Handwritten, Working Lyrics for "High Gravity Lager"

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c1994. Handwritten working lyrics by Joey Ramone for the Steel Reserve commercial jingle "High Gravity Lager," 2pp (8 ½" x 11"), unsigned, in blue and black ballpoint on the versos only of two scrap pages with late 1993 dates (a Ramones interview request from Ray Gun Magazine and an order form from Eggbert Records). On the right side of the first sheet, Ramone adds a phone number and pens a few lines to the Adios Amigos song "She Dreams of Rainbows." Some light creasing and toning to the edges. Ex. Daniel Rey with a letter from him. "High Gravity Lager" was one of three commercial jingles the Ramones were commissioned to write for the Steel Brewing Company and their Steel Reserve lager, alongside "Gimme My Steel Reserve" and "Fill My Cup." These 1994 commissions arrived during the Ramones' final years as a touring band, a period when punk's original iconoclasts navigated the contradictions between their anti-commercial ethos and economic survival. Writing on verso of discarded ephemeral materials represents common creative practice across artistic disciplines where the urgency of composition occurs opportunistically on whatever materials are at hand when inspiration strikes. By the mid-1990s, the Ramones occupied a paradoxical cultural position: acknowledged as foundational figures whose minimalist aesthetic and three-chord template had shaped punk, hardcore, and alternative music, yet commercially operating through the same pragmatic strategies that sustained independent musicians. The manuscript's inclusion of lines to "She Dreams of Rainbows" from Adios Amigos (1995) complicates simple distinctions between artistic and commercial work.…

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Handwritten, Working Lyrics for "High Gravity Lager"
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Ramone, Joey [The Ramones]
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Poetry

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