It is sad...they should still be alive. Johnny was the oldest and if he was alive, he'd only be 72 right now. Tommy would be 71...Dee and Joey were slightly younger.
Hell yeah. They are never praised like Led Zeppelin or The Who but I've always prefer them over those bands. Not taking anything away from those bands, but I feel they are very underrated.
*@Jacquie Tellalian* You mean the mop top Beatle era........even _that_ is somewhat overrated .The Beatles caused an earthquake , The Ramones were pleasant enough but no innovators like post 1966 Beatles.........no one needs more than the first three Ramones albums, after those they began to repeat themselves 🥱....
Jacquie Tellalian in terms of influence...I’d say there’s a good argument that they’re up their with the Beatles! And how the revamped rock and roll and started a whole chain of events that followed
@@Shikta-poobah67 despite your sarcasm, it is a fact that Cheap Trick is cheap trash compared to the great Ramones. I don't make the rule on this, I just report it to those who are ignorant of it
I first saw the Ramones in November 1976 in Atlanta, Georgia. They played a four night gig at Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom over the Thanksgiving Weekend. I flew up from Florida and saw them two nights, (two shows per night). I next saw them (just a few weeks after the gig in this film) in March 1978 in Orlando, Florida. After the show, my friend and I were able to go into the dressing room where the Ramones were being interviewed by a local journalist we had met in line outside. When they left, they told us to help ourselves the beers left in the dressing room! I saw them a final time in 1980 in Gainesville, Florida. They were great every time.
Back in 76 if it was an 'allnighter' they could have done 10 gigs a nite!.....as someone from the UK I think the 'Ancestral Home of punk rock ' would be the US with groups like Stooges, Seeds, Sonics, Count 5, etc... its noticeable that Johnny always tried distance himself (& the group ) from 'Punk Rock '. Though It was only his chainsaw guitar that was 'punky" it would seem being seen as 'punk rockers' damaged the chances of success in US .....& they always were a Rock n roll/pop group at heart...
John Nuyen Wow you are so wrong Green Day never said they were punk its the critics that label them as that and plus I love the Ramones and Green Day and I don't care what anyone says Green Day is still punk rock
Who cares if it's 'punk rock' or if it's not punk rock? I only care if it's decent music. "Commando" is decent music. (P.S,: The Ramones invented the 70's punk sound)
@@c.s.4428 I’m with you, buddy. Good tunes is good tunes, and it means fuck all whether or not it’s “punk”, but you know, people have to have something to pound their chests about in their dumb little pissing matches, and the whole stupid “punk, or not punk” thing has always been a popular bone of contention. It’s been that way ever since Steve Jones called Bill Grundy a ‘fucking rotter’ on live television in late ‘76. Our grandchildren will probably still be having the same ridiculous arguments (that never amount to anything) over who’s “punk” and who’s not. I’m just glad I quit caring about that nonsense while I was still in high school.
Man...this was really the classic Ramones, with Tommy....love how much groove the songs have with him on drums, not too rushed, Joeys leaping around full of energy and Johnny and Dee dee were still in their prime!
i didn’t like how marky made it more hard-hitting sounding and hard rock rather than something more rockability or punk of course which is their style. to me its only the ramones with tommy.
Yeah, not to dis Marky, who’s a great drummer in his own right, but Tommy invented the classic Ramones beat with the doubled-up hi-hat, that really kind of ended up being the signature beat for late 70’s and early 80’s punk in general. Tommy was a true innovator. He had to teach Marky his style when they made the transition just before the Road To Ruin sessions. Just listen to the style Marky was playing in when he was in the Voidoids, before he joined the Ramones. It was completely different. A lot more loose and sloppy (though I loved the Voidoids). Again, not to bash Marky, but what ended up happening was that Marky started speeding things up, and then Richie came along and *REALLY* sped things up. The Ramones were never meant to be a hardcore band, but when you listen to albums like Too Tough To Die and Animal Boy, that’s where it was headed. Tommy had control.
To everyone saying Johnny stole Linda from Joey, first you can't steal a girl she can chose to leave the guy shes with for someone else though. Second Joey deserved better, anyone who would leave Joey is fucking crazy
Haha haha “they still playing the same song they started about an hour and a half ago” haha. Love that comment. The reaction of what they witnessed which was new and groundbreaking is brilliant. Love it. Hadn’t seen this footage before. Was a 14 year old, in the UK at this moment in history shortly before a school friend loaned me his older brothers Leave Home Album, saw them later in 78’ on the Road to Ruin UK Tour after Tommy had left. Now 55, fan for life.
I have always heard the Ramones, love all kinds of music but I can tell you that even at 57 you can become a big fan and take the time to miss what was there a life time ago but discovered it now! I only wish I could have seen them in person!
@@vincesarmento4854 No disrespect to the Ramones, but no they most certainly did not start it. Kicked it into high gear maybe, but there was a very long line of bands before them, stretching all the way back to roughly 1964 or 65 that were doing the punk thing. They just weren’t calling it “punk” yet. Even in their hometown of NYC there was the Dolls, Dictators, Suicide, and Television before them.
@@edybocman76 Oh bullshit. I love the first 3 Clash albums but I get so sick of all that “the only band that matters” nonsense. I can think of several UK punk bands that were better than the Clash off the top of my head: The Damned, Buzzcocks, Wire, Siouxsie & The Banshees, and yes, even the Pistols. I know that Johnny once famously said that the Clash were the only UK band that he thought of as competition, but that doesn’t mean that they actually were. I hate to use the word “overrated”, but the Clash are hands down one of the most OVERRATED bands of all time.
It’s nice to know that their memory and their legend will likely live on forever though. People still not only listen to them and continue to buy their music and merch, but they still talk about them frequently. The Ramones may never have had any commercial success, but they made a HUGE mark on this world and have one hell of a legacy. I’d be willing to bet that if you could time-travel 500 years into the future, people would still be listening to their music and discussing their impact. Yes, it’s sad that they’re all gone, and gone before their time (don’t forget Arturo), but very few bands leave behind the kind of legacy that they have. Personally I choose to focus on that and celebrate it.
you can just imagine dudes like bob mould and paul westerberg from minneapolis going to this gig and being in the audience before anyone knew about them...and the girl who said she'd rather see the suicide commandos, that was the one minneapolis band that came out about the exact same time as the ramones in 1974 and the legend goes that when the ramones album dropped in 76, minneapolis people said it was great there was finally another band that sounded like the suicide commandos. brilliant, the ramones at their peak
I saw another interview can't remember who it was. Thinking Rob Zombie said when he first met them that they played the whole set with small practice amps in the back like that before their set. They said they do it all the time...
I always laugh when a smug know-nothing says this music is 'unsophisticated'. Musicians are about as unlikely to reproduce the Ramones' dynamics as anyone could successfully reproduce the Beatles' dynamics.
Summer of 1977, our favorite local band and buddies Fools Face (they have some stuff on YT) told us they were opening for a band from New York playing “punk rock”. We’d never heard of punk. The club was small. Fit about 100 people. I was right in front of the stage. That night completely changed my musical tastes and I became a “punk rocker”!
How about the one girl who calls them “boring”? I mean, *WHAT???* Say what you will about the Ramones. They always evoked some pretty strong and polarizing opinions, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone accuse them of being “boring” in all my years on this planet. That’s just nuts.
I love The Ramones! Johnny is my favorite even if he has a bad attiude. I rock to The Ramones cds and my mom complans saying "Turn that loud stuff off it sucks" i say "It's not loud your just old and your music sucks this is some awesome stuff
Yikes, Tommy was the best ... notice how he slightly rushes his bass drum/lags on the snare, to add breathing space (a la Bonzo), while his hi-hat and toms stay tight in the pocket. Damn, the guy was underrated!
I always heard of the Ramones but never listen to their music but these weeks I been listened to there music and they rock one of favorite bands for Know on I also like the Clash 🤔
"They're still playing the same song they started half an hour ago" Ha Haa...I love it! This music was so new at the time that many people didn't know what to make of it.
More like the drill sargeant or dictator. Johnny was definitely the alpha dog. He ran that band in a military fashion. I suppose it was effective in that it kept them going long past their sell by date, but it also burnt them out. At least it did Joey and Dee Dee, who finally had had enough by the end of the 80’s. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful I got to see them so many times over the years, and they were always great live, but honestly I always thought they should have packed it in after End Of The Century. Maybe even before that.
Gotta love the commentary from the people in the audience that were randomly selected to give their opinion. The one that blows my mind was the girl who called them “boring”. I mean yeah, the Ramones had plenty of detractors back then who came up with all kinds of insults, but I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve ever heard them referred to as “boring”. Especially back in those days.
I also love how different peoples reaction to them were, in my opinion, they're the best band that have ever walked the face of this world! Thanks again, that was a great clip!
Couldn’t agree more about Tommy, all except for the bit about “inventing” punk. Punk had already been around for at least 10 years by the time the first Ramones album hit the racks. It’s just that almost no one was calling it “punk” yet. The Ramones just revolutionized it, stripped it down to it’s most bare essentials, and gave it an identity. Tommy’s trademark double-time hi-hat, plus Johnny’s wall of guitar buzzsaw down-picking were the foundation for almost all of the new punk that came in their wake (and especially for what would later come to be known as “hardcore”), but they definitely didn’t invent it.
The clip shows the band warming up in their dressing room. Even after years of performing they would always warm up by playing some songs in their dressing room. I've never known another band to do that.
Very cool if they really did air this whole segment with the complete footage of Blitzkrieg Bop like that. Such great memories of seeing them in small clubs back then. There was a lot of hope that didn't really pan out in the long run, but man what fun! Cheers!
Ramones invented punk and made rock a lot better To that one guy that said it was too loud . . . Really? u have to expect LOUD from the Ramones. The best chant ever, HEY HO LET'S GO!!!!!!
The Ramones most certainly did NOT “invent punk”. They just perfected it. Punk had already been around for about a decade when the first Ramones album came out in ‘76. Just because very few people were calling it “punk” didn’t mean that it didn’t exist. All those mid 60’s bands like the Seeds, ? & The Mysterians, the Sonics, 13th Floor Elevators, Count V, etc were all punk bands, not to mention the Velvet Underground, Stooges, Dolls. The Ramones just brought it into sharp focus and Tommy gave it a trademark drumbeat.
Some bands have that glue, that POWER that makes them rock when they're together. I think it's more due to the personality and chemistry of the band members than their technical skill.
I remember an interview with Dee Dee where he said that the common ground they all had (the 4 original members) when they first got together and started the band was that they were all the only Stooges fans that they knew of. The Stooges were the magnet that brought them all together. That was often the case with many of the “first” punk bands in whatever regional scene you look at.
Nice one! I read that when Johnny first heard "White Riot" he said: "They copied us!" or something like that. However, I don' t think The Clash set out to copy the Ramones. The Ramones were and still are influential. You can' t avoid being influenced. You may listen to my old punk band - BIZEX-B - here on RU-vid and detect some influences there as well. It's inevitable. Johnny Rotten said that all the UK bands were copying them... Anyway, the Ramones started it all.
That’s actually kind of true. 1976-77 was a major turning point for music and pop culture, whether it was punk, disco, heavy metal, or any other kind of music you can think of. Hell, not just music, but movies (Star Wars changed everything in ‘77), fashion, and about a million other things. I was just a preteen at the time, but I clearly remember how everything seemed to change pretty drastically during those two years. The Ramones were definitely a big part of it. Especially for me.
This was the last great tour for the Ramones,they did half the tour with the Runaways opening,i saw them at aredneck bar outside Houston,On The Border,theres video of it.Anyway as i said this was the last tour w/Tommy on the throne and he was surely missed.He just tired of it he said.
gaaahaaaa.... "they're our good buddies....but they all stink!" awesome...i think it shows that his "dumbness" was an act, as Eileen Polk has said..what even funnier though is to hear that narrator actually advocating punk in that sophisticated voice of his...quite unbelievable :) Ramones forever!!
Dee Dee himself used to refer to it as a uniform. He hated it. He wanted to dress like the guys in The Heartbreakers. Sharkskin suits and all. He hated having to do the whole pudding bowl haircut thing, but Johnny ran a tight order on their look so he had to go along with it. Was it a cool, iconic look? Very much so, at least until the 70’s were over, but it was indeed a uniform.
Bob Mould hadn’t moved to the Twin Cities at this point, but he did see the Ramones in Montreal in ‘77. I’m certain that Grant, Greg, and at least some of the future Replacements were in attendance.
