So interesting to hear Joe Strummer's reminiscences about meeting & seeing the Ramones perform live for the first time. He's got a very engaging way of relating his thoughts to the interviewer... that openness & total honesty Joe had was really something special.
Yeah so beautiful he kicked the drummer outta the band then released the drummers song ‘ Rock the Casbah’ and the drummer didn’t get a penny for it. He was a scumbag.
An Amazing time for Rock n Roll.I was about 14 or 15 and the Ramones made me toss my Stones and Zep 8 tracks.Then the Clash and all this Great music made for an amazing end of the 70s and early 80s.Perfect time to come of age.Right place right time.
"It was like white heat. Cause of the constant barrage of the tunes. You couldn't put a cigarette paper between one tune ending and the next beginning." Father Joe has spoken. :)
saw the ramones in the uk at this time it still to this day is the best gig I ever saw saw the clash a few months later not as good live however better records
most of the bands that FORMED before the Ramones was doing COVER songs , not there own material , the Ramones did there own material , and these other bands soon , changed from cover bands to making there own music AFTER the Ramones first record and shows. This is why the Ramones changed all that. I played in a band that did cover songs as far back as 1983 , til I seen some thrash bands , we changed into a thrash band. We went from playing Zeppelin to Slayer. See the difference?
Odd how this video is more about the relation between the bands, yet people still compare and fight about them. They both bring strengths to the table, they both helped the punk scene and stood for changes. Punk wasn't a fucking contest, it was a movement.
Vanessa Lynn it's an extra from "end of the century" (ramones documentary). johnny ramone returns the compliment saying the clash were the only band he ever saw as good as the ramones.
Why are people fighting about bands? Especially funny, since everyone is wrong, anyway. Hasn't anyone ever heard garage bands of the 60s, early 70s from which punk came....MC5 anyone?? Use labels all you want, but those bands were doing it before anyone.
EigeDequei Z. I thought Johnny Ramone did all the art direction. The jeans, shoes, hair and attitude. DIdn't knew they had an expert for this department.
How could the Ramones have been an influence on the London punk scene? When the Ramones released their first album on April 23, 1976, the Pistols had been gigging for 6 months, while the CLASH and The Damned were fully formed. Below are the indisputable facts. Read them before you start yelling: The Pistols were formed in 1974 by Steve Jones, with John joining in 1975. The first Pistols gig was in St. Martins College in November 6, 1975. The Damned formed in January 1976. Mick Jones of the CLASH saw the Sex Pistols in February of 1976, and with Bernard Rhodes, began forming the CLASH. The Sex Pistols opened for Strummer's 101'ers at the Nashville Rooms, London, on April 3, 1976. At the gig, Mick Jones and Bernard Rhodes asked Strummer to Join the CLASH. When the Ramones came to London in July, 1976, the entire English scene had been under way for 6 months to a year, and all before they released their first album. These are checkable, indisputable facts of history, so, before anyone starts to yell, fact check me. Now, how could the Ramones been such an influence of English Punk, when the London scene was fully in gear before their first album? Sounds like Sensible and Strummer are shining it on because they want to be in the cool documentary. The facts completely dispute them.
***** Trouble with reading comprehension? When the Ramones RELEASED THEIR FIRST ALBUM, the UK punk bands had already been formed. The Ramones had never been in the UK before that date, never had any radio play, so by what elven magic was their music an "influence" on a scene that had formed before they ever heard of them. It's a joke.
***** Amazing how upset folks get when you just show the facts. The NY scene has been crying forever "Oh, dem English stole punk". Well quit crying. New York eats its own. Maybe they should quit blaming Britain and start blaming themselves. New York only claimed punk as their own only after it became famous and it was over. Hell, most of the NY scene was proto-New Wave. Blondie? Talking Heads? What's punk about them?
If Strummer, Captain Sensible, and others acknowledge the Ramones as a crucial influence in their careers, I don't think there is any reason to doubt that.
Joe Strummer and The clash were far better Than the ramones, And more musically gifted than any other punk band, The ramones were bland and boring all there songs sounded to similar and there was very little variation! The only reason they get so much credit is because they were one of the first ever punk bands And because there American, I think Joe is just being polite here he knows the clash were miles ahead of the ramones.
Not true at all. I think the Clash were more talented overall but not by much. If you look at the truly punk albums in either band’s catalogue (Debut and Give em Enough Rope for The Clash / Debut, Leave Home, and Rocket to Russia for Ramones), I don’t see how anyone can say the Ramones debut album isn’t the best. Despite having some punky tunes here and there after that, both bands moved on from the genre. The Clash definitely made the best rock album in London Calling after the punk phase died out, but the Ramones made a great pop album in End of the Century and a great hard rock album in Animal Boy. IMO Ramones was a superior punk band and The Clash were a superior and more versatile rock band. If you think everything the Ramones made sounds the same, you’ve only heard 2-3 of their early albums, I’m sure of it.
There would be no Clash without Ramones. And I LOVE the Clash, but I do not enjoy more than half of the triple album Sandinista!, and half of Combat Rock is rough also. Cut the Crap? Is kinda crap. That leaves the first 3 Clash albums. Which were GREAT. So were the first four Ramones albums. The rest of the Ramones career? Less experimental than the Clash by 1000%, but also 100% more enjoyable!
