As my father describes the Ramones,Johnny is like the disciplinarian father,Joey is the Sensitive Mother,Tommy is the intelligent first child,Marky is the well adjusted middle child,While Dee Dee is the creative crazy third child
That’s what I feel like he did. I read a bit of commando and sometimes the way he would talk about Joey is kinda funny. “I tried to like Joey. I tried to talk to him but he was a fucking pain in the ass.”
when your bassist is a heroin addict, your drummer is an alcoholic, and your front man is cursed with OCD and hates looking people in the eye and talking to people, somebody has to do something to make sure shit goes right. he wasnt a dick he was just managing them.
It goes a little further than that with Joey and Dee Dee. Joey had actually spent time at an upstate asylum, songs like "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" and "Pinhead" weren't just goofy songs they had an hint of autobiography to them when you actually read about what he had been through. Today it's pretty obvious that Joey had Asperger because the clues are all there, the not making eye contact and OCD, but at the time they didn't have that diagnosis so he was sent to an asylum. His time in this place probably did a lot to his psyche. Dee Dee was just a troubled kid from the get go. Just about every story I've read about him the author would have to point out that Dee Dee was a notorious liar. "53rd and 3rd" is another song that is actually autobiographical because Dee Dee used to hang out on that corner and prostitute himself to older men. This was long before gangsta rap and the idea of hoodlums selling records. Then you have Johnny. Responsible, conservative Johnny. Seriously, if you were managing this band, who would you want speaking for it?
Nerf In 2009, he appeared on Time's list of "The 10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players".[1] In 2012, he was ranked #8 on Spin's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".[2] He is also ranked #28 on the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list in Rolling Stone.[3]
I read Commando, and he had a reason to hit Dee Dee a couple times. He said he liked him, but a few times Dee Dee would be so high, that Johnny would have to lay down the law. Johnny is my favorite Ramone, and always will be. Read Commando. Everyone just hears Joey's side of everything. Johnny had his reasons.
its an awesome book to read isnt? its like a ramones concert, no bullshit! straight on one, fast! and just like the lyrics hilarious funny. great book!
Unless you’re from queens you just don’t know what it was really like. The Lower east side. They did it. They lived it Forever Rock N Roll The best band They gave us everything They deserve a few tears
I adore Johnny! And Joey and Dee Dee but for very different reasons. A beautiful mess and they will forever be my favorite band. Gone way way too soon. RIP Joey, Dee Dee, Johnny and Tommy you are missed so much!
That volatility is what made them and punk music. Old vs new. Hating each other vs loving the music. Rebelling against the mainstream vs conforming to their principles. Johnny got it.
Johnny was the glue that forced Joey, Dee Dee, Tommy, and Marky to abide by Ramones standards. Without Johnny's tyranny, they would not of made it. Johnny was the USMC Drill Instructor that MADE them abide.
Except he was a dummy that mismanaged the group which should have been megastars. Johnny refusing to do SNL in the 70's was just plain stupid. And the uniforms were good for a minute but over 20 years? Johnny had serious mental problems.
Boukouziman5000, yea Johnny Ramone was an asshole without a doubt and Johnny regretted not doing Saturday Night Live in his autobiography. At the time Johnny was insulted because SNL first asked the Sex Pistols to host then asked the Ramones when the Pistols canceled. Still, you can’t deny Johnny’s asshole-ness kept a shit bird like Dee Dee in line and it kept Joey’s erratic behavior in check somewhat too. So technically we’re both right man 👍🏻.
@@sensacionsombria5125 For fucks sake, you people have to attach some sort of "RIGHT VS LEFT" embellishment on everything. Seriously, everything. "Those darn liberal lefties are ruining pie. Those liberal lefties think missionary-only is boring. Missionary-only is the way God intended and its good as sweet ass apple pie on a Sunday afternoon with a little vanilla ice cream, I'm talkin' that real vanilla not that Mexican't stuff. Shoot, those pesky liberal lefties want to cancel missionary-only. What's next? Huh? What, they going to tell me who I can or cannot love? That the bond between me and my wife of 17 years isn't 'politically correct'? What does 'cousin' mean anyways? It's just a word. Damn liberal lefties want to put labels on everything. Incest? More like 'whats best'. But do I think that Abba is among the greatest songwriting teams of all time? Well, look at songs like 'SOS' or 'Waterloo' cause they're downright masterpieces. It's just a damn shame they were liberal lefties cause...cause...cause, like, cause umm... cause otherwise they would be the greatest songwriting team of all time. At least that's what my cousi - i mean my wife says"
@@tylerzane7579 I'm willing to bet a lot of your family and whatever friends you once had have all but stopped talking to you and you still don't have a clue why. I'll tell you why, it's because of comments like this where you inject your obsessively misguided "RIGHT VS LEFT" zealotry into any and all conversations despite it's ridiculousness and general inherent fallibility.
Johnny was the real leather of the band, without him they wouldn't made it and be one of the biggest band nowadays, in fact they wouldn't have lasted 1 year without him. Even though I'm gonna give some credit to a wonderful musician such as Dee Dee who wrote so many good songs and he still wrote for them after he left in 1989.
Wouldve been better if the band broke up honestly. Joey would've had an amazing career and perhaps even a better life. Johnny was just a abusive racist bully
@@Godloveszaza tf dude you're speaking like if Joey was a kid who was unable to make their own decisions. If he didn't want to leave then he still wanted to be in Ramones, Johnny said it multiple times and quote: “There was no more Ramones without Joey. He was irreplaceable.”
This video clip is on RUclips but The late, great Pat Dinizio Singer for the smithereens has a wonderful funny story about Monty and the Ramones when the Smithereens were Touring with the Ramones, opening up for them. They all ended up at a bar at a Holiday Inn and right at closing time Joey ordered 30 Budweiser‘s! According to Pat the bartender was pissed LoL!
I love the comparison, but moe howard was anything but mean to the other stooges. He took care of them, looked out for them, and was only mean on-screen, as the greatest comedy "straight man" of all time
Holy crap, I read somewhere even the little leads like in Pet Sematory were recorded by uncredited peers. I was surprised to hear after years of doing it for a living he was that bad.
Do you listen to the Ramones for guitar leads?...yeah, nobody does and nobody did. He had a unique style that was tough to reproduce and viewed himself as a rhythm player. Not being a lead player does not bad a guitarist make.
Johnny would be the first to admit he wasn’t a “technical guitar player”. Yes, all these leads and solos and tricks that might come easily to other players were difficult for him. But I challenge anyone to perfectly replicate Johnny’s unique brand of fast, hard, downstrokes only, skip every second beat, palm muting, chugging barre chords rhythm playing.
You have not to forget that Johnny was born 1948.. so it was no longer a teenager when they started to play in 1974 ! He was a man made. And behaved as an adult.
@Robert Anthony He didn't stole anything, people are not objects. Linda and Johnny started dating MONTHS after she broke up with Joey. Both were adults, what's the problem with that?
4:54 the Dame says Jerry Nolan and Thunders were looking good...LOL...they look like something the cat dragged in. The Ramones "uniforms...were the uniform the Fans could identify with. While other so-called Punk Bands were dressing like Clowns and WEIRDOS...Johnny made sure they didn't look like weirdos....just a no-nonsense band. They'd leave the jackets on till half-way through the show then take them off...Johnny had a genius for making the simple VERY COOL. The worst Album cover was End of the Century...where they're wearing different colored 'Fruit of the Loom' Tee shirts! ...didn't work at all...that sure wasn't Johnny's idea.
I can’t stand dee dee, sorry. Hate CJ. Johnny’s ok I suppose. I just think it’s ridiculous he kept that bowl cut his entire life. Marky and Joey are cool, I like them the most.
Are you kidding??? Down strumming at the speeds he was strumming, with very quick barre chord shifts and changes, is not easy! And doing that song after song after song, with only a "1, 2, 3, 4" in between each song: shit...mine and most everybody else's hand and arm would probably fall off by the end of the concert!
@John I believe it! Listening to their earlier concerts and comparing that speed to the later concerts; no comparison! They played extremely fast in their latter years. But I have always preferred their original speed & sound. It just sounded better to me.
@@megaglock22 Not just the original speed. Johnny changed his 1965 Mosrite Ventures II Guitar's pickups from the rare stock Mosrite pickups (the ones on that model weren't on other models) in 1979, and they never sounded the same after that. I think the original guitar tone was better, overall.
As my father describes the Ramones,Johnny is like the disciplinarian father,Joey is the Sensitive Mother,Tommy is the intelligent first child,Marky is the well adjusted middle child,While Dee Dee is the creative crazy third child
Not bad
Cj was the fourth child that you adopt at a late age. But what was Ritchie?
@@camerondodge2070 the cousin that everyone has forgotten that exist
Wow. Right on. Yep I get it
@@miat9039 LOL
I could totally imagine Johnny slapping all three of them across the face in one motion.
dude i spit out out my coffee on this one - best comment ever
What he would do is he would line them up and just slap them all across the face at once
That’s what I feel like he did. I read a bit of commando and sometimes the way he would talk about Joey is kinda funny. “I tried to like Joey. I tried to talk to him but he was a fucking pain in the ass.”
"whats the matter with ya?! get busy!"
Lmao!! 🤣
when your bassist is a heroin addict, your drummer is an alcoholic, and your front man is cursed with OCD and hates looking people in the eye and talking to people, somebody has to do something to make sure shit goes right. he wasnt a dick he was just managing them.
You're right. Very good point.
It goes a little further than that with Joey and Dee Dee. Joey had actually spent time at an upstate asylum, songs like "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" and "Pinhead" weren't just goofy songs they had an hint of autobiography to them when you actually read about what he had been through. Today it's pretty obvious that Joey had Asperger because the clues are all there, the not making eye contact and OCD, but at the time they didn't have that diagnosis so he was sent to an asylum. His time in this place probably did a lot to his psyche.
Dee Dee was just a troubled kid from the get go. Just about every story I've read about him the author would have to point out that Dee Dee was a notorious liar. "53rd and 3rd" is another song that is actually autobiographical because Dee Dee used to hang out on that corner and prostitute himself to older men. This was long before gangsta rap and the idea of hoodlums selling records.
Then you have Johnny. Responsible, conservative Johnny. Seriously, if you were managing this band, who would you want speaking for it?
He WAS a dick. Maybe that was what it took.
Mitch Fondleburg I agree bro!!! 1,000 percent. If it weren't for him, there would be no Ramones.
Ugh. People who don't understand what "percent" means.
Johnny was necessary. No way they wouldve lasted 22 years without him. no way. not even close.
Nerf
In 2009, he appeared on Time's list of "The 10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players".[1] In 2012, he was ranked #8 on Spin's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".[2] He is also ranked #28 on the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list in Rolling Stone.[3]
Yeah it would’ve been weird without a guitar
probably Monty too?
technically every band member was necessary to make the complete love beast that was RAMONES
@@hyena131 I'm glad they put him on it, it's so hard to play like him, just barre chords and downstroke through an entire set is so tough to do.
I still love johnny. Rest i peace sir
i love johnny ramone. my favorite guitarist & personality in rock.
I read Commando, and he had a reason to hit Dee Dee a couple times. He said he liked him, but a few times Dee Dee would be so high, that Johnny would have to lay down the law. Johnny is my favorite Ramone, and always will be. Read Commando. Everyone just hears Joey's side of everything. Johnny had his reasons.
its an awesome book to read isnt? its like a ramones concert, no bullshit! straight on one, fast! and just like the lyrics hilarious funny. great book!
And I love Joey, And also give a shit about your idol of motorhead
i just finished reading the book yesterday. i love johnny even more.
I'm reading it now and half way through Johnny has suddenly become my favorite Ramone, my favorite guitarist, my favorite rock god.
OK thank you
Unless you’re from queens you just don’t know what it was really like. The Lower east side. They did it. They lived it Forever Rock N Roll The best band They gave us everything They deserve a few tears
Love Johnny! Kick ass!! You have to have someone like him in the band to keep the sanity!!
At the 1:23 mark, Dee Dee sounds like a 10-year old kid talking about amplifiers!
He was flying high on heroin, look at his eyes.
Yeah, now you see why Tommy did the interviews (though there is one interview on here from 1977 where Dee Dee is speaking very eloquently).
English wasn’t his first language
@@Herrbink Yeah, no. He's spun out on speed, not H.
Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy
The Real Ramones… 1974-1978
I adore Johnny! And Joey and Dee Dee but for very different reasons. A beautiful mess and they will forever be my favorite band. Gone way way too soon. RIP Joey, Dee Dee, Johnny and Tommy you are missed so much!
That volatility is what made them and punk music. Old vs new. Hating each other vs loving the music. Rebelling against the mainstream vs conforming to their principles. Johnny got it.
Um. You should be able to tell they were an act. The uniforms are a dead giveaway
He and Moe did have the same haircut…
Johnny was the glue that forced Joey, Dee Dee, Tommy, and Marky to abide by Ramones standards. Without Johnny's tyranny, they would not of made it. Johnny was the USMC Drill Instructor that MADE them abide.
moester75 brother
Who gives a shit? LOL
Except he was a dummy that mismanaged the group which should have been megastars. Johnny refusing to do SNL in the 70's was just plain stupid. And the uniforms were good for a minute but over 20 years? Johnny had serious mental problems.
Boukouziman5000, yea Johnny Ramone was an asshole without a doubt and Johnny regretted not doing Saturday Night Live in his autobiography. At the time Johnny was insulted because SNL first asked the Sex Pistols to host then asked the Ramones when the Pistols canceled. Still, you can’t deny Johnny’s asshole-ness kept a shit bird like Dee Dee in line and it kept Joey’s erratic behavior in check somewhat too. So technically we’re both right man 👍🏻.
Oh my God I think you just nailed it. But he sure sounded like a mean person
of course he was the moe he even had the same haircut
He sointently did Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk
@@robertmedrano2768 lol
3:45 best moment for Johnny Ramone, from the first time I saw that, I became a fan!
He had a brain something few punk rockers have especially these days
Conservative punks typically do
I'm so tired of the liberal lefties punks
@@sensacionsombria5125 For fucks sake, you people have to attach some sort of "RIGHT VS LEFT" embellishment on everything. Seriously, everything.
"Those darn liberal lefties are ruining pie. Those liberal lefties think missionary-only is boring. Missionary-only is the way God intended and its good as sweet ass apple pie on a Sunday afternoon with a little vanilla ice cream, I'm talkin' that real vanilla not that Mexican't stuff. Shoot, those pesky liberal lefties want to cancel missionary-only. What's next? Huh? What, they going to tell me who I can or cannot love? That the bond between me and my wife of 17 years isn't 'politically correct'? What does 'cousin' mean anyways? It's just a word. Damn liberal lefties want to put labels on everything. Incest? More like 'whats best'. But do I think that Abba is among the greatest songwriting teams of all time? Well, look at songs like 'SOS' or 'Waterloo' cause they're downright masterpieces. It's just a damn shame they were liberal lefties cause...cause...cause, like, cause umm... cause otherwise they would be the greatest songwriting team of all time. At least that's what my cousi - i mean my wife says"
@@tylerzane7579 I'm willing to bet a lot of your family and whatever friends you once had have all but stopped talking to you and you still don't have a clue why. I'll tell you why, it's because of comments like this where you inject your obsessively misguided "RIGHT VS LEFT" zealotry into any and all conversations despite it's ridiculousness and general inherent fallibility.
And I thought The Ramones were all harmony, sparkles and rainbows!
its shocking to hear they werent normal people
Johnny was probably the only one that was clean in the band. I do t recall him ever having problems with drugs or alcohol.
I heard he smoked weed but didn’t consider it a drug
@@frankgrimes7388 idk I define drugs as things you take that make you happy so I consider it a drug lmao
Moe Howard, 😂😂😂 thats hilarious!
Johnny Ramone, era o cara 🎸
Johnny was the real leather of the band, without him they wouldn't made it and be one of the biggest band nowadays, in fact they wouldn't have lasted 1 year without him.
Even though I'm gonna give some credit to a wonderful musician such as Dee Dee who wrote so many good songs and he still wrote for them after he left in 1989.
Wouldve been better if the band broke up honestly. Joey would've had an amazing career and perhaps even a better life. Johnny was just a abusive racist bully
@@Godloveszaza tf dude you're speaking like if Joey was a kid who was unable to make their own decisions. If he didn't want to leave then he still wanted to be in Ramones, Johnny said it multiple times and quote: “There was no more Ramones without Joey. He was irreplaceable.”
This video clip is on RUclips but The late, great Pat Dinizio Singer for the smithereens has a wonderful funny story about Monty and the Ramones when the Smithereens were Touring with the Ramones, opening up for them. They all ended up at a bar at a Holiday Inn and right at closing time Joey ordered 30 Budweiser‘s! According to Pat the bartender was pissed LoL!
Joey was obviously Larry. Dee Dee was...Curly?
Apart from that, what a fucking great Rock'n'Roll band
Larry was Seymour Stein! They sound like twins.
Marky was Shemp.
I love the comparison, but moe howard was anything but mean to the other stooges. He took care of them, looked out for them, and was only mean on-screen, as the greatest comedy "straight man" of all time
Punk Rock is all about heart!!
The RAMONES 4EVeR 100%!
Their amps go to twelve.
So do Fender's
What was this clip from???
End Of The Century?
Monte had to be with them 24/7 , what patience !
it must be something to that bowl haircut
Joey, was Larry Johnny was Moe and Dee Dee was Curly, so all three of them were the Three Stooges of rock and roll, what about Tommy, Marky and CJ,
Shemp
Holy crap, I read somewhere even the little
leads like in Pet Sematory were recorded by uncredited peers.
I was surprised to hear after years of doing it
for a living he was that bad.
Do you listen to the Ramones for guitar leads?...yeah, nobody does and nobody did. He had a unique style that was tough to reproduce and viewed himself as a rhythm player. Not being a lead player does not bad a guitarist make.
@@MarcusFenix50 Sorry man, you at least have an ode to reach your abilities or something on the guitar
Johnny would be the first to admit he wasn’t a “technical guitar player”. Yes, all these leads and solos and tricks that might come easily to other players were difficult for him. But I challenge anyone to perfectly replicate Johnny’s unique brand of fast, hard, downstrokes only, skip every second beat, palm muting, chugging barre chords rhythm playing.
@@philmstud2k i can do it all day
Gawd, I miss the Ramones…
Yes, it's from End Of The Century
MJS EVERYONE HAS A GOOD AND BAD SIDE ,THAT'S LIFE ,LIVE WITH IT.
@JasonBentleyJones
Oh really?
Cool, Thanks a lot!!
Gotta see if I can find it online now, hahaha!!
The three stooges were one of my first favorite things and moe was the one to be.
Who's the dude in the first half of the video who said he sat between Johnny & Dee Dee?
With the behavior comimg out of Dee Dee and Joey... I understand why Johnny was the way he was. Imagine having to deal with that. Youd have too.
The plaster's fallin' off the wall
My girlfriend's cryin' in the shower stall
What are these clips from?
DEE DEE!!!
We all know Johnny was the alpha wolf of the pack.
Who cares lol.
Alpha bully
haha that was funny
You have not to forget that Johnny was born 1948.. so it was no longer a teenager when they started to play in 1974 ! He was a man made. And behaved as an adult.
@Robert Anthony He didn't stole anything, people are not objects. Linda and Johnny started dating MONTHS after she broke up with Joey. Both were adults, what's the problem with that?
Actually been in the Ramones must have been ^%^ing horrible
No, It's End of the Century, definitely.
@addlovesrock I'm pretty sure that it was an AMERICAN MASTERS special, on PBS.
Who had compulsive disorder?
Joey
I stated a punk band,1 member changed so much with ego I had to destroy it, I created a monster,, RIP NO PLACE TO PISS ... BoMb W☠️
WTF did you just say?
Johnny was alot like Michael Jacksons Father
nightmuffin937 ehhh...that’s a bit harsh IMO
4:54 the Dame says Jerry Nolan and Thunders were looking good...LOL...they look like something the cat dragged in.
The Ramones "uniforms...were the uniform the Fans could identify with.
While other so-called Punk Bands were dressing like Clowns and WEIRDOS...Johnny made sure they didn't look like weirdos....just a no-nonsense band.
They'd leave the jackets on till half-way through the show then take them off...Johnny had a genius for making the simple VERY COOL.
The worst Album cover was End of the Century...where they're wearing different colored 'Fruit of the Loom' Tee shirts!
...didn't work at all...that sure wasn't Johnny's idea.
Are you kidding? The Ramones looked very weird. Bowl haircuts and all.
When she said "Jerry Nolan, Johnny Thunders looking good" and the picture opened up, I cracked up
TOMMY was therealdrummer
Thanks for uploading. Yeah, Johnny was kind of dick. Poor Dee Dee. R.I.P. At least you finall got to spikey hair in the late 80s / early 90s.
I can’t stand dee dee, sorry. Hate CJ. Johnny’s ok I suppose. I just think it’s ridiculous he kept that bowl cut his entire life. Marky and Joey are cool, I like them the most.
Ny jews
Lucky for you
Yes, they invented punk music. Oy vey
Mmmm. Ultimately, Johnny played down strums. Not much going on there,.
LOL! Then how come a million other guitarists have tried to do it as well and failed?
Are you kidding??? Down strumming at the speeds he was strumming, with very quick barre chord shifts and changes, is not easy! And doing that song after song after song, with only a "1, 2, 3, 4" in between each song: shit...mine and most everybody else's hand and arm would probably fall off by the end of the concert!
@John I believe it! Listening to their earlier concerts and comparing that speed to the later concerts; no comparison! They played extremely fast in their latter years. But I have always preferred their original speed & sound. It just sounded better to me.
@@megaglock22 Not just the original speed. Johnny changed his 1965 Mosrite Ventures II Guitar's pickups from the rare stock Mosrite pickups (the ones on that model weren't on other models) in 1979, and they never sounded the same after that. I think the original guitar tone was better, overall.
Hey jerk or is it fool? I love the Ramones, but there isn't much going on with three chords. I never said I didn't love the sound.
@JasonBentleyJones
Oh really?
Cool, Thanks a lot!!
Gotta see if I can find it online now, hahaha!!