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The '''Ramones''' were an [[United States|American]] [[rock band]] often regarded as the first [[punk rock]] group.<ref name=mtvbio>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/ramones/artist.jhtml#bio|title=MTV.com - Ramones - Full biography}}</ref><ref name="HallofFame">{{cite web | url=http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/ramones | date=[[15 September]] [[2004]] (last update) | title=Ramones | publisher=Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum | accessdate=2007-07-25 }}</ref> |
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After forming in [[Forest Hills, Queens|Forest Hills]], [[Queens]], [[New York]], in 1974, all members of the band used [[stage name]]s with their surnames as "Ramone", though none of them are actually related. They performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually non-stop for 22 years.<ref name="HallofFame"/> In 1996, after a tour with the [[Lollapalooza]] music festival, the band played their final show and then disbanded. The band's three founding members—[[Joey Ramone]], [[Johnny Ramone]] and [[Dee Dee Ramone]]—died within eight years of the break-up.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mp3.com/artist/the-ramones/summary/|title=MP3.com - The Ramones - Summary }}</ref> |
After forming in [[Forest Hills, Queens|Forest Hills]], [[Queens]], [[New York]], in 1974, all members of the band used [[stage name]]s with their surnames as "Ramone", though none of them are actually related. They performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually non-stop for 22 years.<ref name="HallofFame"/> In 1996, after a tour with the [[Lollapalooza]] music festival, the band played their final show and then disbanded. The band's three founding members—[[Joey Ramone]], [[Johnny Ramone]] and [[Dee Dee Ramone]]—died within eight years of the break-up.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mp3.com/artist/the-ramones/summary/|title=MP3.com - The Ramones - Summary }}</ref> |
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The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first punk rock group.[3][4]
After forming in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, in 1974, all members of the band used stage names with their surnames as "Ramone", though none of them are actually related. They performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually non-stop for 22 years.[4] In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played their final show and then disbanded. The band's three founding members—Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone and Dee Dee Ramone—died within eight years of the break-up.[5]
The Ramones failed to achieve much commercial success during their years of recording and performing. Their only album to reach certified gold status in the U.S. was their compilation album Ramones Mania.[6] Appreciation of the band has grown since the 1980s, and they now regularly appear on "all-time greatest" lists, such as Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, Rolling Stone’s list of 25 Greatest Live Albums of All Time,[7] VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock and Mojo's 100 Greatest Albums.[8][9][10] In 2002, the Ramones were voted the second greatest rock and roll band ever in Spin Magazine, trailing only The Beatles.[11] On March 18, 2002, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[4][12]
History
Pre-history
The pre-history of the band is centered in and around the middle-class neighborhood of Forest Hills in the New York City borough of Queens.
Most of the members had been in various bands since the late 1960s. Johnny and Tommy had both been in a high school garage band circa 1966-67 known as the Tangerine Puppets, and Joey was in the short-lived early 1970s glam rock band Sniper. The initial version of the Ramones included Jeffrey Hyman on drums, John Cummings on guitar, and Douglas Colvin on bass and lead vocals. Colvin was the first to use the name Ramone, calling himself Dee Dee Ramone. He was inspired by the fact that Paul McCartney used the pseudonym Paul Ramon.[13] He convinced the other members to take on the name, and came up with the idea of calling the band the Ramones.[14] Hyman and Cummings would become Joey Ramone and Johnny Ramone.
1974-1979
The band held their rehearsals at a New York City studio managed by a friend of the band, Thomas Erdelyi,[15] who would become the band's manager, and Monte A. Melnick who would become the band's tour manager.[16] Soon after the band was formed, Dee Dee realized that he could not sing and play bass at the same time,[17] so Joey became the band's lead vocalist. (Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each song's tempo with his trademark rapid-fire shout of "1-2-3-4!".) Joey would also realize that he could not sing and play drums at the same time, and left the position of drummer. While auditioning new drummers, manager Thomas Erdelyi would often take to the drums and demonstrate to auditioners how to play the songs. It became apparent that he was able to play the group's songs better than anyone else, and he joined the band as drummer Tommy Ramone.
The band played their first concert on March 30, 1974, at Performance Studios in New York.[4] The songs they played were very fast and very short; most clocked in at under two minutes. In the early 1970s, a new music scene emerged in New York when many bands started to play in clubs on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, such as Max's Kansas City and most famously CBGB's. Ramones concerts at CBGB's became legendary, due in part to their brevity: most concerts were twenty to thirty minutes long, much shorter than their contemporaries', and are often described by their witnesses as extremely fast, crude, energetic, and desperate. The Ramones' live set was so short they sometimes needed to repeat it twice a show. Mostly the songs would be performed back to back, but they were also regularly interrupted by arguments among the band members. A few super–8 movies of these shows have survived and are present in a couple of the band's later videos.
After garnering considerable attention for their performances at CBGB's, the group was signed to a recording contract in Autumn 1975 by Seymour Stein of Sire Records, whose wife Linda Stein had seen them play at CBGB's and would later co-manage the band with Danny Fields.[18] They soon recorded their debut album, Ramones on an extremely low budget; about $6,400. The band was plagued by hostile audience reactions outside of New York City. It wasn’t until they made a small tour of England that they began to see the fruits of their labor: a performance at The Roundhouse in London on July 4, 1976 (second-billed to the Flamin' Groovies), which Linda Stein had organized,[19] was a huge success. Their appearance galvanized the burgeoning UK punk rock scene, inspiring future punk stars, including members of The Clash, The Damned, and the Sex Pistols.[20] The Flamin' Groovies/Ramones double-bill was successfully reprised at The Roxy in Los Angeles the following month, which also inspired local Los Angeles musicians.
On December 31, 1977, the Ramones recorded It's Alive, a live concert double album, at the Rainbow Theatre, London, which was released in April 1979. The title is a reference to the 1974 horror movie of the same name. Upon returning from England, they found themselves prophets without honor in their own country: their subsequent two albums, Leave Home and Rocket to Russia (both 1977), failed to become the hits the band desired. Both records were co-produced by Tony Bongiovi, the cousin of Jon Bon Jovi. Tommy, tired of touring, left the band at this time but continued to produce. He was replaced by Marc Bell, who became Marky Ramone.
The first three Ramones albums mainly contained songs written during their pre-contract years. Their fourth album, Road to Ruin, was packed with brand new songs, including some stylistic flourishes—acoustic guitar, several ballads, songs over three minutes—that might have been concessions to mainstream tastes, but the album still failed to chart highly. Despite excellent reviews for both their albums ("Rocket to Russia is the best American rock & roll of the year and possibly the funniest rock album ever made," Dave Marsh wrote in Rolling Stone magazine[21]) and their live performances, the Ramones remained a cult band. The highly publicized dissolution of the Sex Pistols in 1978 seemed to signal the end of punk as a viable commercial force and branded the Ramones as outsiders.
1980–1989
After the band's movie debut in Roger Corman's Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), the legendary producer Phil Spector became interested in the Ramones and produced their 1980 album End of the Century. During the recording sessions, Spector pulled a gun on Dee Dee, and forced him to repeatedly play a riff.[22] The band would later consider this one of their "not-so-great" albums, crediting tensions between the producer and the artists. Johnny recalls that he was disappointed with the outcome of End of the Century. When asked in interviews, Johnny would indicate that he favored the band's more aggressive punk material. (He also conveyed this feeling with the title and track selection of the post-breakup collection CD that he compiled: Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits.) In contrast, End of the Century material such as the syrupy, string-section laden Ronettes cover "Baby, I Love You" is entirely lacking the guitarist's trademark "buzzsaw" sound.[23]
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In 1981 the Ramones released Pleasant Dreams, which continued the trend established by End of The Century of diluting the rawer punk sound showcased on the band's initial four albums. Instead, slick production was again featured, this time provided by Graham Gouldman of UK pop act 10 cc.[24] Johnny would contend in retrospect that this direction was a record company decision and represented a continued futile attempt to get airplay on American radio.[23][3] On August 1 of that year, however, while promoting the album, they did become the first band to be interviewed on the newly formed cable video station MTV, which temporarily provided a more receptive outlet for the band's music than FM. After the release of the 1983 Subterranean Jungle, Marky Ramone was fired from the band because of his alcoholism and was eventually replaced by Richard Reinhardt (under the name Richie Ramone).[25] The first album the Ramones recorded with Richie was Too Tough to Die in 1984, produced by former drummer Tommy Ramone. The album was largely considered a return to form after the non-flattering pop-production techniques characterizing the previous three full-length releases. Some rock critics contend that it represents their final high quality album.[26]
In 1986, the Ramones were invited to record the soundtrack to the film Sid and Nancy. During their work, some management problems developed, and the deal was cancelled. However, a handful of songs created for this movie were included in their 1986 album Animal Boy. This uneven release, produced by Jean Beauvoir of NYC punk rock/heavy metal/shock rock act the Plasmatics, featured full throttle, cartoon-hardcore punk rants such as the title song, a concession to the on-going underground punk scene that the band helped to inspire, uncomfortably mixed with decidedly poppier material.[27]
In 1987, the band recorded their last album with Richie, Halfway to Sanity. Halfway to Sanity was the first collaboration with producer and former Shrapnel (another late 1970s NYC punk band) guitarist Daniel Rey. (Rey went on to co-write "Pet Sematary" with Dee Dee, produce the band's swansong album Adios Amigos!, and also produce solo albums by Dee Dee and Joey.) It featured a more consistent display of the cartoonish punk/hardcore sound hinted at in Animal Boy.[28][29] Longtime fans generally were not impressed, feeling that whatever this effort had going for it in terms of energy, it lacked the effervescent humor and originality of the bands vintage material. Richie left in August 1987, upset that after being in the band for five years, the other members would still not give him a share of the money they made selling t-shirts.[30]
Richie was replaced by Clem Burke (Elvis Ramone) from Blondie. According to Johnny, the shows with Burke were a disaster. He was fired after two shows because his drumming could not keep up with the rest of the band. Marky, now clean and sober, returned.
Dee Dee Ramone left after 1989's Brain Drain and was replaced by Christopher Joseph Ward (C.J. Ramone), who performed and recorded with the band until their break-up. However, Dee Dee did continue contributing to the music of the Ramones by lending his lyrics for use in later songs. Dee Dee left to pursue a brief solo career as a rapper, adopting the name Dee Dee King.[31]
While the quality of band's recorded output may have been uneven during the 1980s, those 10 years comprised the middle period of their nearly nonstop touring on their way to 2,263 concerts.[32]
1990–1996
After 16 years at Sire Records, the band moved to new label Radioactive Records with their 1992 album Mondo Bizarro, which also reunited them with producer Ed Stasium. Mondo Bizzaro was followed the next year with Acid Eaters, an album made entirely of cover songs.
In 1993 the Ramones appeared on an episode of The Simpsons ("Rosebud"). They were booked to sing "Happy Birthday" at Mr. Burns's birthday party, where they showed their distaste for the gig, shouting, "I'd just like to say this gig sucks!" (Joey), "Hey, up yours, Springfield!" (Johnny), and "Go to hell, you old bastard!" (C.J.); though Marky quipped, "Hey, I think they liked us!" Afterwards, Mr. Burns mistakenly ordered Smithers to "have The Rolling Stones killed."[33]
In 1995 they released what would be their last studio album, ¡Adios Amigos!. After a spot in the 1996 Lollapalooza festival, the Ramones went on a short club tour and then disbanded, reportedly due to ongoing personality clashes and frustration at not achieving commercial success commensurate with their influence.
Their final show was on August 6, 1996, at the Palace in Hollywood.[34] The show was recorded, and later released on video and CD as We're Outta Here!. The show featured several special guests such as Lemmy from Motörhead, Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam, Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen of Rancid, and Chris Cornell (then in Soundgarden).[35]
Breakup and deaths
Joey was diagnosed with lymphoma in 1995. In his later years he became an avid follower of yoga and health food. During the late 1990s, he started day trading NYSE stocks. Joey actually wrote a song about CNBC financial news reporter Maria "Money Honey" Bartiromo, entitled "Maria Bartiromo", which is included on his 2002 solo album Don't Worry About Me.
On July 20, 1999, all of the former members of the group except for Richie appeared together at Tower Records in New York City for an autograph signing. This was the last occasion on which the ex-members of the group appeared together before Joey's death. Johnny attempted to make peace with his longtime bandmate and rival Joey, but Joey would have none of it and simply ignored him. Joey Ramone died of lymphoma on April 15, 2001, in New York. Joey's last partially finished works were compiled as a posthumous solo album, Don't Worry About Me.
In 2002, Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy, and Marky Ramone were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At the ceremony, the surviving inductees spoke on behalf of the band. Tommy spoke first, saying how honored the band felt, but how much it would have meant for Joey. Johnny thanked the band's fans and blessed George W. Bush and his presidency, Dee Dee congratulated and thanked himself, while Marky thanked Tommy for influencing his drumstyle. This was one of Dee Dee's last public appearances; two months later he was found dead at his Hollywood home on June 5, 2002, following a heroin overdose. Also at the ceremony, Green Day played "Teenage Lobotomy" and "Blitzkrieg Bop" as a tribute to the Ramones, showing the influence that the Ramones had on later rock bands.
In the summer of 2004, the Ramones documentary End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones was released in theaters. Johnny Ramone, who had been privately battling prostate cancer, died on September 15, 2004, in Los Angeles, California, almost exactly as the film was released.
On the same day as Johnny's death, the world's first and only Ramones Museum opened its doors for the public.[36] Located in Berlin, Germany, the Ramones Museum Berlin features more than 300 original memorabilia items from the Ramones, including a pair of stage-worn jeans from Johnny Ramone, a stage-worn glove from Joey Ramone, Marky Ramone's sneakers and CJ Ramone's stage-worn bass strap. The Ramones were inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.[37]
In October 2007, a DVD was released containing live footage.[38] It's Alive 1974-1996 includes 118 songs from 33 performances over the span of the group's career.
Discography
Members
The following is a complete chronology of the various line-ups of the Ramones, from the group's inception in 1974 until their break-up in 1996.
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Conflicts between members
The Ramones always had a certain amount of tension, mainly between Joey and Johnny. The pair were highly politically antagonistic, Joey being a liberal and Johnny a conservative. There was also tension caused by their very different personalities; Johnny was a military brat who lived by a code of self-discipline, while Joey struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder.[39] It was Johnny who "stole" Joey's girlfriend Linda, whom he later married. Despite still playing in the same band, Joey and Johnny stopped talking to each other because of this.[40] It is believed the song "The KKK Took My Baby Away", written by Joey, alludes to this enmity. Johnny did not call Joey before his death in 2001, but said in the documentary End of the Century that he was depressed for "the whole week" after the singer's death.
Ramones "uniform"
Johnny Ramone enforced a very strict dress code for the band consisting of Keds or Chuck Taylor All-Star sneakers, torn jeans, t-shirt (often sleeveless) and a rocker jacket—the Ramones "uniform". In the early days, they often wore white Sperry Top-Sider shoes; later on, they wore everything from Converse Chuck Taylors to Reebok. Their messy long hair originated from grown-out Beatles haircuts. Their leather jackets did not vary much; they mainly wore Schott jackets.[41] Dee Dee Ramone voiced displeasure with the "uniform", stating it was constricting and that he wanted to look different.[42] The band wore the "uniform" until their disbandment in 1996.
Ramones logo
The Ramones' famous logo was created by New York City artist Arturo Vega, who served as the band's lighting director and was in charge of their merchandise table.[43] The logo was based on the United States Presidential Seal, with a few changes. In the Ramones logo it said "Look out below!" (later it would say "Hey Ho Let's Go!") instead of "E Pluribus Unum" above the eagle's head, the shield on the eagle's stomach was slightly different (what was on the shield changed over time), and instead of holding arrows, the eagle held a baseball bat. The most notable difference, however, was that text on the border of the shield said the band members' first names instead of "Seal of the President of the United States". Originally, the names appeared clockwise reading "Johnny * Joey * Dee Dee * Tommy". When Marky joined the band, his name took the spot that Tommy's was in, and when Richie replaced Marky his name took the same spot. When Marky rejoined and C.J. replaced Dee Dee, a new ordering of the names was established that read clockwise "Johnny * Joey * Marky * C. J.". When the band was inducted into the hall of fame, another variant of the names was created, reading "Johnny * Joey * Dee Dee * Tommy * Marky". In 2003 Vega decided to get the original logo that he created tattooed on his back, but with the name "Arty" in place of Tommy.[43]
Musical style
The Ramones' musical style was influenced by pop rock music the band members grew up listening to in the 1950s and 1960s, such as The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Ronettes, as well as what are now known as proto-punk bands like The Stooges and the New York Dolls.[44][45][46]
On stage, the band adopted a focused approach directly intended to increase the audience's concert experience. Johnny's instructions to C.J. when preparing for his first live performances with the group were to play facing the audience, to stand with the bass slung low between spread legs, and to walk forward to the front of stage at the same time as he did. Johnny Ramone was not a fan of guitarists who performed facing their drummer, amplifier or other band members.[47]
Due to a similar musical style, many bands were claimed to be "an answer to the Ramones" by critics in the late 1970s. There were the "English answer" (The Lurkers),[48] the "Irish answer" (The Undertones),[49] the "Canadian answer" (Teenage Head),[50] and the "Mexican answer" (The Zeros).[51]
Influence on other musicians
The Ramones' first British concert was held on July 4, 1976. Prior to the performance, the band hung out with fans who turned out to be members of the Sex Pistols and The Clash. During the meeting Paul Simonon claimed The Clash had not played a show yet because they felt they were not good enough, to which Johnny Ramone responded, "We stink. You don't have to be good, just get out there and play".[52] Later that day The Clash would play their first show.[53] Likewise another band who met with the Ramones that day, The Damned, played their first show 2 days later.[54][55]
Similarly, early Ramones concerts in California inspired early California punk groups like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys,[56] Bad Religion,[57] and Social Distortion.[58]
Some pop punk bands became so taken by the Ramones that a whole subgenre now dubbed "Ramones-core" has appeared. Bands such as Screeching Weasel, The Vindictives, The Queers, The Mr. T Experience and the Beatnik Termites have all recorded covers of entire Ramones albums; including Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket to Russia, Road to Ruin, and Pleasant Dreams, respectively.
The first Ramones tribute album by multiple bands was released in 1991 under the title Gabba Gabba Hey: A Tribute to the Ramones, featuring tracks recorded by such notable bands as L7, Mojo Nixon, and Bad Religion. Many more tribute albums followed, We're a Happy Family being the most well-known, with artists such as Green Day, Kiss, Metallica, The Offspring, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, and Rob Zombie (who also did the album cover artwork).
Metal musician Lemmy first met the Ramones in 1976. His band Motörhead composed and performed the song "R.A.M.O.N.E.S" as a tribute, and Lemmy would perform at the final Ramones concert in 1996.[59]
The band Bad Brains took its name from a Ramones song. Green Day members have gone as far as naming their children in honor of the band. Billie Joe Armstrong named his son Joey as tribute to Joey Ramone, and Tré Cool named his daughter Ramona for similar reasons.[60]
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See also
External links
- Unofficial sites
- "On The Road With The Ramones" - by Monte A. Melnick, Ramones Tour Manager
- Finnish Ramones fan-site The most complete and updated Ramones page since 1995
- Ramonet - Finnish Ramones fansite
- Ramonesalive.webs.com - fansite
- alt.music.ramones Newsgroup Index : 1994-Present
- Articles