in the music industry. In 1965, he joined CBS Records and soon moved onto Columbia Records, where he became the youngest head of promotion in the company’s history, working with the label’s top talent. He rose through the ranks at Columbia, eventually becoming senior vice president and general manager of Epic Records, a division of CBS Records Group. Over the years, Alexenburg has worked directly with many recording artists, including Boston, Meat Loaf, Charlie Daniels, and Michael Jackson. Ron was recently inducted into The Long Island Music Hall of Fame

Ariel Kavoussi is an award-winning artist, writer, producer, filmmaker, actor, and curator of film & video works based in New York City. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight, Dia: Chelsea, Louis B. James, Anthology Film Archives, the Williams College Museum of Art, Woodstock Film Festival, Loft Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Lighthouse International Film Festival, and elsewhere.

Her most recent short film, THE POET AND THE PROFESSOR, is a dark comedy which stars herself opposite indie stalwart Kevin Corrigan (WALKING AND TALKING, THE GET DOWN) and Bob Byington (THE COLOR WHEEL). It premiered at the 2017 Maryland Film Festival and was selected as one of the few short films to be included in the new Parkway Theater’s regular programming under Dark Comedy Shorts.

In 2017, Ariel acted opposite Anne Heche, Sandra Oh, & Dylan Baker in Onur Tukel's dark comedic feature CATFIGHT (Toronto International Film Festival). Numerous critics have lauded her performance; Vanity Fair singled Ariel Kavoussi out as Hilarious Newcomer for her work, as did Variety. Kavoussi can next be seen opposite Emma Stone in Cary Fukunaga’s original series for Netflix called Maniac,” as well as opposite Mamoudou Athie in Alex Karpovsky’s original series for FX Networks called  Oh, Jerome No.

Jonathan Hiam serves as Curator of Music & Recorded Sound at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.  He is a specialist in American music, with a particular emphasis on the music and sounds of the Twentieth-Century.  He has curated several notable exhibitions in New York, including Toscanini: Preserving a Legacy in Sound  (2018), Celebrating Lou Reed  (2018), and Do What I Want: Selections from the Arthur Russell Papers  (2017).  Recent research has focused on the recording industry, British popular music, Black Mountain College, audio preservation, and John Cage.  He holds a PhD in Musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MA in Music History and Literature from Boston University, and a BM in Vocal Performance from SUNY Fredonia.

Join us as we talk to  Chris Scoates , Director of  The Museum of Arts and Design and Andrew Krivine curator,Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986, based almost entirely on Andrew’s collection. The exhibition will tour through the end of 2021 and is currently being presented by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City through Aug. 18, 2019

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will present Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986, an exhibition that explores the punk and post-punk movements through the lens of graphic design. The exhibition, on view from April 9 through August 18, 2019, will feature more than four hundred of punk’s most memorable graphics, including flyers, posters, album covers, promotions, zines, and other ephemera.

“Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die charts punk’s explosive impact on design and examines its complex relationship with art, history, and culture,” said Chris Scoates, MAD’s Nanette L. Laitman Director. “Punk questioned everything, and it’s that spirit of inquiry that is driving MAD forward today, presenting and debating innovative works and ideas with lots of energy, color, and noise. During Museum hours, a multimedia presentation, Please Kill Me: Voices from the Archive, will play continuously in the gallery. Narrated by McNeil and McCain and compiled by filmmaker/artist Brendan Toller, the presentation includes vintage interviews from IggyPop, Joey and Dee Dee Ramone, Debbie Harry, Jim Carroll, Billy Name, and others, combined with never-before-seen photographs and ephemera from Fred W. McDarrah, Adam Ritchie, Danny Fields, Bob Gruen, James Marshall and Gillian McCain, David Godlis, Leni

Sinclair, Mike Barich, Natalie Schlossman, Paul Zone, and Tom Hearn.

Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon to Johnny Rotten; Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones; Elvis to Madonna; Bob Dylan to Bob Marley; Tina Turner to Debbie Harry, he has captured the music scene for over forty years in photographs that have gained worldwide recognition.

Shortly after John Lennon moved to New York in 1971, Bob became John and Yoko’s personal photographer and friend, making photos of their working life as well as private moments. In 1974 he created the iconic images of John Lennon wearing a New York City t-shirt and standing in front of the Statue of Liberty making the peace sign – two of the most popular of Lennon’s images.

As chief photographer for Rock Scene Magazine in the ’70s, Bob specialized in candid, behind the scenes photo features. He toured extensively with the emerging punk and new wave bands including the New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, Clash, Ramones, Patti Smith Group and Blondie. Bob has also worked with major rock acts such as Led Zeppelin, The Who, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Elton John, Aerosmith, Kiss and Alice Cooper.

In 1989, he documented the epic trip to Russia of the “Moscow Music Peace Festival” featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe and Bon Jovi. For many years Bob was the official photographer for the New Music Seminar held in New York City, covering dozens of aspiring new bands in the course of a summer week. This seminal body of work reflects a profound commitment and long-standing personal friendship with the artists. His wealth of personal experiences and uncanny memory provide the most illuminating and comprehensive histories of rock youth culture.

Rob Gillis has been known just as “Rob The Record Guy” in Chicago for over three decades.

 

He grew up in Tarrytown, New York, and first started hitting the great record stores of Greenwich Village in the late 1960’s.

 

He was in college radio in Missouri and Illinois and became general manager of Triad Radio & Magazine in Chicago. He then worked for the Dharma Records label, the Dog Ear Records retail chain, was an editor and writer,  and then began a long run at the 2nd Hand Tunes used records chain where he really earned the “Rob The Record Guy” handle.

 

Next stop was the Waterdog Records label. In 2002, he helped revive the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab label for online audiophile retailer Music Direct. After another stint with Waterdog, he’s back with Music Direct heading up their used record division.

 

Along the way he’s been a freelance music writer and publicist, band manager, historical consultant, concert promoter, worked on special projects for the Grammys, and is past President of EARS, the Audio engineering society of Chicago. He’s also an ASCAP songwriter that plays piano pretty well and other instruments poorly.

Tomiko Dixon, grand daughter of blues legend Willie Dixon best known for his major contributions to the music world is keeping the Blues alive! Tomiko in her own right is a Philanthropist, Singer & Songwriter taking the music industry by storm. Her mission is to keep the blues music genre alive. Tomiko is the youngest person ever inducted into Chicago’s Blues Hall of Fame. Tomiko Dixon demonstrates that her grandfather's musical legacy is in safe hands. This powerhouse of a blues woman, making the blues her own.Tomiko has recorded, arranged, produced, written for and performed with some of the most talented and well known artists in the music business.Ever the workhorse Tomiko is an official Grammy Voting Member & assist with finding eligible new members for The Recording Academy (Chicago Chapter) and is an active Supporter & Member of The Blues Foundation , while also being involved in several other Companies & Foundations.Make no doubt about it Tomiko has inherited her grandfather's genes. She well deserves the title of “The Grand-Daughter of the Blues”

K18 UPPERCUT is a directorial and design collective created in 2018 by Morris Lee and Pete Gibson, spanning both Eastern and Western hemispheres. It started with a desire to collaborate with musicians and visual artists, whom they love and respect. The ever-evolving line up shares a collective passion in bringing new experiences through music, visuals, and other forms of creative expression.18 UPPERCUT reaction to our dream of being a rap super group where we could party on yachts with champagne and be surrounded by beautiful women. We knew this was highly unlikely given one half of the duo is from a nanny state, Singapore and the other a rodeo friendly part of the USA. We decided it would be best if we try to be the visual equivalent of Wu-Tang Clan and the Beastie Boys - sampling our childhood love of Tron, Kungfu, Star Wars, Anime, Kaiju and our perverse interests in exploitation and hentai films. 

We’ve come to realize our backgrounds and collective experiences positioned us uniquely in the crossroads of Eastern and Western culture. So we set out to appropriate and reinvent pop culture that transcended hemispheres. 

To do this, we have committed to jamming on ideas daily after our exhausting day jobs, pitching treatments in futile to people who think we’re a bunch of crazy motherfuckers, and hustling for pennies to mitigate the impact of self-funding our projects. Our nights are spent figuring out kung-fu choreography and how to get blood to gush out gloriously from silicone limbs, having not done any of that shit before.. we are in fact more than directors, taking on multiple roles of producers, prop, sets, toy and tee designers.

About AWKWARD i

AWKWARD i is the more song-oriented pseudonym of Dutch musician and composer Djurre de Haan. De Haan has released three full-length albums as AWKWARD i. I Really Should Whisper was an intricate but lo-fi affair, sophomore album Everything On Wheels applied a more ornate, studio-oriented approach. His third upcoming album KYD reconciles the two methods to a degree, engaging the listener with his distinct self-effacing sense of humor, offbeat-but-poignant reflections and a dense proclivity for conflating sonorous pop with lo-fi quirks.