July 26th, 1990

The Ramones played the Dallas Fair Park Bandshell in Dallas, Texas.

Setlist:

"Durango 95"
"Teenage Lobotomy"
"Psycho Therapy"
"Blitzkrieg Bop"
"Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio?"
"I Believe In Miracles"
"Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment"
"Rock 'N' Roll High School"
"I Wanna Be Sedated"
"Beat On The Brat"
"I Wanna Live"
"Bonzo Goes To Bitburg (My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down)"
"Commando"
"Sheena Is A Punk Rocker"
"Rockaway Beach"
"Pet Sematary"
"Mama's Boy"
"Animal Boy"
"Wart Hog"
"Surfin' Bird"
"Cretin Hop"
"I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You"
"Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World"
"Pinhead"
"Somebody Put Something In My Drink"
"We're A Happy Family"

2018 Johnny Ramone Tribute

Tickets are now on sale for the 2018 Johnny Ramone Tribute presented by Linda Ramone and Cinespia. The event will take place on August 26th at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Las Angeles, California.

You can buy tickets HERE.

 

 

July 20th, 1982

The Ramones played My Father's Place in Roslyn, NY. The show was recorded and broadcast on WLIR.

July 18th, 1995

The Ramones final studio release ¡Adios Amigos! was released. I've hoped for a deluxe version of this album but am doubtful it will happen. The recent CJ Ramone auction has given a better idea of what that release could look like though. One of the items is a cassette tape featuring demos and rehearsals as well as 2 unreleased tracks.

1. "Take the Pain Away" (Dee Dee vocals)
2. "Cretin Family" (Dee Dee vocals)
3. "It’s For Me to Know" (CJ vocals)
4. "Makin’ Monster for My Friends" (Dee Dee vocals)
5. "Born to Die in Berlin" (Dee Dee vocals)
6. "Got a Lot to Say" (CJ Vocals)
7. "Scattergun" (CJ vocals)
8. "Maybe Tomorrow" [Unreleased] (CJ???? vocals)
9. "Have a Nice Day" (CJ??? Vocals)
10. "She Talk to Rainbows" (Joey scratch vocals)
11. "Life’s a Gas" (Joey scratch vocals)
12. "A Perfect Day in June" [Unreleased] (Joey scratch vocals)

The above listed tracks with Dee Dee on vocals along with the 2 previously unreleased tracks and a live show would make this a must own for fans.

Richie Ramone Biography Release Date

Richie Ramone's autobiography I Know Better Now: My LIfe Before, During and After the Ramones will be released on November 27th.

From the publisher:
It's 1982 and the Ramones are in a gutter-bound spiral. Following a run of inconsistent albums and deep in the throes of internal tensions, the legendary quartet is about to crash and burn. Enter Richie Ramone. Then a 26-year-old from New Jersey named Richard Reinhardt, he's snapped up by the group to be their new drummer and instantly goes from the obscurity of the underground club scene to membership in the most famous punk-rock band of all time, revitalizing the pioneering outfit with his powerful, precise, and blindingly fast beats composing classic cuts like the menacing anthem Somebody Put Something in My Drink and becoming the only Ramones percussionist to sing lead vocals for the group. With the Ramones, he performs over five hundred shows at venues all around the world and records three storming studio albums before abruptly quitting the band and going deep underground. To most fans, this crucial figure in the band's history has remained a mystery, his tale untold. Until now. I Know Better Now: My Life Before, During, and After the Ramones is the firsthand, four-on-the-floor account of a life in rock 'n' roll and in one of its most influential acts-straight from the sticks of the man who kept the beat.

You can pre-order the book HERE.

 

Gabba Gabba Hey Movie aka Too Tough to Die

One of the items of interest from the CJ Ramone auction is a script for a proposed Ramones movie titled Gabba Gabba Hey.

This was the first I had heard of the movie so I reached out to Ali Eckert one of the credited writers of the script. Ali was kind enough to furnish some information regarding the project. Below you'll find a blurb from an August 2000 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine and a Joey quote regarding the project dated May 8th, 2000. Big thanks to Mr. Eckert for helping shed some light on this unreleased Ramones project.

Rolling Stone - August 3rd, 2000 Courtesy Ali Eckert

Courtesy Ali Eckert



Road to Ruin [40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]

On September 2st Rhino Records will release the Ramones' 4th album Road to Ruin in a 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition.

From the band's website:

ROAD TO RUIN: 40^th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION contains two different mixes of the album, unissued rough mixes for every album track, and an unreleased 1979 concert recording of the Ramones in New York. It will be produced in a limited and numbered edition of 7,500 copies worldwide and comes packaged in a 12 x 12 hardcover book. Along with the music, the set also features rare photos and artwork, including the unused, alternate cover image, plus essays by former New York Rocker writer Roy Trakin, album cover artist John Holmstrom, and Road To Ruin producer Ed Stasium, who details the making of this classic record.

The first disc of the ROAD TO RUIN: 40^th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION features a remastered version of the original stereo mix for Road To Ruin and a new 2018 40^th Anniversary Road Revisited mix created by Stasium, who strips off the original record’s commercial gloss and restores the album to its punk rock core. Stasium’s new mix is also featured on the 180-gram LP that accompanies this deluxe edition.

You can preorder the album HERE.

Auction - CJ Ramone Collection

CJ Ramone is currently auctioning off his collection of Ramones related items. Pieces include musical instruments and gear, handwritten lyrics, posters and much more.

Item #2502 - Dee Dee Ramone's Handwritten "Poison Heart" Lyrics

You can see all of the items and bid HERE.

July 11th, 1990

The Ramones played Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY.

Setlist:

1. "Durango 95 
2. "Teenage Lobotomy 
3. "Psycho Therapy 
4. "Blitzkrieg Bop 
5. 
   
6. "Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio? 
7. "I Believe in Miracles 
8. "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment 
9. "Rock 'N' Roll High School 
10. "I Wanna Be Sedated 
11. "Beat on the Brat 
12. "I Wanna Live 
13. "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg) 
14. "Go Mental 
15. "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker 
16. "Rockaway Beach 
17. "Pet Sematary 
18. "Don't Bust My Chops 
19. "She's the One 
20. "Mama's Boy
21. "Animal Boy 
22. "Wart Hog 
23. "Surfin' Bird 
24. "Cretin Hop 
25. "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You 
26. "Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World 
27. "Pinhead 
28. "Chinese Rocks 
29. "Somebody Put Something in My Drink 
30. "We're a Happy Family

July 2nd, 1979

The Ramones flipped the audience "the bird" and left the stage after playing 6 songs at the Canadian World Music Festival in Toronto.

Johnny said of the event: “On July 2, 1979, we played on a bill with Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Johnny Winter, AC/DC, and Nazareth to a crowd of forty-six thousand people in Toronto…I saw the other bands we were playing with and I thought, “This isn’t gonna work.” I complained to Premier, our booking agency, about it, and they said, ‘We’ve been in the business a long time, we know what we’re doing’…

“About five or six songs into the set, the whole crowd stood up, and I thought it had started to rain. Dee Dee thought the same thing, but they were throwing stuff at us – sandwiches, bottles, everything. Then, all of a sudden, I broke two strings on my guitar in one strum. I thought it was a sign from God to get off the stage, because I’d rarely break a string, maybe once a year. So I just walked to the front of the stage, stopped playing, and gave the audience the finger – with both hands. I stood there like that, flipping them off, with both hands out, and walked off. The rest of the band kept playing for another ten or fifteen seconds until they’d realized I was walking off, and then they did too. I wasn’t gonna stand there and be booed and have stuff thrown at us without retaliating in some way. We had to come off looking good somehow, and there was no good way to get out of that.”