JOHNNY RAMONE - Last Interview PT 2 

This interview opens my eyes to see that these musicians are and were intelligent. They had purpose. They weren’t just doing it willy nilly. Ramones were no accident. They had a plan.

Ladies and gentlemen, get comfortable and listen to every word the man says.... You are listening to THE man. The coolest 'rockstar' of all time...Johnny Ramone.

this man is one of my top 3 idols. even though he's gone, he still influences me to this day.

this dude is super wise wow

The most forthcoming interview with Johnny I have ever seen. He actually seemed to enjoy being interviewed, which was rare I think.

"..a boisterous woman..." LOL. What a great interview. So funny, so smart - gets right to the point. Gone too soon: Jonny Ramone.

"Shut that dame up!" , "They should be seen and not hearrrd" , "Tell her to take it down 20 decibels". I love this guy. Rock n' Roll!

Awesome Interview, thanks for posting. I was lucky to meet Johnny after Ramones broke up, he was attending a Cramps show at the HOB in Hollywood in1997or 1998. He was a very cool cat. I remember him saying he was selling his guitar and never to play again, no solo records, nothing.

johnny got right to the point, just like Ramones music. Alot of haters out there, tho, probably playing their 7 minute guitar solos

This man has immaculate taste in music, He dislike the overblown, self indulgent late 60's American rock, he likes Bowie, little Richard, Slade and the Dolls. He's no nonsense all round. I wonder if he was aware he was dying at this point?

i never knew how intelligent this guy was.very thoughtful.

Just catchy songs. Good verse. Great chorus. And a bridge. Hopefully a bridge thats better than the chorus. Dont over do it. Words of wisdom Loyd , words of wisdom.

what an awesome interview!

Johnny Ramone is my favorite person ever! "shut that dame up" hahaha 100%

JOHNNY MACHINE GUN RAMONE....RIP & THANK YOU FOR YOUR ROCKET FIRE GUITAR, THE RAMONES & YOUR INFLUENCE!

Rest in peace Johnny!!!

who much i would pay, to watch johnny play now !! RIP JOHNNY,JOEY,DEE DEE :'( x

rip Johnny

AWESOME! Thank you so much for posting PART 2!!!!!!!!!

johnny always makes for a good interview. very informative

Really cool interview.

The man. The coolest man ever

Johhny Ramone, we love you and EVERYTHING about you!

Johnny is a fantastic interview. Very intrigued.

I'm surprised he didn't mention The Alice Cooper Group or The Stooges and The Sonics

There is more to it than that. You know, you can disagree with someone without insulting them. You might even make more friends that way.

He thinks like a designer

He's a genious.

The "Great" Johnny Ramone

Wow, they're all gone now.

Str8t forward. To the point. Hey Ho lets go!

Funny thing about the sex pistols, they were a nothing band when they came to america. hahahahaha. But when the ramones went to england, every pre-punk, teddy-rocker and admirer of the 50s went to see em. Even the sex pistols, which just ripped off fair amount of their sound and the new york punk scene.

Remember kids....this was back in the days when the masses would sneer at Paul Simon and Sting for playing with "ethnic" groups and exploiting their sound. That Daryl Hall and John Oates were sneered at for being "blue eyed soul" and multi-racial Ska bands from the UK people wondered "what were they gettin at" rather then listing to the music. This was a time when DeeDee tried rap and pissed off his best friends and bandmates ! So for a young John playing R&B and Blues would be out there idea.

I like all music. I don’t put one thing above the other. I just gravitate towards things based on my moods. I like Pink Floyd for a mood; the Ramone’s for another mood. I’ll keep it at that and not trash anyone. Long live rock n roll.

as a kid/teen I did the same thing, I would get close as I could to stage and watch the Bassist. I'd watch what they played, how they moved, what they wore etc. then I started getting too drunk to care and started my own band now I'm the best!

Miss ya, Johnny.

Thanks for the Music Johnny. You were alwasys one of my favorite Rock Stars. You guy's are SO MISSED!!! When I get to Heaven look me up. Cool?

R.I.P. Johnny Ramone the coolest guitar player in the band.🤙😥

I like his comments about how they would study the world of rock and adjust to their best stance. For most musicians/stars that would be a vulnerable admission but they were studying how not to be vulnerable. And they weren't. They were bulletproof in their presentation. Great interview.

So glad I got to see this legend rip his Mosrite to pieces! Gabba Gabba Hey!

glad he mentioned the Kinks

happy b-day johnny !

I love Johnny because He thinks like me RIP, I miss the Ramones!

Okay, on one level you're quite right, punk is young, loud and stupid. However, it is also an intellectual, artistic multi-media (music, print, verse, etc.) movement on a far more fundamental level than the other genres you mention. You had the Voidoids AND the Exploited. Participants may not have been conscious of the more esoteric cultural references, but they were there nonetheless. It is fascinating on musical and sociological grounds alone, and historically epochal, to boot. And it rocks.

I find what he said about Motown to be a lil strange. I've always thought that the Ramones *most* resembled (when you just look at the songs strictly as compositions) early 60's surf rock and Motown. I thought the influence definitely was there.

Legit old school NY man's man. A real tough guy who ran on NY streets before it became Disneyland. Johnny wasn't perfect, but he was real.

R.I.P Johnny ❤️🎸🎸🎼🎼❤️🌷

R,I,p,joey johnny+Dee Dee,God bless you , amen 💙✌

This is normal for bands. Even the most punk bands around. Sex Pistols had almost everything decided for them by Malcolm McLaren. Many bands just don't want to admit it. A band is a collective unit. If you can't keep your band organized or together, it's not going to go anywhere. Try being spontaneous in a band and see how much your band members hate you afterwards. I'm all for the creativity of music but one of the most fundamental parts of being in any band is structure and planning.

6:36 thats so much more rock n roll than timidly tapping the mic and looking around bewildered

so cool...

Johnny Ramone was my hero and still is. Barney Glasgow. 😎

Very cool is there anymore?

Yes, Johnny ROTTEN.

Not a huge fact fan on the Ramones. Never had any of their albums. Dug it everytime I heard them tho. This guy sounds like the leader or John lennon of the group.

“Shut that dame Up”. Tell her to take it down 20 decibels 😂

Que camiseli! Johny!

From its initial crucial synthesis onward (i.e. when the Ramones formed and thereafter) punk had room to accommodate both hard-Right and hard-Left views (and hard-everything else, for that matter). At its heart was the attitude, which was claimed by many political persuasions and owned by none. As to smart Punks, most prominent 'first wave' (74-76) bands had at least one clever-clogs (Rotten, Sensible, Harry/Stein, Hell/Quine, Shelley/Devoto, all of Wire etc). Except maybe the Heartbreakers.

Thanks. You have any rare Ramones shows?

He was a Great Man...."sigh"

He's pretty smart about music which is rare... Usually famous musicians are way less articulate.

I would like to hear a conversation between the two.

That is why Johnny Ramone is my favourite Ramone member. Shame he died of prostate cancer in September 15th 2004 at the age of 55.

Smart guy. Read that Johnny was the guy that made the band work, figuratively and literally. Obvious now.

He was joking, you hate him because of his political view. Silly Vlad.

Real genius and saved r n roll r n roll is about style attitude energy youth

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genius really

It's called having a sense of humor.

Both Johnny Ramone & Johnny Rotten. Both BIG Punk influence.

Good.

1:30 - Someone tell Karen to shut up.

He was a troll. He admitted he would drop an old TV from a building as someone's about to walk there below just to fuck with them. As terrible as that is, I can't help but laugh at it. He regretted a lot of the douchy things he did later on in life though.

gone too soon rip

Based

if you speed up the blues what do ya get?

👍👍👍💯🇺🇸🤟😎

1:36 based 1:57 Such a good interview, I wish there was more

Johnny Ramones revitalised r and roll

1:21 "boisterous women" talking ruin the interview and Johnny has hilarious observations: "shut that dame up" kk kk! miss you johnny!

😎😎😎😎

sure johnny would've known that. he also talks about his early favorites including little richard and chuck berry, and he was a big hendrix guy. but blues is a riff oriented genre, followed by blues rock that included instrumental prowess (guitar solos). soul or motown emphasizes groove and feeling. elvis and early british invasion were, as johnny says, playing catchy pop music, verse/chorus/verse, that doesn't emphasize those other elements... neither did the ramones.

@DiegosHideout I agree with you....all the artists he looked up to (Beatles, the Stones) looked up to Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley....you don't necessarily have to be "like" them but you can learn from someone different...or maybe he's thinking because he is white he can't be as good...Tommy and Joey's outlook seemed to be different

This is NOT his last interview.

Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue..

Haha. Classic johnny

1:58 '"Shut that dame up"

Jea-Joey is king

esto poerque no lo subscriben a subtitulos en español...

I miss the ramones very much..as well as the door's jim morrison

he did what malcolm mclaren told him to. Matlock wrote the songs, and sid had the better image. Johnny Rotten just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Implying I'm 'particularly pretentious' and 'not very bright' constitute insults in my book.I don't have any problem with your disagreement, but it would seem to be based more in emotion than fact. If punk was so thematically and costitutionally simple, why are we discussing it decades later? Incidentally, I made several lifelong friends in the late 1970s around the original punk movement. Like minds do that. Guess that's not gonna happen with you..

@jcortinas13 your right but he worded it poorly

sorry i didn't mean to raise my voice , like the adverts ...

It's doo-wop on speed. )

Why do you put your watermark all over everything you publish? It’s not even YOUR original material to begin with. Jesus...

Captain Sensible - black musician??? But he's the guitarist of The Damned!!

What a great musical mind. Johnny would be rolling in his grave if he saw what ROCK has become.

I wonder why Johnny didn't talk about the deaths of Dee Dee and Joey if this was made in 2003

Please pardon the double-post, but in answer to your summation of 'the required intelligence for expressing the ('young, lound and stupid') central sentiments of punk' as 'not very bright' I would argue that you're making a gross generalisation, like saying all of hip-hop is 'gangsta'. There were and are plenty of intellectual punk lyrics and lyricists; it depends on what you want out of 'punk'. To many it was as much an intellectual stance as it was a form of music, hence 'punk' writers, etc.