Tommy suggested moving Joey to lead vocalist, front and center of the band. Sex Symbol or something. In the place of the rock frills was doo-wop, girl groups, bubblegum — they all loved the Bay City Rollers — and the surf rock of Brian Wilson and Jan and Dean, which informed many of the melodies, a tuneful undertow to the cacophony. And 20 of them would just be the band yelling at each other. By early , the Ramones had honed their presentation. Thanks to their goal of a new song every practice, they were developing a large repertoire of original material.
People began to take notice. What more do you need? Johnny felt that he and the group were ready. I felt that we were better than everyone else … In the New York scene, the only band I looked at as any sort of competition was the Heartbreakers [led by Johnny Thunders]. A punk was a coward or a snitch or a sniveling villain.
You could also hear that spirit in English bands, such as the Stones and early Kinks. But beginning with the Ramones, punk came to represent an aesthetic and a subculture. But we were so weird. This is what we thought was normal. We were being naive, though. If we had been bigger, there would have been a bigger deal made of it by the press. Plenty of rock tastemakers hated everything about Ramones. It was always that way. By the time of their U. Johnny disliked England, especially the audiences who spat on bands as a sign of punk affection.
I thought the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash were all going to become the major groups, like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and it would be a better world. They were of a piece with the first album — they extended the sound somewhat, but kept the same dense texture. For him, life in constant close quarters with the band had become too much. The Ramones toured steadily — playing something like shows some years, spending hours and days going from city to city in a van, often finding fault with one another and erupting into fights.
What are you gonna do about it? Johnny tried to get him to stay. Drummer Marc Bell, who had played with the Voidoids and other downtown bands, replaced Tommy under the name Marky Ramone. Road to Ruin was a masterpiece — the fourth in a row by a band that had burst out of nowhere. It was also the last great album the Ramones would ever make. Relations in the band were tense, even degrading.
He instituted fines if members were late or too messed up to play. He yelled, and slapped people. Spector had been after the Ramones for a long time. Early on, Spector invited the band to his mansion. Do not touch gate. Beware of attack dogs. The signs looked pretty amateurish, and that made them more rather than less imposing. He made the band stay all night, watching the psychological horror film Magic , starring Anthony Hopkins. Dee Dee claimed that one night, the producer pulled a gun on him when he tried to leave.
One day, Spector pushed Johnny too far. Shit, piss, fuck! This went on for an hour or more, until Johnny got fed up. He finally put down his guitar and said he was leaving. Vapid arrangements prevailed where storms had once ruled.
Decades later, Spector was convicted of second-degree murder for the shooting of Lana Clarkson, and is serving a years-to-life sentence in California. Johnny made plain the hierarchy: He decided where people sat. Joey told her not to say anything, but she did anyway. I thought it was kind of funny. Others began to notice that he and Linda would flirt or sometimes furtively disappear to meet each other.
When Marky and Mickey Leigh each tried to tell Joey that Linda and Johnny were having an affair, he refused to believe them. Johnny and Linda began living together in a Manhattan apartment, but Johnny worried that Joey would leave the band if he found out.
Within a few years, Johnny and Linda were married. Linda became Linda Cummings, but she went by Linda Ramone. Joey never got over her. T he Ramones kept their secrets well; they would go onstage night after night for a decade and a half after the schism between Joey and Johnny.
In many ways, they had grown as artists. He had used hard drugs since he was a child, had been diagnosed as bipolar, and often mixed mood-disorder medications with cocaine. But Dee Dee grew tired of the Ramones and their fights. He sent signals that he intended to make a change. One day he showed up with spiky hair and gold chains, proclaiming a new devotion to hip-hop. He intended to make a rap album.
Without him, the band would not have made as much great music at any point in its life span. W hat held the Ramones together was also what divided them: the partnership of Joey and Johnny. It was a necessary coalition, and a harsh one. Joey would continue to suffer from OCD throughout his life, needing to touch things repeatedly in certain ways; one time, after the band returned from England, he insisted on driving back to the airport just to retrace one step. He was prone to infections and illnesses that often hospitalized him.
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