DANA & CARL talk about THE RAMONES on the ONLY THREE LADS podcast with BRETT VARGO and UNCLE GREGG

L-R: CC Ramone, Dana Ramone, Uncle Ramone, and Vargo Ramone

This week's edition of the superswell classic alternative podcast Only Three Lads finds its hosts Uncle Gregg and Brett Vargo chantin' Hey-ho, let's GO! in welcoming Dana & Carl as collective guest Third Lad. Or, as their fresh this-week-only hype says, "This week, there's not only three lads.

"There's 1-2-3-4!"

So yeah, we're talking Ramones here. Each weekly episode of O3L finds each of its assembled Lads (hosts and guests) counting down a personal Top 5 within a chosen classic alt-rock topic. Given the facts that A) Dana and I host a radio show named after a line in a Ramones song, B) my first book was 2023's Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones, and C) I routinely refer to the Ramones as the American Beatles, the greatest American rock 'n' roll band of all time, well, it was pretty obvious that the topic for our O3L appearance had to Top 5 Ramones Songs. That, my friends, is just the way the Carbona crumbles.

Over the course of our long and spirited chat with Brett and Uncle Gregg, we discuss our long-standing reverence for the Ramones, and veer off in a jillion directions to also talk about radio, Syracuse's late '70s/early '80s rock 'n' roll scene, pop passions (from the Bay City Rollers to the Gladiolas, Josie Cotton, the Linda Lindas, the Monkees, and more), the importance of digging what you dig, and my other book, The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). I had an absolute blast, and I'm reasonably certain like-minded listeners will find that unabashed enthusiasm infectious. We're like cooties with a beat!

Only Three Lads is available from wherever and everywhere you get your podcasts. And you can keep it beatin' with all us hoppin' cretins right here via Apple Podcasts, or check here for the podcast platform of your choice.

Thank you, lads! And now: TAKE IT, DEE DEE....!

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My new book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) is now available; you can see details here. My 2023 book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones is also still available, courtesy of the good folks at Rare Bird Books. 

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. Recent shows are archived at Westcott Radio. You can read about our history here.