![]() ![]() I know this because we have an untouched jar on the pantry shelf. A lot of you probably even know he was the lead singer for the iconic punk rock band The. He also has his own line of sauce, Marky Ramone’s Brooklyn’s Own Pasta Sauce. Just about everybody in the punk scene knows who Joey Ramone was. He’s had several post-Ramones bands, including Marky Ramone and the Intruders, Marky Ramone and the Speedkings, and, of course, Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, the current vehicle. Marky, the only living Ramone in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has his own SiriusXM channel (712) called Marky Ramone’s Punk Rock Blitzkrieg. (Substance abuse, getting fired being two of the low points.) On the “Joe Franklin Show,” Joey told the late New York talk show host Marky was his favorite drummer along with Keith Moon. (I do this every now and then most recently with Cherie Currie and Micky Dolenz.) Marky was about to publish his memoir Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life As A Ramone, where he would dive deep into the highs and lows of his 15-year tenure in the band. The set up: I was hosting a public Q&A session with Marky in late 2014 at the Northeast Comic Con, in a burb north of Boston. Marky Ramone Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life As A Ramone (Image: Music Press Books) Think of it as kinda like a Video Daily Double on Jeopardy! Not so much text as it is moving pictures and talk, with, y’know, questions and answers. This Rock and Roll Globe birthday tribute – Marky turns 70 July 15 – is a bit of a break in format. He agreed that the “y” at the end of the name was more Ramone-y and went from a hard “c” to a “k.” He took over the slot in 1978 and was there through ’82, out of the band, and then back again from ‘87 to ’96 (the end). Yhtyeen musiikki oli humoristista ja yksinkertaista, vaikka ensilevyn ilmestymisen aikana populaarimusiikin maailmaa hallitsivat viel kunnianhimoiset progressiivista rockia soittavat yhtyeet. Ramones tunnetaan punkmusiikin edellkvijn. Marky was once Marc Bell – he’d played in the Misfits, Dust and Richard Hell and the Voidoids (twas him on “Blank Generation”) – but agreeably took the Ramone surname when he joined. Ramones oli New Yorkissa vuoden 1974 maaliskuussa perustettu punk rock -yhtye. He exited Ramones proper, but still wrote and produced with them. That was Tommy Ramone – well, Joey Ramone, technically speaking in the very early days, before he became the singer– but it was Tommy who was in the seat and steered the group for those first three classic albums. ![]() Marky wasn’t the first man behind the Ramones drum kit. ![]() In a way – and I don’t mean this sarcastically – that’s ultimate praise. Marky Ramone kept it beatin’ for all the hoppin’ cretins. ![]()
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