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Nov 4, 2016 · To my left, mop-topped guitarist Johnny Ramone declares his love of horror films and John Denver, as livewire bassist Dee Dee Ramone chats animatedly to some fans. Towering before me, swaying from foot to foot, a strange smile plastered across his face, stands all six-foot-five of Joey Ramone, the gangling, otherworldy future icon who will ...
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"Yeah, yeah," says Johnny from retirement in Los Angeles. "I think I said somewhere [in the liner notes] that I was trying to avoid working with him. At some point, we realized we weren't having the success we thought we'd have with the first four albums, and we realized we needed to do something. "Unfortunately, a great producer of early-Sixties p...
"They told us, basically, 'We can't find anybody else, this is the choice,'" recalls Ramone. "We were always getting railroaded into certain things. The album cover wasn't our cover. The original cover is included in there somewhere." AC: The replacement album cover was, um, "appropriated" off an Austin artist by the name of Guy Juke. Ever heard th...
"Uhhh," pauses Ramone. "I felt like we were going in the right direction. We had some stuff on it I like, but there's a lot of stuff on it I don't like. The three cover songs I'm not happy with, but 'Highest Trails,' 'Outsider,' 'Psycho Therapy,' there was stuff on it I liked." The Chamber Brothers' hippie bomb, "Time Has Come Today"? Back to the f...
And yet the Eurythmics frontman cut one of the gemstones of the Ramones catalog, "Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)," lycanthropic power pop. When spidery New Wave keys bite Dee Dee's heart-pounding bass as Johnny enters at a gallop, only Joey swinging down on the bassist's Sherwood Forest sonnet can compete. I took the law and threw it away, 'Cause ...
JR:Great, I'm the happiest in my life. Playing was great, and I'm so lucky to have done that and have everyone be so nice to me -- the fans are so nice. But I don't want to get up there as an aging rock star and keep doing this when I'm past my prime. It's nice being home and watching movies and baseball, and going out to dinner. It's just relaxing...
Throughout the tome, King (né Vera Boldis) chronicles both her marriage to Dee Dee (né Douglas Colvin) and the latter’s drug use and maniacal behavior. At certain points, particularly after a horrifically brutal beating on the Ramones’ tour bus that, according to her, had absolutely no provocation, you begin to question her sanity.
Dee Dee Ramone was an unhappy child. He often watched his drunken father beat up his mother, and after she left him to raise Dee Dee alone he quickly adopted patterns of severe substance abuse and found himself wanting to beat his mother up himself. These scenes appear in the early chapters in Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones, which was ...
Released: December 1984 (US) Too Tough to Die is the eighth studio album by the American punk rock band Ramones. It was released on October 1, 1984, and is the first Ramones record to feature Richie Ramone on drums. With ex-member Tommy Ramone producing (credited as T. Erdelyi), the recording process was similar to that of the band's 1976 self ...
Written-By – Mick Jagger/Keith Richards* 2:56: 15: Smash You. Written-By – Ramones. ... Written-By – Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Ramone, T. Erdelyi* 2:15: 23: I'm ...
Too Tough To Die. By Kurt Loder. November 22, 1984. The Ramones ‘ eighth studio album is an exhilarating summation of all that they do so well, from the classic thrash of “Mama’s Boy” and ...
