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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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”!
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!
"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.
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 🤔
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is England "the ancestral home of punk rock"? I thought the Sex Pistols producer came to New York and ripped off the Ramones' image and took it back to England.
The origins of punk are totally American - 60s garage bands, then the *MC5*, *Stooges* and *New York Dolls*. The *Sex Pistols* manager did start the British wave but nothing to do with the *Ramones*. He'd managed the Dolls as they were breaking up and circa '74/'75 back in London started the 'Sex' clothes store with 'punk' fashion designed by Vivian Westwood which definitely took a big page out of the Dolls plastic/pvc trash aesthetic. And the shop hi-fi played 50s rock 'n' roll and trashy glam rock such as the previously mentioned US groups. It became a hang out for hipsters and that's where he found the *Sex Pistols*. The *Ramones* massive influence came when they did a few shows in London in the spring of '76 promoting their first album. This was before any of the British punk crop had made a record and, as mentioned, their impact was huge. All of the key Brit groups - *Pistols*, *Damned* and *Clash* - bought the album and saw the shows.
agreed. McLaren briefly managed the NY Dolls before Johnny Thunders left to form the Heartbreakers with Richard Hell, who is credited with the ripped clothing/safety pins and spiked hairstyle of Punk.
oddly enough, I just read a piece from Sylvain Sylvain placing Viv Westwood and McLaren at the scene in NYC in '71. Allegedly Westwood encouraged them to start the 'drag' thing.
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 CZcams 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.
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.
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.
@@KickflipGnasty they wanted a united look so everyone clearly knew who the band was it wasn't a statement or anything, one of the realest group of guys honestly
Punk started with the Stooges and New York Dolls...England ripped off the Dolls because Malcom managed them at the tail end of their career for a short period in 74 and then went back to England and started his little fashion shop and put together punks first boy band The Sex Pistols, who if it wasnt for Steve Jones, would have nose dove into the ground immediately.
You’re all wrong. Punk started well before the Stooges or the Dolls, back around ‘64-‘65, when millions of suburban American teenagers were supercharged with wanting to form bands after seeing the Beatles sing “Love Me Do” on the Ed Sullivan show, and subsequently did start crude rock and roll bands, playing loud, aggressive, snotty 3-chord music (you know, ‘punk’). There were literally thousands of these bands, and they left behind thousands of recordings. This all happened years before the Stooges or the Dolls came into the picture. Also, let’s not forget the Velvet Underground… another NYC band that got in on the ground floor of punk, long before anyone was calling it ‘punk’. I absolutely *LOVE* the Stooges and the Dolls, as well as MC5, Flamin’ Groovies, and The Droogs… but I know they weren’t the first. Those bands were just filling a gap between the big surge of mid 60’s garage punk bands and the next big surge of mid 70’s punk bands.
The TRUE “ancestral homeland of punk” is neither England, New York, Detroit, or any other one city or nation. It’s the suburban garage of almost every city in America, and no one place gets to claim it as “ancestral home”. I know someone is bound to come back at me for saying this, but sorry it’s just the truth. Punk didn’t start with the Pistols or the Ramones, as much as I love both of them. It also didn’t start with the Dolls or the Stooges. It started some time in 1964, right after millions of American teenagers saw the Beatles make their big TV debut on the Ed Sullivan show, and then immediately got their parents to buy them an electric guitar, or a drum kit, or a Vox organ and start banging around in their garages. THAT was the true birth of punk.
@@Shikta-poobah67 if you look at punk as a genre even if it's a broad genre I'm going with Ramones were first punk band playing at CBGB in 1974 with songs like Judy is a punk and loudmouth
@@leahflower9924 Not that it matters much, but Television were playing at CBGB before the Ramones. Only by a month or two, but as long as we’re splitting hairs it’s worth pointing out. Before that there were hundreds… or probably more like thousands of bands playing loud, fast, crude, snotty, and aggressive 3-chord rock and roll music, and they had been doing so since the mid 60’s. Just because it didn’t have a name yet or had yet been labeled a “movement” doesn’t mean it wasn’t a thing. Those 60’s garage punkers left behind thousands of recordings as evidence of their existence. What the Ramones did was to bring it into sharp focus and give it a trademark drum beat. The ‘punk’ label came courtesy of John Holmstrom and Legs McNeil, at least in conjunction with the Ramones and NYC. Over in England you had journalists like Caroline Coon applying the label to bands like the Pistols, Clash, and Damned right around the same time… and then the media latched on to it and it became a household word.
@@Shikta-poobah67 fair enough I think I have a biased view because I am from new York area, and Ramones had more of an impact on me than all the other bands.
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.
LOL at the Suicide Commandos comment..I guess they might have opened for the Ramones at this show. Also, gotta wonder if future members of Husker Du and the Replacements were at this show...
R.I.P.
Johnny
Joey
Dee De
Tommy
TheBluesJammer 😭😭😭😭😭
Dee Dee*
Dee dee dee
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.
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The Ramones are right up there with The Beatles, people...
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.
Better.
The Beatles and Ramones are my two favorite bands and my opinion is the only one that matters. jk😂
*@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
Joey and Johnny hated each other the most, but they were the 2 Ramones who never changed as they got older.
zepps88 They didn't hate each other at this point! Their beef came a few years later
Linda
I always can find my happy place when listening to the Ramones. Always.
Is that so? I thought it was Beethoven's 9th with you.
What better musical alternative to the 9th than Blitzkrieg Bop?
yup///always!
greatest American band of all time. I never stop listening
*One of the greatest. Cheap Trick might have a thing or two to say about that.
@@Shikta-poobah67Cheap Trick is nothing compared to the Ramones.
Greatest Band of All Time, World Wide.
@@slaythembeforeme Well if you say so, then it must be a fact. It’s not like these things are subjective or anything.
@@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
They left us wayyy too soon :(
Miss them everyday
god I wish I was 19 years old during this time.
Craig Cardone nobody asked my guy
@@user-rj5uj8cc4f nobody asked for your opinion on their comment.
@@maya9591 my guy, nobody wants you here. Get out.
@@user-rj5uj8cc4f shut up
Why 19? And not 14-18 lol
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.
Best band ever and forever❤️
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...
playing "loudmouth" unplugged sounds strangely beautiful :)
How can anyone give this a thumbs down? Long live the Ramones.
I'm thinking its the same kids who thought Green Day was innovative cool "punk" rock band.
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)
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@@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.
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.
They are the best thing that ever happened to Rock'nRoll!
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!
I hate to sound corny but they were so fucking real even compared to most punk bands
@@leahflower9924 they started it ! The Father's of Punk !
@@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.
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
She was his first true love....it's going to hurt
Well said.
Not true johnny gave her love potion number 9
If he was mine I would never leave him 😍 I'd only cheat on him with johnny XD
You DON'T break the unwritten rule of friendship among Guys!!, and that's , You don't make a move on your FRIENDS girl!! PERIOD!!
Definitely the most influential band of the last 50 years!
Combination of them and Black Sabbath
you just can't get enough of The RAMONES! long live Tommy, Johnny, Dee Dee, Joey, Marky, Richie & CJ 4EVeR!
and Clem
And Harpo… and Chepo… and Shemp
And Elvis (Clem)
Never seen this before...
Thanks for sharing.
God Bless,
Joey
Johnny
Dee Dee
Tommy
❤❤❤❤
Woah! Dee Dee chucking that bass around is so cool.
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 loved this documentary. Any Ramones fan should see this.
This is a national treasure!!! THANK YOU!
Interviewer: What do you think of all the British bands
Dee Dee: They all suck
Classic Dee Dee
RIP Ramones you were my favorite band of all time
chunkylver99 even though sid was his buddy
chunkylver99 love The Ramones but that’s a woeful call 😂 must be jealousy on his American patriotism.
@@glennoconnor1130 the clash was the only band that was in they same level
@@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.
What an era. Sad I missed it and even sadder they’re all gone. Every member you see here is now long gone. 😔
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.
I Need a Time Machine ...
i love the ramones:]
best band in the world!
Wow that bit where Johnny and Dee Dee are playing at a low gain setting is chill as fuck. Of course it's ruined by the hack-job video cuts.
I know. It sounded great. Anyone know if the un-edited version exists on CZcams?
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...
Who the fuck thought that edit was a good idea
Yeah that was terrible (the editing).
Nice! i like Tommy´s voice! RIP JOEY, JOHNNY & DEE-DEE!
There aren't a lot of old interviewers where all 4 guys answered questions, this is cool.
True. Back in those days most of the interviews were relegated to Tommy, or sometimes Johnny.
This is a great Minnesota news time capsule. My dad and uncle were at this show
Im from new York area and I heard people like the Ramones more in Midwest and other places there are a lot of Ramonescore bands from Midwest
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.
exactly Steve...
Any band's dynamics is unique, neither Ramones would reprouce others dynamics.
Who (under the age of 70) uses the word “unsophisticated” anymore?
Agreed.
This is a great segment!!!!!
This footage is great! I love the complaints by the audience members, 'It was too loud...' etc- Amazing!
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.
RIP You are the Best punk Band.♥️👍
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”!
Where was this?
I love the voice over "in front of thousands of hysterical fans" ....they seem like ordinary people
Props to the cameraman. Knew his fucking job. Wonderful essence.
Too bad whoever was in charge of sound editing had their head jammed up their butt.
joey ramone....what a gorgeous man
ramones were the most unique band ever. rip joey, tommy, dee dee and johnny.
Did you know Layne and Kurt died same day different year
@@leahflower9924 yes rip layne and kurt :(
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!
really nice segment-thanks!
Dee Dee's smile at 3:23 ^-^ ♡ I love these guys though and can't believe that they're almost all gone now :(
now they're gone
This was a great clip of the best band ever. Thanks for publishing this!
Sven
JOEY Y LOS RAMONES LO MAXIMOOOOOOO!!!
R.I.P Tommy
"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.
A lot of people still don’t know what to make of it.
The greatest Rock n Roll band of all time.
Nothing like that original line up.
"are u particulary mad??" " yea im mad rit now"
lmao
awesome interview and footage! johnny was always the leader and spokesman you can see that ^^ long live the rock and roll outcasts!
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.
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 🤔
i love to joey ramone!!!!
Nice post, thanks. Johnny never had any pedals in front of him...(RIP brothers). Stay safe everyone...MAR 21 FL USA
Less is more
@@mr.smithgnrsmith7808 tell me my son what is minimalism
they were most energetic in those years :)
Oh man oh man, thanks alot! I loved that!
2:30 n While they slipped into their uniforms.... Priceless!!
I LOVE the backstage playing.
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 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
Man Hollywood Palladium they were excellent.
so glad i got to see them live a few times.. most memorable was Hollywood Palladium 1980 with Holly and the Italians .❤
SWEET! thanks a heap, this rocks///
best band ever greetingz from Argentina
This is awesome!
Full concert!
Love the unplugged "Loudmouth".Tommy was a drum god who's powerhouse minimalism beats invented punk rock.
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.
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.
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.
dee dee: all the UK bands "stink" (but are nice guys and our friends). lol.
tommy looks like mark wahlberg in rock star
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.
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!
Se los extraña!!
best fucken band ever . RIP joey , dee dee , tommy and johnny
this is like 1 of the only interviews ive seen with tommy in the group and talking.
Pure RocknRoll
Love 'em!!!
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.
Is England "the ancestral home of punk rock"? I thought the Sex Pistols producer came to New York and ripped off the Ramones' image and took it back to England.
The origins of punk are totally American - 60s garage bands, then the *MC5*, *Stooges* and *New York Dolls*. The *Sex Pistols* manager did start the British wave but nothing to do with the *Ramones*. He'd managed the Dolls as they were breaking up and circa '74/'75 back in London started the 'Sex' clothes store with 'punk' fashion designed by Vivian Westwood which definitely took a big page out of the Dolls plastic/pvc trash aesthetic. And the shop hi-fi played 50s rock 'n' roll and trashy glam rock such as the previously mentioned US groups. It became a hang out for hipsters and that's where he found the *Sex Pistols*.
The *Ramones* massive influence came when they did a few shows in London in the spring of '76 promoting their first album. This was before any of the British punk crop had made a record and, as mentioned, their impact was huge. All of the key Brit groups - *Pistols*, *Damned* and *Clash* - bought the album and saw the shows.
agreed. McLaren briefly managed the NY Dolls before Johnny Thunders left to form the Heartbreakers with Richard Hell, who is credited with the ripped clothing/safety pins and spiked hairstyle of Punk.
oddly enough, I just read a piece from Sylvain Sylvain placing Viv Westwood and McLaren at the scene in NYC in '71. Allegedly Westwood encouraged them to start the 'drag' thing.
PabloCruise91 they did
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk is a must read for everyone here
Rock on Ramones.
I would like to have seen the whole video of that live show !
"they're out there havin' fun, in the warm California sun..."!!!!
Same here.
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 CZcams 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.
Johnny is using a 1965 Mosrite MK II ventures model, the rarest guitar ever.
Dee Dees' weapon of choice is a Fender precision bass.
I read somewhere future members of the Replacements and Husker Du were in the crowd
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.
they still had it, then.
While they slipped into their uniforms? That WAS their attire.
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.
the best band....................
Did he seriously call The Ramones clothes a uniform?
well technically.....
That they did call it. Dee Dee hated it. He wanted his own style, hair cut so forth. Johnny wouldn't have it. All about the image...
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In Johnny's defense, their image is totally legend. Their image helped make them iconic, so I'd have to say he was right.lol
It is a uniform but not a costume.
@@KickflipGnasty they wanted a united look so everyone clearly knew who the band was it wasn't a statement or anything, one of the realest group of guys honestly
THE USA is the home of punk rock. The Ramones were the first punk rock band. Period.
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Right, and Death were the first true death metal band..
The first real punk sound came from The Sonics in “The Witch”. Respect to the Ramones for further developing the punk sound.
did the narrator call England the Ancestral birthplace of punk rock @ 2:50secs? wtf
Lol, England ripped rock & roll from us. I think it's funny when they try to take credit for rock/punk.
+MerCLARR all the more poorly researched a claim given that this is a fucking RAMONES piece!
Punk started with the Stooges and New York Dolls...England ripped off the Dolls because Malcom managed them at the tail end of their career for a short period in 74 and then went back to England and started his little fashion shop and put together punks first boy band The Sex Pistols, who if it wasnt for Steve Jones, would have nose dove into the ground immediately.
You’re all wrong. Punk started well before the Stooges or the Dolls, back around ‘64-‘65, when millions of suburban American teenagers were supercharged with wanting to form bands after seeing the Beatles sing “Love Me Do” on the Ed Sullivan show, and subsequently did start crude rock and roll bands, playing loud, aggressive, snotty 3-chord music (you know, ‘punk’). There were literally thousands of these bands, and they left behind thousands of recordings. This all happened years before the Stooges or the Dolls came into the picture. Also, let’s not forget the Velvet Underground… another NYC band that got in on the ground floor of punk, long before anyone was calling it ‘punk’.
I absolutely *LOVE* the Stooges and the Dolls, as well as MC5, Flamin’ Groovies, and The Droogs… but I know they weren’t the first. Those bands were just filling a gap between the big surge of mid 60’s garage punk bands and the next big surge of mid 70’s punk bands.
McLaren told everybody HE invented Punk
The way they edited rockaway beach at the beginning is criminal. Then the guy says "england is the ancestral homeland of punk?"
Lol😂
A lot of people fight me because I'm from new York and I say punk is Detroit and new York and they say no it's England
The TRUE “ancestral homeland of punk” is neither England, New York, Detroit, or any other one city or nation. It’s the suburban garage of almost every city in America, and no one place gets to claim it as “ancestral home”. I know someone is bound to come back at me for saying this, but sorry it’s just the truth. Punk didn’t start with the Pistols or the Ramones, as much as I love both of them. It also didn’t start with the Dolls or the Stooges. It started some time in 1964, right after millions of American teenagers saw the Beatles make their big TV debut on the Ed Sullivan show, and then immediately got their parents to buy them an electric guitar, or a drum kit, or a Vox organ and start banging around in their garages. THAT was the true birth of punk.
@@Shikta-poobah67 if you look at punk as a genre even if it's a broad genre I'm going with Ramones were first punk band playing at CBGB in 1974 with songs like Judy is a punk and loudmouth
@@leahflower9924 Not that it matters much, but Television were playing at CBGB before the Ramones. Only by a month or two, but as long as we’re splitting hairs it’s worth pointing out. Before that there were hundreds… or probably more like thousands of bands playing loud, fast, crude, snotty, and aggressive 3-chord rock and roll music, and they had been doing so since the mid 60’s. Just because it didn’t have a name yet or had yet been labeled a “movement” doesn’t mean it wasn’t a thing. Those 60’s garage punkers left behind thousands of recordings as evidence of their existence.
What the Ramones did was to bring it into sharp focus and give it a trademark drum beat. The ‘punk’ label came courtesy of John Holmstrom and Legs McNeil, at least in conjunction with the Ramones and NYC. Over in England you had journalists like Caroline Coon applying the label to bands like the Pistols, Clash, and Damned right around the same time… and then the media latched on to it and it became a household word.
@@Shikta-poobah67 fair enough I think I have a biased view because I am from new York area, and Ramones had more of an impact on me than all the other bands.
There are two categories in musical history, before the Ramones and after the Ramones.
Wonderful..
After the Ramones we had Ramones core lol
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.
LOL at the Suicide Commandos comment..I guess they might have opened for the Ramones at this show. Also, gotta wonder if future members of Husker Du and the Replacements were at this show...
It sounds like ol’ Bob Mould was listening closely to Johnny’s solo on “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.”
i like the sound of the mosrite through the fender amp :)
You do know that Johnny used Marshall amps and not Fender right?
i know but him and deedee practicing they used a crappy little fender amp
I like the Ramones and Genesis. Deal with it
Agreed.