Ramone's autobiography, Commando, was released posthumously in 2012. Alongside his music career, Ramone appeared in nearly a dozen films, in documentaries, and on television. 28 on Rolling Stone 's similarly titled 2015 list. 8 on Spin 's 2012 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and No. In 2009, Ramone appeared on Time 's list of "The 10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players". Until the band's disbandment in 1996, Johnny, along with the lead vocalist Joey Ramone, were the only two original members who stayed since its inception. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Dee Dee followed him the following year with a drug overdose and Johnny Ramone died in 2004 of prostate cancer.John William Cummings (October 8, 1948 – September 15, 2004), better known by his stage name Johnny Ramone, was an American musician who was the guitarist and a founding member of the Ramones, a band that helped pioneer the punk movement. In 2001, Joey Ramone announced that he had been diagnosed with lymphoma and died later that year. The Ramones officially disbanded in 1996 after releasing 21 studio, live and compilation albums. The duo released a self-titled album in 2006 on their own label, Airday.
More recently, he formed the bluegrass and country band Uncle Monk with his longtime partner Claudia Tienan. The following year, he produced the Replacements’ major label debut album, Tim, and in 1987, he produced L.A. He had co-produced four albums for the band and would go on to co-produce their 1984 record Too Tough To Die. Tommy left the Ramones in 1978 to concentrate on studio work. He played on the Ramones’ first three studio albums, Ramones and 1977’s Leave Home and Rocket to Russia, as well as the band’s 1979 live record, It’s Alive. Tommy began his career in the Ramones as the band’s manager, but soon took on drumming duty so Joey could concentrate on vocals. Our only harmonics are in the overtones from the guitar chords.” The band found a home and an audience at New York’s CBGB and released their debut album, Ramones, in 1976. “Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses,” Tommy, who was the main writer on many of the band’s early hits, told Rolling Stone in a feature on the Ramones that year. In 1974, Erdelyi and Cummings joined together with two fellow Forest Hills compatriots, singer Jeffrey Hyman (Joey) and bassist Douglas Colvin (Dee Dee), and began playing simple, rapid-fire punk under a common surname. The two formed a garage band called the Tangerine Puppets before Tommy moved on to study recording engineering, finding work at the famed Record Plant studios. Johnny Ramone) while he was in high school. He grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, where he began playing music with John Cummings (a.k.a. Harnessing a powerful combination of short, propulsive three-chord singalongs with playful lyrics on themes of adolescent angst, the Ramones created a durable sound in songs like “Beat on the Brat,” “ I Wanna Be Sedated,” “Blitzkrieg Bop” and “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” that would go on to influence countless later bands.īorn Erdelyi Tamas in Budapest in 1949, Ramone emigrated to America in 1957. Ramone was a founding member of the family of “brothers” who helped invent punk rock in New York’s frenetic 1970s music scene. “He was in hospice care following treatment for cancer of the bile duct.” (Schwartz also confirmed Ramone’s age as 65.) at his home in Ridgewood, Queens,” Andy Schwartz, publisher of New York Rocker magazine, said on behalf of Ramone’s family. “Tom died yesterday, July 11, at 12:15 p.m. Tommy Ramone on Birth of the Ramones: ‘It Was Time for Something New’
A spokesman for Ramone’s family confirmed the news to Rolling Stone. Tommy Ramone, the original drummer for the Ramones and the band’s last surviving original member, died on Friday at the age of 65.
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