Sire Records shelled out $6,400 on the Ramones’s debut. We did all our tracks in two days at Radio CIty Music Hall.We got this done for sixty-five hundred dollars, which was cheap even then. "This would have worked if the production had been better, but the guitar doesn't even sound like me. Following the cancer-related deaths of Joey and Johnny Ramone, and the drug-induced demise of Dee Dee, Tommy Ramone died of bile duct cancer in 2014, after spending a period in hospice care, according to Variety. Share with your friends. Beat on the Brat’ (1976) If you ever needed proof that the Ramones were living the punk life before … It looks like you're using an ad blocker. Joey Ramone covered I Wanna Be Sedated, 1969, Blitzkrieg Bop, Garden of Serenity and other songs. AllMusic relies on advertising to keep providing the reviews, biographies, historical information and new release coverage our users have relied on for over 25 years. The longest lapse between each song is 13 seconds. His wife Linda kept his ashes. "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" (Original by the Seeds), 10. ]We did three covers, and we shouldn't have, but I was happy with the guitar sound on it. Guitarist for the Ramones. [..] Debbie Harry did guest backing on vocals on " Go Lil' Camaro Go". "Palisades Park" Side two 7. He is one of the greats and one of my guitar heroes, but he was late. Its where you’ll find “I … "It sounded good." he's playing the rhythm guitar with the buzzsaw soundfrom the swing cats tribute to elvis presley ", 12. His Great Uncle Henry Whitter recorded many songs in the 1930s - Henry's rendition of The Wreck Of The 'Ol '97 was one of American country music's first million sellers. 1. All rights reserved. That was not how I wanted to meet him, so I left to go watch the Yankee game. Dee Dee was always leaning to the right. "Come Back, Baby" 12. September 15 1987, Sire Records, Warner Brothers. " We were going in the right direction with this record. "Learn to Listen" 9. Well it was my guitar, just like it always sounded. Johnny Ramone Stays Tough Ramones guitarist reflects on Dee Dee’s death and the difficult Eighties . The band had reached its peak both in the studio and live. I didn't need to hear it back. The tracks on this one aren't the best. But we needed more Dee Dee songs on it.[..] They… "It's Not My Place (In the 9 to 5 World)", "It was kind of a good time. Maybe Spector will make a difference. He was the first artist ever to have American country music songs to be air-played by an 'Iron Curtain' country - The German Democratic Republic's National Radio Station and followed by most of the Eastern European National Radio Stations. "Punishment Fits the Crime" 5. Popular Johnny Ramone songs 4. M oderately sized and immoderately pink, Johnny Ramone’s ranch house sits high in the Hollywood Hills, guarded by a regiment of cactus and a stuffed, snarling wild boar. - Johnny Ramone, from his book Commando. My favorite is "The Crusher". Rock 'n' Roll High School (song) T. Teenage Lobotomy; W. We're a Happy Family (song) So the back cover is just a photo of us with our backs to a firing squad.". While he was the first Ramone to leave, Erdélyi was also the last surviving original member of the group. Joey Ramone originally did I Wanna Be Sedated, 1969, Blitzkrieg Bop, Garden of Serenity and other songs. "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)". ", 7. "Journey to the Center of the Mind" (Original by The Amboy Dukes), 3. I spoke out once in a while. Before he died of prostate cancer in 2004, Johnny Ramone reviewed each of the band’s fourteen albums—selections of those reflections appear below. " After each take, the engineers would ask if I wanted to hear it back, and I'd ask them how it sounded. "I Can't Control Myself" (Original by the Troggs), 12. Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Joey Ramone, Tommy Ramone: Ramones: November 4, 1977: Covered by : You're Gonna Kill That Girl: Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Joey Ramone, Tommy Ramone: Ramones: January 1977: Covered by : You Should Never Have Opened That Door: Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Joey Ramone, Tommy Ramone: Ramones: January 1977 We did a cover of Tom Waits's " I Don't Want To Grow Up". Tommy and Ed produced it, and it has a great guitar sound. My favorite on here is " The KKK Took My Baby Away," which we did live for a long time. So I just said "OK, let's keep it going." Dee Dee Ramone originally did Blitzkrieg Bop, Teenage Lobotomy, Motorbikin', Beat on the Brat and other songs. "Pet Sematary" 8. The front cover is of dinosaurs, which is what we felt like. "Surf City" (Original by Jan and Dean), "This album has perhaps the best of all guitar sounds I ever got. Read Full Biography, Along with the Stooges' Ron Asheton/James Williamson, the New York Dolls' Johnny Thunders, and the Sex Pistols' Steve Jones, the Ramones' Johnny Ramone was one punk rock's first guitar heroes and remains…, Chris Frantz of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club Shares Tales From His (Mostly) Upbeat Memoir, Tripping Through the Monster Magnet Discography With Frontman Dave Wyndorf. Discography Ramones (1976) Leave Home (1977) Rocket to Russia (1977) Road to Ruin (1978) End of the Century (1980) Pleasant Dreams (1981) Subterranean Jungle (1983) Too Tough to Die (1984) Animal Boy (1986) Halfway to Sanity (1987) Brain Drain (1989) … We haven’t even heard them yet. ", 1. The official homepage for the king of the downstroke guitar, Johnny Ramone. Blitzkrieg Bop = Tommy, Dee Dee Beat On The Brat = Joey Judy Is A Punk = Joey I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend = Tommy Chainsaw = Joey Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue = Dee Dee I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement = Dee Dee, Johnny Loudmouth = Dee Dee, Johnny Havana Affair = Dee Dee, Johnny Listen To My Heart = Dee Dee 53rd & 3rd = Dee Dee I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You = Dee Dee [...], 6. DuBose relates: "Johnny wanted a picture that would evoke memories of the gang in A Clockwork Orange.". "Chinese Rocks" or "Chinese Rock" is a song written in 1975 by New York punk rock musicians Dee Dee Ramone and Richard Hell, mostly composed by the former.Inspired by Lou Reed's "Heroin", the song openly details the day-to-day ravages of opiate addiction, based on Dee Dee's real-life experiences.. Authorship of the track is heavily disputed. We did a Doors cover,"Take it As It Comes. "The Shape of Things to Come" (Original by Max Frost and the Troopers), 5. The group does song after song with hardly a word spoken. About Johnny Ramone John William Cummings (October 8, 1948 – September 15, 2004) was best known as the founding guitarist of the Ramones . Johnny Ramone isn’t known for his single-note work, but some of the band’s songs feature guitar leads, often executed by record producers or guest guitarists such as Daniel Rey, Walter Lure from the Heartbreakers, and Vernon Reid from Living Colour, to name a few. He set the standard that all punk rock bassists look to. According to Johnny Ramone, Spector listened to the opening chord for 12 hours straight: The opening chord to our song 'Rock N Roll High School,' he spent 12 hours sitting there and listening to the same chord over and over again I mean it’s just not worth it. When I was in the Ramones, I never wanted it to be about politics. By. Except, of course, this classic vision, ‘Rockaway Beach’. "All Screwed Up" 6. It was worse than glue. Title pretty much says it all. "Baby, I Love You" (The Ronettes cover), "One of the first things tht happened when we got to the studio was that the producer, Graham Gouldman, said," What's that humming noise?" "You Should Never Have Opened That Door". He had it all together (...)", I Just Want to Have Something to DoI Wanted EverythingDon't Come CloseNeedles and PinsI'm Against It, I Wanna Be SedatedGo MentalQuestioninglyShe's the OneBad BrainIt's a Long Way Back, "These were really good songs that were marred by the production of Phil Spector, who, ironically, was supposed to deliver the Ramones' first hit record. He told me to fix that, and so I knew that things weren't going to go well.[..] I … ", "This is hit-and-miss, but overall I think we did a good job.Pete Townshend came in to do backing vocals on " Substitute." I did it to get a reaction, just to irritate people", 7. "My Back Pages" (Original by Bob Dylan, popularized by the Byrds), 9. Quotations by Johnny Ramone, American Musician, Born October 8, 1948. "Ignorance Is Bliss" 11. Joey Ramone wrote Suzy Is a Headbanger, I Wanna Be Sedated and Havana Affair. ", 12. This one has one great song after another, most of them written between our first and second albums." When we showed up for the shoot for the back cover, I told them that we were going to face away from the camera.[...] ‘Rockaway Beach’. "I Believe in Miracles" 2. Enjoy the best Johnny Ramone Quotes at BrainyQuote. I Wanted Everything", Bad Brain", " Go Mental", they're all great songs, so great I can't narrow it down to my favorite. ", 14. In a classic lead singer/guitar player rivalry it was known that Joey Ramone and Johnny Ramone hated each other. I didn't want politics in the songs anyway. Joey came to rehearsal with " I Wanna Be Sedated" and played it for us on his one-string guitar. "This was the best Ramones album, with the classics on it. "Out of Time" (Original by the Rolling Stones), 4. The surf-punk pioneer is full of summer in New York joy, featuring cheap hot dogs, cheaper beer and sunburnt bodies. I always had a problem bringing songs into the band unless I was sure they were going to be very good. I sniffed Carbona a couple of times. Many of his friends and musical contemporaries came to pay their respects. "Zero Zero UFO" 3. Joey Ramone died at the age of 49 following a seven-year battle with lymphoma at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on April 15, 2001, a month before he would have turned 50. Road to Ruin (1978) Its almost terrifying how absolutely perfect this album is. "Can't Get You Outta My Mind" 10. "It was my idea which nobody liked at first.But Joey did a great job on the vocals, and it shows, because the song works. Dee Dee Ramone wrote Suzy Is a Headbanger, I Wanna Be Sedated and Havana Affair. "The production on this is the best of all of them, and there are so many good songs on it. " Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment (1977) I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement (1976) I Remember You (1977) I Wanna Be Sedated (1978) I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (1976) Judy Is A Punk (1976) My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg) (1985) Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue (1976) Oh Oh I Love Her So (1977) © 2020 Johnny Ramones Army LLC. "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", The back cover to the Ramones album was designed by artist Arturo Vega who produced the photo of a belt buckle in a photobooth, " I wrote the song "Carbona Not Glue" after listening to an Eddie Cochran album. "Somebody to Love" (Original by the Great Society, popularized by Jefferson Airplane), 6. Find Johnny Ramone song information on AllMusic. "Don't Bust My Chops" 4. But I don't think you can hear that in there. Dee Dee Ramone covered Blitzkrieg Bop, Teenage Lobotomy, Motorbikin', Beat on the Brat and other songs. [Jim’s 2020 note: Both made the film and soundtrack.] "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" The ORIGINAL Johnny Ramone born in the UK Johnny Whitter, in the county of Devon and has family both sides of the Atlantic and is very proud to be an Anglo-American. ", The cover photo for the album was taken by photographer George DuBose in a subway in Central Park. The Carbona company made us pull the song from the album. ", " One of my least favorite albums, but it has a couple of bright spots, like " I Believe in Miracles" and "Punishment Fits the Crime". "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)", "Dee Dee's "Main Man" and "Strength to Endure" are the best songs, and we kept doing them live to the end. "Miracles" was the song we kept in our live repertoire for a while, and " Pet Sematary," which we wrote for a Stephen King Movie, was also a live song for a while. One time I told a college newspaper that Ronald Reagan wasn't conservative enough. May 19 1986, Sire Records/Warner Brothers. )", 7. Johnny Ramone has followed in Uncle Henry's footsteps. After a while, I started wondering if he was going to show up at all, and everyone was getting excited about talking to him. All the songs are solid. In the slew of three-chord, three-minute gut punches that the Ramones call songs, there aren’t many bonafide ‘hits’. Johnny Ramone® is a registered trademark of Linda Ramone. LATE NIGHT1989Pet SemataryAfter almost a year with no uploads, here's something pretty good and atually rare!Enjoy and don't forget to subscribe! He’s already mixed two of the songs for the [Rock ‘n’ Roll High School] soundtrack, [“Rock ‘n’ Roll High School” and “I Want You Around”] but we’re only gonna put one on it. This is also the album where Dee Dee and Joey wrote the song about Reagan's visit to Germany. Johnny Ramone admits he rushed through the recording of the album. Along with the Stooges' Ron Asheton/James Williamson, the New York Dolls' Johnny Thunders, and the Sex Pistols' Steve Jones, the Ramones' Johnny Ramone was one punk rock's first guitar heroes and remains… "When I Was Young" (Original by the Animals), 8. (Original by Creedence Clearwater Revival), 11. I know that Dee Dee wrote most of the Ramones songs, along with Joey, but I cannot find any information on Johnny. On September 15, 2004, Johnny Ramone died in his Los Angeles home at the age of 55, 23 days before his 56th birthday, following a five-year battle with prostate cancer. I love "Scattergun". I was very selective because I didn't want to embarrass myself. They didn't want us singing about sniffing the stuff, but I thought the song was funny. "Everytime I Eat Vegetables It Makes Me Think of You", "All of the sudden, we all got along and stopped worrying about making a hit record, as a result, this is a really good album. I don't know why he wrote that.