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One Take to Change Guitar Music Forever

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Television | Marquee Moon The Take Nobody Planned In the fall of 1976, Television recorded their ten-minute guitar epic in a single take at A&R Studios. The drummer thought it was a rehearsal. The engineer, Andy Johns, who’d worked with Led Zeppelin and the Stones, initially thought they couldn’t play, then took the finished tapes […]

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The Ramones Spent $6,400 to Change Everything

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Ramones | Ramones (debut album) Twenty Minutes, Twenty Songs Sire Records president Seymour Stein was home sick when the Ramones played their showcase, so he booked a rehearsal room the next day. They ripped through twenty songs in twenty minutes and he signed them on the spot, to make the $6,400 album that blew apart

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