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Dee Dee Ramone
Quote of the Day: October 29, 2020
“I’ve always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.” ~ Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone
Quote of the Day: October 22, 2020
“The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I’m pretty shy and I’ve struggled with extreme stage fright in the past. So I just have to go onstage in a different head space so I’m not as self-aware.” ~ Dee Dee Ramone
“Our first shows were at CBGB’s on August 16 and 17, 1974. It was just an old, dumpy little bar on the Bowery, as everyone knows. Hilly Kristal and his wife ran the place, and they had nothing going on there besides winos, so they started letting these new bands play there, like Television and Patti Smith’s band. Dee Dee had heard about it, and so we decided to give it a try. It was like a practice in front of ten people. We had gotten a lot better by then, and we had more songs. At that point, we were still dressed in partial glitter because the Dolls were still the big thing in New York. I had these silver lamé pants made of Mylar and these black spandex pants I’d wear too. I was the only one with a real Perfecto leather jacket—what the Ramones would later be identified with—which I had been wearing for seven years already.” (extract from Commando Johnny Ramone’sbio).
Johnny Ramone during the early Ramones glam rock phase, photo by Chris Stein ca 1974
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1-2-3-4! Ramones: Joey, Johnny, Tommy, Dee Dee, sketch, ink on sticker stamps, 2017.
- Follow my Instagram, I post doodles and artwork mostly, as well as random stuff I ran into.
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Ramones:Rocket to Russia ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ stars review by Jon Savage, 1977
“This has to be the one (…)
(…)‘Rocket’ adds little new; only everything’s that little extra better. Production little short of brilliant: phased drums/guitar - subliminal, wall of sound massively echoed… pure soda cathedral(…)”
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