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I was pretty much into punk rock and that’s all I cared about. I was into Green Day and the Ramones. I wanted to get a guitar so I could play punk songs because this kid taught me power chords at summer camp.
People say I sound a lot like the Ramones and it’s probably because I’m influenced by the same ’60s groups, but I was never a strict Ramones fan.
The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don’t play boogie music, and they don’t play the blues.
The Ramones were not about having a good time. The closest thing probably was maybe Joey and Dee Dee might have had some good times, but it was almost like a work ethic. We were out there to basically to get the fans to see the Ramones.
I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
The Ramones are the type of group where it took the world, like, 30 years to catch up with them. Because we were kind of breaking new ground, coming up with new ideas and different concepts which kind of blazed a trail for a whole new music scene, really.
The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.
Most of the people who are given these Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it’s kind of like a trophy for them. But for the Ramones, it really was a symbolic gesture of, ‘Yes, you guys are special and are important to rock n’ roll.’ So in that sense, the Roll Hall of Fame served its purpose.
The Ramones are an original rock and roll group of 1975, and their songs are brief, to the point, and every one a potential hit single.
I didn’t want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light – the remaining Ramones.
Even from the very beginning, the type of fans the Ramones generated were the kind of people who wound up running industry, who became professors and scientists. Our staunchest fans were always a little bit more on the outside, the type of people who didn’t fit in with society.
I was into the Ramones, Bad Brains, all of that, when I was in high school.
Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.
There’s nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be.
The Ramones were inspiring a lot of bands that couldn’t master their instruments.
When I got into rap I didn’t exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
I like the fact that it’s like The Ramones. You just have to change your name, and you’re a Ramone. You just have to put the wig on, and you’re Hedwig. Women have played it. Gay men, straight men, you know.
After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
The Ramones all hate each other, and they did it for decades. I wouldn’t be able to do that. That would be like working at the bank or something.
My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
It’s not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody.
I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.
After discovering the Ramones, I discovered really crude ways to multi-track by taking another cassette recorder and plugging that into the eight-track, playing it back, so that as I was recording with the mic in my guitar, I could have another cassette player I had recorded on feeding into the recording.
Band I listen to most: The Ramones.
I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I’m a giant Ramones fan.
I do not know what kind of relationship Jim Carroll and The Ramones had, though I imagine they all knew each other, as they ran in the same scene.
I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.
I don’t have a crystal ball, but I’m willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there’s electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.
Me and my two best friends went to see the Ramones in 1979, and two weeks later, I was like, ‘We’re starting a band. That’s it.’
I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
You know, punk bands now sell with one record – their first or second record – sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That’s why I go over to Johnny Ramone’s house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.
Who’s the new Ramones, who’s the new Guns ‘N Roses, who’s the new Motley Crue, who’s the new Black Sabbath? They’re coming, they’re on the street, they’re 16, 17 years old.
