The RAMONES - Listen To My Heart (Music Video) 

They look cool! I don’t know yet how interested I am in their Offset series guitars, just because the necks are very standard size, and I like the semi skinny neck on my Hallmark. But the quality looks amazing for a killer price, and it’s not like a standard neck is unusable for Ramones music - my old strat has a normal neck width after all, and I covered a ton of stuff on that. I’m very curious if their MR-Classic can do that first Ramones album tone, since Johnny likely recorded it with a regular Mosrite Ventures model guitar. If the Offsets genuinely give you something akin the classic sound, they should sound pretty amazing with Marshall overdrive.

@@HardlyRamone There are some video reviews that are out now here on RU-vid and I think it gets that classic sound but you'd know better. You are like a Ramones encyclopedia. My dad got to see the Ramones a couple times and he actually told me about your channel, haha. I didn't even know about Johnny playing full barre chords. I never paid attention to his playing for some reason even though I play guitar myself. EDIT: Also, my father said "Man, Johnny Ramone looked mad.. I think he's taking out his anger or something" haha.

@@chase7224 Johnny Ramone played guitar like he was trying to strangle it and break the strings, lol. And yeah he certainly did play barre chords, makes his style so much harder. I think it's not super noticeable visually because barres don't look all that different from power chords. And the way he plays, all downstrokes, really attacks the bottom strings and gets a very power chord-ish sound. Add in that his guitar is usually turned down too much on the albums (in my opinion), and you might not easily notice the extra notes from the barres without listening closely for them. But people talk about how unreal his guitar sounded at the shows. The fullness of his sound was just something else, when you can hear it. Even Joey Ramone mentioned he knew there was something different about Johnny's playing, he said that during sound checks it sounded like there were these other instruments and harmonics coming from Johnny's guitar, compared to when other people would play Ramones songs. It was the barre chords.

@@HardlyRamone Now this makes me wonder how Green Day would sound with Barre chords. IIRC Billie Joe Armstrong uses a similar amp but it's more updated/modded. Early Green Day to be specific. Of course I think The Ramones are better, they invented punk/pop punk as well I'd personally say. I don't like discussing politics but I always thought it was interesting Johnny Ramone was such a hardcore republican (and Dee Dee as well?) while Joey/Marky are quite opposite. One last thing have you ever looked at Johnny Ramone's equipboard page? Is it accurate?

Oh and another thing I totally forgot to mention lol. Do you know about the Rock Band/Guitar Hero Ramones stems you can download and find on the internet easily? Great for breaking down all the tracks and hearing how the guitars were done. For Rock Band/Guitar Hero they're pretty awesome.

This footage is from the It’s Alive 1974-1996 DVD. It’s a great collection of footage of the band.

I’d say the high E string isn’t super important on the A shapes. I generally get it fretted, and it does add some sound under everything else, but the B string is responsible for more of the crucial sound in those shapes. The chime-y ring of the high E adds more to the brightness of the E shapes in my opinion, especially since Johnny didn’t always get the B string fretted clean on those. As for the other technique stuff, I’m not quite sure what to recommend in text. It’s hard to articulate strumming and pick holding methods in text. I have tutorials in the works, see if those help you and let me know