I'm a musician/artist and music producer, and this is my Ramones content channel. I mostly make guitar covers, tutorials, music videos, and remasters here. I also release original music as "Foxxear", and offer music mixing/mastering services (linked below). I recommend my PLAYLISTS to sift through my videos easiest.
About my RAMONES guitar covers: I grew up playing these songs, they're very familiar to me. Sadly, the Ramones guitar style gets watered down in many tabs & tutorials. Easy power chords & strumming styles are substituted for the more challenging barre chords & downstrokes that defined Johnny Ramone as a player. People should play guitar however they want, and it can be fun to learn/teach easy versions of songs, but I think it's a shame to see these techniques become lost to time. The true Ramones guitar style has a powerful quality that aided the band's impact & success. For this reason, since 2013, this channel has existed largely to showcase the authentic guitar style.
Great to see how fast Johnny's downstrokes were. This song is one of my favorites of theirs. From Rocket To Russia. This is my review of it from my article on The Top 15 Punk Albums. Rocket to Russia: Released November 12, 1977. Reached #69 on the U.S. charts. Ramones formed in Forest Hills, Queens in 1974. There is a video on RU-vid of them playing at CBGB's that year and an argument breaks out over which song to play next. They already had their signature style in 1974 for God's sake! So please let's not have any more fighting over who was the first punk band, Ramones or Sex Pistols. I saw them play in 1975 and years later I wrote. " Saw them at CBGB's and was blown away by their power. What a wall of sound! What a rush! Would have loved to talk to them after their set but their leather jackets gave me pause. The only other people who wore leather jackets at that time in the East Village were the Hell's Angels and I had already had an experience with one of them near their clubhouse on East 3rd Street. Not really a big deal, but after that I decided not to start up any conversations with them. So, my fear got the best of me and I missed an opportunity to talk to the greatest band in the world in the mid 70's. To this day I play their records and they remain one of my favorite bands." For most people who weren't around punk music and the Ramones at the outset, it is difficult to imagine the effect they had. Mary Harron interviewed them for the first issue of Punk magazine in January, 1976. This will give you some idea of what it was like. "When I first saw the Ramones I couldn't believe people were doing this. The dumb brattiness ‘Beat on the brat with a baseball bat.' There was this real cartoon element, and yet you're in a real place, you want to do something real, so you're in a situation where they could be real, they could be genuinely delinquent. It had an edge to it: they looked dumb-smart, smart-dumb." From the Ramones' press kit in June, 1975: " Their songs are brief, to the point, and every one a potential hit single...The Ramones all originate from Forest Hills and kids who grew up there become either musicians, degenerates or dentists. The Ramones are a little of each. Their sound is not unlike a fast drill on a rear molar." When their eponymous debut LP came out all my punk friends bought it and played it to death. Believe me, we had never heard anything like it. It was brutal and undeniable. Listening at stun levels we were in awe of its relentless buzzsaw power. In light of hardcore (the louder, faster, more aggressive music that came after punk and spawned slam dancing and stage diving) Ramones songs now seem almost mid-tempo. But I've read people at their live shows were literally holding onto their tables when they played--it was such a potent force coming at you. Choosing a best between the first three Ramones' albums has always been difficult for me. I must have heard them all fifty times and for this write-up I listened to all three twice again. And you know what? It’s still difficult. Their debut, Leave Home and Rocket To Russia all contain loads of great songs. How to pick just one? It would have been easy to pick their debut. That would have put everything neatly in chronological order, but this is not the 15 most important punk albums, it is the 15 best. There are two major differences that for me narrowed it down to just two. The mix on their first album is different from a more conventional one found on the others--Johnny's guitar is in the right channel and Dee Dee's bass is in the left. Some listeners might like this, others might not. It does have its perks. When I was giving punk lessons in my apartment, I could turn the knobs on my amp to isolate the two. The kids I was teaching loved hearing how skillful these two musicians were. Man, those guys could play! Let me tell you, hearing "I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement" like this was a joyful thing. Secondly, some of the best songs are faster and longer on the next two albums. So my two preferences narrowed it down to either Leave Home or Rocket To Russia. These are not 1 and 2 in my book; they are 1 and 1A. I would have chosen both of them, but decided in the end to pick only one album from each band. Actually, any of the first three LP's would make a fine choice on any best list. I nearly choked at the prospect of leaving off an album that contains "Glad To See You Go," "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment," "Carbona Not Glue," "Pinhead," "Commando" and "You Should Never have Opened That Door," but that's just what I did. Rocket To Russia has great songs too, leading off with "Cretin Hop" (what an attack they had!) Then there's the classic "Rockaway Beach" (which reached #66 on the U.S, charts), and "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" (which reached #81). Colin Abrahall, singer in the great British punk band G.B.H. has said that hearing "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" at age 15 on the radio was a huge influence in his life. But more on that when we come to G.B.H. "Locket Love" is a sweet little bubblegum song disguising a murder. "We're A Happy Family" has just about the wittiest, funniest, pop culture lyrics ever in a song and "Teenage Lobotomy" is not far behind. I think the album has just a smidge more power than Leave Home, there are fewer songs under two minutes and Johnny Ramone's signature lightning downstrokes unleashing pure punk power are better showcased. Rocket To Russia is my choice to start our quest for the top 15 punk LP's. Here are three songs for your listening pleasure:
Great cover and performance, dude! Very Johnny-like style! New subs here! I love Ramones and I made some covers of them too, if you wanna watch: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WeTmUiT6pDE.html Tks! 🤟
@@tommy1gtr Nope, I actually used to flatten the B or even G a little to sweeten the tone, but I think Johnny Ramone’s sound doesn’t have any such tuning tweaks, so I don’t anymore. No weird intonation either. I just think the Marshall amps have a really pleasing overdrive, and in general the chords and strumming sound nicer when the player is really at ease and comfortable. Some guitars sound more sour than others on the full barre chords though, and I’ll never understand why, lol
Siempre me ha impactado el sonido y la forma de tocar la guitarra de Jhonny ramone,soy un tipo cincuentón,musico de formación y mi instrumento es la guitarra... pero este tipo es increíble y muy difícil de reproducir nisiquiera parecido
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@@AntePetrovic-zv4re Johnny Ramone pioneered punk rock guitar and inspired countless guitarists of multiple generations and genres. He played in a way that was both a unique personal statement, and a suitable and exciting sound for the music his band created. His skills were very specialized, but he did things that were plenty “difficult” to accomplish with his instrument. He worked very hard to entertain and wow fans with dramatic stage presence and performances, and broke the “don’t meet your heroes” stigma offstage by being a friendly and appreciative hero to meet in person. He was a fairly flawed man, but he understood that being a guitarist who matters in the history books is about a great many things beyond technical finesse. Yes, I think he was a good guitarist.
Dude, your covers are so perfect, I would support any content you do. Out of most content creators on RU-vid, you definitely have the skills to succeed as a content creator on RU-vid. And yes I would love you dissecting Johnny Ramone's guitar technique, cuz I wanna be able to play their songs tightly.
No other band could pull this off. Lots of bands played fast, particularly after the Ramones made it fashionable, but these guys actually did it with a rhythm and a feel. Not every stroke had the same emphasis, unlike 99% of hardcore and fast metal bands. Also the lyrics, about daily life - delivering groceries. And who doesn't want Everything! I certainly do.
@@ArthurSantin-m6p Life is very busy for me, I work freelance to support myself and have pretty limited time for personal projects, of which this channel sadly is not #1 priority. I made most of my videos during the pandemic with lots of free time. I have a big video coming for this channel though
