Johnny was raised to be severe. He became scary even to himself. I was just bad, every minute of the day. He threw bricks through windows, simply to do it, and he also strong-armed people. I was twenty. I was walking down the block, near my neighborhood … and I heard a voice. Is this what you are here for? And I just immediately stopped everything. It was all clear-cut right then.
Sometime later, delivering clothes for for a dry cleaner, he met Doug Colvin, known as Dee Dee. His father, an Army master sergeant stationed in Germany, moved the family back and forth between there and the U.
Tommy, though, did. He urged Johnny and Dee Dee to form a band. Johnny resisted. The Dolls had taken the license that David Bowie and the glitter movement had implied, and brought a new trashy democratic feasibility: Anybody could make meaningful noise. I can do this. Hyman, who became Joey Ramone, had hardships his whole life. He was born with a teratoma — a rare tumor that sometimes contains hair, teeth and bone — the size of a baseball, attached to his spine. His parents divorced as he was approaching adolescence.
His father, Noel Hyman, ran a trucking company; his mother, Charlotte, ran an art gallery. Noel had a bad temper — he once picked up Joey and threw him across a room into a wall. He wore dark glasses everywhere — even to school. They were trying to kill you.
Johnny was like a greaser [for a while]. He was a hard guy. When he was in his teens, Joey began behaving oddly — climbing in and out of bed repeatedly before he was ready for sleep, leaving food out of the refrigerator at night, becoming hostile with his mother when she asked him why he was acting strangely.
Once, he pulled a knife on her. He started to hear voices, and could burst into inexplicable anger. In , he voluntarily entered St. But by then, Joey had found his path out of a life of cutoff prospects and mental limitation. Later on, the Stooges were a band that helped me in those dark periods — just get out the aggression.
Joey later discovered the epoch-changing music of David Bowie — which offered a new kind of identity and pride to nonconformists. Joey started bands and joined a glam-rock group called Sniper as lead singer, wearing a tailor-made, skintight outfit and calling himself Jeff Starship. He had already left Sniper when, in early , Dee Dee asked him to join him and Johnny in their new band.
At one of those early sessions, they discussed what to call themselves. I liked it because I thought it was ridiculous.
The Ramones? We all started calling ourselves Ramones because it was just a fun thing to do. There were times we were pretty lighthearted when we were putting this together. I t would take several months to figure out what would work. Tommy suggested moving Joey to lead vocalist, front and center of the band. Sex Symbol or something. In the place of the rock frills was doo-wop, girl groups, bubblegum — they all loved the Bay City Rollers — and the surf rock of Brian Wilson and Jan and Dean, which informed many of the melodies, a tuneful undertow to the cacophony.
And 20 of them would just be the band yelling at each other. By early , the Ramones had honed their presentation. Thanks to their goal of a new song every practice, they were developing a large repertoire of original material. People began to take notice. What more do you need? Johnny felt that he and the group were ready.
I felt that we were better than everyone else … In the New York scene, the only band I looked at as any sort of competition was the Heartbreakers [led by Johnny Thunders]. A punk was a coward or a snitch or a sniveling villain.
You could also hear that spirit in English bands, such as the Stones and early Kinks. But beginning with the Ramones, punk came to represent an aesthetic and a subculture. But we were so weird.
This is what we thought was normal. We were being naive, though. If we had been bigger, there would have been a bigger deal made of it by the press. Plenty of rock tastemakers hated everything about Ramones. It was always that way.
By the time of their U. Johnny disliked England, especially the audiences who spat on bands as a sign of punk affection. I thought the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash were all going to become the major groups, like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and it would be a better world.
They were of a piece with the first album — they extended the sound somewhat, but kept the same dense texture. For him, life in constant close quarters with the band had become too much. The Ramones toured steadily — playing something like shows some years, spending hours and days going from city to city in a van, often finding fault with one another and erupting into fights. What are you gonna do about it? Johnny tried to get him to stay. Drummer Marc Bell, who had played with the Voidoids and other downtown bands, replaced Tommy under the name Marky Ramone.
Road to Ruin was a masterpiece — the fourth in a row by a band that had burst out of nowhere. Drummer and producer Tommy Ramone , the last surviving original member of the influential New York punk quartet the Ramones , died Friday at his home in the Ridgewood area of Queens, New York.
He was 65 and had been in hospice care following treatment for bile duct cancer. Joey died of lymphoma at age Dee Dee died of a drug overdose at Johnny died of prostate cancer at Tommy died of bile duct cancer at age By , all four of the band's original members had died — lead singer Joey Ramone — , bassist Dee Dee Ramone — , guitarist Johnny Ramone — and drummer Tommy Ramone — How did Tommy Ramone die?
Why did Dee Dee leave the Ramones? According to Mondo Bizarro's liner notes, for example, the Ramones once bailed Dee Dee out of jail in exchange for the rights to his songs "Main Man", "Strength to Endure" and "Poison Heart", which would become a minor hit for the band. When did Joey Ramone die? April 15, Is Marky Ramone Dead? Marky Ramone. Brooklyn, New York, U. In later years, he went the acoustic route, playing bluegrass and country music with his partner Claudia Tienan in Uncle Monk.
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