The best part of this video is seeing OOGIE the hand puppet.
I think Dee Dee used to sleep at the YMCA in Ann Arbor. That was the rumor when I was attending college in Michigan. The Ramones, his former band, had broken up around this time.
This clip is also interesting for another reason. I didn't know Uncle Floyd was still doing his show out of Newark, New Jersey! I didn't know that either of these guys, Dee Dee and Uncle Floyd Vivino were still working... let alone working together! HA.
WHO WAS UNCLE FLOYD?
Floyd Vivino was known as Uncle Floyd and a favorite to many kids growing up in the East Coast. He had a gaggle of grown men in their 40s for a peanut gallery and they were famous for making wise cracks, jeers and hoots of howling laughter off camera. The show was low rent humor, one liners and basement production quality, (slates drawn on pie plates in marker etc) and every once in a while they would feature a band.
A lot of bands got their start on Floyd, including Squeeze. They also featured wrestlers on the set, Gary US Bonds, Aztec Two Step, The Dreggs and many more smaller acts.
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fascube 2006
I think Dee Dee used to sleep at the YMCA in Ann Arbor. That was the rumor when I was attending college in Michigan. The Ramones, his former band, had broken up around this time.
This clip is also interesting for another reason. I didn't know Uncle Floyd was still doing his show out of Newark, New Jersey! I didn't know that either of these guys, Dee Dee and Uncle Floyd Vivino were still working... let alone working together! HA.
WHO WAS UNCLE FLOYD?
Floyd Vivino was known as Uncle Floyd and a favorite to many kids growing up in the East Coast. He had a gaggle of grown men in their 40s for a peanut gallery and they were famous for making wise cracks, jeers and hoots of howling laughter off camera. The show was low rent humor, one liners and basement production quality, (slates drawn on pie plates in marker etc) and every once in a while they would feature a band.
A lot of bands got their start on Floyd, including Squeeze. They also featured wrestlers on the set, Gary US Bonds, Aztec Two Step, The Dreggs and many more smaller acts.
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fascube 2006
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