DEE DEE RAMONE LIVE ON THE UNCLE FLOYD SHOW

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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THE UNCLE FLOYD SHOW - DEE DEE RAMONE

SQUEEZE - IN QUINTESCENCE

what a band......

I had a good ear for music even as a kid.... no wait, let me finish. Let me explain. That is not an egotistical statement. You see in 1980 if you admitted you liked anything with a melody in junior high you would get flattened down to hamburger meat. Everything in 1980 was 666 and the definition of a "musician" preferably had something to do with long hair and beards, mustaches, mutton chops etc. IN short, you had to look like a troll from Lord of the Rings.

ENTER SQUEEZE.

I saw their first debut on the Uncle Floyd Show from Newark New Jersey as a kid. They did two songs -- BLACK COFFEE IN BED... and IVE RETURNED. They were able to tell an entire story of breaking up, getting thrown out, sleeping in a car and getting back together again in under 3 minutes. And I really dug Jooles Hollands keyboard playing and the soulful vocals.

I had to smuggle these albums home from the record store and make sure I would not be jumped by our local neighborhood thugs. U2, The Police and Squeeze were not welcome in the east coast neighborhood I lived in. So I had to smuggle anything I got home quickly ... how times have changed.

This is off the album ARGY BARGY.
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