Joey Ramone

This Saturday is the annual Joey Ramone Birthday Bash. I’ve attended this festive concert and party for the last three years and I’m going again this year. Look for photos and a post of it this Monday. In the meantime, here’s some Joey Ramone videos I’ve plucked from YouTube for your enjoyment.

There’s a new Jeoy Ramone CD coming out soon called “...ya know?” It’s a posthumous collection of demos and unreleased tunes recorded over the last 15 years of his life. Some of the guest musicians on the CD include Bun E. Carlos, Joan Jett, Richie Ramone and Steven Van Zandt. This is the first single from the album, “Rock and Roll is the Answer.”

Here’s Joey talking about punk rock legend, Iggy Pop and how he was an inspiration to his life and music. Joey Ramone covered the Iggy Pop and The Stooges song, 1969 on the tribute album to Iggy Pop called, “We Will Fall.”

Joey Ramone’s brother, Mickey Leigh wrote a book about being Joey Ramone’s brother called, “I Slept With Joey Ramone.” It was published in 2009. In this clip, Mickey and co-author Legs McNeil discuss, Joey and the book.

A clip from an old Geraldo show, where of course he gets everything wrong. The theme of the show is called, “Heavy Metal Moms” and features Joey and his mom Charolette Lesher. The Ramones were hardly a heavy metal band and watch where Geraldo refers to The Ramones as brothers, he didn’t even know that they weren’t related. Geraldo Rivera, the man who forever puts the less back in clueless.

Here’s another vintage television clip, The Ramones on the Tomorrow Show back in the ‘80’s, but they got stuck being interviewed by some bubble-headed ditz instead of Tom Snyder. I love it when Joey tells her he’s disappointed that they’re not being interviewed by Tom Snyder.

Another song off the new CD, Going Nowhere Fast. The Joey Ramone Birthday Bash is this Saturday night at Webster Hall, doors open at 7PM, be there or be nowhere! Pictures and post of it will be up this Monday at TWM!

Further Reading: KNAC, Rock NYC and songkick.

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Bonus Photo From sessone!
TWM reader sessone was recently on a bender trip to New Orleans and sent in this photo of a bar that I definitely need to visit if I ever get to that fair city. Thanks and cheers to sessone for sending this in!