10 silly facts about The Ramones

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19. Dee Dee's "1234" count-ins were just for show and never dictated the tempo of the songs.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:19 (twenty-four years ago)

Collectively -- according to DeeDee -- their favorite song by Kiss was "I Was Made for Loving You".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:22 (twenty-four years ago)

Is that a fact, Alex?

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:23 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

Come on, give them to me!

― Andy Gribb, Monday, 18 July 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

99. Oh how they all hated each other, wow.

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

9. They were originally Cliff Richard's backing band.

― theophilus jones (theophilus), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

17. The third verse was different to the first.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

44. Betcha didn't know he was a German Kid...

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

First rule is - The laws of Germany
Second rule is - Be nice to mommy
Third rule is - Don't talk to commies
Fourth rule is - Eat kosher salamis

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Also in some cases that was not all their own hair.

Well, except to the extent that they'd probably paid for it, obv.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

23. They were all trained virtuoso musicians, but decided for 'image' reasons to play that down.

42. the stage name 'dee dee' was taken by Douglas Colvin because of his passion for playing dungeons and dragons. (D & D = DD = "Dee Dee")

― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

57. their name was a tribute to billy joel's producer, phil ramone.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

53. Douglas "Dee Dee Ramone" Colvin is a first cousin of songbird Sean Colvin, and they both sang together as children in the Air Force Junior Glee Club at the base in Stuttgart, Germany.

3. Jeffrey "Joey Ramone" Hyman is a nephew of piano-and-Woody-Allen-soundtrack-meister Dick Hyman - his first public vocal performance was singing "Cheek To Cheek" and "The Girl From Ipanema" at older brother Mickey's bar mitzah, accompanied by his uncle.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

19 was so right, when I saw them at Brixton on the Adios tour. Presumably was, though, when Tommy was still drumming...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

joey worked briefly as a sushi chef between tours in the 80s

the dali lama met dee dee and declared him "a punk bodhisattva"

tommy was addicted to smoking "black dust" aka embalming fluid

johnny played on the sessions for Billy Joel's Glass Houses

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Before joining the Ramones, Joey often used the stage name Jeff Starship. Oh wait, that's true!

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Well. this is the place for true facts. Other ones, other thread.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

23. Linda Ronstadt called them "constricted . . . hemorrhoid music."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

86. Johnny Ramone required milk and a package of Chips Ahoy cookies from 7-11 after every single show, necessitating inconvenient van or bus stops nightly, according to one of the interview extras on the End of the Century DVD (can't remember who said this). The possibility of having milk and cookies ready backstage was not mentioned.

― xero (xero), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

Joey's pre-Ramones glam rock band was called "Sniper".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Linda Ronstadt OTM!

― everything, Friday, 30 December 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

10. Joey wanted to cover Sparks' "Nothing To Do", but he couldn't convice the other Ramones. The Sparks album on which the song appears, 'Big Beat' was recorded in Los Angeles with a group of session men, including bassist Sal Maida, formerly with Milk 'n' Cookies. Maybe knowing that could have changed Johnny's mind.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 30 December 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Linda Rondstadt can go gargle cum.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 December 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Marky was in that band Dust, whose first record (with the skulls on the cover) RULES!!!!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 31 December 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

pre-ramones, not post, that is.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 31 December 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

I like the way there are two distinct threads interwoven here.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 31 December 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

if johnny was as huge a conservative as he's made out to be, how did he like the lyrics to "howling at the moon"--"I wanna steal from the rich and give to the poor?"

― the dark wee hour, Friday, 13 January 2006 01:38 (twenty years ago)

He probably didn't like them. He didn't like a lot of Joey's lyrics - Bonzo Goes To Bitburg, etc.

Johnny "made out" to be a conservative, he declared it himself plenty of times.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 13 January 2006 08:13 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Johnny didn't PLAY on "Bonzo" in protest, correct?

8. Yankee fans raised in Queens.

(also, whoever figures out the criteria for Noiseboard threads being locked, yell bingo)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:17 (twenty years ago)

46. Dee Dee wrote "Howling at the Moon" and "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg." Not particularly silly, just setting the record straight re: upthread remarks on "Joey's lyrics."

22. Dee Dee's rap record? Obvious, but very, very silly.

― Attr. Captain Badass, Friday, 28 April 2006 13:29 (twenty years ago)

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