Local man shares his photos of rock ’n’ rollers

By Ralph Hohman, Record-Journal staff

Tom Hearn remembers the Ramones at the old Arcadia Ballroom in New Haven, in 1976. “It was like a paradigm shift,” he says, in his music universe. The Ramones, with their rough, rapid-fire, two-minute assaults, were a lurching return to rock ’n’ roll. “I always preferred Paul Revere and the Raiders to Led Zeppelin,” Hearn says. “I thought I was the only one.”

Hearn had his camera at the Arcadia, taking many of the shots that go into a photo exhibition, “Pictures of the Ramones and other rock ’n rollers,” hanging throughout February at The Picture Framer, 96 Elm St., a gallery owned by Hearn’s wife, Ann Hearn. A reception for the show is Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. The exhibition was still taking shape this week, but Ann Hearn says that when it’s all framed and hung, it will include about 40 photos, newly scanned and printed. - complete article