The Ramones is an American punk rock band formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often referred to as the first band to define punk rock. Despite reaching only limited commercial success, the band was very influential both in the United States and Britain, inspiring also the emergence of hardcore punk, pop punk, and alternative rock.
All members of the band adopted a pseudonym that ended with the surname "Ramone", though nothing related. They performed 2,263 concerts, almost nonstop tours for 22 years. In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played a farewell concert and was disbanded. In 2014, the four original members of the band had died - vocalist Joey Ramone (1951-2001), bass guitarist Dee Dee Ramone (1951-2002), guitarist Johnny Ramone (1948-2004) and drummer Tommy Ramone (1949-2014). ).
The recognition of the band's importance was built over the years, and they are now mentioned in many major rock ratings of all time, such as the number 26 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" and number 17 in VH1's "100 Greatest Artist of Hard Rock". In 2002, Ramones was ranked second largest band of all time by Spin magazine, just trailing The Beatles. On March 18, 2002, four original members and Tommy's replacement on drums, Marky Ramone, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility, even though Joey had graduated at the time. In 2011, the group was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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History
Formation: 1974-1975
The band's original members met in and around the middle-class neighborhood of Forest Hills in the Queens district of New York City. John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi had been in a high school garage band from 1965 to 1967 known as Tangerine Puppets. They are friends with Douglas Colvin, who recently moved to the area from Germany, and Jeffrey Hyman, who is the main vocalist of the glam rock band Sniper, founded in 1972.
The Ramones began to form in early 1974 when Cummings and Colvin invited Hyman to join them in a band. Colvin wants to play guitar and sing, Cummings will also play guitar and Hyman will play the drums. This lineup will be complemented by their friend Richie Stern on bass. However, after only a few exercises it became clear that Richie Stern could not play bass, so in addition to singing, Colvin switched from guitar to bass and Cummings became the only guitarist. Colvin was the first to adopt the name "Ramone", calling himself Dee Dee Ramone. He was inspired by Paul McCartney using Paul Ramon's pseudonym during his Silver Beetles days. Dee Dee convinces the other members to take a name and come up with the idea to call the band the Ramones. Hyman and Cummings became Joey and Johnny Ramone, respectively.
A friend of the band, Monte A. Melnick (later their tour manager), helped organize their practice time at Manhattan Performance Studio, where he works. Former Johnny band member, Erdelyi, is set to become their manager. As soon as the band was formed, Dee Dee realized that she could not sing and play her bass guitar simultaneously; with Erdelyi's encouragement, Joey became the band's new vocalist. Dee Dee will continue, however, to calculate the tempo of each song with a quick cries of "1-2-3-4!" Joey soon realizes that he can not sing and play drums simultaneously and leave the drummer's position. When auditioning a prospective substitute, Erdelyi often takes drums and demonstrates how to play a song. It became clear that he was able to perform group music better than anyone else, and he joined the band as Tommy Ramone.
The Ramones played in front of the audience for the first time on March 30, 1974, at Performance Studios. The songs they play are very fast and very short; most hours come in under two minutes. Around this time, a new music scene appeared in New York centered on two clubs in downtown Manhattan - Kansas City at Max and, more famously, CBGB (commonly referred to as CBGB's). The Ramones made their CBGB debut on August 16, 1974. Legs McNeil, who founded the Punk magazine the following year, then described the impact of the show: "They all wore these black leather jackets, and they" I've already count this song... and that's just wall noise... They look so flashy. These people are not hippies. This is something really new. "
The band quickly became a regular player in the club, playing there seventy-four times at the end of the year. After garnering considerable attention to their performances - which averaged about seventeen minutes from start to finish - the group signed a record deal in late 1975 by Seymour Stein of Sire Records. After they are viewed by Sire A & amp; R man Craig Leon he brought the band to the attention of the label. Stein's wife, Linda Stein, saw the band playing at Mothers; he will then manage along with Danny Fields. At this time, the Ramones is recognized as the leader of a new scene that is increasingly referred to as "punk". The unusual frontman group has a lot to do with the impact. As Dee Dee explains, "All other singers [in New York] copied the work of David Johansen [of New York Dolls], who copied Mick Jagger... But Joey is unique, really unique."
Punch spearhead: 1976-1977
The Ramones recorded their debut album, Ramones , in April 1976. Of the fourteen songs on the album, the longest, "I Do not Want to Go Down to the Basement", barely exceeded two and a half minutes. While songwriting credits are shared by the rest of the band, Dee Dee is the lead author. The Ramones album was produced by Craig Leon from Sire, with Tommy as an associate producer, with a very low budget of around $ 6,400 and released in April. The cover photo of the band's current icon is taken by Roberta Bayley, a photographer for the Punk magazine. Punk , which is largely responsible for encoding terms for scenes that appear around CBGB, contains a cover story about the Ramones in its third edition, the same month as the album's release.
LP's debut Ramones was greeted by rock critics with glowing reviews. Robert Christgau writes, "I love this recording - love it - though I know these kids are playing with images of brutality (especially Nazi). For me, it's extinguished everything else from the radio ". In Rolling Stone, Paul Nelson describes it as "almost entirely composed of rhythmic tracks of volatile intensity that rock has never experienced since the early days." Characterizing the band as "a genuine American primitive whose work must be heard to be understood," he states, "It's time that popular music follows other arts in honor of its primitives." Newsday ' s Wayne Robbins just anoints the Ramones as "the best known rock n' roll band in the world."
Despite Sire's high hopes for it, Ramones is not commercially successful, it only reached number 111 on the Billboard album chart . The two singles released from the album, "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Want To Be Your Boyfriend", failed to chart. At the band's first big show outside New York, June's date in Youngstown, Ohio, punk legend Frankenstein aka the Dead Boys came and started a friendship with the band. It was not until after a short tour of England that they began to see the results of their work; performance at the Roundhouse in London on 4 July 1976, second to Flamin 'Groovies, organized by Linda Stein, was a great success. T-Rex leader Marc Bolan is present at the Roundhouse event and invited on stage. Their Roundhouse performances and next night's date club - where the band met members of the Sex Pistols and Clash - helped galvanize the growing British punk punk scene. The double bill of Flamin 'Groovies/Ramones was successfully replicated at Roxy Theater in Los Angeles the following month, triggering the punk scene there. The Ramones are becoming an increasingly popular live action - Toronto's performance in September is energized but there is another growing punk scene.
The next two albums, Leave Home and Rocket to Russia , were released in 1977. Both were produced by Tommy and Tony Bongiovi, second cousin of Jon Bon Jovi. Leave Home met fewer successful charts than Ramones , even though it included "Pinhead", which became one of the band's signature songs with repetitions pronounced from "Gabba gabba hey! " Leave Home also includes the fast-paced cover of" California California "written by Henry Glover & amp; Morris Levy, and originally recorded by Joe Jones, although the Ramones based their version on a remake by Rivieras. Rocket to Russia is the band's highest chart album to date, reaching 49 on Billboard Ã, 200. In Rolling Stone, critic Dave Marsh calls it "America's best rock & roll this year". The album also featured the first Ramones single to hit the Billboard chart (though only as high as 81): "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker". The advanced single, "Rockaway Beach", reached number 66 - the highest ever achieved by any Ramones singles in America. On December 31, 1977, Ramones recorded It's Alive, a concert double concert album, at Rainbow Theater, London, released in April 1979 (the title is a reference to the 1974 horror film of the same name).
Recording became more pop: 1978-1983
Tommy, tired of the tour, left the band in early 1978. He continued as a Ramones record producer under the name of his birth Erdelyi. His position as a drummer was filled by Marc Bell, who had been a member of the early 1970s hard rock band Dust, Wayne County and Backstreet Boys, and the pioneering punk group Richard Hell & Voidoids. Bell became Marky Ramone. Later that year, the band released their fourth studio album, and first with Marky, Road to Ruin . The album, co-produced by Tommy with Ed Stasium, included several new sounds such as acoustic guitars, several ballads, and the band's first two track recordings longer than three minutes. It failed to reach the Top 100 Billboard. However, "I Want to Be Sedated", which appears both on the album and as a single, will be one of the band's most famous songs. The artwork on the album cover was done by the founder of John Holmstrom's Punk magazine.
After the band's debut in Roger Corman Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), renowned producer Phil Spector became interested in the Ramones and produced their 1980 album End of the Century . During a recording session in Los Angeles, Spector grabbed Johnny at gunpoint, forcing him to repeatedly play the riff. Although it will be the highest charting album in the band's history - reaching number 44 in the United States and number 14 in the UK - Johnny explains that he likes more aggressive punk band material: " The End of the Century is a diluted Ramones. not the original Ramones. "This attitude was also conveyed by the title and song selection from Johnny's compilation album and then watched, Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Heaviest Hits . Regardless of these objections, Johnny admits that some of Spector's work with the band has a reward, saying "It really works when he gets slower songs like 'Danny Says' - the production really works really well. 'Rock' N 'Roll Radio "Really good. For more difficult things, that did not work either. "Struggle-laden Ronettes includes" Baby, I Love You "was released as a single, becoming the band's biggest hit in the UK, reaching number 8 on the charts.
Pleasant Dreams , the band's sixth album, was released in 1981. It continues the trend set by End of the Century, taking the band further than the raw punk sound from the beginning of the record. As described by the Trouser Press , the album, produced by Graham Gouldman of 10cc British pop acting, moved the Ramones "away from their minimalist pioneers into heavy metal areas". Johnny would argue that this direction is a recording company's decision, a futile effort that continues to be played on American radio. While the Pleasant Dreams reached 58 in the US, two bachelors failed to register at all.
Subterranean Jungle , produced by Ritchie Cordell and Glen Kolotkin, was released in 1983. According to Trouser Press, it brought the band back to where they were: junky '60s pop tailored to taste of the moment, "which means, among other things," reducing the dangerous rhythms that were once Ramones dogma. "Billy Rogers, who has performed with Johnny Thunders and Heartbreakers, plays drums on the album's second single, cover of Chambers Brothers" Time Has Come Today " the only song featuring three different drummers: Rogers in the recording, Marky on album credits and Richie in the video clip. Subterranean Jungle peaked at number 83 in the United States - this will be the band's final album to break Topboard's Billboard Top 100. In 2002 Rhino Records released a new album. version it with seven bonus songs.
Member Shuffling: 1983-1989
After the release of Subterranean Jungle , Marky was fired from the band for his alcohol. He was replaced by Richard Reinhardt, who adopted the name Richie Ramone. Joey Ramone said that "[Richie] saved the band as far as I know, he was the biggest thing that happened to the Ramones, he returned the spirit to the band." Richie is the only Ramones drummer who sings lead vocals on Ramones songs, including "(You) Can not Tell Anything Exciting" and "Elevator Operators" that have never been released. Joey Ramone commented, "Richie is very talented and he is very diverse... He really strengthens the band one hundred percent because he sings support songs, he sings leads, and he sings with Dee Dee stuff. always just me singing for the most part. "Richie is also the only drummer who became the only Ramones song composer including their hit" Somebody Put Something in My Drink "and" Smash You "," Humankind "," I'm Not Jesus "," I Know Better Now "and" (You) Can not Say Anything Good ". Joey Ramone supported Richie's songwriting contribution: "I encourage Richie to write songs, I think it will make him feel more part of the group, because we never let other people write our songs." The composition of Richie, "Somebody Put Something in My Drink", remained a staple on the Ramones list set up to their last performance in 1996 and included in Loud's album, Fast Ramones: Their strongest hits . The bonus disc of eight songs, The Ramones Smash You: LiveÃ, '85 , is also named after Richie's "Smash You" composition.
The first album that Ramones recorded with Richie was Too Tough to Die in 1984, with Tommy Erdelyi and Ed Stasium returning as producers. This album marks a shift to something like the original sound of the band. In the description of Allmusic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, "the rhythm returns to jackhammer speed and the songs become short, brief statements."
The band's main release in 1985 was the British single "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg"; although it is available in the United States only as an import, it is widely played on American college radios. The song was written, especially by Joey, in protest at the visit of Ronald Reagan to the German military cemetery, which included the graves of the SS Waffen army. "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)", the song appeared in the band's ninth studio album, Animal Boy (1986). Produced by Jean Beauvoir, formerly a member of Plasmatics, the album was marked by a Rolling Stone reviewer as "nonstop primal fuzz pop". Making it the choice for this week's album, New York Times critic Jon Pareles writes that the Ramones "speak for the wasted and disturbed".
The following year the band recorded their last album with Richie, Halfway to Sanity. Richie left in August 1987, annoyed that after being in the band for five years, the other members still would not give him a piece of merchandise money. Richie was replaced by Clem Burke of Blondie, who disbanded at the time. According to Johnny, the show with Burke - who adopted the name Elvis Ramone - is a disaster. He was fired after two performances (28 & 29 August 1987) because his drums could not keep up with the rest of the band. In September, Marky, now clean and quiet, returns to the band.
In December 1988, the Ramones recorded material for their eleventh studio album, Brain Drain ; produced jointly by Beauvoir, Rey, and Bill Laswell. However, the bass parts are performed by Daniel Rey and Dictators' Andy Shernoff. Dee Dee Ramone will only record additional vocals on the album stating that other members of the band (including himself) are having personal problems and changes to the point where he does not want to be in the band anymore. After the band finished their Halfway to Sanity tour in February 1989, Dee Dee became aware and left the band.
He was replaced by Christopher Joseph Ward (C.J. Ramone), who performed with the band until they broke up. Dee Dee initially pursued a short career as a rapper with the name Dee Dee King. He quickly returned to punk rock and formed several bands, in a tone similar to the Ramones, for whom he also continued to write songs.
Past year: 1990-1996
After more than a decade and a half on Sire Records, Ramones moved to a new label, Radioactive Records. Their first album for the label was 1992 Mondo Bizarro , which united them with producer Ed Stasium. Acidicers , all of which consists of cover songs, come out the following year. In 1993, Ramones was featured in the animated television series The Simpsons, providing music and sound for their own animated version of the episode "Rosebud". Executive producer David Mirkin describes the Ramones as "a gigantic, obsessive fan of Simpsons ."
In 1992, Mondo Bizarro earned Gold Certificate in Brazil after selling 100,000 copies, becoming the first Gold certification awarded by Ramones.
In 1995, Ramones released Ã,¡Adios Amigos! , their fourteenth studio album, and announced that they would disband in 1996. Sales were mediocre, collecting them for just two weeks at the bottom of the Screenboard chart. The band spent the end of 1995 on what was promoted as a farewell tour. However, they accepted an offer to appear at the sixth Lollapalooza festival, which toured the United States over the following summer. After the conclusion of the Lollapalooza Tour, the Ramones played their last show on August 6, 1996, at the Palace in Hollywood. The concert footage was then released on video and CD as We're Out of Here! . In addition to re-appearing by Dee Dee, the show features several guests including MotÃÆ'¶rhead's Lemmy, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, Numskull's Ralph Foster, and Rancid's Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen.
Aftermath and death
On July 20, 1999, Dee Dee, Johnny, Joey, Tommy, Marky, and C.J. appeared together on Virgin Megastore in New York City for signature signature. This is the last chance that the four original members of the group appear together. Joey, who had been diagnosed with lymphoma in 1995, died of illness on April 15, 2001, in New York. Joey and Marky were involved in a feud burying hatchet and making live broadcasts on the Howard Stern Show in 1999. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAmrZsruBAs
Billy Rogers' session drummer, who appeared at "Time Has Come Today" from Subterranean Jungle , died of complications from pneumonia on August 7, 2001.
On March 18, 2002, the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, specifically named Dee Dee, Johnny, Joey, Tommy, and Marky. At the ceremony, the surviving inductees spoke on behalf of the band. Johnny spoke first, thanked the fans of the band and blessed George W. Bush and his presidency. Tommy spoke next, saying how honorable the band was, but how much that would mean to Joey. Dee Dee humorously congratulated and thanked herself, while Marky thanked Tommy for influencing his drumming style. Green Day plays "Teenage Lobotomy", "Rockaway Beach", and "Blitzkrieg Bop" as a tribute, demonstrating the ongoing influence of Ramones on rock musicians later on. The ceremony was one of Dee Dee's last appearances, when he was found dead on June 5, 2002 of a heroin overdose.
On November 30, 2003, New York City unveiled a sign pointing East 2nd Street at the corner of Bowery as Joey Ramone Place. The singer lived in East 2 for a time, and the sign was near the former CBGB Bowery site. The documentary of the End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones went out in 2004. Johnny, who personally suffered from prostate cancer, died on September 15, 2004 in Los Angeles, shortly after the film was released. On the same day as Johnny's death, the world's first Ramones Museum opened its doors to the public. Located in Berlin, Germany, the museum has over 300 items of memorabilia, including a pair of jeans worn on stage from Johnny, gloves worn by a stage from Joey, Marky sneakers, and a stage bass strap.
The Ramones were inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007. That October saw the release of a DVD set containing the band's concert recordings: It's Alive 1974-1996 including 118 songs from 33 performances over a career span group. In February 2011 the group received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Drummers Tommy, Marky, and Richie attended the ceremony. Marky declared, "It's incredible, I never expected this, I'm sure Johnny, Joey, and Dee Dee would never have guessed it." Richie noted that this was the first time the three drummers had been under the same roof, and thought that he could not "help think that [Joey] is watching us now with a little smile on his face behind his roses.
On April 30, 2014, their first album, Ramones , became Gold certified by the Recording Industry of America after selling 500,000 copies, 38 years after its release.
Arturo Vega, creative director of their formation in 1974 until its dissolution in 1996 and often considered the fifth Ramone, died on June 8, 2013, at the age of 65. The last original member, Tommy Ramone, died on July 11, 2014 after a battle with bile duct cancer.
On October 30, 2016, RAMONES WAY was launched at the intersection of 67th Avenue and 110th Street in front of the main entrance of Forest Hills High School in the Queens region.
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Conflicts between members
There was a strong tension between Joey and Johnny, who colored many of Ramones' careers. The couple is politically antagonistic, Joey becomes liberal and Johnny is a conservative. Their personalities also clash: Johnny, who spent two years in military school, lives with strict self-discipline rules, while Joey struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and alcoholism. In the early 1980s, Linda Ramone started a relationship with Johnny after being romantically involved with Joey. As a result, although their professional relationship continued, Joey and Johnny had been alone. It was not until after Joey's death that Johnny had confessed to not calling Joey before his death, and in this documentary End of the Century Johnny claimed that Joey's death had a huge impact on him emotionally and that he was depressed for "the whole week" after his death.
Dee Dee's bipolar disorder and recurrence into drug addiction also cause significant tension. Tommy will also leave the band after being "physically threatened by Johnny, treated with contempt by Dee Dee, and all but ignored by Joey". As new members join over the years, the melting and image of the band is often a matter of serious disagreement. Tensions among group members were not kept secret from the public as heard on the Howard Stern radio show in 1997, during which interviews Marky and Joey quarreled over their respective drinking habits.
Style
Music style
The harsh, fast, and straightforward Ramones music scene was influenced by pop music raised by band members in the 1950s and 1960s, including classic rock groups such as Beach Boys, Who, the Beatles, the Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones and Creedence Clearwater Revival; action bubblegum such as Fruitgum Company 1910 and Ohio Express; and women's groups such as Ronettes and Shangri-Las. They also drew rock harder sounds than MC5, Black Sabbath, Stooges and New York Dolls, now known as protopunk seminal bands. The Ramones style is partly a reaction to the massively produced and often bombastic music that dominated the pop charts of the 1970s. "We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard," Joey once explained. "In 1974, everything was Elton John's tenth generation, or too much manufactured, or just rubbish, it was a long congestion, a long guitar solo... We missed the music the way it used to be." Ira Robbins and Scott Isler from Trouser Press explain the results:
With only four chords and one tempo bead, the New York Ramones slammed open a clogged artery in the mid-70s, reviving music. Their genius is to recapture the brief/simple aesthetics from which pop has deviated, adding a spicy sense of junk culture humor and the sound of a minimalist rhythm guitar.
As a leader in the punk rock scene, Ramones music has usually been identified with that label, while some people have defined their special style more specifically as pop punk and others as a pop power. In the 1980s, the band occasionally turned to the hardcore punk scene, as can be heard in Too Tough to Die .
On stage, the band adopted a focused approach aimed directly at enhancing the audience concert experience. Johnny's instruction to C.J. while preparing for his first live show with the group is to play facing the audience, to stand with the bass draped low between the spreading legs, and walk forward to the front of the stage at the same time as he did. Johnny is not a fan of guitarists who appear facing drummer, amplifier, or other band members.
Visual imagery
The art and visual imagery of the Ramones complement the theme of their music and performances. The members adopted the look of long hair uniforms, leather jackets, T-shirts, torn jeans, and sneakers. This mode emphasizes minimalism - a powerful influence on the New York punk scene of the 1970s - and reflects simple short band songs. Tommy Ramone remembers that, musically and visually, "We're influenced by comic books, movies, Andy Warhol scenes, and avant-garde movies." I'm a big fan of Crazy Magazine.
The band's logo was created by New York City artist Arturo Vega, with the Ramones. Vega, an old friend, has allowed Joey and Dee Dee to move into her apartment. He produced the band's T-shirt - their primary source of income - basing most of the images on a self-portrait black and white photograph he took from the belt of an American eagle buckle, which appeared on the Ramones back arm. 'first album. He was inspired to create a band logo after traveling to Washington, D.C.:
I see them as the most up-to-date band in America. To me, they reflect the American character in general - a very childish innocent aggression... Ã,. I think the 'Great Seal of the President of the United States' will be perfect for the Ramones, with eagles holding arrows - to symbolize the strength and aggression that will be used against anyone who dares attack us - and the olive branch, offered to those who want to be friendly. But we decided to change it a bit. Instead of an olive branch, we have an apple tree branch, because the Ramones are Americans as apple pie. And since Johnny is a baseball fan, we have a hawk that holds a baseball bat rather than an arrow [Big Seal].
The scrolls in the eagle's beak initially read "Look under", but this soon turned into "Hey ho let's go" after the opening lyrics of the band's first single, "Blitzkrieg Bop". The arrowhead on the shield comes from the design on the polyester shirt that Vega bought. "Ramones" is spelled with a capital letter over the logo using a plastic stick-on letter. Where the presidential symbol reads "Seal of the President of United States" clockwise on the border around the eagle, Vega puts the pseudonym of band members: Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, and Tommy. Over the years the names on the border will change when the band's line-up fluctuates.
"This is an American presidency - anyone can use it," Marky Ramone said of the logo. "We divide royalties on t-shirts and on merchandise, and many of the kids wearing the shirts may never hear Ramones music, I think if you have a shirt, your curiosity might take you to buy music, whatever that is, it's a phenomenon strange. "
Influence
The Ramones have a wide and lasting influence on the development of popular music. Music historian Jon Savage wrote their debut album that "it remains one of the few notes that change pop forever." As AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes, "The band's first four albums set the blueprint for punk, especially American punk and hardcore, over the next two decades." Trouser Press Robbins and Isler also wrote that the Ramones "not only pioneered the new wave/punk movement, but also drew a blueprint for the next punk bands of punk." Punk journalist Phil Strongman writes, "In pure music, Ramones, in an attempt to recreate the pre-Dolby rock excitement, is to make a big shadow - they have combined blueprints for much of the indie's future. "Writing for Slate in 2001, Douglas Wolk describes the Ramones as" the most influential group in the last 30 years ".
Ramones debut album has a very big effect relative to its simple sales. According to Generation X bassist Tony James, "Everyone rides three gears on the day they got their first Ramones album.Punk rock - that old rama of super fast stuff - really came down to the Ramones.The band only played on the MC5 groove until then." The Ramones' two July 1976 show, like their debut album, was seen as having a significant impact on the style of many newly formed British punk acts - as one observer put it, "almost every band goes straight". The first British Ramones concert, in the London Roundhouse concert hall, was held on July 4, 1976, Bicentennial of the United States. The Sex Pistols played in Sheffield that night, backed by Clash, making their public debut. The following night, members of both bands attended the Ramones show at the Dingwall club. Ramones manager Danny Fields recalled the conversation between Johnny Ramone and Clash bassist Paul Simonon (whom he put in Roundhouse): "Johnny asked him, 'What are you doing? Are you in the band?' Paul said, "Well, we just practice. We call ourselves Clash but we're not good enough. "Johnny said, 'Wait till you see us - we smell, we crap, we can not play, just get out and do it.' Another band whose members saw the Ramones perform, The Damned, played their first game showing two days later. The central Fanzine of the early English punk scene, Sniffin 'Glue , was named after the song "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue", which appeared on LP debut.
Ramones concerts and recordings influenced many central musicians for the development of California punk as well, including Greg Ginn from Black Flag, Jello Biafra from Dead Kennedys, Al Jourgensen from the Ministry, Mike Ness of Social Distortion, Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion, and members of the descendants. Canada's first big punk scene - in Toronto and in British Columbia Victoria and Vancouver - is also heavily influenced by the Ramones. In the late 1970s, many bands appeared with a style of music deeply indebted to the band. There are Lurkers from England, Undertones from Ireland, Canadian Head Teens, and Zeros and Dickies from southern California. Bad Brains' hardcore seminal band takes its name from the Ramones song. The Riverdales imitate the Ramones throughout their careers. Green Day vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong named his son Joey as a tribute to Joey Ramone, and drummer Trà ©  © Cool named his daughter Ramona.
Punk horror New/punk punk band Misfits (whose bassist Jerry Only is an old friend of the band) influenced by the tempo of "Blitzkrieg" from Ramones, put it into a fast tempo, R & B from punk rock.
Ramones also affect musicians associated with other genres, such as heavy metal. Their influence on metal gave birth to the punk-metal genre of "fusion" thrash. Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, one of the guitar thrashers, has described the importance of Johnny's fast guitar playing style for his own musical development. Vocalist Motomhead, Lemmy, a friend of the Ramones since the late 1970s, incorporated the band "Go Home Ann" in 1985. The members of MotÃÆ'¶rhead later composed the song "R.A.M.O.N.E.S." As a tribute, Lemmy performed at the last concert of the Ramones in 1996. In the alternative rock field, the song "53rd and 3rd" lends his name to an English indie pop label founded by Stephen Pastel from the Scottish band Pastel. Evan Dando from Lemonheads, Dave Grohl from Nirvana and Foo Fighters, Dream Portland's Mike Portnoy, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam (who introduced band members in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction) and Strokes is one of many alternative rock and metal musicians who praised the Ramones by inspiring them.
Band members are also individually influential. Johnny Ramone was named one of the 10 Great-Guitar Greatest Players of the Year in 2003. In the same year, he was number 16 on the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list in < i> Rolling Stone .
"We regard the Ramones as an iconic classic band," says Gene Simmons. "They have a gold record for their name, they never play the arena, can not sell it, it's a failed band, that does not mean they are not great, that means the masses do not care."
Kevin Morby's fourth album City Music featured the song "1234" which was inspired by the childhood love of Ramones singer. It features the lyrics "Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy/They're all my friends, but they're dead."
tribute album
In April 2009, Mark Spindle writer Mark Prindle observed that the Ramones had to date "inspire the full-length 48" (at least!) Tribute record. The first Ramones tribute album featuring several players was released in 1991: Gabba Gabba Hey: A Tribute to the Ramones includes songs with actions like Eaters Meat, L7, Mojo Nixon, and Bad Religion. In 2001, Dee Dee made a guest appearance on one of the Ramones Maniacs songs, a multi-artist cover of the entire Ramones Mania compilation album. The Song Ramones the Same, which came out the following year, included a show by Dictators, which was part of the early New York punk scene, and Wayne Kramer, guitarist for the influential MC5 band. We are a Happy Family: Tribute to Ramones , released in 2003, featuring players such as Rancid, Green Day, Metallica, Kiss, The Offspring, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2 and Rob Zombie do album artwork cover). Also several other famous bands recorded the tribute song. Phil Campbell from MotÃÆ'¶rhead tells us in the book Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone Ramones: Soundtrack Of Our Lives : "We did Rockaway Beach cover with me on backing vocals, which was pretty fun.When Johnny Ramone Heard it, he refused to put it on the tribute album Lemmy and I thought we did a good version. "
Punk bands like Screeching Weasel, the Vindictives, the Queers, Parasites, Mr. T Experience, Boris the Sprinkler, Beatnik Rayap, Tip Toppers, Jon Cougar Concentration Camp, McRackins, and Kobanes have recorded cover versions of Ramones's album
Shonen Knife, an all-woman trio band from Osaka, Japan, was formed in 1981 as a direct result of the singer-lead-guitarist Naoko Yamano's instant addiction with Ramones music. In 2012, to observe the band's 30th anniversary, Shonen Knife released Osaka Ramones , featuring thirteen Ramones songs covered by the band.
There are also many other tribute albums listed on the Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone website. [1]
band members
Formasi akhir
- Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman) Â - vokal utama (1974-1996), drum (1974)
- Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) Â - gitar (1974-1996)
- Marky Ramone (Marc Bell) Â - drum (1978-1983, 1987-1996)
- C. J. Ramone (Christopher Joseph Ward) Â - bass, backing vocals (1989-1996)
Anggota lain
- Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) Â - bas, vokal (1974-1989)
- Tommy Ramone (Thomas Erdelyi) Â - drum (1974-1978)
- Richie Ramone (Richard Reinhardt) Â - drum, backing vocals (1983-1987)
- Elvis Ramone (Clem Burke) Â - drum (1987)
Timeline
Discography
Studio album
- Ramones (1976)
- Leave Home (1977)
- Rockets to Russia (1977)
- The Road to Destruction (1978)
- End of Century (1980)
- Pleasant Dreams (1981)
- Underground Forest (1983)
- Too Difficult to Die (1984)
- Animal Boy (1986)
- Half way to Sanity (1987)
- Brain Drain (1989)
- Mondo Bizarro (1992)
- Acid Feeder (1993)
- Ã,¡Adios Amigos! (1995)
Also see
- Ramones concert list
- Gabba Gabba Hei
- Danny Says (movie)
Reference
Source
- Bayles, Martha (1996). The Hole in Our Souls: Losing the Beauty and the Meaning of American Popular Music , the University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-03959-5
- Beeber, Steven Lee (2006). Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk , Chicago Review Press. ISBN, 1-55652-613-X
- Bessman, Jim (1993). Ramones: American Band , St. Martin Press. ISBNÃ, 0-312-09369-1
- Colegrave, Stephen, and Chris Sullivan (2005). Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution , Press Thunder Mouth. ISBNA, 1-56025-769-5
- Edelstein, Andrew J., and Kevin McDonough (1990). The Seventies: From Hot Pants to Hot Tubs , Dutton. ISBN: 0-525-48572-4
- Isler, Scott, and Ira A. Robbins (1991). "Ramones", at the Guidelines for Pressing the Pants (4th edition), ed. Ira A. Robbins, pp. 532-34, Collier. ISBN: 0-02-036361-3
- Johansson, Anders (2009). "Touched by Style", in the Translator Hand: Essay on Meaning after Theory , ed. G. F. Mitrano and Eric Jarosinski, pp. 41-60, Peter Lang. ISBN: 3-03911-118-3
- Keithley, Joe (2004). I, Shithead: A Life in Punk , Pers Pulp Arsenal. ISBN, 1-55152-148-2
- Leigh, Mickey, and McNeil's Feet (2009). I Sleep Together with Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir , Simon & amp; Schuster. ISBNÃ, 0-7432-5216-0
- McNeil, Legs, and Gillian McCain (1996). Please Kill Me: Uncensored Oral History of Punk (2d ed.), Penguin. ISBN: 0-14-026690-9
- Melnick, Monte A., and Frank Meyer (2003). On The Road with Ramones , Sanctuary. ISBNÃ, 1-86074-514-8
- Miles, Barry, Grant Scott, and Johnny Morgan (2005). Biggest Cover Up Album All Time , Collins & amp; Chocolate. ISBN, 1-84340-301-3
- Ramone, Dee Dee, and Veronica Kofman (2000). Lobotomy: Survive at Ramones , Press Thunder Mouth. ISBNA, 1-56025-252-9
- Ramone, Johnny (2004). Commando , Abrams Press. ISBN 978-0-8109-9660-1
- Roach, Martin (2003). The Strokes: The First Biography of the Stroke , Omnibus Press. ISBNÃ, 0-7119-9601-6
- Robb, John (2006). Punk Rock: Oral History , Elbury Press. ISBN: 0-09-190511-7
- Sandford, Christopher (2006). McCartney , Century. ISBN: 1-84413-602-7
- Savage, Jon (1992). British Dreams: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond , St. Martin's Press. ISBNÃ, 0-312-08774-8
- Schinder, Scott, with Andy Schwartz (2007). Rock Icons: Encyclopedia of the Legends Who Changed Music Forever , Greenwood Press. ISBNÃ, 0-313-33847-7
- Shirley, Ian (2005). Can Rock & amp; Save the World?: A Music History and Comic Illustrated , SAF Publishing. ISBN 978-0946719808
- Spicer, Al (2003). "The Lurkers", at The Rough Guide to Rock (3d ed.), Ed. Peter Buckley, p.Ã, 349, Rough Guides. ISBN, 1-84353-105-4
- Spitz, Mark, and Brendan Mullen (2001). We Have A Neutron Bomb: The Unread Story from L.A. Punk , Three Rivers Press. ISBNÃ, 0-609-80774-9
- Steam, Richard (2006). Music Law: How to Run Your Band Business , Nolo. ISBN, 1-4133-0517-2
- Strongman, Phil (2008). Pretty Vacant: A History of UK Punk , Press Chicago Review. ISBN, 1-55652-752-7
- Taylor, Steven (2003). Prophet False: Field Notes from Underground Punk , Wesleyan University Press. ISBNÃ, 0-8195-6668-3
External links
- Official website
- Ramones in Curlie (based on DMOZ)
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