Ramones - "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg" C/D

Totally recommend Marky's autobiography. It's the best of the three I've read (Johnny's and Dee Dee's being the other two.)

thanks for the recommendation... i'll read that for sure. yeah those other two books aren't so great.

Johnny's is OK because it's from his perspective.

I enjoyed Johnny's and Dee Dee's books partly because they are so personal and subjective. Marky's is much broader and he goes into detail about how the business of the Ramones actually works - stipends, getting to gigs, where and what they ate, where they lived, what kind of cars they all drove and so on - all of that stuff is pretty revealing about their lives. Viewing Joey, DeeDee and Johnny through their relationship with him, they become much fuller characters than they have in any other book or doc about the Ramones. The earlier part of the book is about working the early 70s bar scene with Dust. Then he was in the Voidoids and drummed with Wayne County's band before he joined the Ramones. He's done a lot!

@tim ellison and other music comp dudes:

I'm on the road and currently don't have any musical equipment with me, but there seems to be something unusual with the G in the verses, sounds like a Gadd11 or a Gsus4?

Yeah, there's definitely a suspended fourth in there. The more common thing to do, of course, is to release that suspension at some point while you're still on that chord, but the guitar on this seems to hold on to it the whole time.

There are suspensions at the end of the "Brain is hanging" chorus too.

Tim, is it this one:
http://jguitar.com/images/chordshape/G-Suspended%204th-G-3,3,5,5,3,3.png

I would doubt that it has the suspension in the bass there on the fifth string. My guess would be just on the third string (and maybe only three-string chord or so - not all six strings played together).

Ancient revive for Tim, it's this one:
https://jguitar.com/images/chordshape/G-Suspended%204th-G-3,5,5,5,x,x.png

Cheers, Al. That's a hard chord to play, though! I'm gonna get my index finger over onto the A-string?

If it was me playing it, I'd just play it like an F chord on the first through fourth strings and use my pinky for the suspension on the third string.