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NECA Joey Ramone Action Figure

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NECA Joey Ramone Action Figure

File this under the ‘I Want’ department: “…Although the punk rock career of the Ramones was short lived, the Ramones were some of the most influential rockers on the planet. Now you can bring home a little punk rocker of your own with this amazing Joey Ramone action figure. The NECA Joey Ramone action figure features the Ramones singer in all his punk rock glory. The Joey Ramone action figure comes complete with figural base for display and microphone stand for added rock star credibility. This rock music action figure stands approximately 7 inches tall and is part of the NECA Ramones action figures series.

Judge Tosses Out Ramone Lawsuit

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Judge Tosses Out Ramone Lawsuit

A US judge has today tossed out a lawsuit by a former Ramones drummer who says he was cheated out of royalties.

US District Judge Shira Scheindlin said in a ruling last week that a contract Richard “Richie Ramone” Reinhardt signed when he performed with the US punk rockers between 1983 and 1987 clearly covered digital uses of his songs.

She noted that the contract defining phonograph records contained the words “now or hereafter known” when referring to forms of reproduction, making it clear that future technologies are covered by the agreement.

Reinhardt filed a lawsuit last year claiming he was owed nearly $US1 million ($A1.06 million) in royalties on songs sold over the internet.

He wrote six songs for the group.

The Ramones helped define punk after forming their band in New York in 1974. They performed for 22 years, with various members, before their last show in 1996.

Three of the group’s founding members, Johnny, Joey and Dee Dee, have died in recent years.

Reinhardt’s six songs for the Ramones were Smash You; Somebody Put Something in My Drink, Human Kind, I’m Not Jesus, I Know Better Now and (You) Can’t Say Something Nice.

Jeff Sanders, a lawyer for Reinhardt, did not immediately return a telephone message seeking comment.

Source: AP

You Too Can Be A Ramone!

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You Too Can Be A Ramone!

With Vans about to launch a ‘Johnny Ramone’ clothing and footwear range - you too can ‘Beat On The Brat’ to your heart’s content.

A good time to cash in on a rock star is when he’s not around. And four years after his death, Johnny Ramone is a suitable candidate for a clothing collection, courtesy of Vans.

Due to launch in spring 2008, the collection includes a t-shirt with concert shot on front and Ramones logo on back (£25), Johnny Ramone stone washed grey super skinny jeans (£60) and a slip-on featuring the man and his signature (£38).

The Ramones Launch Condoms - Rubber Rubber Hey?

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on February 22, 2008

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Marky Ramone is helping to promote safe sex in the USA by launching a condom kit for sex education company Ready Two Go.

The Sun reports that the drummer is helping to spread the message about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases.

“The world has lost too many people to STDs of all types, and that is why I joined up with Ready Two Go for my signature series of safer sex tins,” Ramone explained.

The tins have a Marky Ramone emblem on them and include condoms and information on sexually transmitted diseases.

Ramone Family Responds To Doc Martens Ad

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on May 27, 2007

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Ramone Family Responds to Doc Martens Ad
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Doc Martens released upon the world a new ad campaign starring some familiar faces: Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Joe Strummer and Joey Ramone. The deceased musicians were depicted wearing the shoes in ‘heaven’, but there was no approval for using their images. Courtney Love promptly issued a statement, the ad company was fired and Doc Martens - though apologetic - looked really, really bad. Now Joey Ramone’s brother, Mickey Leigh, has issued the following statement:

“Obviously, we are in the same position as Courtney Love, as well as the Estates of the others depicted (in the ad). We were never consulted about this ad. We were never asked for permission to use Joey’s image, or paid for the use of it. As Executor of my brother’s estate I never would have approved this ad as Joey never wore these shoes. And, not that my brother was terribly religious, but the fact that he was Jewish, and this ad is not exactly Kosher, makes it that much more inappropriate, inconsiderate and contemptible.

“Though we were about to formulate a statement to the above effect, Courtney certainly has a louder, more influential voice, and I am thrilled that she got through to them.”

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New York In The Seventies

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on October 30, 2005

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Originally titled SoHo Blues, Allan Tannenbaum’s book of photos from his work as SoHo News chief photographer is now called New York in the 70s. Published by Feierabend Verlag, the book is 272 pages in tabloid format. It features a reminiscence by Yoko Ono and a foreword by noted author P.J. O’Rourke. You can view some of the pics online. Here is a selection of Music related pics and some Nightlife snaps.

DEVO
pic: DEVO

Blondie
pic: Blondie in the studio

pic: Led Zeppelin backstage

More of Allan’s amazing galleries here

Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio?

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on September 17, 2005

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Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio?

Former Ramones drummer Marky will become a Sirius Satellite Radio host on Tuesday, October 4 with the launch of ‘Marky Ramone’s Punk Rock Blitzkrieg’.

The new weekly, two-hour show will feature punk music from its inception through its current incarnations, and will be heard live each Tuesday on commercial-free Sirius music channel Faction 28 from 8 to 10 p.m. ET. The show will be re-broadcast on Saturday nights from 10 p.m. to midnight ET on Sirius Disorder 24.

“I’ve certainly been a radio guest many times, but now I get to do something I’ve always wanted to do — be a radio DJ,” said Marky in a statement. “I’m going to play the music I love, and the opportunity to do it on Sirius is fantastic,” he said, adding that he wants the show to feature live, rare and archival Ramones material in addition to some of the music that influenced the legendary band, such as the British invasion of the 1960s, as well as classic and contemporary punk, live in-studio guests and calls from listeners.

Marky joined the Ramones in 1978 and continued with them until 1983, returning to the lineup four years later, and remaining in the band until they disbanded in 1996. Starting in 1987, Marky shot more than 400 hours of video of the Ramones, some of which appears in the definitive Ramones home video released in 2004, “Ramones Raw”. Today he tours the world playing Ramones music as MARKY RAMONE & FRIENDS. He’s been working on a video of live Ramones shows, due from Warner Brothers in April 2006, which will be followed by the publication of his autobiographical book, “Faith in the Backbeat””, next summer. He is also involved in the development of a movie and a play about the Ramones.

Ramones Museum to Open In Berlin

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on September 11, 2005

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Ramones Museum Opens in Berlin

The finishing touches were being put on a museum in Berlin entirely dedicated to New York’s seminal punk rockers, the Ramones.

The museum, set to open Tuesday, has more than 300 items collected from the time of the band’s genesis in 1974 to the final concert in Los Angeles in 1996, RollingStone.com reported Friday.

The exhibits include hundreds of newspaper clippings, concert flyers, a pair of sneakers that once belonged to the late Johnny Ramone, the late Joey Ramone’s old stage glove, a leather jacket signed by the band’s original lineup and a vintage early `70s Ramones T-shirt.

Joey died of lymphoma in April 2001 just short of his 50th birthday. Guitarist Dee Dee Ramone died of a drug overdose in June 2002 at age 49. Leader Johnny Ramone died of cancer in September 2004, a month before his 56th birthday.

Weird Tales of the Ramones

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Weird Tales of the Ramones

According to Billboard.com, Rhino has set an August 16 release date for THE RAMONES box set, “Weird Tales of the Ramones”, featuring 85 tracks onto three discs of music and the DVD debut of “Lifestyles of the Ramones”. Originally issued in 1990, the latter rounds up the band’s complete Sire music video collection, bolstered by six clips the RAMONES made during their run on the MCA-affiliated Radioactive label.

The box will also include a comic book featuring the work of 25 top graphic novel/comic artists, including Rick Altergott (”Doofus”), Sergio Aragones (Mad magazine), Bill Griffiths (”Zippy the Pinhead”), Xaime Hernandez (”Love and Rockets”) and John Holmstrom. In addition to Punk magazine, Holmstrom has to his credit illustrations on the back cover and throughout the liner notes of the RAMONES’ 1977 album “Rocket To Russia” and the cover of the following year’s “Road to Ruin”.

“Weird Tales of the Ramones” track listing:

Disc One:

01. Blitzkrieg Bop
02. Beat on the Brat
03. Judy Is a Punk
04. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
05. Loudmouth
06. 53rd & 3rd
07. Havana Affair
08. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
09. Glad To See You Go
10. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
11. I Remember You
12. Carbona Not Glue
13. Oh Oh I Love Her So
14. Swallow My Pride (single version)
15. Commando
16. Pinhead
17. Sheena Is a Punk Rocker (ABC single version)
18. I Don’t Care (single version)
19. Rockaway Beach
20. Cretin Hop
21. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
22. Teenage Lobotomy
23. Slug (demo)
24. Surfin’ Bird
25. We’re A Happy Family
26. I Just Want To Have Something To Do
27. I Wanted Everything
28. Needles & Pins (remixed single version)
29. I Wanna Be Sedated
30. Go Mental
31. Don’t Come Close
32. I Don’t Want You
33. She’s the One
34. I’m Against It

Disc Two:

01. Rock ‘N’ Roll High School (Ed Stasium mix)
02. I Want You Around (Ed Stasium mix)
03. Do You Remember Rock ‘N’ Roll Radio?
04. I’m Affected
05. Danny Says
06. The KKK Took My Baby Away
07. You Sound Like You’re Sick
08. She’s a Sensation
09. All’s Quiet on the Eastern Front
10. Outsider
11. Highest Trails Above
12. Psycho Therapy (single version)
13. Time Bomb
14. Mama’s Boy
15. I’m Not Afraid of Life
16. Too Tough To Die
17. Wart Hog
18. Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)
19. Daytime Dilemma (Dangers of Love)
20. Endless Vacation
21. My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg) (U.K. 12 version)
22. Somebody Put Something in My Drink
23. Animal Boy
24. I Don’t Want To Live This Life (Anymore) (U.K. b-side)
25. Love Kills
26. Something to Believe In (single version)

Disc Three:

01. I Wanna Live
02. Bop ‘Til You Drop
03. I Lost My Mind
04. Garden of Serenity
05. I Believe in Miracles
06. Pet Sematary (single version)
07. Punishment Fits the Crime
08. Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight) (single version)
09. Main Man
10. Strength To Endure
11. Poison Heart
12. I Won’t Let It Happen
13. Censorsh*t
14. Journey to the Center of the Mind
15. 7 and 7 Is
16. When I Was Young
17. I Don’t Wanna To Grow Up
18. Scattergun
19. Makin’ Monsters for My Friends
20. The Crusher
21. Spiderman
22. Life’s a Gas
23. She Talks To Rainbows
24. Any Way You Want It
25. R.A.M.O.N.E.S.

“Lifestyles of the Ramones and More!” DVD:

01. Do You Remember Rock ‘N’ Roll Radio?
02. Rock ‘N’ Roll High School
03. We Want the Airwaves
04. Psycho Therapy
05. Time Has Come Today
06. Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)
07. Something To Believe In
08. I Wanna Live
09. I Wanna Be Sedated
10. Pet Sematary
11. Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)
12. I Believe in Miracles
13. Strength To Endure
14. Poison Heart
15. Substitute
16. I Don’t Wanna To Grow Up
17. Spiderman
18. Blitzkrieg Bop (live)

Johnny Ramone Statue Revealed

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on January 30, 2005

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Johnny Ramone Statue Unveiled
Several of Johnny Ramone’s friends - including Rob Zombie, Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), Pete Yorn, John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Nicolas Cage - gathered at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Friday, January 14th, to unveil a four-feet tall bronze statue of the guitarist, who according to Cage’s speech, “willed the Ramones to happen.”

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End of the Century

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Weird Tales of the Ramones

***** 5 Star!

Jon Fortgang from Channel 4 Film reviews the new Ramones documentary ‘End of the Century - The Story of the Ramones’.

It’s Malcolm McLaren and The Sex Pistols who are credited with creating punk in 1977, but New York’s The Ramones beat them to it by nearly three years. An inspiration to the Pistols and the Clash, The Ramones mined a seam that combined the relentless energy of The Stooges with the pop sensibility of The Beach Boys.

Beginning and ending with the band’s induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2002 (six years after they’d split up), Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields’ detailed documentary celebrates ‘da brudders’. As well as looking at their sound and their style, it also gets behind the united front to explore the divisions that at first drove the band, and later broke them apart.

Born in the working class neighbourhood of Forest Hills, Queens, The Ramones were an extraordinary mix of contradictory personalities. Bassist Dee Dee was the charismatic clown whose belligerent attitude concealed a keen wit - and a long term drug problem. Leader Johnny’s work ethic propelled the band but his right-wing conservativism was at odds with the group’s counter-cultural cachet: at the Hall of Fame bash he’s seen bigging up Bush. But it was singer Joey, the romantic geek steeped in rock ‘n’ roll history, who most completely embodied The Ramones’ misfit image, and who sums up the band’s unique chemistry with a simple “opposites attract and all that crap.”

During the course of the film there’s extensive footage of the band playing live, new and archive interviews, plus recollections from those on the scene. These include Joe Strummer, in his last recorded interview, remembering how The Clash and the Pistols attempted to break into The Roundhouse at The Ramones’ first London gig. Initially, says Joey, it looked as if punk might elevate The Ramones to the status of the Beatles or the Stones, but the movement proved double edged. The Pistols got the attention. The Ramones just got banned from the radio. Even at this early stage in their career, commercial success seemed out of their reach.

here are all the rock ‘n’ roll war stories you’d expect. The band’s 1979 collaboration with producer Phil Spector, ‘End Of The Century’, remains a fantastic collision of punk and pop, Johnny’s memory of the session marred by the fact that Spector spent 12 hours listening to a single chord, then attempted to take the band hostage. And when the band weren’t fighting the world, they fought each other. ‘The KKK Took My Baby Away’ was how Joey responded to Johnny’s affair with his girlfriend. They kept on playing together, but the rift was never healed.

Amid all this is plenty to remind fans and newcomers of the band’s enduring appeal, and though Joey’s death from lymphoma in 2001 was followed by Dee Dee’s fatal heroin overdose in 2002, just after the film was completed, former drummer and producer Tommy does get to unveil a fitting tribute to the singer: Joey Ramone Place, now at the corner of New York’s Second Street and Bowery.

Loaded with interviews and fascinating archive material, this is a thorough and affectionate profile of The Ramones that is unafraid to explore the reality behind the cartoon image.

Weird Tales of the Ramones

Johnny Ramone Inspired By Ronald Reagan

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Johnny Ramone Statue

The Guardian is reporting on the forthcoming Johnny Ramone tribute statue being inspired by former US President, Ronald Reagan.

The unlikely connection between a Republican president and a punk icon was highlighted yesterday when it was revealed that a statue of Johnny Ramone inspired by the lavish funeral of Ronald Reagan will be unveiled this week.

Ramone, who died in September last year, was the guitarist with the Ramones and unofficial leader of the group. But, unlike his colleagues - and in contrast to his rebellious image - he was a committed Republican.

“We were watching the [Reagan] funeral from Cedars-Sinai [hospital], and Johnny had always loved Reagan - he was his favourite president and his favourite actor,” Arturo Vega, the band’s artistic director, told the Los Angeles Times. The grandeur of the Reagan funeral led Ramone to consider the memorial to his own mortality.

“And we were admiring how well it was going and how everything was done. I suggested some kind of monument … He agreed right away. The monument was my idea; the statue was his idea.”

Ramone was cremated at the Hollywood Forever cemetery in Los Angeles. The cemetery hosts many early members of the Hollywood aristocracy, including Tyrone Power, Rudolph Valentino and Cecil B DeMille. The band leader Woody Herman is also buried there.

The 4 ft bronze statue, which will be unveiled at a two-hour ceremony on Friday, shows Ramone from the waist up. Based on a small figurine given to Ramone by the rock musician Rod Zombie, it shows the late guitarist wearing a leather jacket and playing a Mosrite guitar.

The statue, by artist Wayne Toth, bears the inscription: “If a man can judge success by how many great friends he has, then I have been very successful - Johnny Ramone.”

Many of Ramone’s greatest friends are expected to attend the ceremony on Friday, including Nicolas Cage, Lisa-Marie Presley and Eddie Veder.

Ramone, whom Vega described as a “control person”, vetoed an early suggestion that the statue might be of the entire band. “He discarded it right away,” said Vega. “Really, what it is, is this is a very personal thing.”

Joey Ramone, the band’s singer, died of lymphatic cancer in 2001 and Dee Dee Ramone, the bassist who is buried in the Hollywood Forever cemetery, died from a drug overdose in 2002.

The drummer, Tommy Ramone, is the only surviving member of the original band.

Ramone’s widow, Linda Ramone, said he had great hopes for the statue. “He wanted people, the fans, to come from all over the world and get to see it. He wanted it to be bigger than Jim Morrison’s grave.”

Hey Ho Let’s Go! The Ramones Raw

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on December 2, 2004

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Hey Ho Let's Go! The Ramones Raw

Building upon the history of 60s garage rock and early rock’n'roll, the Ramones aggressive, simplistic sound played a key role in defining the sound of 70s punk.

Wearing their trademark black leather biker jackets, matching bowl-cut haircuts and all sporting the surname “Ramone”, the Ramones’ appearance represented the opposite of the non-challenging rock of the mid-70s. The band’s music was equally the antithesis of the schlock of timid music.

With Dee Dee’s throbbing bass carrying the simple repeated melodies and Johnny’s searing buzz-saw guitar providing a layer of musical haze aggravating bass melodies, the Ramones pushed the wild energy of rock’n’roll to its limits. A heavy emphasis on rhythm guitar and extremely short guitar solos emphasized the band’s amateurish sound. Explosive beats coupled with eighth- and sixteenth-note cymbal rhythms provided by Tommy, then Marky, fleshed out the band’s sound.

Your’s truly first saw the band on their Australian tour in late 1989 at the Palace in St.Kilda Melbourne. To say it was a classic gig is a severe understatement. I remember standing at the back of the hall just before the band hit the stage. When the first note of mayhem pounded through the PA system, I swear to God the entire room physically moved up and down in synchchronicity with the band’s cacophony of brilliance! What a show!

The pioneering band released their first officially authorized DVD, ‘Ramones Raw’ September 28 via Image Entertainment. (Australian release was today - December 2). From their humble beginnings in NYC’s East Village at CBGB’s to their 2001 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Ramones have stood the test of time with their immortal brand of music which continues to influence generations around the world. Fans in the U.K. had the chance to see ‘Ramones Raw’ on the big screen at this year’s Raindance Film Festival in London - the U.K’s largest independent film festival!

Produced, directed and edited by Ramones aficionado John Cafiero, ‘Ramones Raw’ combines vintage concert footage–shot on film in 1980 and archived for over 20 years- backstage hi-jinks and rare TV appearances fused with an array of home video from Marky’s extensive video library.

The Ramones
Pic: The definitive Ramones: Joey, Marky, Dee Dee & Johnny

For over 18 years, Marky Ramone kept a kind of video diary of the band’s travels around the world. Utilizing a handheld camcorder and capturing moments both monumental (the Berlin Wall, post-topple) and standard rocker ridiculous (the near riot they cause in places like Brazil) Marky wanted a memento of his time with punk’s pioneers, and Ramones: Raw is a scrapbook collection of such souvenirs, culled from over 200 tapes the drummer compiled. More a random collection of events and environments than a straight ahead narrative (it does try to follow the band’s post-mid 80’s career arc) this quasi-documentary meshed with a home movie clip compilation wants to give us the feel and the face of the seminal band as hard working road act. And it doesn’t skimp on the songs. Along with stellar live versions of “Blitzkrieg Bop” “I Just Wanna Have Something to Do” “Pinhead”and many others, the band can be seen in a fan created video (for the song “Touring” as well as in several TV appearances.

The DVD encompasses an eclectic mix of celebrity appearances including guitarist Robby Krieger of the Doors performing the classic “Take It As It Comes” live with the Ramones at the Hollywood Palladium in October 1992, described by Johnny Ramone as “one of the highlights of my career.” Fun cameos and TV clips include moments with Lemmy Kilmister, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie, Howard Stern, Bono and U2, Drew Barrymore and Carly Simon, to name a few.

Compiled and presented in a unique style, the DVD gives Pinheads and Ramoniacs everywhere an exclusive fly-on-the-wall perspective that’s the next best thing to being in the band. The DVD package includes an eight-page booklet inside and an exclusive back-cover caricature of the RAMONES by artist Tony Squindo (Metallica, Misfits), with art direction by John Cafiero. A special limited edition will be released that also includes simulated black leather texture packaging with a red foil seal.

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