BONUS EPISODE: How The Ramones played the Olympic Hotel in Seattle in March 1977

On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Neil Hubbard, who was 19 years old when he and a friend produced a concert by New York protopunk band The Ramones at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle in March 1977. We go deep on the context, details and myth-like backstory of those distant years when Seattle was full of middle-class kids and was something of an incubator of organic music and other creative endeavors. Special thanks to Erik Lacitis, whose Seattle Times' article, published on the 40th anniversary of the show at the Olympic Hotel, is essential reading: https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/the-ramones-rattled-seattles-staid-olympic-hotel-exactly-40-years-ago/ CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle. Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms.