November 28, 1979 was the first of three times the Ramones came to the venue before it became First Avenue, although it was not the band’s first appearance in Minneapolis. Jon Bream found the first 30 minutes fun, but after that the show got boring. (Review December 4, 1979). The Hypsterz opened the show.
Although it wasn’t a planned or cut-and-dried transformation, Chris Riemenschneider pinpointed this night as the one that began the end of Disco’s hold on Uncle Sam’s (Star Tribune, October 28, 2017):
[A] pivotal turning point came Nov. 28, 1979, when four black-leathered punk rockers from Queens broke through the flashy red-white-and-blue Uncle Sam’s sheen and destroyed the disco era at the club.
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Longtime house DJ Kevin Cole also considers the Ramones gig the big-bang moment for the club’s post-disco existence. “It meant a lot,” recalled Cole, one of the hip record-store clerks helping McClellan steer the club into its new incarnation. “To have them in our venue was remarkable, and it sold out! We were onto something.”