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My sunshine, light of my life❤️💓💞💖💗💓❤️

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“欲望が欲しいんだよ、何でもいいんだよ、これめちゃめちゃ食いてえとかさ、すげえアイツとヤリてぇとかさ、強烈なのが欲しいんだよ、こうやってこの人がちょっとずつ死にかけてるのみながらさ、俺生きてたいとか思えなくなるんだよ、なんか愛とか意味ねえじゃん、欲望なんだよ、それだけなんだよ、 俺はそれが欲しいんだよ”

— メゾン・ド・ヒミコ

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late 80s >

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Some questionnaires from the boys

Johnny

“What new things do you want to try?” “Retiring” why is that so relatable-

also “what inspired you to start a band?” “I’m too lazy to work-“

Marky

“Favourite foreign country” “CALIFORNIA” Marky wtf- also omg his writing is so bad pffT

Dee Dee

“Most embarrassing moment on stage?” “Breaking a little girls ten fingers” how tf did you even manage to do that dee dee-

“you wanna know what’s in my suitcase?” Absolutely not sir

Joey

There’s too much to unpack with this one. Apparently joey wants to be shot out of a cannon.

“Most embarrassing moment on stage?” “Being attacked by killer bees” I can’t with this man-

(Bonus fact: apparently joey took an entire day to fill out this questionnaire, and it honestly shows loL-)

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Alright can someone pls confirm whether they said this or not cus like... that’s totally something dee dee would say. u know, like the bicon he is

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Please Kill Me: Legs McNeil Shares a Memory of Arturo Vega, the Man Behind the Ramones Logo

“Really Arturo, ABBA?” I shake my head in disbelief as I enter his loft, where the Swedish rock band is blaring from the record player. The record player is on a table, and next to it sits the Ramones’ entire silk-screen operation—one long counter weighted down with a wooden silk screen, cans of white acrylic paint, and stacks of black T-shirts. Arturo is busy making another pass with the squeegee over the latest model of the new Ramones logo, the one with the names of Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, and Tommy encircling an American eagle clutching a baseball bat in one talon and an apple-tree branch in the other. It will become their most famous design ever.

“Aren’t they wonderful?” Arturo beams at me, looking up from the T-shirt. I can’t tell if he’s talking about the music or the T-shirts, since he’s never been self-conscious about his musical guilty pleasures. Let’s face it: even though ABBA is spectacularly popular, no one would ever accuse them of being hip or guess they’d be on the stereo here at the epicenter of punk, the Ramones’ loft at 6 East Second Street. Arturo Vega lives here. 

That was the beauty of Arturo. He would combine elements that didn’t fit, and sometimes the end result actually worked. Though, back in the late 70s, I wasn’t so sure about the whole ABBA nonsense.

“ABBA is like some satanic bubblegum that you can’t stop chewing, ya know?” he explains, noticing my displeasure. “Es like what you think happiness should sound like, right?”

“I don’t know about that,” I say, considering his theory. The Swedish pop music was way too loud.

“You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen / Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine / You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life / See that girl, watch that scene, diggin’ the dancing queen!”

“That’s happiness?” I scowl, “Give me the fucking alternative…”

“Happy, happy, happy!” Arturo chuckles, mimicking a line from the Ramones’ “Gimmie Gimmie Shock Treatment” as he pulls a freshly printed T-shirt out from under the screen and replaces it with another. The song’s lyrics are “Peace and love is here to stay / And now I can wake up and face the day / Happy, happy, happy all the time / Shock treatment I’m doing fine.” It’s become a sort of mantra around the loft whenever things aren’t looking too good for the band, which is quite often. Arturo would smile that inviting smile of his and, overflowing with irony, say “Happy, happy, happy!” Then everyone would kinda snicker, suck in their gut, and keep on going. Sometimes a line from a song is all you have to go on.

Arturo holds the freshly screened shirt up for me to inspect. “Isn’t it beautiful! Es so… so… so majestic! Like, rigid militarism combined with that ‘Beat on the Brat’ honesty, right?” 

He isn’t just pleased with his new design, he’s thrilled. It really is an iconic symbol. “Wow, really cool,” I say admiringly. “Can I have one?”

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(From left: Joey Ramone, Linda Ramone, Johnny Ramone)

Linda Daniele was 18 when her best friend took her to CBGB’s and she saw The Ramones perform for the first time. She was soon a regular of the club and began dating Joey Ramone. The couple’s romance lasted for three and a half years but was brought to an end when Linda left Joey for his bandmate and best friend Johnny Ramone. In an interview with Henry Rollins, Linda commented on the relationships:

“I was totally in love with Joey, and Joey was totally in love with me, but Johnny Ramone fell in love with me during this time, and Johnny never gives up. So Joey had to fight for me with Johnny. He tried for a little while, but basically he didn’t want the band to break up. That’s the one thing that people don’t realize: the Ramones were the most important thing to Joey and Johnny. Joey tried, and he would tell Johnny not to talk to me, and Johnny would say, “I don’t care what you say, she’s my best friend.” So one day Joey said to me, “Johnny’s in love with you. Monty told me.” And I was like, “I don’t think so.” And he said, “But I can’t get rid of Johnny.” Me and Joey had our time together, and we taught each other a lot. He was really my first boyfriend that I moved in with, but I realized at that point that Johnny was never going to let go. I guess I was attracted to Johnny because he was so powerful and he was in charge. I was 21 at this point. I met Joey when I was 18. I’m not blaming that; you know what you’re doing. But you don’t really think about what you’re doing. You always heard about Anita Pallenberg, Keith Richards, and Brian Jones, but you don’t realize once you go from one to the other it isn’t going to be pink and rosy. It’s going to be pretty bad. And Joey was pretty upset, but it was my destiny to be with Johnny.” (Interview)

Urban rock legend has it that the two bandmates had a fist fight upon the revelation of the new relationship and that Joey beat Johnny so badly he had to undergo surgery.  Although The Ramones continued to perform together as a band, the two men barely spoke to each other directly for the rest of their lives. 

Johnny and Linda married and remained together until Johnny’s death in 2004. 

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An outtake from the Sibling Rivalry photo shoot, Mickey Leigh and Joey Ramone photographed by George Dubose

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The Ramones’ love for a cult Swansea band: How the New York punk legends became big fans of indie band HELEN LOVE

May 11, 2014 06:10

By Nathan Bevan Wales Online

They were the godfathers of US punk, whose three-chord, two-minute thrash-alongs were synonymous with the rough and ready New York City streets which spawned them.

But, 40 years on from The Ramones’ very first gig, the lead singer of a cult Swansea band has recalled how the ripped denim-wearing rock legends bizarrely became their biggest fans, took them under their wing and even invited them to hang out in the Big Apple.

In fact, so enamoured were they with their new-found Welsh friends that even a superstar like Bob Dylan ended up getting left out in the cold.

“We made a record in 1993 called Joey Ramoney, all about the man who led the Ramones,” said Helen Love, whose eponymously-named group was a huge favourite of late DJ John Peel.

“It only came out on a little indie record label but it did okay, with the likes of Steve Lamacq and Mark Radcliffe playing it on Radio One.

“We end up selling all the copies we’d pressed and thought that was that.

“But, one evening later that year, the phone rings, it was Joey Ramone – I couldn’t believe it,” she laughed, adding that the song had been brought to the attention of the six and a half foot tall singer by the UK branch of the Ramones fan club.

“He said, ‘Hey Helen, love the record, come to New York and play – you can all stay with me.”

And one month later Helen and her band mates found themselves in Joey’s NYC apartment – but, despite arriving on the Sunday, they didn’t actually get to meet their host until four days later.

“Even though we were under the same roof he was too shy to approach us and kept asking the girl from the fan club, ‘What are they like? Should I say hello’,” she smiled.

“Then, the day before we were due to play a show, he books us a rehearsal room in a scary looking part of town – I was waiting for Kojak to appear around the corner and gunfire to start at any moment.

“It was this amazing studio, with a built in stage, wall to wall mirrors and huge PA, and we ended up running over our allotted time by 10 minutes.

“Then, as we were leaving we saw Bob Dylan pacing around outside waiting to go in next.

“We told him we’d come from Swansea and live next door to Dylan Thomas’ house, but he wasn’t interested.

“Honestly, I don’t know what stroke Joey pulled to get us in such a place, or who picked up the bill for that matter – we just said ‘Joey Ramone sent us’ and walked out the door.”

She added that she’d never forget the time she spent with Ramones frontman, who died in 2001 after a long battle with lymphoma.

“We’d mooch around Greenwich Village with him on those boiling hot summer evenings and everyone passing by would shout, ‘Hey Joey, how you doing” – he’d just smile and wave,” she said.

“A few years later Joey duetted with me on our song Punk Boy, and shortly before he died I sang on the track Mr Punchy from his solo album Don’t Worry About Me.

“I knew he was ill back then, but thought everything was under control.

“But he suffered a bad fall in the snow outside his apartment and never made it back out of the hospital.”

And, four decades on from their first clarion cry of “Hey-ho, let’s go,” the “bruthas” – as they became known – are still as influential as ever in inspiring new generations of teenagers to pick up a guitar and form a band.

“The Ramones were the greatest group in the world, they were The Bay City Rollers, The Beach Boys and The Who all rolled up into one magic pop explosion,” said Helen.

“And the fact Joey took such time and trouble over our little band just shows what a cool and generous guy he was,” she added

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Johnny Ramone’s wedding to his first wife Rosana. © Rosana Cummings

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Ramones at The Bowery for an NME feature, NYC ca 1977

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Ramones, photo Lizzy Mercier Descloux and Michel Esteban, NYC 1975