This is the official music video for the Rock (Jam Band) song, Jon Along by the Southern California band the Ram taken from the EP/album, I Am Nowhere I Am Everywhere (release date is April 18, 2025). The single is out now on all streaming platforms.
ABOUT THE SONG:
The story behind this song takes us back to September 15-20 1987, not sure which night it was my guess it was either a Friday or a Saturday given that I was going to school. I was a freshman in college at SUNY New Paltz and went down to NYC to see the Grateful Dead, take a listen and hear what went down. Join Along is a melodic homage to an incident that happened after a Madison Square Garden Grateful Dead show. My friends and I ended up stranded in NYC late nite after missing the last train north on the Hudson line. We ended up cruising up to Radio City, Rockefeller Plaza to camp out for David Letterman tickets. 6 country kids, very high on acid, safe on the marble floors of NBC in the 80s.
LYRICS:
She stepped right off of the train
Headed straight across the platform
Behold, such a beautiful face, (she came up to me)
Asked me for a lighter, you got one
Let me see the moonlight in your eyes
Let me see the New York City lights
Let us smoke some incense and fill the air
Baby don’t you know that we’re almost there
Because! Tonight it’s only rock and roll, babe
You can have it any way we want, or else waltz away
Madison Square, walk right inside
We’re gonna dance to our favorite songs all night
Gonna get crazy, let go and have ourselves a hell of a time
We can go crazy on each other and have ourselves a hell of a time
Oh if you feel me, babe
Won’t you join along
If you feel, feel, feel it, got to join along
I know you long to, join along
If you want a right place
If you want a piece of the action, action
The whole, such a sweet embrace
Always amplifies attraction
Because! Tonight it’s only rock and roll, babe
You can have it any way we want, or else waltz away
Madison Square, walk right inside
We’re gonna dance to our favorite songs all night
Gonna get crazy, let go and have ourselves a hell of a time
We can go crazy on each other and have ourselves a hell of a time
Oh if you feel me, babe
Won’t you join along
If you feel, feel, feel it, got to join along
I know you long to, join along
When we missed the last train home
Camped for Letterman tickets but got none
Floated through outer space
Rockefeller Center and then some
Because! Tonight it’s only rock and roll, babe
You can have it any way we want, or else waltz away
Madison Square, walk right inside
We’re gonna dance to our favorite songs all night
Gonna get crazy, let go and have ourselves a hell of a time
We can go crazy on each other and have ourselves a hell of a time
Oh if you feel me, babe
Won’t you join along
If you feel, feel, feel it, got to join along
I know you long to, join along
METADATA:
Join Along
The Ram
UPC :197146039459
Release date: September 23, 2022
ASCAP Work ID: 920728999
ASCAP Singer Songwriter IPI Number: 375350750
ASCAP Publisher IPI Number: 375351159
ABOUT THE VIDEO:
A big part of my music is the first time I perform a new song to my friends and family. The album and single release art is from a show at my local venue, The Camp Store in Carlsbad, CA on the first night I publicly played the song. This is a still from the video recording. It means so much to me, the local surfers, our community who all shares our lives around such a spectacular beach.
In my official music video, I’ve synched surf footage from the trips I’ve been on with friends, to coaster rides looking at local surf breaks to the boys and I first playing this new song. I hope you like it when it comes out this Friday June 14th.
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