JOHNNY RAMONE - Last Interview 

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since the middle ages, I think

tracey williams Like the guitarist for Slade .... Dave Hill

He was as true as they came

@@fenderstratguy I looked up Dave Hill. That haircut should be illegal.

I have to admit I was into prog rock until I heard The Ramones. The hair got chopped and I joined a band. I think many thousands of kids did the exact same thing as I did. Changed my whole life, and I stopped smoking that stupid weed, but decided NOT to sniff glue!

Relax. Don’t take things too literally. He's just using exaggerated language.

I agree one hundred percent

Gilles van Zeebroeck You obviously don’t know when someone is being sarcastic and just making a point do you.

Gringo Your comments really resonate with me!

And they don't come much wiser than him...

@@elvisleeboy That's Funny. Yep,the Beacon.

Only cause DeeDer could score good Chinese Rock.

@Yes No yet Johnny Rotten couldn’t stand them lol somewhere on RU-vid is a good clip of Johnny Rotten arguing with Marky Ramone when ends up telling Rotten “we were punk while you were still having tea and crumpets!” Lol

@@hdrjunkierotten is an ignorant bloated drunk . Can’t stand him.

theedrstrangelove What I have the hardest time with as far as Johnny’s cancer goes is just how treatable prostate cancer is. Recovery from it is generally high. It had to have been found long after it set in.

@@DaveFury My guess is that it slowly got into the bones, and/or spread elsewhere and that's what took Johnny. Rarely does a guy die "from" Prostate cancer, they usually die "with it" (from something completely diff, or, because it spread).

He was a trooper, period to hold that band together as long as he did. What a profound loss losing all of them.

@@TT-hl5ql yes

@@DaveFury I heard an interview with Monte Melnick on WFMU a while back and when the subject of Johnny came up, I recall him saying that he didn't go to the doctor, probably implying that if he did, he might have caught it early. Mixed feelings about Johnny: Great guitarist, but supposedly, according to Marky Ramones book, made racist statements--used the N word and called Joey "the Heeb".

Agreed, you can see why he could be seen as mean or a douche but there's something to admire about how focused and driven he was to succeed.

You lucky bastard!

lightweight, ive seen over 70 times.. they were around for 40 yrs

So lucky I would’ve loved to seen them

I love the fact that i didn't

@@dr.daniel8816 23 years*

Yes absolutely

Metallica, Nirvana, Megadeth, joan jett and the black hearts and etc, was inspired by the ramones

@@elang7961Yea you probably wouldn’t expect Ramones to influence Metallica, but they really did. James sites Ramones as an influence all the time especially Johnny.

Arturo Vega was the "5th Ramone"

@Anderson Cooper It's 'have', not 'of'.

@Anderson Cooper That was one of the stupidest things I've ever read.

@Anderson Cooper No. It simply sounds stupid. A lucid person understands that what you tried to write was the written version of an oral bowel movement. You are in the full effects of a cranial enema.

@Anderson Cooper too tough to die (1984) hailed as their comeback album since road to ruin (1978)

Well..............that's because he was.

It's a great way to make a small fortune if you have a large fortune.

In this interview he even looked like business man XD

He was an aggressive businessman. It's all in Marky's book.

Whazza probably a trump supporter if alive.

True statement.

Every band has a leader and it sounds like Johnny was the leader of the Ramones, the one person who kept the band going

@@animaljustice7774 Yup. Johnny was the adult in the room when it came to the Ramones. Joey had OCD and it only got worse with time. Dee Dee was a habitual drug user and an emotional wreck. Tommy was always looking for an exit door. He had said in an interview that he was never an enthusiastic band member and was more interested in managing the band or producing.

@@FriedPi-mc5yt wow. That’s great insight. Thanks for explaining

@@animaljustice7774 Definitely. Especially after Tommy quit due to the stress of touring, Johnny had to pull double duty to keep the train coming on time.

Teri Coley Adams how can we see your friend’s work? I’m in nyc

Teri Coley Adams Was it Roberta?

Yeah, I'd rather NOT imagine living in the Bowery back then! Ha ha. Perfect place if you're into getting robbed or stabbed though.

When I went to NC, my hotel was very close to were CBGB‘s was.

I was there...

You're only saying that because they all got famous. You probably live in a place where there were plenty of local bands that you didn't care about.. lol.

Wayne county DJing What an awesome time for music 🤘🏻

I agree. The treatment is as terrifying as cancer itself.

Was he diagnosed at this point??

@@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward Yes

@@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward Around 1997 he was diagnosed.

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You know it!!!!

He looked a bit like Dave Hill...

Dave Hill looked like the Leeds Utd goalkeeper Dave Harvey.

Looked it up and by Jove, you're right!

Thank you for looking it up.

Exactly! its three chords a guitar and tge truth. it was not a bunch of leftists circle jerking each other.

Imagine how awkward it must had been releasing Bonzo Goes to Bitburg. Jesus, I bet that was tense.

I'm hardly a leftist and I think it was a huge mistake for Reagan to go to Bitburg. stupid is stupid, ideology aside.

Whit I heard it was controversial, particularly with Johnny. That's why it was titled "My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg"). Many people view Reagan as a God and will justify anything he has done. I totally agree that it was obviously a bad decision.

And say that as somebody who respects Reagan as a president. I GET why he thinks it was a good move... but imo it wasn't.

Yeah?... James Hetfield??

He plays in this proper underground band, you probably wouldn’t have heard of them.

@@grahamchristie7489 Johnny is James Hetfield's biggest inspiration for his technique. Also, James couldn't do it as fast and as long as Johnny could.

@@eugeneeasthon5906 uhm i beg to differ. i think metallica stinks but theres no denying james hetfields downstroke is faster than johnny ramones. if you watch rames concerts propperly you actually see that johnny cheats a bit by keeping it to 3 strokes per bar(den, den-den) instead of a propper james hetfield style 6 strokes per bar (de-de-de-de-de-de)

@@captainkrunchthewall James alternates patterns as well. While Johnny did use the 1,123 strum in a lot of songs, he was a monster. Search "johnny ramone surfin Bird" to see how insane his downstroke actually was.

Link Ray was as good as Johnny. Influenced many.

+Bearista Bear his style speaks to me more than any other guitarists

+Bearista Bear That's perfectly said. I'd love to see other bands try to play just 1 of their songs..they would never be able to do it, no way in hell.

you mean like kattie perry ?

Xavier Roberts It's all in the wrist...a lot of guitar players don't use the right playing method they try moving their whole arm up and down fast instead of just moving/flicking the wrist back and forth sideways sort of like shaking a can of Soda pop.

Simple yes, but with some of the best hooks in RnR history. Ah the brilliance of Carbona not Glue etc

Pablo Conrad Are you kidding me? I respect his political beliefs even if I disagree to death with them, but he was a complete asshole in personal life. The crap he did to joey, he didn't even call joey when joey was on his death bed and had asked to see him. I can't see how much more of an asshole you could get. He was probably the biggest reason Tommy left, Johnny had physically been harassing him, so he largely because of that he left.

Pablo Conrad Thank you, words so well spoken. I love the Ramones to this day.Sugoi!

Martin Marquez You talk like you were there. You weren't, your comment is therefor irrelevant.

Right. With the amount of documentation done on this band. Sure, irrelevant..

Martin Marquez Yes, it is irrelevant. You can find documentation that will support the particular view of any member of this band, but you made a comment that you cannot possibly know as true unless you were intimate with the people involved, and you were not.

Liberals are the losers, conservatives are right

have you read Commando his autobio? fuken awesome read, he's a real organized guy, he knew it was a band but a job also. it had to be run with discipline and planning

Good observation.

You tell 'em Robi' you tell 'em.

666shit6666chump don't forget marky

Ian Wheeler Marky is still around

nice avatar. i have a tattoo of it. :D

Tommy theCat66 you have to be kidding.

@Seb Web10 tnx for the reminder 4 years later, rofl

Are you sure? I think Joey and Johnny are still fighting.

@@tokofuwakasglasses1254 ????

I don't really see it as so strange. NYC is a cess pool. 60% of the empty lots probably had toxic waste dumped in them courtesy of the mob.

Johnny smoked weed and drank alot of beer Joey did alcohol and cocaine for many years

He couldn't even the small leads on the albums were recorded by someone else.

Great point. A bond like Joey and Johnny's would be very difficult today. Thank our corporate media overlords for the polarization. They want us divided and distracted.

One of the greatest? No...Slade was better....so were the beastie boys. Rush was better....had a better Bass Player and drummer. Alex Liefson less talented then Johnny? I think not. Rush on a bad dad was equal to the Ramones. I'd rank the Ramones about 11th or 12.

It’s not even ‘his’ content...

I agree. Toxic Guerrilla was fairly right wing too. DK had "Holiday in Cambodia." Sex Pistols had "Bodies." Non-conformity today is to be anti-PC.

Lol what’s even more amazing is that he was a huge conservative AND a born and bread New Yorker!!! Lol

I believe that Dee Dee was also a conservative... I thought I heard him mention it once in an interview that he and Johnny were conservatives and Joey and Marky were Dems.

Mojo Maximus and im sure those things are true? lol, its sad how people talk shit about people they don't even know. thats a sign of very weak character, people that talk shit about everybody, america is full of these types of people unfortunately. ignorance is bliss i guess!

They can't, so much for "tolerance" and open-mindedness " and that's what they always preach, but they preach it for other people to follow not themselves.

Mojo Maximus if marky said those things in his book about johnny then why does he always refer to johnny as a "nice guy". he says johnny was just an opinionated republican but that he was a nice guy who treated the fans really great.

oxrjbizzle1984y How do you see those things as inconsistent? Marky and Johnny were friends. Doesn't mean he agreed with everything Johnny said, including Johnny's frequent racist slurs or the way Johnny treated Joey over the years. Johnny wouldn't call Joey when he developed lymphoma and was dying, and Johnny didn't even bother to go to his funeral. The guy (albeit one of the driving forces of a band that I really love) was an a-hole. Don't believe me, read Marky's book. I don't have to think a person is a wonderful human being (and Johnny wasn't) to enjoy their music. But, you go on defending him, despite apparently lacking knowledge of much of Johnny's behavior, just because you agree with his political and racist opinions.

Mojo Maximus your such a judgmental douche. you keep putting words in peoples mouths. good luck being angry at life all the time....

Abby Hanna I’ve read he was the most approachable of all of the Ramones.

@@HankFinkle11 He was the only guy that stopped for autographs when I saw em at THE LEEDS T&C(LEEDS UK)....still got the ramones fanzine booklet to this day....

Yes, but the crudest. And most aggressive

@@tokofuwakasglasses1254 the way punk is

Yet, supposedly he had a really quick, hair trigger temper... like got really nasty in a second...lol

That was Johnny...he was a no-shit, blunt type of person. I grew up with the Ramones music, went to see them every time they came to CT. I miss there energy and raw stage presence.

I think he was right, and not disrespectful about the Talking heads. They were doing something completely different.

😂🤣😂🤣😂 What a fuckin crock !!!!!! 🙈🙈🙈🙈🤢

He did not catogorize his music as punk. The most influential? There were some ahead of him.

He sucked at guitar. Just awful. Sid played better, was a better musician than him.

@@darwinxke2827 jajajaa syd did not even know how to play the bass

@@darwinxke2827you can play Ramones songs correctly?

jc6594 how? Joey was the oldest ( May 19th, 1951) and I’m pretty sure that Joey ( if he was alive) would be 67.

@@tokofuwakasglasses1254 Johnny is from 1946 I believe

For real

I agree. I saw them at The Ritz in 1988 in NYC. Got to meet Joey. Fuck cancer.

Saw'm New Year's Eve 78-79. They opened for the Tubes San Jose. Last show they were an opening band. It was new. Wasn't expecting what I saw

Watching sci-fi and horror movies collecting movie posters and listening to reggea music apparently he had a large collection of posters and reggea lp's

Sure, but it's still pretty incredible that he came out with statements like "punk is right wing" - I mean, I really want to know what he exactly meant by that!

***** Good to get some context, thanks for post.

+Dominic Conroy Punk (or rather, the Ramones style) is "right wing" if you think of it as a reaction musically to many of the trends in 1970s music (glam-rock, long guitar or drum solos, pretentious lyrics, etc) and the Ramones offered new music but grounded in a back-to-basics approach, and tunes that were both funny and sobering. Joey would probably have disagreed with Johnny on punk being right wing politically since Joey was a leftist. But Joey was a fan of the old school pop of the 60s so he and Johnny were both linked in terms of music (i.e. going for a stripped down, "reactionary" style).

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Marky is still alive. Tommy, is then original drummer that sadly passed away recently.

guy harris Yeah haha sorry I just got names mixed up

Well said.

MrCelticbhoy96 you know not every conservative person is a kkk member right? You know kkk has/had mostly democrats as members right? ......

Good research/knowledge! Thanks!

No problem! I know too much about the Ramones lol

Just as an observation: I went back and looked at the video that I linked above and it looks to me that they actually are all wearing leather jackets and jeans (except Tommy doesn't have a jacket and Joey has black leather pants--which I've seen him wear a few times like on Regis and Kathy Lee!) Maybe it's not actually their 3rd show, but it certainly sounds like it (!) and as we both noted, Joey is definitely jumping around doing the "fag rock thing" which they wisely adjusted after. Just thought I'd mention it for a fellow '75 punk enthusiast. :)

***** Good observations! They list the date of this show as Sept. 15, 1974. If that is in fact the actual date, then this wasn't their 3rd show at CBGBs. It's more like their 12th. (the Ramones would play CBGB several nights per week when they first started) You can find a list of all Ramones live shows on Wikipedia. And you're right, Joey and Dee Dee are wearing leather jackets here. Johnny is wearing a black satin shirt with leopard print trim, and black spandex pants. He stopped wearing his glitter clothing not long after this show I believe. They hadn't fully incorporated the Ramones uniform at this point, but they kept tweaking it because Tommy and Johnny felt they needed a unified look after watching many of their early live performances.