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Dee Dee Ramone - RAMONES - Original Painting Canvas signed 40x30 signed !!!. A RARE DEE DEE RAMONE ABSTRACT PAINTING SIGNED LOWER RIGHT MEASURING 40 X 30 INCHES. OIL ON CANVAS ON STRETCHER. PAINTING IS ALSO PAINTED AND SIGNED BY FAMED ARTIST PAUL KOSTABI. PAINTING IS COVERED IN LOOSE PLASTIC. NURNBERG GERMANY 2002 Get this painting by one of the greatest rock and rollers of all time. The founding bassist and songwriter for the legendary New York punk band the Ramones, Douglas Glenn Colvin (a.k.a. Dee Dee Ramone), died June 5, 2002 of a heroin overdose. He was 50. Douglas Glenn Colvin, known professionally as Dee Dee Ramone, was a German-American musician, singer and songwriter best known as founding member, songwriter, bassist and occasional lead vocalist for the punk rock band the Ramones. \
The founding bassist and songwriter for the legendary New York punk band the Ramones, Douglas Glenn Colvin (a.k.a. Dee Dee Ramone), died June 5, 2002 of a heroin overdose. He was 50. Ramone’s wife Barbara found her husband unconscious on a couch in their Los Angeles apartment surrounded by drug paraphernalia, including a used syringe. Paramedics confirmed that Ramone was dead at 8:40 PM. Toxicology results determined that Ramone died from a lethal heroin overdose. In his late '90s autobiography, Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones, Ramone wrote about his on-and-off struggle with drugs and alcohol. He died 14 months after vocalist Joey Ramone succumbed to cancer at age 49. Guitarist John William Cummings (a.k.a. Johnny Ramone, who died in 2004) had been friends with Dee Dee since 1969. They met at a building in New York, where Dee Dee worked in the mail room and Johnny did construction. One day, they both decided to cash their paychecks and buy guitars; Johnny got a Mosrite, Dee Dee purchased a Danelectro. After fumbling around the band with different members in different positions -- Dee Dee was originally the vocalist and Jeffrey Ross Hyman (Joey Ramone) played drums -- they officially became the Ramones in 1973. Dee Dee, who had a reputation of being the wildest member, came up with the name after learning that Paul McCartney often used the alias Paul Ramon when he checked into hotels. The band changed the spelling to “Ramone” and every member used the title as their surname to demonstrate their solidarity. The Ramones debuted live on March 30, 1974 and soon became an in-demand club act. Using just three and four chords, the Ramones mixed their love for bubblegum girl pop with the hard rock of the Who and the MC5 and the proto-punk of The Stooges, then put the blender on full-speed, creating a wall of primal, melodic, abrasive and bouncy sound that was both visceral and infectious. The Ramones quickly became leaders of the New York punk rock scene and in 1976 released their seminal self-titled debut, which included “Blitzkrieg Bop,” “Beat on the Brat,” “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend” and “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue.” While the Ramones endured numerous lineup changes, Dee Dee remained with the band until 1990, playing on 11 records. After leaving the Ramones he had a short, unsuccessful career as rapper Dee Dee King, recorded a few solo albums and appeared on various collaborations. Despite serious substance abuse problems, he remained musically active until his death. In the intro to Dee Dee Ramone’s book Lobotomy, Legs McNeil wrote, “Dee Dee was the archetypical f--k-up whose life was a living disaster. He was a male prostitute, a would-be mugger, a heroin user and dealer, an accomplice to armed robbery -- and a genius poet who was headed for an early grave, but was sidetracked by rock ‘n’ roll.” And without him, the Ramones likely would never have existed and the history of punk music as we know it would not have been the same. Filmography Jump to: Soundtrack | Actor | Writer | Music department | Thanks | Self | Archive footage Hide HideSoundtrack (125 credits) 2018 The Deuce (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - There's an Art to This (2018) ... (writer: "You're Gonna Kill That Girl") 2018 Fight Like a Girl (TV Movie documentary) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2018 A.P. Bio (TV Series) (writer - 11 episodes) - Drenching Dallas (2018) ... (writer: "Listen to My Heart") - Walleye (2018) ... (writer: "Listen to My Heart") - Rosemary's Boyfriend (2018) ... (writer: "Listen to My Heart") - We Don't Party (2018) ... (writer: "Listen to My Heart") - Selling Out (2018) ... (writer: "Listen to My Heart") Show all 11 episodes 2018 Hoy nos toca (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode dated 9 January 2018 (2018) ... (writer: "Poison Heart") 2017 Mr. Mercedes (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Pilot (2017) ... (writer: "Pet Sematary" - uncredited) 2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2017 Dare to Be Different (Documentary) (writer: "Rockaway Beach" - as Douglas Colvin) 2017 Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Avalanche (2017) ... (writer: "Rock 'n' Roll High School" - uncredited) 2017 Lip Sync Battle (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Jay Leno Vs. Craig Ferguson (2017) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2016 Atmos the Addict (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Sundown (2016) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2016 Roadies (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Life Is a Carnival (2016) ... (writer: "Loudmouth" - uncredited) 2015-2016 Ochéntame... otra vez (TV Series documentary) (writer - 2 episodes) - Soy rebelde (2016) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") - La juventud canta y baila (2015) ... (writer: "Rock 'N' Roll High School") 2015 Pan (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2015/II The Program (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - as Dede Ramone) 2015 It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC (TV Movie) (writer: "Rock 'n' Roll High School") 2015 Terminator Genisys (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2015 No Offence (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode #1.7 (2015) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2015/I A Perfect Day (writer: "Pinhead" - as D. Colvin) 2015 Routine Republic: Taco Bell® Breakfast (Short) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2015 Danny Says (Documentary) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") / (writer: "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", "Listen to My Heart" - as The Ramones) 2015 BetVictor Welsh Open (TV Series) (writer - 3 episodes) - 2015: Day Five - Highlights (2015) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) - 2015: Day Five - Part 2 (2015) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) - 2015: Day Five - Part 1 (2015) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2014 Parenthood (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Aaron Brownstein Must Be Stopped (2014) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2014 Constantine (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - The Devil's Vinyl (2014) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - uncredited) 2013 The Crazy Ones (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Sixteen-Inch Softball (2013) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2013 The Vampire Diaries (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Because the Night (2013) ... (writer: "Loudmouth" - uncredited) 2012 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode #21.17 (2012) ... (writer: "Pet Sematary") 2012 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (writer: "Rock 'N' Roll High School") 2012 Burning Man: Metropolis (Documentary) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - as Douglas Colvin) 2012 Shameless (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Just Like the Pilgrims Intended (2012) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2012 Yle Live: Michael Monroe (TV Movie) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2011 CSI: NY (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Keep It Real (2011) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2011 My Life (TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode) - Boyracers (2011) ... (writer: "BLITZKRIEG BOP" - uncredited) 2010 Glory Daze (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Pilot (2010) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - uncredited) 2010 NHL 11 (Video Game) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2010 Get Him to the Greek (writer: "Cretin Hop" - as Dee Ramone) 2010 Date Night (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2005-2010 Cold Case (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes) - Bombers (2010) ... (writer: "We Want the Airwaves" (Uncredited) - as Douglas Colvin) - Blank Generation (2005) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2009 Whip It (writer: "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" - as Douglas Colvin) 2009 Everybody Hates Chris (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Everybody Hates the G.E.D. (2009) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2009 Nitro Circus (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - The Circus Heads West (2009) ... (writer: "Rockaway Beach") 2008 Banda sonora (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode #4.15 (2008) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2008 90210 (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Hollywood Forever (2008) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2008 It Might Get Loud (Documentary) (writer: "Glad to See You Go" - as Douglas Colvin) 2008 The Wave (writer: "Rock 'n' Roll High School") 2007 Rock Band (Video Game) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop", "Rockaway Beach") 2007 ER (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Blackout (2007) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2007 South Park (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Guitar Queer-o (2007) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2007 The Simpsons (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Treehouse of Horror XVIII (2007) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2007 My Name Is Earl (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - My Name Is Inmate #28301-016: Part 1 (2007) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2007 SingStar Amped (Video Game) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2007 Por Toda Minha Vida (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Renato Russo (2007) ... (writer: "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue") 2007 Skate. (Video Game) (writer: "Psycho Therapy") 2007 The Hunting Party (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Calvin) 2007 Young@Heart (Documentary) (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Colvin) 2007 Shrek the Third (writer: "Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio?" - as Douglas Colvin) 2007 Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (Documentary) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2006 NFL Thursday Night Football (TV Series) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2006 Men in Trees (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Power Shift (2006) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2006 Accepted (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2006 Entourage (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - I Wanna Be Sedated (2006) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - as Douglas Colvin) 2006 The Lather Effect (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated", "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" - as D. Colvin) 2006 Too Tough to Die: A Tribute to Johnny Ramone (Documentary) (writer: "Durango 95", "Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World", "Pin Head", "I Just Wanna Have Something To Do", "I Wanna Be Sedated", "She's The One", "It's A Long Way Back", "Wart Hog", "Don't Come Close", "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)", "Cretin Hop", "I Believe In Miracles", "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker", "Judy Is A Punk", "Commando", "Blitzkrieg Bop", "Something To Believe In", "Teenage Lobotomy" - as Colvin) 2006 Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi (Documentary) (writer: "Judy Is a Punk", "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Colvin) 2006 Final Destination 3 (writer: "Blitzkreig Bop" - as Douglas Colvin) 2005 Guitar Hero (Video Game) (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2005 Cover Art (TV Series short) (writer - 1 episode) - Jason Mraz: Blitzkrieg Bop (2005) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2005 Nearing Grace (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" - as Douglas Colvin) 2005 Quo Vadis, Baby? (writer: "Poison Heart") 2005 Punk: Attitude (Documentary) (writer: "Chinese Rocks" - as Colvin) / (writer: "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You", "Blitzkrieg Bop", "Loudmouth" - as Douglas) 2004 Christmas with the Kranks (as Douglas Colvin, "Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)" (1989)) 2004 Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (Video Game) ("Rock and Roll High School") 2004 Ramones Raw (Documentary) (performer: "Apeman Hop", "Funky Man") / (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop", "Teenage Lobotomy", "Rockaway Beach", "Cretin Hop", "I Wanna Be Sedated", "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker", "Today Your Love Tomorrow the World", "53rd & 3rd", "Rock and Roll High School", "Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio", "Pinhead", "Apeman Hop", "I Don't Want You", "I Don't Care", "I Can't Make It on Time", "I Just Wanna have Something to Do", "She's the One", "Funky Man") 2004 The King of Queens (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Icky Shuffle (2004) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2004 I Was Born, But... (Documentary) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2003 Less Than Perfect (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Roomies (2003) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2002-2003 What's New, Scooby-Doo? (TV Series) (writer - 3 episodes) - Homeward Hound (2003) ... (writer: "Now I Wanna Be a Good Boy") - Lights! Camera! Mayhem! (2003) ... (writer: "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You") - She Sees Sea Monsters by the Sea Shore (2002) ... (writer: "Rockaway Beach") 2003 Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special (TV Special) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2003 School of Rock (as Colvin Douglas, Douglas Colvin, "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)", "Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio") 2003 Shattered Glass (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - as Douglas Colvin) 2003 Mayor of the Sunset Strip (Documentary) (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Colvin) 2003 11:14 (writer: "I Just Want To Have Something To Do" - as Douglas Colvin) 2003 Daddy Day Care (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Colvin) 2003 House of 1000 Corpses (writer: "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" - as Douglas Colvin) 2003 End of the Century (Documentary) (performer: "Funky Man" - as Dee Dee King) / (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop", "Judy Is a Punk", "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", "Loud Mouth", "I Don't Wanna Walk Around with You", "Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World", "Beat on the Brat", "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue", "53rd & 3rd", "Glad to See You Go", "You're Gonna Kill That Girl", "I Wanna Be Well", "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker", "Teenage Lobotomy", "Chinese Rock", "Cretin Hop", "I Wanna Be Sedated", "Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio", "Rock 'N' Roll High School", "Danny Says", "I Want You Around", "KKK Took My Baby Away", "Wart Hog", "Mama's Boy", "Psycho Therapy", "Funky Man", "I Wanna Live", "We're a Happy Family", "Pinhead", "Durango 95", "Commando" - as Douglas Colvin) 2003 The West Wing (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - The Long Goodbye (2003) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - uncredited) 2002 Fastlane (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Mighty Blue (2002) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2002 Gilmore Girls (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Application Anxiety (2002) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - uncredited) 2002 Titus (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Insanity Genetic: Part 2 (2002) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Colvin, uncredited) 2002 The New Guy (writer: "Outsider") 2002 The Ramones and I (Documentary short) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop", "53rd & 3rd", "Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio"") 2001 Go-Go's from Central Park (Video documentary) (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2001 Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (as Douglas Colvin, "Blitzkreig Bop") 2001 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (Video Game) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2001 The Royal Tenenbaums (writer: "Judy Is A Punk" - as Douglas Colvin) 2001 Characters (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2001 Freddy Got Fingered (writer: "We're A Happy Family" - as Douglas Colvin) 2001 Sugar & Spice (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - as Douglas Colvin) 1999 Detroit Rock City (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated", "Blitzkreig Bop" - as Douglas Colvin) 1999 Final Rinse (writer: "I Just Wanna Have Something To Do" - as D. Colvin) 1999 Idle Hands (as Douglas Colvin, "I Wanna Be Sedated") 1999 200 Cigarettes (as Douglas Colvin, "I Don't Care") 1998 Jidder (Short) (writer: "Teenage Lobotomy") 1998 SLC Punk! (writer: "Cretin Hop", "She's The One" - as Douglas Colvin) 1998 Whatever (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" - as Douglas Colvin) 1997 Private Parts (writer: "Pinhead" - as Douglas Colvin) 1996 Carpool (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Colvin) 1996 Lukas (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Rivalen (1996) ... (writer: "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" - uncredited) 1995 1995 MTV Movie Awards (TV Special) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop", "I Wanna Be Sedated") 1995 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode dated 29 June 1995 (1995) ... (writer: "The Cretin Family") 1994 Airheads (writer: "We Want the Airwaves" - as Douglas Colvin) 1993 Beavis and Butt-Head (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Blood Drive (1993) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 1993 Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Monster A-Go Go (1993) ... (writer: "Rock 'n' Roll High School") 1992 Pet Sematary II ("Poison Heart") 1991 Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever (performer: "Cut Me To Pieces") / (writer: "Cut Me To Pieces") 1989 Roadkill (writer: "Howlin' At the Moon (Sha La La)") 1989 Pet Sematary ("Pet Sematary") / (writer: "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker") 1989 Rockopop (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode dated 11 February 1989 (1989) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bod") 1988 Tapeheads (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 1987 15 Minutes (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Show #4 (1987) ... (writer: "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg (My Brain is Hanging Upside Down)") 1983 National Lampoon's Vacation (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 1981 Fear No Evil (as Ramones, "Blitzkrieg Bop") 1980 Times Square (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 1979 Rock 'n' Roll High School (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop", "I Just Wanna Have Something to Do", "I Wanna Be Sedated", "I Want You Around", "Pinhead", "Questioningly", "Rock 'n' Roll High School", "She's the One", "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker", "Teenage Lobotomy") 1979 Over the Edge (writer: "Teenage Lobotomy") 1978 Punking Out (Documentary short) (writer: "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You", "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue", "Blitzkrieg Bop" - as The Ramones) Show ShowActor (3 credits) Show ShowWriter (2 credits) Show ShowMusic department (2 credits) Show ShowThanks (4 credits) Show ShowSelf (22 credits) Show ShowArchive footage (7 credits) Related Videos End of the Century -- Theatrical Trailer from Magnolia Pictures Edit Personal Details Other Works: Album: "Do The Bikini Dance", 2002 (Wanker) See more » Publicity Listings: 1 Biographical Movie | 3 Print Biographies | 1 Portrayal | 2 Articles | See more » Official Sites: Official Site Alternate Names: Douglas Glen Colvin | Douglas Colvin | C.C. Ramone Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m) Dee Dee Ramone (born Douglas Glenn Colvin, Sept. 18, 1951 – June 5, 2002) was a founding member, and primary songwriter in the world famous Ramones. He was the bassist from their start in 1974 until leaving the band in 1989 to pursue a solo career and other endeavors. Dee Dee continued to write songs for the Ramones until they retired in 1996. His unique perspective and invaluable artistic contributions were a vital element to the chemistry of the Ramones. Recipient of a Grammy award for lifetime achievement, Dee Dee is the most influential punk rock bassist, and one of the most prolific punk rock songwriters of all-time. His signature “1-2-3-4” count off will forever be emulated and ingrained in pop culture and had it not been for Dee Dee, the band might not have been known as “The Ramones”. After Dee Dee read about (Beatles) Paul McCartney's habit of checking into hotels under the name “Paul Ramon” for anonymity, Dee Dee began using the name and suggested that Joey, Johnny and Tommy also adopt “Ramone” (adding the letter ‘e’) and the “Ramones” were born. 28 years later, the band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame alongside the Beatles themselves. Beyond his work in the Ramones, Dee Dee had a thriving solo career and expressed himself artistically in many different mediums. He continued writing and recording music consistently, eventually switching from bass to guitar with wife Barbara Ramone Zampini on bass and occasionally on vocals. He released a string of singles and solo albums from 1987 - 2002, (many of which remain long out of print). A true renaissance man, Dee Dee’s multi-faceted art included an ongoing series of paintings, some of which are prominently displayed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum in Cleveland. His pieces have sold in galleries all over the world for impressive amounts throughout his lifetime and only continue to escalate in value. Dee Dee’s creativity knew no boundaries and neither did his imagination. He authored several books including the novel “Chelsea Horror Hotel”. The story centers on Dee Dee and his wife Barbara moving into NYC’s infamous Chelsea Hotel where they believe they’re staying in the very room where his old friend Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen. Dee Dee is tormented by demons that plague the hotel (both living and dead), visited by the ghost of Sid Vicious and other deceased punk rock friends (including Johnny Thunders and Stiv Bators). While his other books: “Lobotomy” and “Legend of a Rock Star”, are “non-fiction” autobiographies, they intentionally contained many completely fictitious sequences. Dee Dee was truly enigmatic. He was known for being a colorful storyteller and enjoyed blurring the lines of reality. This is no-doubt, one of the qualities that made Dee Dee and his work so fascinating and endearing. The style of punk rock that he embodied and helped to create with the Ramones was a mainstay in his persona and his work to the very end. He always exuded the sense of humor and pop sensibilities that made the Ramones so groundbreakingly original, iconic and immortal. Dee Dee's gravesite is located at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA. Douglas Glenn Colvin, better known as Dee Dee Ramone, the founding bassist and songwriter of the pioneering punk band the Ramones, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles of an apparent heroin overdose. He was 50, and lived in Hollywood. The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said that his wife, Barbara, came home and found him unconscious on a couch with drug paraphernalia nearby. A rescue team confirmed that he was dead at 8:40 p.m. Capt. David Campbell of the coroner's office said the cause of death appeared to be an accidental drug overdose. An autopsy was performed yesterday and toxicological tests are being done. Mr. Ramone was the punkiest member of the Ramones, the four-man band from Queens that defined punk rock. The band's lead singer, Joey Ramone, died of cancer last year. This year, the first year they were eligible, the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ''I'd like to congratulate myself,'' Mr. Ramone said then. Johnny Ramone, the band's guitarist, said in a statement after his bandmate's death: ''Dee Dee and I started the Ramones in 1974 and have been friends since 1969. In 33 years, we have been through a lot. This is very shocking to me. He was a star and the most influential punk-rock bassist. I believe he has influenced every kid playing bass that saw him perform.'' He had a gift for writing the kind of terse, tuneful songs that made the Ramones a worldwide influence on rock. He wrote punk-rock standards including ''Teenage Lobotomy'' and ''Rockaway Beach,'' songs that distilled frustration, humor and pleasure into a few words and a few chords. His later songs, like ''Poison Heart'' and ''Too Tough to Die,'' grew darker but no less concise. After he left the Ramones in 1989, tired of touring, he continued to write songs for the Ramones, even as he recorded solo albums. Continue reading the main story Mr. Ramone also had a volatile personality and a long history of drug use, though in recent years his friends thought he had left heroin behind. ''He was really the ultimate punk,'' said Arturo Vega, the Ramones' art director. ''He always did what he wanted, and he never settled for anything. He should be remembered as somebody that showed us how much fun it was and how much it hurt to be a real punk.'' Legs McNeil, who started Punk magazine in the 1970's, said yesterday: ''Dee Dee was very charming, he was very cute. He was the Paul McCartney of the Ramones. But you never knew when he was going to go off. I think it takes really disturbed people to make great rock and roll, and Dee Dee was a greatly disturbed person. I don't think he had a peaceful day on the planet.'' Douglas Colvin was born in Fort Lee, Va. His father was in the United States Army, and the family spent time in Korea, Japan and then Germany, where Douglas grew up. His autobiography: ''Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones'' (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2000), says both his parents were heavy drinkers and that his father regularly beat him and his sister, Beverly. She survives him along with his mother, Tony, who left Mr. Colvin in the late 1960's. Tony Colvin moved her children to New York in the late 1960's. They settled in Forest Hills, Queens, where Douglas met the future members of the Ramones, described in ''Lobotomy'' as ''the obvious creeps of the neighborhood.'' He began using LSD and then heroin and dropped out of high school. He tried petty crime as a drug dealer and mugger. He and John Cummings, who became Johnny Ramone, decided to start a band; Jeffrey Hyman (Joey Ramone) started out on drums and became the group's lead singer, and their manager, Tommy Erdelyi (Tommy Ramone), became the drummer. A new club on the Lower East Side, CBGB, booked them. ''The first time they played it was terrible,'' Hilly Kristal, the owner of CBGB, recalled recently. ''They didn't get good for a few months. But when they did, they played 20 songs in 17 minutes without stopping and that caused a sensation.'' From 1976 to 1978 the Ramones turned out four albums -- ''Ramones,'' ''Leave Home,'' ''Rocket to Russia'' and ''Road to Ruin'' -- that became punk cornerstones. Radio stations ignored the music, but the Ramones toured and recorded constantly, a routine that wearied the band even as it persevered. In 1989 Mr. Ramone made a rap album, ''Standing in the Spotlight.'' Soon afterward, he quit the Ramones, tired of years touring and bickering with the other members. He made solo albums for independent labels: ''I Hate Freaks Like You'' in 1995, ''Zonked!!'' in 1997 and ''Greatest and Latest'' in 2000, and he toured on his own. He wrote his autobiography, ''Lobotomy,'' and a novel, ''Chelsea Horror Hotel'' (2001). Another novel, ''Legend of a Rock Star,'' is to be published by Thunder's Mouth Press in the fall. On May 4 he performed Ramones songs at the Roseland Ballroom for a BookExpo America party with C. J. Ramone, who replace him on bass, and Marky Ramone, Tommy Ramone's successor on drums. He met his wife, Barbara Zampini, in Argentina, and they married in 1997. He also began collaborating with Mr. Vega on paintings in a style they called Minimalist Nihilism; to Mr. Vega's geometric shapes, Mr. Ramone added words and drawings. For their first collaboration, a square divided into black and white rectangles, he drew a ''good Dee Dee'' and ''the other Dee Dee,'' who had devil's horns. ''He was a demon in angel's disguise,'' said Danny Fields, the Ramones' first manager. ''He was a true rock star.'' The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first band to define the punk rock sound.[1][2] Despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was vastly influential in both the United States and the United Kingdom. All of the band members adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname "Ramone", although none of them were related. They performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years.[2] In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played a farewell concert and disbanded.[3] By 2014, all four of the band's original members had died – lead singer Joey Ramone (1951–2001), bass guitarist Dee Dee Ramone (1951–2002), guitarist Johnny Ramone (1948–2004) and drummer Tommy Ramone (1949–2014).[4][5][6][7] Recognition of the band's importance built over the years, and they are now mentioned in many assessments of all-time great rock music, such as number 26 in the Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time"[8] and number 17 in VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".[9] In 2002, the Ramones were ranked the second-greatest band of all time by Spin magazine, trailing only the Beatles.[10] On March 18, 2002, the original four members and Tommy's replacement on drums, Marky Ramone, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on their first year of eligibility, though Joey had died by then.[2][11] In 2011, the group was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.[12][13] Contents 1 History 1.1 Formation: 1974–1975 1.2 Spearheading punk: 1976–1977 1.3 Recordings turn more pop: 1978–1983 1.4 Shuffling members: 1983–1989 1.5 Final years: 1990–1996 1.6 Aftermath and deaths 2 Conflicts between members 3 Style 3.1 Musical style 3.2 Visual imagery 4 Influence 4.1 Tribute albums 5 Band members 6 Discography 7 See also 8 References 9 Sources 10 External links History Formation: 1974–1975 Forest Hills High School, attended by the four original members of the Ramones The original members of the band met in and around the middle-class neighborhood of Forest Hills in the New York City borough of Queens. John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi had both been in a high-school garage band from 1965 to 1967 known as the Tangerine Puppets.[14] They became friends with Douglas Colvin, who had recently moved to the area from Germany,[15] and Jeffrey Hyman, who was the initial lead singer of the glam rock band Sniper, founded in 1972.[16][17] The Ramones began taking shape in early 1974 when Cummings and Colvin invited Hyman to join them in a band. Colvin wanted to play guitar and sing, Cummings would also play guitar and Hyman would play drums. The lineup was to be completed with their friend Richie Stern on bass. However, after only a few rehearsals it became clear that Richie Stern could not play bass, so in addition to singing, Colvin switched from guitar to bass and Cummings became the only guitarist.[18] Colvin was the first to adopt the name "Ramone", calling himself Dee Dee Ramone. He was inspired by Paul McCartney's use of the pseudonym Paul Ramon during his Silver Beetles days.[19][20] Dee Dee convinced the other members to take on the name and came up with the idea of calling the band the Ramones.[21][22] Hyman and Cummings became Joey and Johnny Ramone, respectively.[21] A friend of the band, Monte A. Melnick (later their tour manager), helped to arrange rehearsal time for them at Manhattan's Performance Studios, where he worked. Johnny's former bandmate Erdelyi was set to become their manager. Soon after the band was formed, Dee Dee realized that he could not sing and play his bass guitar simultaneously; with Erdelyi's encouragement, Joey became the band's new lead singer.[19] Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each song's tempo with his signature rapid-fire shout of "1-2-3-4!" Joey soon similarly realized that he could not sing and play drums simultaneously and left the position of drummer. While auditioning prospective replacements, Erdelyi would often take to the drums and demonstrate how to play the songs. It became apparent that he was able to perform the group's music better than anyone else, and he joined the band as Tommy Ramone.[23] The Ramones played before an audience for the first time on March 30, 1974, at Performance Studios.[2] The songs they played were very fast and very short; most clocked in at under two minutes. Around this time, a new music scene was emerging in New York centered on two clubs in downtown Manhattan—Max's Kansas City and, more famously, CBGB (usually referred to as CBGB's). The Ramones made their CBGB debut on August 16, 1974.[24] Legs McNeil, who cofounded Punk magazine the following year, later described the impact of that performance: "They were all wearing these black leather jackets. And they counted off this song... and it was just this wall of noise... They looked so striking. These guys were not hippies. This was something completely new."[25] The band swiftly became regulars at the club, playing there seventy-four times by the end of the year. After garnering considerable attention for their performances—which averaged about seventeen minutes from beginning to end—the group was signed to a recording contract in late 1975 by Seymour Stein of Sire Records. After they were seen by Sire A&R man Craig Leon[26] he brought the band to the attention of the label. Stein's wife, Linda Stein, saw the band play at Mothers; she would later co-manage them along with Danny Fields.[27] By this time, the Ramones were recognized as leaders of the new scene that was increasingly being referred to as "punk".[28][29] The group's unusual frontman had a lot to do with their impact. As Dee Dee explained, "All the other singers [in New York] were copying David Johansen [of the New York Dolls], who was copying Mick Jagger... But Joey was unique, totally unique."[30] Spearheading punk: 1976–1977 "Blitzkrieg Bop" MENU0:00 The title of the Ramones' debut single, writes critic Steve Huey, is a "nice encapsulation of the group's aesthetic: simple, bouncy, pre-British Invasion rock & roll played at top volume and twice the speed. Blaring the same three chords for most of its duration, the song was rock at its most basic".[31] Problems playing this file? See media help. April 1976 issue of Punk. The cover image of Joey, by Punk cofounder John Holmstrom, was inspired by the work of comic book artist Will Eisner.[32] Holmstrom would go on to do album art for Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin.[33] The Ramones recorded their debut album, Ramones, in April 1976. Of the fourteen songs on the album, the longest, "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", barely surpassed two and a half minutes. While the songwriting credits were shared by the entire band, Dee Dee was the primary writer.[34] The Ramones album was produced by Sire's Craig Leon, with Tommy as associate producer, on an extremely low budget of about $6,400 and released in April.[35] The now iconic front cover photograph of the band was taken by Roberta Bayley, a photographer for Punk magazine.[36] Punk, which was largely responsible for codifying the term for the scene emerging around CBGB, ran a cover story on the Ramones in its third issue, the same month as the record's release.[32][37] The Ramones' debut LP was greeted by rock critics with glowing reviews. The Village Voice's Robert Christgau wrote, "I love this record—love it—even though I know these boys flirt with images of brutality (Nazi especially)... For me, it blows everything else off the radio".[38] In Rolling Stone, Paul Nelson described it as "constructed almost entirely of rhythm tracks of an exhilarating intensity rock & roll has not experienced since its earliest days." Characterizing the band as "authentic American primitives whose work has to be heard to be understood", he declared, "It is time popular music followed the other arts in honoring its primitives."[39] Newsday's Wayne Robbins simply anointed the Ramones as "the best young rock 'n' roll band in the known universe."[40] Despite Sire's high hopes for it,[41] Ramones was not a commercial success, reaching only number 111 on the Billboard album chart.[42] The two singles issued from the album, "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", failed to chart. At the band's first major performance outside of New York, a June date in Youngstown, Ohio, members of Cleveland punk legends Frankenstein aka the Dead Boys were present and struck up a friendship with the band.[43] It wasn't until they made a brief tour of England that they began to see the fruits of their labor; a performance at the Roundhouse in London on July 4, 1976, second-billed to the Flamin' Groovies, organized by Linda Stein, was a resounding success.[44] T-Rex leader Marc Bolan was in attendance at the Roundhouse show and was invited on stage.[45][46] Their Roundhouse appearance and a club date the following night—where the band met members of the Sex Pistols and the Clash—helped galvanize the burgeoning UK punk rock scene.[4] The Flamin' Groovies/Ramones double bill was successfully reprised at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles the following month, fueling the punk scene there as well. The Ramones were becoming an increasingly popular live act—a Toronto performance in September energized yet another growing punk scene.[47] Their next two albums, Leave Home and Rocket to Russia, were released in 1977. Both were produced by Tommy and Tony Bongiovi, the second cousin of Jon Bon Jovi.[48] Leave Home met with even less chart success than Ramones, though it did include "Pinhead", which became one of the band's signature songs with its chanted refrain of "Gabba gabba hey!" Leave Home also included a fast-paced cover of the oldie "California Sun", written by Henry Glover & Morris Levy, and originally recorded by Joe Jones,[49] though the Ramones based their version on the remake by the Rivieras. Rocket to Russia was the band's highest-charting album to date, reaching number 49 on the Billboard 200.[50] In Rolling Stone, critic Dave Marsh called it "the best American rock & roll of the year".[51] The album also featured the first Ramones single to enter the Billboard charts (albeit only as high as number 81): "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker". The follow-up single, "Rockaway Beach", reached number 66—the highest any Ramones single would ever reach in America. On December 31, 1977 the Ramones recorded It's Alive, a live concert double album, at the Rainbow Theatre, London, which was released in April 1979 (the title is a reference to the 1974 horror film of the same name).[52] Recordings turn more pop: 1978–1983 Joey Ramone in c. 1980. Tommy, tired of touring, left the band in early 1978. He continued as the Ramones' record producer under his birth name of Erdelyi. His position as drummer was filled by Marc Bell, who had been a member of the early 1970s hard rock band Dust, Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys,[53] and the pioneering punk group Richard Hell & the Voidoids.[54] Bell became Marky Ramone. Later that year, the band released their fourth studio album, and first with Marky, Road to Ruin. The album, co-produced by Tommy with Ed Stasium, included some new sounds such as acoustic guitar, several ballads, and the band's first two recorded songs longer than three minutes. It failed to reach the Billboard Top 100. However, "I Wanna Be Sedated", which appeared both on the album and as a single, would become one of the band's best-known songs.[55] The artwork on the album's cover was done by Punk magazine cofounder John Holmstrom.[56] After the band's movie debut in Roger Corman's Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), renowned producer Phil Spector became interested in the Ramones and produced their 1980 album End of the Century. There is a long-disputed rumor that during the recording sessions in Los Angeles, Spector held Johnny at gunpoint, forcing him to repeatedly play a riff.[57] Though it was to be the highest-charting album in the band's history—reaching number 44 in the United States and number 14 in Great Britain—Johnny made clear that he favored the band's more aggressive punk material: "End of the Century was just watered-down Ramones. It's not the real Ramones."[58] This stance was also conveyed by the title and track selection of the compilation album Johnny later oversaw, Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits. Despite these reservations, Johnny did concede that some of Spector's work with the band had merit, saying "It really worked when he got to a slower song like 'Danny Says'—the production really worked tremendously. 'Rock 'N' Roll Radio' is really good. For the harder stuff, it didn't work as well."[59] The string-laden Ronettes cover "Baby, I Love You" released as a single, became the band's biggest hit in Great Britain, reaching number 8 on the charts.[60] Pleasant Dreams, the band's sixth album, was released in 1981. It continued the trend established by End of the Century, taking the band further from the raw punk sound of its early records. As described by Trouser Press, the album, produced by Graham Gouldman of UK pop act 10cc, moved the Ramones "away from their pioneering minimalism into heavy metal territory".[61] Johnny would contend in retrospect that this direction was a record company decision, a continued futile attempt to get airplay on American radio.[1][59] While Pleasant Dreams reached number 58 on the U.S. chart, its two singles failed to register at all.[62] Subterranean Jungle, produced by Ritchie Cordell and Glen Kolotkin, was released in 1983.[63] According to Trouser Press, it brought the band "back to where they once belonged: junky '60s pop adjusted for current tastes", which among other things meant "easing off the breakneck rhythm that was once Ramones dogma."[61] Billy Rogers, who had performed with Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, played drums on the album's second single, a cover of the Chambers Brothers' "Time Has Come Today", becoming the only song showing three different drummers: Rogers on recording, Marky on album credits and Richie on video clip.[64] Subterranean Jungle peaked at number 83 in the United States—it would be the last album by the band to crack the Billboard Top 100.[65][66] In 2002, Rhino Records released a new version of it with seven bonus tracks.[67] Shuffling members: 1983–1989 Joey and Dee Dee Ramone in concert, 1983 After the release of Subterranean Jungle, Marky was fired from the band due to his alcoholism.[68] He was replaced by Richard Reinhardt, who adopted the name Richie Ramone. Joey Ramone remarked that "[Richie] saved the band as far as I'm concerned. He's the greatest thing to happen to the Ramones. He put the spirit back in the band."[69] Richie is the only Ramones drummer to sing lead vocals on Ramones songs, including "(You) Can't Say Anything Nice" as well as the unreleased "Elevator Operator". Joey Ramone commented, "Richie's very talented and he's very diverse... He really strengthened the band a hundred percent because he sings backing tracks, he sings lead, and he sings with Dee Dee's stuff. In the past, it was always just me singing for the most part."[70] Richie was also the only drummer to be the sole composer of Ramones songs including their hit "Somebody Put Something in My Drink" as well as "Smash You", "Humankind", "I'm Not Jesus", "I Know Better Now" and "(You) Can't Say Anything Nice". Joey Ramone supported Richie's songwriting contributions: "I encouraged Richie to write songs. I figured it would make him feel more a part of the group, because we never let anybody else write our songs."[71][72] Richie's composition, "Somebody Put Something in My Drink", remained a staple in the Ramones set list until their last show in 1996 and was included in the album Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits.[73] The eight song bonus disc, The Ramones Smash You: Live '85, is also named after Richie's composition "Smash You". The first album the Ramones recorded with Richie was Too Tough to Die in 1984, with Tommy Erdelyi and Ed Stasium returning as producers. The album marked a shift to something like the band's original sound. In the description of Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the "rhythms are back up to jackhammer speed and the songs are down to short, terse statements."[74] "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" MENU0:00 Over a "power-pop beat and melodic hooks galore", writes David Corn, Joey "snarls" the beginning of the refrain—"Bonzo goes to Bitburg/then goes out for a cup of tea/As I watched it on TV/somehow it really bothered me".[75] In contrast, Salon.com arts editor Bill Wyman writes of "Joey's pained, pleading voice".[76] Problems playing this file? See media help. The band's main release of 1985 was the British single "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg"; though it was available in the United States only as an import, it was played widely on American college radio.[77] The song was written, primarily by Joey, in protest of Ronald Reagan's visit to a German military cemetery, which included graves of Waffen SS soldiers.[78] Retitled "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)", the song appeared on the band's ninth studio album, Animal Boy (1986). Produced by Jean Beauvoir, formerly a member of the Plasmatics, the album was characterized by a Rolling Stone reviewer as "nonstop primal fuzz pop".[79] Making it his pick for "album of the week", New York Times critic Jon Pareles wrote that the Ramones "speak up for outcasts and disturbed individuals".[80] The following year the band recorded their last album with Richie, Halfway to Sanity. Richie left in August 1987, upset that after being in the band for five years, the other members would still not give him a share of the merchandising money.[81] Richie was replaced by Clem Burke from Blondie, which was disbanded at the time. According to Johnny, the performances with Burke—who adopted the name Elvis Ramone—were a disaster. He was fired after two performances (August 28 & 29, 1987) because his drumming could not keep up with the rest of the band.[81] In September, Marky, now clean and sober, returned to the band.[21] In December 1988, the Ramones recorded material for their eleventh studio album, Brain Drain; co-produced by Beauvoir, Rey, and Bill Laswell. However, the bass parts were done by Daniel Rey and the Dictators' Andy Shernoff. Dee Dee Ramone would only record the additional vocals on the album citing that the other members of the band (including himself) were going through personal troubles and changes to the point where he didn't want to be in the band anymore. After the band finished their Halfway to Sanity tour in February 1989, Dee Dee became sober and left the band. He was replaced by Christopher Joseph Ward (C.J. Ramone), who performed with the band until they disbanded. Dee Dee initially pursued a brief career as a rapper under the name Dee Dee King. He quickly returned to punk rock and formed several bands, in much the same vein as the Ramones, for whom he also continued to write songs.[82] Final years: 1990–1996 After more than a decade and a half at Sire Records, the Ramones moved to a new label, Radioactive Records. Their first album for the label was 1992's Mondo Bizarro, which reunited them with producer Ed Stasium.[83] Acid Eaters, consisting entirely of cover songs, came out the following year.[84] In 1993, the Ramones were featured in the animated television series The Simpsons, providing music and voices for animated versions of themselves in the episode "Rosebud".[85] Executive producer David Mirkin described the Ramones as "gigantic, obsessive Simpsons fans." In 1992 Mondo Bizarro was certified Gold in Brazil after selling 100,000 copies, being the first Gold certification The Ramones was ever awarded. [86] [87] [88] In 1995, the Ramones released ¡Adios Amigos!, their fourteenth studio album, and announced that they would be disbanding in 1996.[89][90] Its sales were unremarkable, garnering it just two weeks on the lower end of the Billboard chart.[91] The band spent late 1995 on what was promoted as a farewell tour. However, they accepted an offer to appear in the sixth Lollapalooza festival, which toured around the United States during the following summer.[92] After the Lollapalooza tour's conclusion, the Ramones played their final show on August 6, 1996, at the Palace in Hollywood. A recording of the concert was later released on video and CD as We're Outta Here!. In addition to a reappearance by Dee Dee, the show featured several guests including Motörhead's Lemmy, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, Numskull's Ralph Foster and Rancid's Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen.[3] Aftermath and deaths On July 20, 1999, Dee Dee, Johnny, Joey, Tommy, Marky, and C.J. appeared together at the Virgin Megastore in New York City for an autograph signing. This was the last occasion on which the original four members of the group appeared together. Joey, who had been diagnosed with lymphoma in 1995, died of the illness on April 15, 2001, in New York.[4][93] Joey and Marky, who had been involved in a feud, buried the hatchet and made up on live radio on the Howard Stern Show in 1999.[94] On March 18, 2002, the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which specifically named Dee Dee, Johnny, Joey, Tommy, and Marky. At the ceremony, the surviving inductees spoke on behalf of the band. Johnny spoke first, thanking the band's fans and blessing George W. Bush and his presidency. Tommy spoke next, saying how honored the band felt, but how much it would have meant for Joey. Dee Dee humorously congratulated and thanked himself, while Marky thanked Tommy for influencing his drum style. Green Day played "Teenage Lobotomy", "Rockaway Beach", and "Blitzkrieg Bop" as a tribute, demonstrating the Ramones' continuing influence on later rock musicians. The ceremony was one of Dee Dee's last public appearances, as he was found dead on June 5, 2002 from a heroin overdose.[5] On November 30, 2003, New York City unveiled a sign designating East 2nd Street at the corner of Bowery as Joey Ramone Place. The singer lived on East 2nd for a time, and the sign is near the former Bowery site of CBGB.[95] The documentary film End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones came out in 2004. Johnny, who had been privately suffering from prostate cancer, died on September 15, 2004 in Los Angeles, shortly after the film's release.[6] On the same day as Johnny's death, the world's first Ramones Museum opened its doors to the public. Located in Berlin, Germany, the museum features more than 300 items of memorabilia, including a pair of stage-worn jeans from Johnny, a stage-worn glove from Joey, Marky's sneakers, and C.J.'s stage-worn bass strap.[96] The Ramones were inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.[97] That October saw the release of a DVD set containing concert footage of the band: It's Alive 1974-1996 includes 118 songs from 33 performances over the span of the group's career.[98] In February 2011 the group was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Drummers Tommy, Marky, and Richie attended the ceremony.[12][13] Marky declared, "This is amazing. I never expected this. I'm sure Johnny, Joey, and Dee Dee would never have expected this."[12] Richie noted that it was the first time ever that all three drummers were under the same roof, and mused that he couldn't "help thinking that [Joey] is watching us right now with a little smile on his face behind his rose-colored glasses."[13] On April 30, 2014, their first album, Ramones, became certified Gold by the Recording Industry of America after selling 500,000 copies, 38 years after its release. Arturo Vega, creative director from their formation in 1974 until their disbanding in 1996 and often considered the fifth Ramone[citation needed], died on June 8, 2013, at the age of 65. The final original member, Tommy Ramone, died on July 11, 2014 after a battle with bile duct cancer.[99] On October 30, 2016, the RAMONES WAY was unveiled at the intersection of 67th Avenue and 110th Street in front of the main entrance of Forest Hills High School in the borough of Queens.[100] Conflicts between members There were strong tensions between Joey and Johnny, which colored much of the Ramones's career. The pair were politically antagonistic, Joey being a liberal and Johnny a conservative. Their personalities also clashed: Johnny, who spent two years in military school, lived by a strict code of self-discipline,[101] while Joey struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder and alcoholism.[102][103] In the early 1980s, Linda Ramone began a relationship with Johnny after having already been romantically involved with Joey. Consequently, despite their continued professional relationship, Joey and Johnny had become aloof.[6] It was not until after Joey's death that Johnny had admitted to not calling Joey prior to his passing, and in the documentary End of the Century Johnny claimed that Joey's death had a profound impact on him emotionally and that he was depressed for "the whole week" after his death.[81] Dee Dee's bipolar disorder and repeated relapses into drug addiction also caused significant strains.[104] Tommy would also leave the band after being "physically threatened by Johnny, treated with contempt by Dee Dee, and all but ignored by Joey".[105] As new members joined over the years, disbursement and the band's image frequently became matters of serious dispute.[106] The tensions among the group members were not kept secret from the public as was heard on the Howard Stern radio show in 1997, where during the interview Marky and Joey got into a fight about their respective drinking habits.[107] Style Musical style "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" MENU0:00 Cultural critic Anders Johannsson uses this 1977 single as an example of how most Ramones songs "work in the same way: the same hammering on the drums, the same distorted guitars, the same howling of an extremely short text, in a simple tune with an even simpler chorus".[108] Problems playing this file? See media help. The Ramones's loud, fast, straightforward musical style was influenced by pop music that the band members grew up listening to in the 1950s and 1960s, including classic rock groups such as the Beach Boys, the Who, the Beatles, the Kinks, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and Creedence Clearwater Revival; bubblegum acts like the 1910 Fruitgum Company and Ohio Express; and girl groups such as the Ronettes and the Shangri-Las. They also drew on the harder rock sound of the MC5, Black Sabbath,[109] the Stooges and the New York Dolls, now known as seminal protopunk bands.[110] The Ramones' style was in part a reaction against the heavily produced, often bombastic music that dominated the pop charts in the 1970s. "We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard," Joey once explained. "In 1974 everything was tenth-generation Elton John, or overproduced, or just junk. Everything was long jams, long guitar solos ... . We missed music like it used to be."[111] Ira Robbins and Scott Isler of Trouser Press describe the result: With just four chords and one manic tempo, New York's Ramones blasted open the clogged arteries of mid-'70s rock, reanimating the music. Their genius was to recapture the short/simple aesthetic from which pop had strayed, adding a caustic sense of trash-culture humor and minimalist rhythm guitar sound.[112] As leaders in the punk rock scene, the Ramones' music has usually been identified with that label,[1] while some have defined their characteristic style more specifically as pop punk[113] and others as power pop.[114] In the 1980s, the band sometimes veered into hardcore punk territory, as can be heard on Too Tough to Die.[112] On stage, the band adopted a focused approach directly intended to increase the audience's concert experience. Johnny's instructions to C.J. when preparing for his first live performances with the group were to play facing the audience, to stand with the bass slung low between spread legs, and to walk forward to the front of stage at the same time as he did. Johnny was not a fan of guitarists who performed facing their drummer, amplifier, or other band members.[115] Visual imagery The Ramones' art and visual imagery complemented the themes of their music and performance. The members adopted a uniform look of long hair, leather jackets, T-shirts, torn jeans, and sneakers. This fashion emphasized minimalism – a powerful influence on the New York punk scene of the 1970s – and reflected the band's short, simple songs.[116] Tommy Ramone recalled that, musically and visually, "We were influenced by comic books, movies, the Andy Warhol scene, and avant-garde films. I was a big Mad magazine fan myself."[116] The band's logo, based on the Seal of the President of the United States The band's logo was created by New York City artist Arturo Vega, with the Ramones. Vega, a longtime friend, had allowed Joey and Dee Dee to move into his loft.[117] He produced the band's T-shirts – their main source of income – basing most of the images on a black-and-white self-portrait photograph he had taken of his American bald eagle belt buckle, which appeared on the back sleeve of the Ramones' first album.[118] He was inspired to create the band's logo after a trip to Washington, D.C.: I saw them as the ultimate all-American band. To me, they reflected the American character in general—an almost childish innocent aggression ... . I thought, 'The Great Seal of the President of the United States' would be perfect for the Ramones, with the eagle holding arrows—to symbolize strength and the aggression that would be used against whomever dares to attack us—and an olive branch, offered to those who want to be friendly. But we decided to change it a little bit. Instead of the olive branch, we had an apple tree branch, since the Ramones were American as apple pie. And since Johnny was such a baseball fanatic, we had the eagle hold a baseball bat instead of the [Great Seal]'s arrows.[118] The scroll in the eagle's beak originally read "Look out below", but this was soon changed to "Hey ho let's go" after the opening lyrics of the band's first single, "Blitzkrieg Bop". The arrowheads on the shield came from a design on a polyester shirt Vega had bought. "Ramones" was spelled out in block capitals above the logo using plastic stick-on letters.[27] Where the presidential emblem read "Seal of the President of the United States" clockwise in the border around the eagle, Vega placed the pseudonyms of the band members: Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, and Tommy. Over the years the names in the border would change as the band's line-up fluctuated.[119] "It's the American presidential seal – anyone can use it," said Marky Ramone of the logo's ubiquity. "We share the royalties on the t-shirt and on the merchandise. A lot of the kids wearing that shirt might not even have heard of the Ramones' music. I guess if you have the shirt, your curiosity might bring you to buy the music. Whatever, it is a strange phenomenon."[120] Influence Johnny Ramone in concert, 1977 The Ramones had a broad and lasting influence on the development of popular music. Music historian Jon Savage writes of their debut album that "it remains one of the few records that changed pop forever."[121] As described by AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, "The band's first four albums set the blueprint for punk, especially American punk and hardcore, for the next two decades."[122] Trouser Press's Robbins and Isler similarly wrote that the Ramones "not only spearheaded the original new wave/punk movement, but also drew the blueprint for subsequent hardcore punk bands".[112] Punk journalist Phil Strongman writes, "In purely musical terms, the Ramones, in attempting to re-create the excitement of pre-Dolby rock, were to cast a huge shadow—they had fused a blueprint for much of the indie future."[28] Writing for Slate in 2001, Douglas Wolk described the Ramones as "easily the most influential group of the last 30 years."[123] The Ramones' debut album had an outsized effect relative to its modest sales. According to Generation X bassist Tony James, "Everybody went up three gears the day they got that first Ramones album. Punk rock—that rama-lama super fast stuff—is totally down to the Ramones. Bands were just playing in an MC5 groove until then."[124] The Ramones' two July 1976 shows, like their debut album, are seen as having a significant impact on the style of many of the newly formed British punk acts—as one observer put it, "instantly nearly every band speeded up".[125] The Ramones' first British concert, at London's Roundhouse concert hall, was held on July 4, 1976, the United States Bicentennial.[126] The Sex Pistols were playing in Sheffield that evening, supported by the Clash, making their public debut. The next night, members of both bands attended the Ramones' gig at the Dingwall's club. Ramones manager Danny Fields recalls a conversation between Johnny Ramone and Clash bassist Paul Simonon (which he mislocates at the Roundhouse): "Johnny asked him, 'What do you do? Are you in a band?' Paul said, 'Well, we just rehearse. We call ourselves the Clash but we're not good enough.' Johnny said, 'Wait till you see us—we stink, we're lousy, we can't play. Just get out there and do it.'"[127] Another band whose members saw the Ramones perform, the Damned, played their first show two days later. The central fanzine of the early UK punk scene, Sniffin' Glue, was named after the song "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue", which appeared on the debut LP.[128] Ramones concerts and recordings influenced many musicians central to the development of California punk as well, including Greg Ginn of Black Flag,[129] Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys,[130] Al Jourgensen of Ministry,[131] Mike Ness of Social Distortion,[132] Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion,[133] and members of the Descendents.[134] Canada's first major punk scenes—in Toronto and in British Columbia's Victoria and Vancouver—were also heavily influenced by the Ramones.[47][135] In the late 1970s, many bands emerged with musical styles deeply indebted to the band's. There were the Lurkers from England,[136] the Undertones from Ireland,[137] Teenage Head from Canada,[138] and the Zeros[139] and the Dickies[140] from southern California. The seminal hardcore band Bad Brains took its name from a Ramones song.[141] The Riverdales emulated the sound of the Ramones throughout their career.[142] Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong named his son Joey in homage to Joey Ramone, and drummer Tré Cool named his daughter Ramona.[143] New Jersey's horror punk/hardcore punk band the Misfits (whose bassist Jerry Only was a longtime friend of the band) were influenced by the "Blitzkrieg" tempo of the Ramones, infusing it into their already medium-fast tempo, R&B style of punk rock. The Ramones also influenced musicians associated with other genres, such as heavy metal. Their influence on metal gave birth to the punk-metal "fusion" genre of thrash. Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, one of the originators of thrash guitar, has described the importance of Johnny's rapid-fire guitar playing style to his own musical development.[144] Motörhead lead singer Lemmy, a friend of the Ramones since the late 1970s, mixed the band's "Go Home Ann" in 1985. The members of Motörhead later composed the song "R.A.M.O.N.E.S." as a tribute, and Lemmy performed at the final Ramones concert in 1996.[145] In the realm of alternative rock, the song "53rd and 3rd" lent its name to a British indie pop label cofounded by Stephen Pastel of the Scottish band the Pastels. Evan Dando of the Lemonheads,[146] Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters,[128] Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam[147] (who introduced the band members at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction) and the Strokes[148] are among the many alternative rock and metal musicians who have credited the Ramones with inspiring them.[149] The band members were also individually influential. Johnny Ramone was named one of Time's "10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players" in 2003.[150] That same year, he was number 16 on the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list in Rolling Stone.[151] "We think of the Ramones as a classic, iconic band," observed Gene Simmons. "They have one gold record to their name. They never played arenas; couldn't sell them out. It was a failed band. It doesn't mean they weren't great. It means the masses didn't care."[152] Kevin Morby's fourth album City Music features the track "1234" inspired by the singer's childhood love of Ramones. It features the lyrics "Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy/ They were all my friends, but they died." Tribute albums In April 2009, Spin writer Mark Prindle observed that the Ramones had to date "inspired a jaw-dropping 48 (at least!) full-length tribute records."[153] The first Ramones tribute album featuring multiple performers was released in 1991: Gabba Gabba Hey: A Tribute to the Ramones includes tracks by such acts as the Flesh Eaters, L7, Mojo Nixon, and Bad Religion.[149] In 2001, Dee Dee made a guest appearance on one track of Ramones Maniacs, a multi-artist cover of the entire Ramones Mania compilation album. The Song Ramones the Same, which came out the following year, includes performances by the Dictators, who were part of the early New York punk scene, and Wayne Kramer, guitarist for the influential protopunk band MC5. We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones, released in 2003, features performers such as Rancid, Green Day, Metallica, Kiss, the Offspring, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, and Rob Zombie (who also did the album cover artwork).[154] Also some other famous bands recorded tribute songs. Motörhead's Phil Campbell tells in Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone's book Ramones: Soundtrack Of Our Lives: "We did a cover of Rockaway Beach with me on backing vocals, which was quite enjoyable. When Johnny Ramone heard it, he refused to put it on the tribute album. Lemmy and I thought we did a good version."[155] Punk bands such as Screeching Weasel, the Vindictives, the Queers, Parasites, the Mr. T Experience, Boris the Sprinkler, Beatnik Termites, Tip Toppers, Jon Cougar Concentration Camp, McRackins, and Kobanes have recorded cover versions of entire Ramones albums—Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket to Russia, It's Alive, Road to Ruin, End of the Century, Pleasant Dreams, Subterranean Jungle, two versions of Too Tough to Die, and Halfway To Sanity respectively.[153][156] The Huntingtons' File Under Ramones consists of Ramones covers from across the band's history.[157] Shonen Knife, an all-woman trio band from Osaka, Japan, was formed in 1981 as a direct result of founder-lead singer-guitarist Naoko Yamano's instant infatuation with the music of the Ramones. In 2012, to observe the band's 30th anniversary, Shonen Knife released Osaka Ramones, which featured thirteen Ramones songs covered by the band.[158] There are also many other tribute albums listed on Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone's site.[159] Band members Final lineup Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman) – lead vocals (1974–1996), drums (1974) Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) – guitars (1974–1996) Marky Ramone (Marc Bell) – drums (1978–1983, 1987–1996) C. J. Ramone (Christopher Joseph Ward) – bass, backing vocals (1989–1996) Other members Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) – bass, vocals (1974–1989), synthesizer (1989) Tommy Ramone (Thomas Erdelyi) – drums (1974–1978) Richie Ramone (Richard Reinhardt) – drums, backing vocals (1983–1987) Elvis Ramone (Clem Burke) – drums (1987) (fill in drummer for two shows) Timeline Discography Main article: Ramones discography Studio albums Ramones (1976) Leave Home (1977) Rocket to Russia (1977) Road to Ruin (1978) End of the Century (1980) Pleasant Dreams (1981) Subterranean Jungle (1983) Too Tough to Die (1984) Animal Boy (1986) Halfway to Sanity (1987) Brain Drain (1989) Mondo Bizarro (1992) Acid Eaters (1993) ¡Adios Amigos! (1995) Dee Dee Ramone was one of the strangest people I've ever met. Whenever we saw him, we were never sure if we were going to get the good Dee Dee or the bad Dee Dee. In the 90s, when I was asked to write a forward to his book, Lobotomy, I described him as, “the last of the dying breed of authentic rock star, an authentic bad guy who got over it, and in so doing, changed the face of rock ‘n’ roll. Dee Dee was the archetypical fuk-up whose life was a living disaster. He was a male prostitute, a would-be mugger, a heroin user and dealer, an accomplice to armed robbery—and a genius poet who was headed for an early grave, but was sidetracked by rock ‘n’ roll.” Needless to say, I doubt we’ll see any more Dee Dee Ramones coming along in the near future. Rock ‘n’ roll these days is just too clean. And if I had to put a diagnosis on what Dee Dee suffered from, I wouldn’t know what to say. He was that unique. The following interview was conducted in 1989, a few months after he left the Ramones. He called me and said he wanted to spill the beans. Since we’d been friends since 1976, I was happy to turn on the tape recorder and let him go—which he did for about ten hours. DEUTSCHLAND UBER ALLES My parents fought a lot. I don't wanna get into that, but I remember it vividly—I mean I remember a lotta other crumby things, and some good things too—but I had a bad childhood. What I did to compensate for it was to live in a total fantasy world. I grew up in Germany and when I went to school, I failed the first grade and never went back. Actually I tried to go back the next semester, all my friends were going to the second grade—and I had to make a left and go down the hallway—and they said, “Where ya goin'?” I said, “I'm going home!” That was in Munich, it was an American army school for the military people stationed there. We didn't live right in the city, we lived on the outskirts, and there was some farmland and a lot of old bombed out houses and stuff. I’d wander around there and do things like swing on the swings—and I'd go into these intense fantasies—and imagine I was a fighter pilot. I also lived in Pirmasens, which is a small town right on the French border. The German side of the border was called the Siegfried Line and the French side was the Maginot Line. I used to wander round in the old bunkers and look for war relics. I used to pick ‘em up all the time, like old helmets and gas masks and bayonets and machine gun belts. This went on for like a year and I started dealing these war relics—but I used to have fun with them too. I'd always been fascinated by Nazi symbols—from finding them in the rubble in Germany. They were so glamorous. They were just so pretty. My parents were very upset by that. One time my father said something fuking ridiculous. I had found a Luftwaffe sword that was beautiful, and I knew I could keep it or sell it for a fortune, like 80 marks. When I brought that home, my father got uptight and said something really sick, he said, “Can you imagine all our guys that died because of that?” I thought, This guy is a real asshole. As if he really cared. I didn't figure my father for any passions like that, about anything. And from that day on, he just became a total joke to me—and I stopped fearing him. DRUGS I don't know how I got turned on to morphine—I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. A lot of my friends were Americans, their fathers were in the State Department or the Army or Air Force, they were very young kids and they were very excited that you could drink at any age in Germany. So everybody drank, but I really didn't hang out with people that much. I had to have a lot of time alone to wander around in fantasy, ya know? And I didn't want anything to disturb that. Doing drugs was always a very solitary thing with me. I did it alone, usually in some hallway or on some roof. I started getting high on morphine—they didn't have pot or heroin or anything like that in Germany. I started very young, like 12. I used to trade daggers and stuff for morphine syrettes from some soldiers I knew. I used to go up to the Army Base and cop there. They used to sell it in a big plastic bottle and you would go to the drug store and buy your works and go up there and they'd give you like 2.5cc for 50 cents. You'd go to the department store and get off—everybody got off there and the place was a wreck, ya know? The department store was good because it had a nice bathroom. It's funny, but I didn't smoke pot till I was like 15 or 16—until I came to America. I didn't like to drink. I tried it a few times—but I didn't really know how to drink. A lot of times my parents didn't want me around, they really didn't care what I did, as long as I didn't play the guitar in the house. I picked up the guitar when I was around 12. I really wanted to play the guitar. I don't know why. I got exposed to rock real early cause my mother always liked it—she would always tell me what to listen to. She told me about the Beatles, Ricky Nelson, everybody. I don’t think I really discovered rock until the Rolling Stones started breaking me away from my mother. I knew my mother couldn't listen to them, ya know? Then when I moved to America and I heard Jimi Hendrix, either in 1966 or 67, something like that. Then I knew I had my own music. AMERICA I hated it when I came to America—the kids weren't very cool, they didn't dress good. And there didn't seem to be any youth culture here—and the youth culture they had, I didn't like it because it wasn't very glamorous. Everything seemed turned out on an assembly line. There was this thing you were supposed to do and it all started at those damn head shops. I just didn't go for it. Later on, when I started to find myself, I started going to the discothèques, when the disco thing first started happening in New York. There were these clubs in the late 60s where Spanish and Italian kids would get together and they were like kids clubs—a lot of them were just like juice bars. But they were some of the first discothèques—like the Sanctuary, Superstar, and Tamburlaine. That's where I'd usually go. And I'd get really dressed up—to the hilt. When I was 15, I hitchhiked to California, but I got arrested on the way. I don't really wanna talk about this too much, but I'll tell you a little bit. I was arrested in Indiana for armed robbery. I asked my father if he could pay a small bail to get me out. That's one of the first times I ever asked him for anything, ya know? I was desperate. I was really scared, it was a rough place. And my father said, “Fuk you, rot there! You deserve it!” And then hung up. I was stuck there for a pretty long time. It was pretty bad. You see, I was hitchhiking and I met these kids from Flint, Michigan. I was kinda scared of them. They were very crazy. They were talking all this sick stuff and they kept saying how they wanted to cut someone’s head off. They wanted to strangle somebody. They had a thin wire and two hoops and they wanted to garrote somebody. Finally they pulled over to a gas station in South Bend, Indiana, and robbed the place. We all got arrested. The police caught us because the driver tried to step on the gas in the junk car and it stalled. No one got away with nuthin’! When I finally got out of jail, I went to Chicago. I managed to get a bus ticket, because I was really paranoid to hitchhike. I just didn't wanna see any cops. I forget where I took the bus to—somewhere like Amarillo, Texas. And then I just went to highway and started hitchhiking. I got a ride from this really nice guy all the way to Newport Beach, and that's where I spent my first night in California. The night before I was in Las Vegas and I remember thinking, “Man I gotta get outta here; this is the worse place on Earth!” So the next day I took some mescaline and I came into the city tripping my brains out. I hated the Sunset Strip, so I started hitchhiking down Sunset Boulevard to Route One and took that all the way up to Big Sur. I went up to this place called the Gorge. You couldn't get there easy, you had to swim to the entrance and walk along the bank of this creek, where the cliffs came together—and then it just opened up into these beautiful woods. I just lived there like an Indian for months, until I went back to LA. I’d traveled so much through Europe and the world—and I was always going through culture shock. I had a hard time adjusting—and I just didn't like America. And I didn't like California. It was too weird. See, I was hitching through Topanga Canyon and this biker picked me up. He said, “Where you goin?” I said “I'm just hangin out.” So he drove me up to the hills—and on top of the hill there was this plateau and they had all these gasoline generators up there and amplifiers. They had a whole weird band up there, doin this real psychedelic music and they asked me if I wanted some acid. I said sure, and I took some, but I didn’t like it very much after it started coming on. So I asked to leave, and the biker said, “Sure I'll drive ya!” He drove about 2000 miles an hour down this little twisting path down the mountain—it was very upsetting for me. Then I ended up taking some STP or something—and I went into this nightmare four-day trip. At the end of it, when I was coming down, I went into this sleazy barbershop and had him cut all my hair off! [laughs] EARLY RAMONES I had to have different guys to hang out with to do my different drugs. Joey Ramone couldn't do drugs. He tried them, but he couldn't handle it. He would freak out. One time I saw him smoke some pot and start convulsing on the floor in the fetal position, yelling “I'm freaking out! I'm freaking out!” At the time, Joey was painting—and he would chop-up carrots and lettuce and turnips and strawberries and mix it all together and paint with it! [laughs] His paintings were very good—and then he would try to make tapes of like different sounds. His parents had an apartment on the 20th floor and it was lightning out and he stuck a microphone from the tape recorder out on the balcony to tape the thunder—and the lightning struck the mike and burnt everything! He'd have me come over and bounce the basketball for half hour and he'd tape it. Then he'd listen to it all day in a daze. Joey and I used to sit on the steps of the bank in Queens Boulevard with a bottle of wine—when John would wanna go in the hallway and sniff glue. So John was up, when Joey was down—or whatever. Johnny Ramone had stopped doing hard drugs by then. He really was a pot smoker. He was the first person to introduce me to really good pot—no one even knew about good pot, but John did. He'd say, “Dee Dee, I promise you, three tokes of this stuff and you'll by really out of it!” I said, “Alright,” and I would be. Yeah, there was a lot of glue and Tuinals and Seconals—what a party! You couldn't get your head outta that bag! We used to call up numbers on the phone, it would go, “Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,” and we’d listen to that for hours. And sniff some glue a little more, because we knew these numbers to dial where you could get these weird sounds. John was a construction worker at 1633 Broadway, and I got transferred there. I was a mail clerk in the office building. I'd pack up the mail in the morning and sort it out. I had my cart and I'd have it lined up according to how the desks in the office were organized. And I'd drop off the mail and I'd gossip with the people a little bit—and then do it all over again ten times a day. So John and I would meet every day for lunch and usually we'd go to the Metropole and have a few beers. The Metropole was like a go-go place and after we got a little tipsy we'd go next door to look at the guitars. But we thought it was wrong to be in a band. We thought it was a bad thing. I thought we should work, you know, and try to hold down a job. But then one day it was a payday, and we both bought guitars and decided to start a band. John bought a Mosrite and I bought a Danelectro. Tommy Ramone definitely got us off the ground, the Ramones wouldn't have done anything without Tom. We were really green, we didn't know what the hell was going on, but Tommy was really annoying too. Tommy was a control freak, he was like a mother that was always upset with us. But Tommy cracked real early on. All our drummers cracked, every couple years one would crack—and then the group would be really happy, because we'd get rid of someone. And nobody would say we're gonna add this quality or that quality—they would just say we're gonna get faster! So every drummer we got we'd make them play faster and faster. One time we were outside some hotel and some fan came up and pulled out a pen and asked Tommy for an autograph. Tommy said, “That's not a knife is it? You aren't going to stab me, are you?” The Ramones gigs, especially the early ones in England, were very violent. And Tommy was very tiny and it was hard on him, ya know? And John was very nasty to Tommy and then Joey started getting nasty to Tommy. Tommy and I got along cause I was obviously not in competition to be the leader of that group—and Joey and John we're always striving for it. I remember the first time we went outta town to play and I couldn't cop that morning. We went to some awful place in New England, on the ocean to some awful club, it was called Frolics, a real sleazy beer-stinking ballroom, ya know? And I was getting sick. It was winter and it was cold—and afterwards we went back to some fleabag motel. I've been in some bad places, but this hotel was disgusting. Plus, I was getting sick, I was in withdrawal. So I took a blanket and I put it over the sink and I started running the water. And I sat underneath the blanket, underneath the sink. I just tried to make myself think I was sitting underneath a waterfall to forget where I was. We wanted to get outta there so bad, but we only had one van. We had to be there three days and the third day I was a wreck. We hated being outta New York and that night it was like the coldest night I ever been through. And as soon as we stopped playing this cop came in and took out this big pistol, and said “You guys better play more!” He was real drunk and this went on for an hour. We just wanted to leave and everything was so disorganized. So the next morning we called up Danny Fields, our manager, and said, “Danny we ain’t never doing this again!” And he said, “Well you’re playing this place and that place tomorrow!” CHINESE ROCKS I wrote that song outta spite for Richard Hell, cause he told me he was gonna write a song better than Lou Reed's “Heroin.” I went home and wrote “Chinese Rocks.” I wrote it by myself, in Debbie Harry's apartment on First Avenue and First Street. I always wrote my songs with all the same verse and chorus, like “53rd & 3rd.” It's always the same thing—so I could just repeat, "My girlfriend's crying in the shower stall." Then I took it and showed it to Richard Hell—and he put something else in there, he put that line in, "It’s hot as a bitch, I shoulda been rich, I shoulda been digging a Chinese ditch," so I give him some credit. That's how people are—we had this competition going, ya know? He put me in that position. He's very argumentative. He's smart and all—but he had to be the top dog, and he never really was, ya know? For people who used my song—from Lee Childers to Johnny Thunders, to Richard Hell—they never gave me much respect as a writer, ya know? Johnny Thunders got on my nerves about that song—I don't understand why he was so touchy about it. Johnny Thunders is great at everything he did, so why did he have to take it out on my song? I mean I love his song, "I Love You," I think that's a great song, but I have no idea why he stole “Chinese Rocks” from me. The more I realize how good a song “Chinese Rocks” is—then I think, “But it ain't the best song in the world,” ya know? The Ramones said they wouldn't do Chinese Rocks, and I had an apartment on 10th Street with this girl Pam, that I was going out with. So Jerry Nolan came up one day and I showed him the song and Jerry said, “Perfect.” So I gave the song to Jerry and said, “Why don't you guys do it?” And then the Heartbreakers L.A.M.F. album came out, they all had their names on it. I think everybody thought that was like a real tough thing to be a junkie—but I don't really know the real reason why he stole it from me. SID VICIOUS Sid used to follow me all over the place when we went to London. He wasn't in the Pistols then—and he was very nice. He was like a little kid, ya know? He wasn’t a nut then, he was very nice and very innocent. Then one night we had a big party—it was the summer, and in London, there's no air conditioning. It was at a place called Country Cousin or Country Club, where everybody has their parties. They were just serving beer and wine and everybody was bombed. The whole bathroom was filled with puke and piss and shit—in the sink, in the toilets, on the floor—the whole place! It was really disgusting, and Johnny Lydon or somebody asked me, “Dee Dee, do you need anything?” I said, “Yeah, I want some speed!” So all of a sudden I had a huge amount of speed in my hand. I started sniffing it like crazy and I was so high, and I saw Sid and he asked me, “Do you have anything to get high?" I said, “Yeah I got some speed.” So we went in the bathroom Sid pulled out a set of works. He puts a whole bunch a speed in the syringe—and then stuck the needle and the works in the toilet with all the puke and piss in there and loaded it. He didn’t cook it up—he just shook it and stuck it in his arm and got off. I just looked at him, ya know? I'd seen it all by then—and he just looked at me kinda dazed and said, “Man where did you get this stuff?” PHIL SPECTOR Working with Phil Spector was a nightmare. First of all, we had no money. We'd been together four or five years and we were flat broke. We were staying in some flea bag motel in Culver City—with just enough money to buy two damn Tuinals and a beer every day. And Phil was like totally out of his mind—I hadn't met anyone crazier than him. We hated his music and we hated each other, but he liked me a lot. He used to pull guns all the time, and he had two guys with him that were fully armed. Johnny Ramone took care of it—he told Phil to cut it out or we're gonna leave. Then Phil said, “Alright you guys, just try and leave! I’m not letting you leave!” So we just sat there for a couple days. He just held us with these guns, and we had to sit there in the living room and listen to him play “Baby, I Love You” over and over. [laughs] I don't know what he was drinking. I couldn't figure it out because he had this big gold goblet with all these jewels on it and he looked like Dracula drinking blood, so I said “Phil let me have some of that…” And he said, “OK, Dee Dee,” and it was ManischewitzWine. I hated him. I don't like anything about him. I don't like people who are in the music business who are bitter and trying too hard to prove something. He was all that. The recording was a nightmare, it couldn't have been worse. One time he made John play the guitar chord to the beginning of “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School” over and over again for about six or eight hours. Phil just sat there listening to it in a daze, and finally Johnny said, “Look I can't do this anymore, I'm going back to New York!”' Phil said, “No, just give it a chance, there’s something I'm trying to hear.” And he'd sit there dazed—it sounded the same every time John played it—I don't know what he was listening for. Phil would always just get real violent around me. I seemed to bring out something bad in him. He always seemed to be competing with me to try and let me know he could be tougher than me, and I wasn't going for it. Finally one night I put him in his place. I got real heavy with him—I had to. I’d had enough. The album took forever to start because Phil wouldn't even tell us where we were recording. Then finally, he gave us a list of three studios, all within 50 miles of each other and said, “Call this one every day at a certain hour and that way you'll be able to know where we’re going to record.” That's how paranoid he was. He rented three studios and paid for them all—had them open sessions that he booked weeks before. I mean, when he went outta the house it was all a big strategy of how he was armed, and what his security was. End of the Century was our biggest selling album, but it almost ruined our careers because the people who bought the record came and saw us, they came to see “Baby, I Love You,” and as soon as we started playing they left. The next tour we did it was half empty seats. I couldn't believe it. I don't think we really recovered till I wrote Too Tough to Die. I was driving home with the band from the record company in New York and they put on something from the End of the Century album, I think it was, “I'm Affected.” I couldn't believe how awful it sounded! It was horrible! And I didn’t like our version of “Baby, I Love You.” Not at all. Some of the worst crap I ever wrote went on that album. I don't even want to say the names of the songs, but that was me at my worst. After I heard that album, I said, “Never again!” LEAVING THE RAMONES I don’t know when I left the Ramones, I'm not certain. I made a lot changes in my life in the last five to six months. I left my wife, I left the band, and I left my girlfriend—and it was hard, you know? I had to do it because I had to become myself. I’m not a puppet—I didn't want to be a little boy anymore. I wouldn't grow up, and a lot of things were irritating me about the Ramones. One thing that's always been important to me is to be myself. I don't write music according to a certain style that I'm noted for or familiar with. I write how I feel at the moment. I write current. I don't try to recreate the past, and that was the Ramones' thing. That was hard to deal with. I was also sick and tired of the little boy look—bowl haircut and the motorcycle jacket. And really, for four middle-aged men trying to be teenage juvenile delinquents is ridiculous. The thing that you want to strive for is to become a man, whether you want to be an adult or not. I think it's better to be an adult—to be secure enough with yourself not to hang on to what may have worked before. I was just getting sick of playing in a revival act. See, I was trying to say something about life and something positive. I don't know if what I was doing was right at the time—and I don't think the kids buying the albums wanted to hear what I was trying to say. I would write things about getting down on my knees and praying' for peace and all that, ya know? I was doing that kinda stuff and that's how I felt—and it was really hard to do that in the Ramones because they're very bigoted, very prejudice, and very right wing. And then I'd come out on the total left side of the field, and it was causing trouble. No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was. I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to them, they gave right back to me. The Ramones stand for nothing but pure hate. So now that I can write what I want to write and don't have to censor what I'm writing, unbelievable things are coming outta me that I didn't know I had in me. I always knew I could write a good song, but I listen to a Ramones album now and there's very few things on there that I'm really happy with. Of course, Joey writes all his love songs, crying about his broken heart, which I think is embarrassing. I always thought a rock star should never have his heart broken. He should break hearts and be a real lady-killer, and not be whining. That’s all Joey did in all his songs. It was annoying the hell outta me. So I started trying to write more serious. I think I was doing it just to flaunt it right back at them. I don't know that it was the right thing for the group now, but I think rock ‘n’ roll should be three words and a chorus. And the three words should be good enough to say it all. He was the group's primary songwriter, penning songs such as 'Rockaway Beach', '53rd & 3rd', and 'Poison Heart' for one of the most treasured and loved groups to emerge from the new wave – punk era. Everybody loved The Ramones. On 5th June 2002, Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Glenn Colvin), bass guitarist with the group died, aged 49, at his Hollywood, California apartment of a heroin overdose. Dee Dee was initially the band's lead vocalist, though his (then) inability to sing and play bass at the same time resulted in original drummer Joey Ramone taking over the lead vocalist duties. Born Douglas Glenn Colvin in Fort Lee, Virginia, he was the son of an American soldier and a German woman. As an infant, his family relocated to Berlin, Germany, due to his father's military service. His parents separated during his early teens, and he remained in Berlin until the age of 15, when he, along with his mother and sister Beverley, moved to the Forest Hills section of New York City's borough of Queens, in order to escape Dee Dee's alcoholic father. There he met John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi (later dubbed Johnny and Tommy "Ramone"), who were then playing in a band called The Tangerine Puppets, named after a Donovan song. The three were joined by drummer Jeffrey Hyman in 1974 and The Ramones were born. Jeffrey became Joey Ramone, taking over vocal duties after Dee Dee decided that it weas too hard on his voice to sing lead vocals for more than a few songs. It was Dee Dee who first suggested naming the band the Ramones, after reading that Beatle Paul McCartney often signed into hotels under the alias "Paul Ramon". He added an 'e' to the end of that surname and the band members all agreed to adopt the surname "Ramone" as a means of conveying their unity. Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life, particularly heroin. He began using drugs as a teenager, and continued to use them for the majority of his adult life. Appearing to clean up his act in the early 1990s, he resumed his heroin use some time later. On the evening of June 5, 2002, he was found dead by his wife Barbara at his Hollywood, California apartment; an autopsy established heroin overdose as the official cause of death. He had been booked to play a show at the Ventura Theatre, which ended up being a memorial show in his honor. Dee Dee Ramone is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, not far from the cenotaph of his former Ramones' bandmate, Johnny Ramone. His head stone features the Ramones seal with the line "I feel so safe flying on a ray on the highest trails above" taken from his song, "Highest Trails Above", from the Ramones' Subterranean Jungle album. At the stone's base is the line "O.K...I gotta go now." The following is a list of concert performances by the Ramones, complete through mid-1992.[1] They performed 2,263 in all. Contents 1 1974 2 1975 3 1976 4 1977 5 1978 6 1979 7 1980 8 1981 9 1982 10 1983 11 1984 12 1985 13 1986 14 1987 15 1988 16 1989 17 1990 18 1991 19 1992 20 1993 21 1994 22 1995 23 1996 24 References 1974 March 30 – Performance Studio (New York City; as a trio) August 16 – CBGB (New York City) August 17 – CBGB (New York City) August 24 – CBGB (New York City) August 25 – CBGB (New York City) August 29 – CBGB (New York City) August 30 – CBGB (New York City) August 31 – CBGB (New York City) September 1 – CBGB (New York City) September 2 – (party in SoHo, New York City) September 7 – CBGB (New York City) September 8 – CBGB (New York City) September 15 – CBGB (New York City) September 17 – CBGB (New York City) September 22 – CBGB (New York City) September 24 – CBGB (New York City) October 1 – CBGB (New York City) October 6 – CBGB (New York City) October 8 – CBGB (New York City) October 12 – CBGB (New York City) October 13 – CBGB (New York City) October 20 – CBGB (New York City) October 31 – CBGB (New York City) November 1 – CBGB (New York City) November 2 – CBGB (New York City) November 3 – CBGB (New York City) November 16 – Performance Studio (New York City) November 17 – CBGB (New York City) December 7 – Performance Studio (New York City) December 20 – Performance Studio (New York City) 1975 February 3 – Arturo Vega's Loft February 14 – Brandy's II (New York) February 28 – Performance Studio (New York City) March 1 – Performance Studio (New York City) March 6 – CBGB (New York City) March 7 – CBGB (New York City) March 8 – CBGB (New York City) April 11 – Performance Studio (New York City) April 14 – CBGB (New York City) April 15 – CBGB (New York City) April 25 – Performance Studio (New York City) May 12 – CBGB (New York City) May 13 – CBGB (New York City) May 30 – Coventry (Queens, New York) June 5 – CBGB (New York City) June 6 – CBGB (New York City) June 7 – CBGB (New York City) June 8 – CBGB (New York City) June 20 – CBGB (New York City) June 21 – CBGB (New York City) June 22 – CBGB (New York City) July 4 – CBGB (New York City) July 5 – CBGB (New York City) July 6 – CBGB (New York City) July 11 – Waterbury, Connecticut July 16 – CBGB (New York City) July 17 – CBGB (New York City) July 18 – CBGB (New York City) July 31 – CBGB (New York City) August 1 – CBGB (New York City) August 22 – CBGB (New York City) August 23 – CBGB (New York City) August 24 – CBGB (New York City) September 12 – Performance Studio (New York City) September 13 – Performance Studio (New York City) October 3 – Mother's (New York City) October 4 – Mother's (New York City) October 5 – Mother's (New York City) October 24 – CBGB (New York City) October 25 – CBGB (New York City) October 26 – CBGB (New York City) November 21 – CBGB (New York City) November 22 – CBGB (New York City) November 23 – CBGB (New York City) December 18 – CBGB (New York City) December 19 – CBGB (New York City) December 31 – Sea of Clouds (New York City) 1976 January 30 – CBGB (New York City) January 31 – CBGB (New York City) February 1 – CBGB (New York City) February 25 – Nashua, New Hampshire Mt. St. Mary Seminary February 26 – Boston February 27 – Brockton, Massachusetts March 22 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) April 1 – CBGB (New York City) April 2 – CBGB (New York City) April 3 – CBGB (New York City) April 9 – Phase V (New Jersey) April 10 – Phase V (New Jersey) April 18 – Max's Kansas City (New York City) May 10 – The Bottom Line (New York City) May 11 – The Bottom Line (New York City) May 12 – The Club, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA May 13 – CBGB (New York City) May 14 – CBGB (New York City) May 15 – CBGB (New York City) May 20 – Boston May 21 – Boston May 22 – Boston May 28 – New Canaan, Connecticut – New Canaan High School auditorium May 29 – Fairfield, Connecticut - Andrew Warde High School auditorium June 10 – Dover, New Jersey June 11 – Max's Kansas City (New York City) June 12 – Max's Kansas City (New York City) June 19 – Cleveland, Ohio (rainout) June 20 – Youngstown, Ohio July 4 – The Roundhouse (London, England) July 5 – Dingwalls (London, England) July 13 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) July 16 – Islip, New York July 17 – Islip, New York July 18 – Asbury Park, New Jersey July 22 – New Haven, Connecticut August 11 – Roxy (Los Angeles) August 12 – Roxy (Los Angeles) August 16 – Starwood (Los Angeles) August 17 – Starwood (Los Angeles) August 19 – San Francisco August 20 – San Francisco August 21 – San Francisco August 22 – San Francisco August 23 – Huntington Beach, California August 24 – Huntington Beach, California August 25 – Huntington Beach, California August 27 – Redondo Beach, California August 28 – Redondo Beach, California September 2 – Hempstead, New York September 3 – Friar Tuck's (Connecticut) September 4 – Friar Tuck's (Connecticut) September 9 – CBGB (New York City) September 10 – CBGB (New York City) September 11 – CBGB (New York City) September 12 – White Plains, New York September 17 – Westport, Connecticut September 18 – Westport, Connecticut September 19 – Dover, New Jersey September 24 – The New Yorker Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 25 – The New Yorker Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 27 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) September 28 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) October 8 – Max's Kansas City (New York City) October 9 – Max's Kansas City (New York City) October 16 – Detroit October 22 – Washington, D.C. October 23 – Washington, D.C. October 24 – Washington, D.C. October 29 – Freedom Hall Civic Center, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA October 30 – VCU, Richmond, Virginia November 12 – Newport, Rhode Island November 13 – Newport, Rhode Island November 24 – Atlanta November 25 – Atlanta November 26 – Atlanta November 27 – Atlanta 1977 January 28 – Boston January 29 – Boston January 30 – Boston, Massachusetts February 2 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) February 3 – CBGB (New York City) February 4 – CBGB (New York City) February 4 – Nassau Coliseum (Long Island, New York) February 5 – CBGB (New York City) February 8 – Dover, New Jersey February 10 – Poughkeepsie, New York February 11 – Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA February 16 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) February 17 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) February 18 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) February 19 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) February 20 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) February 22 – San Francisco February 23 – San Francisco February 24 – San Jose, California February 25 – Berkeley, California February 26 – Berkeley, California February 28 – Palo Alto, California March 2 – Sacramento, California March 4 – Bremerton, Washington March 5 – Aberdeen, Washington March 6 – Seattle March 10 – Encinitas, California March 11 – San Bernardino, California March 12 – San Diego March 13 – Norwalk, California March 15 – Denver March 16 – Denver March 25 – State University of New York College at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York March 26 – Countryside, Illinois March 27 – Detroit March 28 – Ann Arbor, Michigan March 31 – CBGB (New York City) April 1 – CBGB (New York City) April 2 – CBGB (New York City) April 3 – CBGB (New York City) April 8 – Westport, Connecticut April 9 – Philadelphia April 10 – West Islip, New York April 13 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) April 14 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) April 15 – Salisbury, Massachusetts April 16 – Salisbury, Massachusetts April 17 – Boston, Massachusetts April 20 – CBGB (New York City) April 24 – Zürich, Switzerland April 27 – Geneva, Switzerland April 28 – Lyon, France April 30 – Le Havre, France May 2 – Paris, France May 3 – Orléans, France May 4 – Lille, France May 5 – Brussels, Belgium May 6 – Amsterdam, Netherlands May 7 – Eindhoven, Netherlands May 8 – Groningen, Netherlands May 10 – Rotterdam, Netherlands May 11 – Utrecht, Netherlands May 12 – Copenhagen, Denmark May 15 – Stockholm, Sweden May 16 – Helsinki, Finland May 17 – Tampere, Finland May 19 – Liverpool, England May 20 – Leeds, England May 20 – Glasgow, Scotland May 21 – Glasgow, Scotland May 22 – Manchester, England May 23 – Doncaster, England May 24 – Birmingham, England May 26 – Aylesbury, England May 28 – Slough, England May 29 – Croydon, England May 30 – Bristol, England May 31 – Swindon, England June 1 – Plymouth, England June 2 – Penzance, England June 4 – Canterbury, England June 5 – London, England June 6 – London, England June 9 – CBGB (New York City) June 10 – CBGB (New York City) June 11 – CBGB (New York City) June 17 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 18 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 21 – Countryside Civic Center, Countryside, Illinois June 23 – El Tejon (Madison, Wisconsin) June 24 – Waukesha, Wisconsin June 26 – Ann Arbor, Michigan June 28 – Cincinnati, Ohio June 29 – Waukegan, Illinois June 30 – Rockford, Illinois July 1 – Minneapolis, Minnesota July 2 – Minneapolis, Minnesota July 4 – Milwaukee, Wisconsin July 6 – Chicago, Illinois July 8 – Lebanon, Illinois July 14 – Austin, Texas July 15 – Houston, Texas July 16 – Houston, Texas July 18 – San Antonio, Texas July 20 – Killeen, Texas July 24 – Dallas, Texas July 28 – Huntington Beach, California July 30 – Winterland (San Francisco) August 4 – Seattle, Washington August 5 – Portland, Oregon August 6 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada August 9 – Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, Los Angeles, California August 10 – The Whisky (Los Angeles, California) September 3 – The Camera Mart Stages, New York City October 1 – Dover, New Jersey October 4 – Palace Theater (Waterbury, Connecticut) October 6 – Palladium (New York City) October 8 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada October 9 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 11 – Washington, D.C. October 12 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 15 – Baltimore, Maryland October 19 – Cleveland, Ohio October 20 – Cobo Hall (Detroit, Michigan) October 21 – The Whisky (Los Angeles, California) October 22 – Chicago, Illinois October 27 – CBGB (New York City) October 28 – CBGB (New York City) October 29 – CBGB (New York City) October 30 – CBGB (New York City) November 5 – Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) November 7 – Poughkeepsie, New York November 8 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 11 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania November 12 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania November 14 – Utica, New York November 15 – Providence, Rhode Island November 16 – Amherst, Massachusetts November 18 – Orpheum (Boston, Massachusetts) November 19 – Capitol Theatre (Passaic, New Jersey) November 25 – Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, USA December 17 – Carlisle, England December 18 – Edinburgh, Scotland December 19 – Glasgow, Scotland December 20 – Newcastle, England December 21 – Manchester, England December 23 – Cambridge, England December 28 – Birmingham, England, The Top Rank Suite, Dale End. December 29 – Stoke-on-Trent, England December 30 – Aylesbury, England December 31 – Rainbow Theatre (London, England; recorded for live album) 1978 January 1 – Rainbow Theatre (London, England) January 5 – New Haven, Connecticut January 6 – Hartford, Connecticut January 7 – Palladium (New York City) (live album) January 9 – Dover, New Jersey January 13 – Buffalo, New York January 14 – Detroit January 15 – Youngstown, Ohio January 16 – Cleveland January 18 – Madison, Wisconsin January 19 – Milwaukee January 20 – Chicago January 21 – Minneapolis January 23 – Kansas City, Kansas January 27 – Civic Center (Santa Monica, California) January 30 – San Francisco January 31 – San Francisco February 2 – Eugene, Oregon February 3 – Seattle February 4 – Portland, Oregon February 7 – San Diego February 8 – Phoenix, Arizona February 10 – Albuquerque, New Mexico February 12 – Tulsa, Oklahoma February 14 – San Antonio February 17 – Austin, Texas February 18 – Fort Worth, Texas February 19 – Houston February 21 – New Orleans February 22 – Baton Rouge, Louisiana February 24 – Kingfish Club, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA February 25 – Atlanta February 27 – Park Center Charlotte, North Carolina March 2 – Orlando, Florida March 3 – Miami, Maurice Gusman Cultural Center March 6 – Belleville, Illinois March 8 – Ann Arbor, Michigan March 9 – Columbus, Ohio March 10 – Cincinnati March 12 – Champaign, Illinois March 13 – Akron, Ohio March 15 – Norfolk, Virginia March 17 – Baltimore March 18 – Philadelphia March 19 – Washington, D.C. March 21 – Boston March 22 – Boston March 24 – Hempstead, New York March 25 – Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey March 31 – Syracuse, New York April 1 – Yatesboro, Pennsylvania April 2 – Jamestown, New York April 4 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 5 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 16 – Trenton, New Jersey April 20 – Rochester, New York April 21 – Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania April 23 – Toledo, Ohio April 24 – Lansing, Michigan April 25 – Indianapolis April 27 – Sunderland, Massachusetts April 29 – Shaboo Inn, Mansfield, Connecticut May 4 – CBGB, New York City (Last Tommy Show) June 29 – Poughkeepsie, New York (First Marky Show) July 1 – New Brunswick, New Jersey July 2 – Greenwood Lake, New York July 5 – Roslyn, New York July 7 – Boston July 8 – Boston July 9 – Boston July 10 – Providence, Rhode Island July 12 – Portland, Maine July 16 – Youngstown, Ohio July 17 – Lansing, Michigan July 19 – Flint, Michigan July 21 – Columbus, Ohio July 23 – Cincinnati, Ohio July 25 – Palatine, Illinois July 26 – Madison, Wisconsin July 27 – DeKalb, Illinois July 29 – Kansas City, Kansas July 30 – Springfield, Missouri July 31 – St. Louis, Missouri August 1 – Champaign, Illinois August 2 – Highwood, Illinois August 5 – Asbury Park, New Jersey August 11 – Hurrah (New York City; audition for movie) August 12 – Hurrah (New York City; audition for movie) August 13 – Hurrah (New York City; audition for movie) August 18 – Dover, New Hampshire August 19 – Shaboo Inn, Mansfield, Connecticut August 21 – New Haven, Connecticut August 26 – New Brunswick, New Jersey September 5 – Helsinki, Finland September 7 – Stockholm, Sweden September 8 – Malmö, Sweden September 9 – Ronneby, Sweden September 11 – Hamburg, Germany September 12 – Berlin, Germany September 13 – Musikladen, Bremen, Germany September 14 – Brussels, Belgium September 15 – Amsterdam, Netherlands September 16 – Arnhem, Netherlands September 18 – Paris, France September 21 – Metro Club, Plymouth, England September 23 – Belfast, Northern Ireland September 24 – Dublin, Ireland September 26 – Bristol, England September 28 – Newcastle, England September 29 – Manchester, England September 30 – Birmingham, England October 2 – London, England October 3 – Cardiff, Wales October 4 – Leeds, England October 5 – Coventry, England October 6 – Edinburgh, Scotland October 7 – Glasgow, Scotland October 19 – New Haven, Connecticut October 21 – Queens College (Queens, New York) October 22 – Providence, Rhode Island October 23 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 25 – Albany, New York October 26 – Amherst, Massachusetts October 27 – Ontario Theater, Washington, D.C., USA October 28 – Richmond, Virginia November 12 – Raleigh, North Carolina November 13 – Atlanta, Georgia November 15 – Highwood, Illinois November 17 – Omaha, Nebraska November 18 – St. Paul, Minnesota December 1 – San Bernardino, California December 2 – Stockton, California December 4 – Long Beach, California December 5 – Phoenix, Arizona December 14 – Roxy (West Hollywood, California; three performances filmed for movie) December 15 – San Diego December 18 – Costa Mesa, California December 24 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) December 25 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) December 27 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) December 28 – San Francisco December 29 – Reno, Nevada December 30 – Santa Cruz, California December 31 – San Jose, California 1979 January 3 – Portland, Oregon January 4 – Seattle January 5 – Seattle January 6 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada January 9 – Boise, Idaho January 10 – Idaho Falls, Idaho January 11 – Salt Lake City January 13 – Boulder, Colorado January 14 – Boulder, Colorado January 18 – Dallas January 19 – Austin, Texas January 20 – San Antonio January 21 – Houston January 23 – Lafayette, Louisiana January 24 – New Orleans January 25 – Baton Rouge, Louisiana January 26 – Lake Charles, Louisiana January 28 – Nashville, Tennessee January 29 – Birmingham, Alabama January 30 – Atlanta January 31 – Raleigh, North Carolina February 2 – College Park, Maryland February 4 – Baltimore, Maryland February 6 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada February 7 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada February 8 – Buffalo, New York February 10 – Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey February 14 – Shelton, Connecticut February 15 – Sunderland, Massachusetts February 16 – New Brunswick, New Jersey February 17 – Providence, Rhode Island February 23 – Toledo, Ohio February 24 – Chicago February 25 – Detroit February 26 – Ann Arbor, Michigan February 27 – Cleveland February 28 – Cincinnati March 1 – Columbus, Ohio March 2 – Orpheum Theatre, Boston, USA March 3 – Boston March 4 – Hartford, Connecticut March 6 – Pittsburgh March 7 – Pittsburgh March 9 – Palladium, New York City March 22 – West Orange, New Jersey March 23 – Princeton, New Jersey March 24 – Browns Mills, New Jersey March 25 – Asbury Park, New Jersey March 29 – Dover, New Jersey March 30 – Columbia University (New York City) March 31 – Jamesburg, New Jersey April 6 – Roslyn, New York April 7 – Roslyn, New York April 8 – New Brunswick, New Jersey April 10 – CBGB (New York City) June 8 – San Francisco] June 16 – Dover, New Jersey June 17 – New Haven, Connecticut June 19 – Amityville, New York June 21 – West Orange, New Jersey June 22 – Asbury Park, New Jersey June 23 – Browns Mills, New Jersey June 24 – Allentown, Pennsylvania June 26 – Staten Island, New York June 27 – Staten Island, New York June 29 – Boston, Massachusetts June 30 – Boston, Massachusetts July 2 – Exhibition Stadium (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) July 5 – Poughkeepsie, New York July 6 – Syracuse, New York July 7 – Rochester, New York July 8 – Albany, New York July 11 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 12 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 13 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 14 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 19 – Roslyn, New York July 20 – Roslyn, New York July 21 – Roslyn, New York July 22 – Taunton, Massachusetts July 26 – Washington, D.C. July 27 – Baltimore July 29 – Ocean City, Maryland July 30 – Virginia Beach, Virginia July 31 – Raleigh, North Carolina August 3 – Hartford, Connecticut August 4 – Brooklyn, New York August 6 – Central Park (New York City) August 8 – Asbury Park, New Jersey August 9 – Dover, New Jersey August 11 – Amityville, New York August 12 – Amityville, New York August 13 – Port Chester, New York August 30 – Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle, England September 11 – Albany, New York September 14 – Port Chester, New York September 15 – Port Chester, New York September 18 – Wayne, New Jersey September 22 – Cookstown, New Jersey September 27 – C.W. Post College (Long Island, New York) September 28 – Brooklyn, New York September 29 – Brooklyn, New York September 30 – New Haven, Connecticut October 2 – Bergenfield, New Jersey October 3 – Wayne, New Jersey October 4 – West Orange, New Jersey October 6 – Boston October 7 – Hotel Diplomat (New York City) October 8 – Queens College (Queens, New York) October 9 – Philadelphia October 11 – Dayton, Ohio October 12 – Galesburg, Illinois October 13 – Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois October 14 – Grand Rapids, Michigan October 15 – Chicago October 17 – Marietta, Ohio October 18 – Detroit October 19 – Chicago October 20 – Milwaukee October 23 – Denver October 26 – University of California, Davis (Davis, California) October 27 – Oakland, California October 28 – UCLA (Los Angeles) October 29 – UCLA (Los Angeles) October 31 – San Diego November 2 – Costa Mesa, California November 4 – Irvine, California November 5 – Claremont, California November 6 – Garden Grove, California November 8 – Tucson, Arizona November 9 – El Paso, Texas November 11 – Lubbock, Texas November 13 – Austin, Texas November 14 – Dallas November 16 – Houston November 18 – New Orleans November 20 – Birmingham, Alabama November 22 – Atlanta November 23 – Nashville, Tennessee November 24 – Memphis, Tennessee November 26 – St. Louis November 27 – Headliners (Madison, Wisconsin) November 28 – Minneapolis November 30 – Milwaukee December 1 – Cincinnati December 4 – Ann Arbor, Michigan December 5 – Bloomington, Indiana December 6 – Indianapolis December 8 – Carlisle, Pennsylvania December 10 – Lowell, Massachusetts December 11 – New Haven, Connecticut December 13 – West Islip, New York December 21 – Hartford, Connecticut December 28 – Dover, New Jersey December 29 – Freeport, New York December 31 – Palladium (New York City) 1980 January 6 – Port Chester, New York January 15 – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, England (TV Show) January 16 – Brighton, England January 17 – Leicester, England January 18 – Cambridge, England January 19 – Norwich, England January 21 – Exeter, England January 22 – Cardiff, Wales January 23 – Aylesbury, England January 24 – Portsmouth, England January 26 – Leeds, England January 27 – Edinburgh, Scotland January 28 – Glasgow, Scotland January 29 – Newcastle, England January 31 – Top of the Pops, London, England February 1 – Manchester, England February 2 – Lancaster, England February 3 – Sheffield, England February 4 – Birmingham, England. Odeon, New Street. February 6 – Bournemouth, England February 7 – Bristol, England February 8 – Colchester, England February 9 – London, England February 11 – Amsterdam, Netherlands February 12 – Brussels, Belgium February 14 – Reggio Emilia, Italy February 15 – Udine, Italy February 16 – Milan, Italy February 18 – Turin, Italy February 20 – Le Palace, Paris, France February 21 – Chorus, Paris, France February 22 – London, England February 23 – London, England February 24 – Théatre de l'Empire, Paris, France March 6 – Asbury Park, New Jersey March 7 – Cherry Hill, New Jersey March 8 – Cherry Hill, New Jersey March 21 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 22 – Toronto, Canada March 23 – Detroit March 24 – Cleveland March 26 – The Agora, Columbus, Ohio March 28 – Atlanta March 29 – Atlanta, Georgia March 30 – Gainesville, Florida March 31 – Birmingham, Alabama April 1 – New Orleans, Louisiana April 3 – Austin, Texas- Armadillo World Headquarters April 4 – Houston April 5 – Dallas April 7 – Phoenix, Arizona April 8 – San Diego April 10 – Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California April 11 – Santa Cruz, California April 12 – San Francisco April 13 – Palo Alto, California April 15 – Berkeley, California April 21 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 22 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 24 – Pocatello, Idaho April 26 – Boulder, Colorado April 27 – Denver April 29 – Omaha, Nebraska May 1 – DeKalb, Illinois May 2 – Champaign, Illinois May 3 – Lansing, Michigan May 4 – Chicago May 6 – Carbondale, Illinois May 8 – Milwaukee May 9 – Chicago May 10 – Grinnell, Iowa May 11 – Minneapolis May 13 – Chicago May 14 – Chicago May 15 – Chicago May 16 – Chicago May 17 – Chicago May 19 – Sha Na Na, Los Angeles May 20 – London, Ontario, Canada May 21 – Burlington, Ontario, Canada May 23 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada May 25 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 26 – Guelph, Ontario, Canada May 27 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada May 29 – Albany, New York May 30 – Hartford, Connecticut May 31 – Lynn, Massachusetts June 2 – Boston June 3 – Boston June 4 – Boston June 5 – Staten Island, New York June 6 – Six Flags Great Adventure (Jackson Township, New Jersey) June 8 – College Park, Maryland June 10 – Tampa, Florida June 11 – Hallandale, Florida June 12 – Hallandale, Florida June 15 – Club 57 (New York City) June 27 – Tokyo, Japan June 28 – Tokyo, Japan June 29 – Tokyo, Japan July 1 – Nagoya, Japan July 2 – Kyoto, Japan July 3 – Osaka, Japan July 4 – Fukuoka, Japan July 6 – Logan Campbell Centre, Auckland, New Zealand July 8 – Sydney, Australia July 9 – Sydney, Australia July 10 – Melbourne, Australia July 11 – Adelaide, South Australia, Australia July 13 – Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia July 14 – Sydney, Australia July 15 – Sydney, Australia July 16 – Canberra, Australia July 18 – Brisbane, Australia July 19 – Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia July 21 – Auckland, New Zealand July 22 – Wellington, New Zealand July 24 – Christchurch, New Zealand August 7 – Long Branch, New Jersey August 8 – Asbury Park, New Jersey August 9 – Hull, Massachusetts August 10 – Cherry Hill, New Jersey August 11 – Central Park (New York City) August 24 – Edinburgh, Scotland August 28 – Stockholm, Sweden August 30 – Oslo, Norway August 31 – Lund, Sweden September 1 – Copenhagen, Denmark September 3 – Berlin, Germany September 4 – Hanover, Germany September 6 – Alvelgem, Belgium September 7 – Rotterdam, the Netherlands September 8 – Munich, Germany September 9 – Zürich, Switzerland September 11 – Sanremo, Italy September 12 – Genoa, Italy September 13 – Milan, Italy September 14 – Rome, Italy September 15 – Casalmaggiore, Italy September 17 – Montpellier, France September 19 – Barcelona, Spain September 22 – Oporto, Portugal September 23 – Lisbon, Portugal September 24 – Lisbon, Portugal September 26 – Madrid, Spain September 27 – San Sebastian, Spain September 29 – Lyon, France September 30 – Le Bataclan, Paris, France October 2 – London, England October 3 – Derby, England October 4 – Manchester, England October 5 – Edinburgh, Scotland October 6 – Liverpool, England October 8 – Dublin, Ireland October 9 – Belfast, Northern Ireland October 11 – Birmingham, England October 12 – Canterbury, England December 26 – Cherry Hill, New Jersey December 27 – Staten Island, New York December 29 – Dover, New Jersey December 31 – Lido Beach, New York 1981 January 3 – Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York January 4 – Rockaway, New York January 6 – Boston January 7 – Providence, Rhode Island January 8 – Hartford, Connecticut February 13 – Philadelphia February 14 – Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, New York) February 15 – Talleon Room Student Center (Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey) February 16 – New Paltz, New York February 19 – Bond's (New York City) February 20 – Bond's (New York City) February 21 – New Brunswick, New Jersey February 27 – Seton Hall University (South Orange, New Jersey) February 28 – Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) July 3 – Hampton Beach, New Hampshire July 4 – Hampton Beach, New Hampshire July 5 – Hull, Massachusetts July 7 – Passaic, New Jersey July 9 – Lido Beach, New York July 10 – Palladium (New York City) July 12 – Staten Island, New York July 13 – Wildwood, New Jersey July 14 – College Park, Maryland July 15 – Long Island, New York July 17 – Palladium (New York City) July 18 – Roselle Park, New Jersey July 25 – Tampa, Florida July 26 – Miami July 27 – Miami July 28 – Miami July 29 – Orlando, Florida July 31 – Atlanta, Agora Ballroom August 1 – Atlanta, Agora Ballroom August 4 – Dallas August 5 – Houston August 6 – San Antonio– Randy's on Bandera August 7 – Austin, Texas August 9 – Denver August 12 – Phoenix, Arizona August 13 – San Diego August 14 – Palladium (Hollywood, California) August 15 – Pasadena, California August 18 – San Francisco August 19 – Petaluma, California August 20 – Santa Cruz, California August 21 – San Francisco August 27 – Islip, New York August 29 – The Pier (New York City) September 3 – Albany, New York September 4 – Binghamton, New York September 5 – Saratoga Springs, New York September 9 – Mount Vernon, New York September 11 – Hartford, Connecticut September 12 – Cherry Hill, New Jersey September 13 – New Haven, Connecticut September 14 – Providence, Rhode Island September 15 – Boston September 17 – Rochester, New York September 18 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 19 – Detroit September 20 – Detroit, Michigan September 22 – Cleveland September 24 – Bloomington, Indiana September 25 – Chicago September 26 – Twin Lakes, Wisconsin September 28 – Minneapolis September 29 – Madison, Wisconsin October 1 – Champaign, Illinois October 2 – Chicago October 3 – Chicago October 4 – Youngstown, Ohio October 5 – Ann Arbor, Michigan October 7 – Dayton, Ohio October 8 – Columbus, Ohio October 10 – Virginia Beach, Virginia (Marky missed; cancelled) October 11 – Washington, D.C. October 22 – London, England October 24 – Amsterdam, Netherlands October 27 – Stockholm, Sweden October 28 – Lund, Sweden October 29 – Copenhagen, Denmark November 1 – Alsdorf, Germany, Odeon, Herzogenrather Strasse November 2 – Hanover, Germany November 4 – Munich, Germany November 6 – Milan, Italy November 7 – Bordeaux, France November 9 – Barcelona, Spain November 10 – Valencia, Spain November 11 – Madrid, Spain November 12 – Madrid, Spain November 13 – A Coruña, Spain November 15 – San Sebastian, Spain November 17 – Paris, France November 18 – Brussels, Belgium November 19 – London, England December 26 – Trenton, New Jersey[2] Nov-Dec 31 – Lido Beach, New York 1982 January 2 – Hull, Massachusetts January 3 – New Haven, Connecticut January 7 – Passaic, New Jersey January 8 – Pawcatuck, Connecticut January 9 – Staten Island, New York January 22 – Glen Cove, New York February 11 – Boston February 12 – Delhi, New York February 13 – Manchester, New Hampshire February 18 – Newark, Delaware February 19 – Fairfield, Connecticut February 20 – Providence, Rhode Island February 21 – Oswego, New York March 1 – Baltimore, Maryland March 6 – West Islip, New York March 13 – Buffalo, New York March 16 – Cleveland March 17 – Detroit March 25 – Albany, New York March 26 – Bear Mountain, New York March 27 – Mansfield, Pennsylvania April 3 – Madison, New Jersey April 4 – Framingham, Massachusetts April 14 – Columbia University (New York City) April 16 – Millersville, Pennsylvania April 17 – Matawan, New Jersey April 18 – Saratoga Springs, New York April 21 – Montclair, New Jersey April 22 – Salem, Massachusetts April 23 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) April 24 – Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) April 25 – Glassboro, New Jersey April 27 – Virginia Beach, Virginia (makeup for canceled show) April 28 – Columbia, South Carolina April 29 – Morgantown, West Virginia April 30 – New Rochelle, New York May 1 – Hofstra University (Hempstead, New York) May 2 – Newark, New Jersey May 6 – Fitchburg, Massachusetts May 7 – Hull, Massachusetts May 8 – Framingham, Massachusetts May 9 – Hampton Beach, New Hampshire May 14 – Trenton, New Jersey May 16 – Burlington, Vermont May 18 – Jersey City, New Jersey May 20 – Poughkeepsie, New York May 21 – Poughkeepsie, New York May 22 – Brooklyn, New York May 29 – Schenectady, New York May 30 – Tyngsborough, Massachusetts July 2 – Dover, New Jersey August 24 – Brooklyn, New York August 25 – Poughkeepsie, New York August 27 – Asbury Park, New Jersey August 28 – Hampton Beach, New Hampshire August 29 – East Hampton, New York September 3 – US Festival (San Bernardino, California) October 1 – Providence, Rhode Island October 3 – Washington, D.C. October 4 – Virginia Beach, Virginia October 6 – New Haven, Connecticut October 7 – Hartford, Connecticut November 15 – Bangor, Maine November 16 – Boston November 20 – Mount Vernon, New York November 21 – Hofstra University (Hempstead, New York) November 26 – Islip, New York November 27 – Islip, New York (Marky´s Last Show) 1983 February 13 – Utica, New York (Richie´s First Show) February 17 – Philadelphia February 18 – Poughkeepsie, New York February 19 – Wellesley, Massachusetts February 20 – Boston February 24 – Middlebury, Vermont March 12 – Southampton, New York March 13 – Danbury, Connecticut March 14 – Burlington, Vermont March 16 – Philadelphia March 17 – Philadelphia March 18 – Brooklyn, New York March 19 – Brooklyn, New York March 23 – Washington, D.C. March 24 – Washington, D.C. March 25 – New Haven, Connecticut March 26 – Hartford, Connecticut March 30 – Boston, Massachusetts March 31 – Amherst, Massachusetts April 8 – Atlanta April 9 – New Orleans April 11 – Beaumont, Texas April 13 – Dallas April 14 – Houston April 15 – Austin, Texas April 16 – San Antonio– The Bonham Ballroom April 19 – Las Cruces, New Mexico April 20 – Phoenix, Arizona April 22 – Palladium (Hollywood, California) April 23 – Jack Murphy Stadium (San Diego) April 24 – Pasadena, California April 26 – Goleta, California April 27 – Santa Cruz, California April 28 – Palo Alto, California April 29 – San Francisco April 30 – Sacramento, California May 2 – Eugene, Oregon May 3 – Portland, Oregon May 4 – Seattle May 5 – Seattle May 6 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada May 9 – Denver May 11 – St. Louis May 12 – Kansas City, Missouri May 13 – Wichita, Kansas May 15 – Minneapolis May 16 – Madison, Wisconsin May 17 – Milwaukee May 19 – Chicago May 20 – Chicago, Illinois May 21 – Cleveland May 22 – Detroit May 24 – Indianapolis May 26 – Columbus, Ohio May 27 – Wheeling, Illinois May 28 – Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) May 29 – University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) May 31 – Omaha, Nebraska June 1 – Des Moines, Iowa June 2 – Rockford, Illinois June 3 – Wausau, Wisconsin June 5 – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada June 7 – Calgary, Alberta, Canada June 8 – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada June 10 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 12 – Ann Arbor, Michigan June 13 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 14 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 20 – Virginia Beach, Virginia June 22 – Raleigh, North Carolina June 23 – Columbia, South Carolina June 24 – Hallandale, Florida June 25 – Hallandale, Florida June 26 – St. Petersburg, Florida June 29 – Washington, D.C. June 30 – Washington, D.C. July 9 – Bridgeport, Connecticut July 11 – Margate, New Jersey July 13 – Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania July 14 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania July 16 – The Pier (New York City) July 22 – Hicksville, Ohio July 24 – Richmond, Virginia July 27 – Buffalo, New York July 28 – Roslyn, New York July 29 – Philadelphia July 30 – Cape Cod, Massachusetts August 5 – Hampton Bays, New York August 6 – Poughkeepsie, New York August 12 – Brooklyn, New York August 13 – Queens, New York December 20 – Cedar Grove, New Jersey December 22 – Poughkeepsie, New York December 23 – Hartford, Connecticut December 27 – Levittown, New York December 29 – The Ritz (New York City) December 30 – Providence, Rhode Island 1984 January 5 – New Haven, Connecticut January 6 – Boston January 7 – Queens, New York January 12 – Philadelphia January 14 – Roslyn, New York March 9 – Portland, Maine March 10 – Providence, Rhode Island March 16 – Waterbury, Connecticut March 17 – Brooklyn, New York March 20 – Washington, D.C. March 22 – Manchester, New Hampshire March 23 – Albany, New York March 29 – Hartford, Connecticut March 30 – Brockton, Massachusetts April 6 – Salisbury, Massachusetts April 26 – Charlottesville, Virginia April 27 – Bronx, New York (Fordham University)[3] April 28 – Rochester, New York April 29 – Storrs, Connecticut May 4 – Ithaca, New York May 5 – Cortland, New York May 17 – Garden City, New York May 18 – New Haven, Connecticut May 19 – Mount Ivy, New York May 31 – Richmond, Virginia June 1 – Norfolk, Virginia June 8 – Ellington, Connecticut June 9 – Keene, New Hampshire June 16 – Queens, New York June 28 – Providence, Rhode Island June 29 – Taunton, Massachusetts June 30 – Syracuse, New York July 1 – Washington, D.C. August 1 – Rochester August 17 – Hackettstown, New Jersey August 28 – New Haven, Connecticut August 30 – Selden, New York August 31 – Hartford, Connecticut September 2 – Lido Beach, New York September 15 – Stony Brook, New York October 5 – Spring Valley, New York October 6 – Queens, New York October 9 – Washington, D.C. October 11 – North Dartmouth, Massachusetts October 12 – Providence, Rhode Island October 13 – Manchester, New Hampshire October 19 – Bethany, West Virginia October 20 – Norfolk, Virginia October 26 – Tampa, Florida (canceled due to rain) October 28 – Hallandale, Florida October 29 – West Palm Beach, Florida October 30 – Hallandale, Florida October 31 – Gainesville, Florida November 2 – Atlanta November 3 – Atlanta November 5 – Destin, Florida November 7 – New Orleans November 10 – Houston November 11 – Austin, Texas November 12 – Dallas November 14 – Albuquerque, New Mexico November 15 – Phoenix, Arizona November 17 – Los Angeles November 18 – San Diego November 20 – Los Angeles November 21 – Pomona, California November 23 – San Francisco November 24 – Palo Alto, California November 27 – Portland, Oregon November 29 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada November 30 – Seattle December 1 – Eugene, Oregon December 3 – Sacramento, California December 4 – San Jose, California December 5 – Berkeley, California December 7 – Las Vegas December 9 – Los Angeles December 12 – St. Louis, Missouri December 13 – Milwaukee December 14 – Chicago December 15 – Detroit, December 16 – Detroit, Michigan December 26 – West Islip, New York December 27 – The Ritz (New York City) December 28 – The Ritz (New York City) December 29 – Providence, Rhode Island 1985 January 3 – Boston January 4 – Hartford, Connecticut January 9 – Mount Vernon, New York January 12 – Asbury Park, New Jersey January 25 – Lexington, Virginia January 30 – Washington, D.C. January 31 – Washington, D.C. February 8 – Brooklyn, New York February 12 – Bronx, New York February 14 – Lowell, Massachusetts February 15 – Worcester, Massachusetts February 16 – Manchester, New Hampshire February 17 – Philadelphia February 18 – Baltimore February 24 – London, England February 25 – London, England February 26 – London, England February 27 – London, England March 7 – Garden City, New York March 8 – Providence, Rhode Island March 9 – Brooklyn, New York March 14 – Athens, Ohio March 15 – Detroit March 16 – Detroit, Michigan March 18 – Columbus, Ohio March 19 – Cincinnati March 20 – Pittsburgh March 29 – Buffalo, New York March 30 – Syracuse, New York March 31 – Hamden, Connecticut April 4 – Baltimore April 5 – Norfolk, Virginia April 6 – Newark, Delaware April 12 – Durham, New Hampshire April 13 – Trenton, New Jersey April 27 – Worcester, Massachusetts May 3 – New Haven, Connecticut May 4 – Jamesburg, New Jersey May 5 – Trenton, New Jersey May 7 – Garden City, New York May 9 – Rochester, New York May 10 – Buffalo, New York May 12 – Hartford, Connecticut May 20 – Providence, Rhode Island May 25 – Hartford, Connecticut May 27 – Blacksburg, Virginia May 28 – Richmond, Virginia May 30 – The Ritz (New York City) May 31 – The Ritz (New York City) June 7 – Oyster Bay, New York June 8 – Hampton Beach, New Hampshire June 14 – Scotia, New York June 15 – Brooklyn, New York June 22 – National Bowl, Milton Keynes, England June 24 – Dublin, Ireland June 25 – Dublin, Ireland June 26 – Belfast, Northern Ireland June 28 – Glasgow, Scotland June 30 – Roskilde, Denmark July 1 - Freibad Hiltrup, Münster, Germany (TV Show) July 2 – Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany. July 3 – Hamburg, Germany July 4 – Bochum, Germany July 6 – Torhout, Belgium July 7 – Werchter, Belgium August 9 – Worcester, Massachusetts August 10 – Middletown, New York August 11 – Hampton Bays, New York August 12 – New Haven, Connecticut August 21 – Boston August 22 – Branford, Connecticut August 24 – Norfolk, Virginia August 25 – Washington, D.C. August 26 – Washington, D.C. August 27 – Ocean City, Maryland September 1 – Lido Beach, New York September 20 – Hartford, Connecticut September 21 – Albany, New York October 5 – Asbury Park, New Jersey October 11 – Spring Valley, New York October 12 – Providence, Rhode Island October 13 – East Meadow, New York October 26 – College Park, Maryland November 22 – Commack, New York November 23 – Lewistown, Pennsylvania November 27 – Trenton, New Jersey November 29 – Brooklyn, New York December 31 – The World (New York City) 1986 April 11 – Fredonia, New York April 12 – Rochester, New York April 14 – Philadelphia April 19 – Burlington, Vermont April 20 – Durham, New Hampshire April 25 – Randolph, New Jersey April 26 – New Brunswick, New Jersey May 4 – London, England May 5 – London, England May 6 – London, England May 7 – Brighton, England May 8 – Poole, England May 9 – St. Austell, England May 11 – Bristol, England May 12 – Birmingham, England May 13 – Preston, England May 14 – Edinburgh, Scotland May 15 – Newcastle, England May 17 – Leeds, England May 18 – Manchester, England May 19 – Nottingham, England June 20 – Albany, New York June 21 – Hartford, Connecticut June 22 – Hampton Beach, New Hampshire June 24 – New Haven, Connecticut June 25 – Providence, Rhode Island June 27 – Brooklyn, New York June 28 – Philadelphia June 29 – Baltimore, Maryland June 30 – Norfolk, Virginia July 1 – Washington, D.C. July 2 – Washington, D.C. July 8 – Oyster Bay, New York July 11 – Trenton, New Jersey July 12 – Asbury Park, New Jersey July 17 – Pittsburgh July 19 – Detroit July 20 – Detroit, Michigan July 21 – Cleveland July 22 – Columbus, Ohio July 24 – Newport, Kentucky July 25 – Chicago July 26 – Chicago, Illinois July 27 – Minneapolis August 2 – Veurne, Belgium August 3 – Sneek, Netherlands August 4 – Amsterdam, Netherlands August 5 – Amsterdam, Netherlands August 31 – Lido Beach, New York September 11 – San Diego September 13 – Los Angeles September 14 – Sacramento, California September 15 – San Francisco September 16 – San Francisco September 17 – Santa Clara, California September 19 – Long Beach, California September 21 – Los Angeles, California September 22 – Riverside, California September 23 – San Diego September 24 – The Whisky (West Hollywood, California) October 10 – Trenton, New Jersey October 11 – Brooklyn, New York October 16 – Northampton, Massachusetts October 17 – Hartford, Connecticut October 18 – Providence, Rhode Island October 24 – Washington, D.C. October 25 – Philadelphia October 31 – Roslyn, New York November 1 – Bridgeport, Connecticut November 3 – Boston November 6 – The Ritz (New York City) November 7 – The Ritz (New York City) November 15 – Kent, Ohio November 16 – Buffalo, New York November 18 – Montclair, New Jersey November 21 – Sayreville, New Jersey November 22 – Medford, Massachusetts December 4 – Waltham, Massachusetts December 5 – Rochester, New York December 6 – Alfred, New York December 19 – Queens, New York December 20 – Bay Shore, New York December 31 – Roslyn, New York 1987 January 3 – Trenton, New Jersey January 4 – Washington, D.C. January 23 – Providence, Rhode Island January 24 – Poughkeepsie, New York January 31 – São Paulo, Brazil February 1 – São Paulo, Brazil February 4 – Buenos Aires, Argentina February 20 – Pittsburgh February 21 – Allentown, Pennsylvania February 26 – Wayne, New Jersey February 27 – Asbury Park, New Jersey February 28 – Philadelphia March 20 – Dallas March 21 – Austin, Texas March 22 – Houston March 23 – New Orleans March 25 – Atlanta March 26 – Tallahassee, Florida March 27 – Tampa, Florida March 28 – Cocoa Beach, Florida March 29 – Miami Beach, Florida April 22 – Garden City, New York April 23 – Staten Island, New York April 25 – Hartford, Connecticut April 26 – New Haven, Connecticut April 30 – Williamstown, Massachusetts May 1 – Brunswick, Maine May 2 – Albany, New York May 3 – Hadley, Massachusetts May 8 – Randolph, New Jersey May 9 – Brooklyn, New York May 15 – Providence, Rhode Island May 16 – Bay Shore, New York May 29 – Darien Lake, New York May 30 – Poughkeepsie, New York June 18 – Harrisburg, Pennsylvania June 19 – Ocean City, Maryland June 20 – Philadelphia June 26 – Oyster Bay, New York June 27 – Flushing Meadows Park (Queens, New York) June 28 – Washington, D.C. June 29 – Washington, D.C. June 30 – Washington, D.C. July 1 – Norfolk, Virginia July 21 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 22 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 23 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 24 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada August 12 – East Hampton, New York (Last Richie Show) August 28 – Providence, Rhode Island (with Clem Burke on drums) August 29 – City Gardens, Trenton, New Jersey (with Clem Burke on drums) September 4 – Oyster Bay, New York (First Show with Marky again) September 5 – Washington, D.C. September 6 – Commack, New York September 10 – The Ritz (New York City) September 11 – The Ritz (New York City) September 16 – San Diego September 18 – Los Angeles September 19 – Fresno, California September 21 – San Francisco September 22 – San Francisco September 23 – Santa Clara, California September 25 – Long Beach, California September 26 – Northridge, California September 27 – Los Angeles October 5 – Copenhagen, Denmark October 6 – Hamburg, Germany October 7 – Amsterdam, Netherlands October 8 – Düsseldorf, Germany October 9 – Munich, Germany October 11 – Milan, Italy October 12 – Zürich, Switzerland October 13 – La Mutualité, Paris, France October 15 – Sheffield, England October 16 – Newcastle, England October 17 – Leeds, England October 18 – Glasgow, Scotland October 20 – Nottingham, England October 21 – Norwich, England October 22 – Manchester, England October 23 – Liverpool, England October 24 – Cardiff, Wales October 25 – Birmingham, England October 26 – London, England October 31 – Alexandria, Virginia November 12 – Wilmington, North Carolina November 13 – The Attic Greenville, North Carolina November 14 – Kidnappers Charlotte, North Carolina November 15 – Charlottesville, Virginia November 19 – The Living Room, Providence, Rhode Island November 20 – Allentown, Pennsylvania November 21 – Brooklyn, New York November 22 – Glassboro, New Jersey December 3 – New Haven, Connecticut December 4 – Randolph, New Jersey December 9 – Baltimore, Maryland December 10 – Washington, D.C. December 11 – Washington, D.C. December 12 – Oyster Bay, New York December 13 – Philadelphia December 31 – Bay Shore, New York 1988 January 1 – Trenton, New Jersey January 2 – The Ritz (New York City) January 28 – Dallas January 29 – Austin, Texas-The Backroom January 30 – Austin, Texas January 31 – Houston February 1 – New Orleans February 3 – Atlanta February 4 – Tallahassee, Florida February 5 – Jacksonville, Florida February 6 – St. Petersburg, Florida February 7 – Miami February 19 – Aguadilla, Puerto Rico February 20 – Aguadilla, Puerto Rico March 11 – Sayreville, New Jersey March 12 – Queens Village, New York March 13 – Hempstead, New York March 18 – Oswego, New York March 19 – Rochester, New York March 24 – Staten Island, New York March 26 – Allentown, Pennsylvania April 22 – Trenton, New Jersey April 23 – Philadelphia April 27 – Providence, Rhode Island April 29 – Commack, New York April 30 – Oswego, New York May 3 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 4 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 5 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 6 – Buffalo, New York May 7 – Rochester, New York May 19 – Brewster, New York May 20 – New Rochelle, New York May 21 – Philadelphia June 2 – Stockholm, Sweden June 3 – Lund, Sweden June 4 – Seinäjoki, Finland June 6 – Paris, France June 7 – Tilburg, Netherlands June 8 – Amsterdam, Netherlands June 9 – Amsterdam, Netherlands June 10 – Groningen, Netherlands June 11 – Göttingen, Germany June 12 – Berlin, Germany June 13 – Düsseldorf, Germany June 15 – London, England July 1 – Brooklyn, New York July 2 – Poughkeepsie, New York July 7 – San Diego July 8 – Los Angeles July 10 – The Fillmore (San Francisco) July 11 – The Fillmore (San Francisco) July 12 – Santa Clara, California July 13 – Santa Clara, California July 15 – Anaheim, California July 16 – Los Angeles July 17 – Santa Barbara, California July 18 – Roxy (West Hollywood, California) August 2 – New Haven, Connecticut August 3 – Easthampton, Massachusetts August 4 – Brewster, New York August 5 – Trenton, New Jersey August 12 – Commack, New York August 13 – Philadelphia August 14 – Baltimore August 15 – Washington, D.C. August 16 – Washington, D.C. August 19 – The Ritz (New York City) August 20 – The Ritz (New York City) August 26 – Reading, England August 27 – Hechtel, Belgium September 13 – Sayreville, New Jersey September 14 – Boston September 15 – Providence, Rhode Island September 21 – Pittsburgh September 22 – Kent, Ohio September 23 – Chicago September 24 – Detroit September 26 – Cincinnati September 27 – Columbus, Ohio September 28 – Indianapolis September 29 – St. Louis, October 1 – Cleveland, Ohio October 6 – Staten Island, New York October 7 – Poughkeepsie, New York October 8 – Rochester, New York October 9 – Albany, New York October 13 – Island Park, New York October 14 – Trenton, New Jersey October 15 – Trenton, New Jersey October 24 – Tokyo, Japan October 25 – Tokyo, Japan October 26 – Kobe, Japan October 27 – Osaka, Japan October 28 – Tokyo, Japan November 11 – Dallas November 12 – Austin, Texas November 13 – Austin, Texas November 14 – College Station, Texas November 15 – Houston November 16 – New Orleans November 18 – St. Petersburg, Florida November 19 – Miami Beach, Florida November 20 – Orlando, Florida November 22 – Atlanta December 1 – Bronx, New York December 2 – Baltimore, Maryland December 10 – Durham, New Hampshire December 11 – New Haven, Connecticut December 30 – Providence, Rhode Island December 31 – Irving Plaza (New York City) 1989 January 16 – Washington, D.C. January 17 – Washington, D.C. January 19 – Nashville, Tennessee January 20 – Lexington, Kentucky January 21 – Louisville, Kentucky January 23 – Columbia, South Carolina January 24 – Pterodactyl Club (Charlotte, North Carolina) January 25 – Norfolk, Virginia January 27 – The Ritz (New York City) January 28 – The Ritz (New York City) February 7 – Madrid, Spain February 8 – Barcelona, Spain February 9 – Valencia, Spain February 10 – Valencia, Spain February 11 – San Sebastian, Spain February 12 – San Sebastian, Spain February 24 – Poughkeepsie, New York March 24 – Canton, New York March 25 – Albany, New York March 31 – Queens Village, New York April 1 – Baltimore April 6 – New Haven, Connecticut April 7 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania April 15 – Stony Brook, New York May 2 – Monfalcone, Italy May 3 – Milan, Italy May 4 – Florence, Italy May 6 – Dueville, Vicenza, Italy May 7 – Rimini, Italy May 8 – Modena, Italy May 9 – Rome, Italy May 10 – Perugia Ellera, Italy May 12 – Athens, Greece May 13 – Athens, Greece May 14 – Athens, Greece May 15 – Athens, Greece May 26 – Boston May 27 – Providence, Rhode Island June 2 – Los Angeles June 3 – Long Beach, California June 4 – Reseda, California June 17 – San Francisco, California June 18 – Petaluma, California June 19 – Santa Clara, California June 20 – Santa Barbara, California June 22 – San Diego June 23 – Tijuana, Mexico June 24 – San Pedro, California June 25 – Reseda, California June 27 – Portland, Oregon June 28 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada June 29 – Seattle July 1 – The Fillmore (San Francisco) July 2 – The Fillmore (San Francisco) July 3 – Santa Cruz, California July 4 – Santa Clara, California July 5 – Santa Clara, California (Dee Dee's last show) September 30 – Leicester, England (C. J´s First Show)CJ First show live October 1 – Liverpool, England October 2 – Glasgow, Scotland October 3 – Newcastle, England October 4 – Manchester, England October 6 – Leeds, England October 7 – Birmingham, England October 8 – Bristol, England October 9 – London, England October 10 – London, England October 11 – London, England October 31 – Auckland, New Zealand November 1 – Auckland, New Zealand November 3 – Melbourne, Australia November 4 – Melbourne, Australia November 5 – Melbourne, Australia November 6 – Perth, Australia November 7 – Adelaide, Australia November 9 – Sydney, Australia November 10 – Sydney, New South Wales, Australia November 11 – Sydney, New South Wales, Australia November 12 – Brisbane, Australia November 22 – Offenbach, Germany November 23 – Bonn, Germany November 24 – Oberhausen, Germany November 25 – Hamburg, Germany November 26 – Berlin, Germany November 27 – Berlin, Germany November 28 – Bielefeld, Germany November 29 – Neumarkt, Germany November 30 – Böblingen, Germany December 1 – Deinze, Belgium December 2 – Utrecht, Netherlands December 3 – Rotterdam, Netherlands December 4 – Amsterdam, Netherlands December 12 – New Haven, Connecticut December 13 – Poughkeepsie, New York December 14 – Philadelphia December 15 – The Ritz (New York City) December 16 – The Ritz (New York City) 1990 February 23 – Trenton, New Jersey February 24 – Sag Harbor, New York February 25 – Albany, New York March 1 – Charlottesville, Virginia March 2 – Fredericksburg, Virginia March 3 – St. Mary's City, Maryland March 4 – Reading, Pennsylvania March 8 – Boston March 9 – Boston, Massachusetts March 10 – Providence, Rhode Island March 22 – Copenhagen, Denmark March 23 – Tampere, Finland March 24 – Turku, Finland March 25 – Helsinki, Finland March 27 – Stockholm, Sweden March 28 – Gothenburg, Sweden March 29 – Lund, Sweden March 30 – Karlskoga, Sweden March 31 – Hultsfred, Sweden April 1 – Oslo, Norway April 18 – Norman, Oklahoma April 19 – Dallas April 20 – Austin, Texas April 21 – Austin, Texas April 23 – New Orleans April 24 – Birmingham, Alabama April 26 – Miami Beach, Florida April 27 – Melbourne, Florida April 28 – Tampa, Florida April 29 – Orlando, Florida May 1 – Atlanta May 2 – Nashville, Tennessee May 4 – Winston-Salem, North Carolina May 5 – Wilmington, North Carolina May 6 – Raleigh, North Carolina May 8 – Columbia, South Carolina May 9 – Charlotte, North Carolina May 11 – Baltimore, Maryland May 12 – Norfolk, Virginia May 13 – Richmond, Virginia May 14 – Washington, D.C. May 15 – Washington, D.C. June 23 – Lorelei, Germany June 28 – Columbia, Maryland June 29 – Bristol, Connecticut July 1 – Milwaukee July 2 – Detroit July 3 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 4 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 6 – Boston July 7 – Portland, Maine July 8 – Burlington, Vermont July 9 – Philadelphia July 11 – Jones Beach, New York July 12 – Holmdel Township, New Jersey July 13 – Darien, New York July 14 – Cleveland July 16 – Columbus, Ohio July 17 – Chicago July 18 – Cincinnati July 19 – Atlanta, Georgia July 22 – St. Louis, Missouri July 23 – Memphis, Tennessee July 24 – Kansas City July 25 – Tulsa, Oklahoma July 26 – Dallas July 27 – Houston July 28 – Austin, Texas July 30 – Santa Fe, New Mexico July 31 – Denver August 1 – Salt Lake City August 2 – Irvine, California August 4 – San Diego August 5 – Las Vegas August 6 – Mesa, Arizona August 8 – Los Angeles August 9 – Los Angeles August 10 – Ventura, California August 11 – Berkeley, California August 12 – San Francisco August 14 – Portland, Oregon August 15 – Seattle August 16 – Victoria, Canada August 17 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada September 3 – Osaka, Japan September 4 – Nagoya, Japan September 5 – Kawasaki, Japan September 6 – Kawasaki, Japan September 8 – Nagoya, Japan September 9 – Nagoya, Japan September 10 – Osaka, Japan September 11 – Osaka, Japan September 13 – Kawasaki, Japan September 14 – Kawasaki, Japan September 15 – Kawasaki, Japan September 16 – Kawasaki, Japan October 4 – Philadelphia October 5 – Baltimore October 6 – The Ritz (New York City) October 7 – Trenton, New Jersey November 13 – Paris, France November 14 – Munich, Germany November 15 – Völklingen, Germany November 16 – Bremen, Germany November 17 – Ghent, Belgium November 19 – Lyon, France November 20 – Zürich, Switzerland November 21 – Vienna, Austria November 22 – Graz, Austria November 24 – Zagreb, Yugoslavia November 25 – Ljubljana, Yugoslavia November 26 – Milan, Italy November 27 – Rimini, Italy November 29 – Zaragoza, Spain November 30 – Madrid, Spain December 1 – Barcelona, Spain December 2 – San Sebastian, Spain December 4 – Valencia, Spain December 5 – Murcia, Spain December 7 – Manchester, England December 8 – Brixton Academy, London, England December 27 – Providence, Rhode Island December 28 – Boston December 29 – The Ritz (New York City) December 30 – New Haven, Connecticut 1991 January 22 – Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia January 23 – Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia January 25 – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia January 26 – Sydney, Australia January 27 – Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia January 29 – Sydney, Australia January 31 – Adelaide, Australia February 1 – Melbourne, Australia February 2 – Perth, Australia February 5 – Tokyo, Japan February 6 – Tokyo, Japan February 7 – Tokyo, Japan March 6 – Madrid, Spain March 7 – La Real, Oviedo, Spain March 8 – Valladolid, Spain March 9 – Vigo, Spain March 11 – Barcelona, Spain (Loco Live) March 12 – Barcelona, Spain (Loco Live) March 13 – Valencia, Spain March 15 – Pamplona, Spain March 16 – Mondragón, Spain March 17 – Bilbao, Spain March 18 – Melgar, Spain April 4 – New Haven, Connecticut April 5 – Philadelphia April 6 – Baltimore April 12 – Allentown, Pennsylvania April 13 – Columbus, Ohio April 14 – Detroit April 15 – Cincinnati April 16 – Pittsburgh April 26 – Buenos Aires, Argentina April 27 – Buenos Aires, Argentina April 28 – Buenos Aires, Argentina April 30 – São Paulo, Brazil May 1 – São Paulo, Brazil May 2 – São Paulo, Brazil May 4 – Porto Alegre, Brazil May 28 – New Haven, Connecticut May 29 – Trenton, New Jersey May 30 – New Britain, Connecticut May 31 – Spring Valley, New York June 1 – Asbury Park, New Jersey June 7 – Tampa, Florida June 8 – Miami June 9 – Orlando, Florida June 11 – Atlanta June 12 – Charlotte, North Carolina June 14 – Raleigh, North Carolina June 15 – Winston-Salem, North Carolina June 16 – Greenville, North Carolina June 18 – Athens, Georgia June 19 – Knoxville, Tennessee June 21 – Norfolk, Virginia June 22 – Richmond, Virginia June 23 – Washington, D.C. July 6 – La Spezia, Italy July 8 – Turin, Italy July 10 – Leysin, Switzerland August 6 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 8 – Kitchener, Ontario, Canada August 9 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 10 – Bala, Ontario, Canada August 11 – Bala, Ontario, Canada August 13 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada August 14 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada August 15 – St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada August 16 – Hamilton, Ontario, Canada August 24 – Berlin, Germany August 25 – Hasselt, Belgium August 27 – Helsinki, Finland August 28 – Stockholm, Sweden October 4 – Trenton, New Jersey October 5 – Philadelphia October 6 – Middletown, New York October 7 – Northampton, Massachusetts October 11 – Warwick, Rhode Island October 14 – Cleveland October 15 – Columbus, Ohio October 16 – Pittsburgh October 18 – Baltimore October 19 – Washington, D.C. October 24 – Boston October 25 – New Britain, Connecticut October 26 – Sea Bright, New Jersey November 25 – Utrecht, Netherlands November 27 – Hamburg, Germany November 28 – Düsseldorf, Germany November 29 – Deinze, Belgium November 30 – Salle Omnisports, Rennes, France December 2 – Birmingham, England December 3 – Newcastle, England December 4 – Glasgow, Scotland December 5 – Academy, Manchester, England December 7 – Brixton Academy, London, England December 8 – Brixton Academy, London, England December 27 – New Haven, Connecticut December 28 – Baltimore December 29 – The Ritz (New York City) 1992 March 14 – Fontanafredda, Italy March 15 – Florence, Italy March 16 – Milan, Italy March 17 – Correggio, Italy March 19 – Athens, Greece March 20 – Athens, Greece March 21 – Athens, Greece April 9 – New Haven, Connecticut April 10 – Columbia University (New York City) April 11 – Sea Bright, New Jersey April 12 – Trenton, New Jersey April 23 – Baltimore April 24 – Norfolk, Virginia April 25 – Washington, D.C. April 26 – Allentown, Pennsylvania May 3 – Bourges, France May 4 – Lyon, France May 5 – Paris, France May 6 – Paris, France May 7 – Mulhouse, France May 9 – Pau, France May 10 – Niort, France June 4 – Kitchener, Ontario, Canada June 5 – Oshawa, Ontario, Canada June 6 – Hamilton, Ontario, Canada June 7 – London, Ontario, Canada June 9 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 10 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 12 – Quebec City, Quebec, Canada June 13 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 14 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 19 – Nummirock festival, Nummijärvi, Kauhajoki, Finland June 27 – Alsdorf, Germany, Bizarre Festival September 13 – Velódromo Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile September 16 – Buenos Aires, Argentina September 17 – Buenos Aires, Argentina September 18 – Buenos Aires, Argentina September 19 – Buenos Aires, Argentina September 20 – Buenos Aires, Argentina (Show T.V. "Hacelo x Mi") October 6 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada October 7 – Seattle October 10 – Berkeley, California October 23 – Houston October 28 – Detroit, Michigan, State Theater November 3 – Cincinnati November 8 – Providence, Rhode Island – Johnson and Wales College November 11 – New York – Roseland Ballroom November 13 – Boston, Massachusetts Orpheum Theater December 3 – Freiburg, Germany, Stadthalle December 5 - Cologne, Germany December 6 – Hanover, Germany, Music Hall December 10 – Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands 1993 Jan 9: Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan Jan 11: Mel Park Hall, Tokyo, Japan Jan 12: Mel Park Hall, Tokyo, Japan Feb 22: Élysée Montmartre, Paris, France Feb 23: Hippodrome, Cabourg, France Feb 24: Le Forum, Dijon, France Feb 26: Le Summum, Grenoble, France Feb 27: Le Confluent, Portet-sur-Garonne, France Feb 28: Rock School Barbey, Bordeaux, France Mar 5, Cochera Avda. Escaleritas, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Mar 11: Coliseum, A Coruña, Spain Mar 15: Zeleste, Barcelona, Spain Mar 16: Zeleste, Barcelona, Spain Mar 18: Palau de Fires, Girona, Spain Apr 22: Donovan Dining Center, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Apr 24: Skytop Field, Syracuse, New York, USA May 7: Rodon Club, Athens, Greece May 9: Auditorium Flog, Florence, Italy May 10: Rototom, Spilimbergo, Italy May 11: Big Club, Turin, Italy May 13: Il Tempo Discothèque, Gualtieri, Italy May 14: Teatro Tendastrice, Rome, Italy May 15: Palasport, Macerata, Italy May 16: Rolling Stone, Milan, Italy May 18: Hipódromo Son Pardo, Palma, Spain May 19: Sala Driza, Santander, Spain May 22: Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid, Spain Jun 25: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jun 26: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jun 27: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jun 28: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jun 29: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jul 2: Ex-Balneario Olímpico Juan de la Barrera, Mexico City, Mexico Jul 22: Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Jul 24: The Academy, New York, USA Jul 27: RPM Warehouse, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Aug 01: Infest, High River, Alberta, Canada Aug 12: Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo, Norway Aug 13: Folkets Park, Hultsfred, Sweden Aug 14: Graspop Festival, Dessel, Belgium Aug 15: Waldbühne, Northeim, Germany Aug 27: Michigan State Fairgrounds Coliseum, Detroit, Michigan, USA Sep 22: Tuxedo Junction, Danbury, Connecticut, USA Sep 23: Tradewinds, Sea Bright, New Jersey, USA Oct 1: The Sting, New Britain, Connecticut, USA Oct 2: Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, USA Nov 13: The Boathouse, Norfolk, Virginia, USA Nov 14: Pterodactyl Club, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Nov 17: Desperado's, Charleston, South Carolina, USA Dec 7: Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany Dec 10: Terminal 1 Flüghafen München, Munich, Germany Dec 14: Alsterdorfer Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany Dec 16: Grugahalle, Essen, Germany Dec 17: Eissport-Halle, Halle, Germany 1994 Jan 23: Melbourne, Australia Jan 26: Sydney, Australia Jan 26 Adelaide Australia Jan 28 Perth Australia Jan 29 Fremantle Australia Jan 30 Swanbourne, surf club, Australia Feb 2: Tokyo Japan Feb 3: Tokyo Japan Feb 5: Fukuoka Japan Feb 6: Osaka Japan Feb 7: Nagoya Japan Feb 9: Tokyo, Japan (Show #2000) Feb 10: Tokyo, Japan Feb 11: Tokyo, Japan Mar 8: San Francisco, USA Mar 10: Hollywood, USA Mar 12: UCI Crawford Hall – Irvine, California Mar 18: CU Boulder, USA Mar 20: Dallas, USA Mar 26: Detroit, State Theater, USA Mar 27: Columbus, USA Mar 30: Providence, USA Mar 31: New York, USA Apr 1: New York, USA Apr 2: Philadelphia, USA Apr 8: Atlanta, USA Roxy Theater[4] Apr 9: Birmingham, USA Apr 12: Orlando, USA Apr 26: University of Maryland, USA May 10: São Paulo, Brazil May 11: São Paulo, Brazil May 14: Velez Sarsfield Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina May 16: Teatro Caupolicán, Santiago, Chile May 18: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina May 19: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jun 10: Sion, Switzerland Jun 11: Nieuw Schoonebeek, Netherlands Jun 12: Brussels, Belgium Jun 14: Élysée Montmartre, Paris, France Jun 23: Helsinki, Finland Jun 24: Nummirock festival, Kauhajoki, Finland Jun 25: Ringe, Denmark Aug 5: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Aug 12: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Aug 14: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Aug 16: Rochester, USA Sep 24: Newcastle, England Sep 25: London, England Sep 26: Nottingham, England Sep 28: Geneva, Switzerland Sep 29: Milan, Italy Sep 30: Sassari, Italy Oct 1: Rimini, Italy Oct 4: Rome, Italy Oct 7: Athens, Greece Oct 8: Athens, Greece Oct 10: Ljubljana, Slovenia Oct 11: Zagreb, Croatia Oct 13: Prague, Czech Republic Oct 15: Arendonk, Belgium Oct 16: Rotterdam, the Netherlands Nov 6: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Nov 9: Porto Alegre, Brazil Nov 12: Curitiba, Brazil Nov 14: Montevideo, Uruguay Nov 16: Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina Nov 17: Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina Nov 18: Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1995 March 17: The Boathouse, Norfolk, VA March Unknown Day: Jarmon Hall, Farmville, VA, Longwood College (Largely unknown show booked by a Fraternity. No known audio or video footage exists) April 8: The Capitol Theater Port Chester NY April 9: Garden City, New York, Nassau Community College April 10: Poughkeepsie, New York, The Chance April 23: Panama City Beach, Florida, Spinnaker Beach Club May 24: Pine Knob – Clarkston MI opening for Duran Duran at Planet Fest May 25: Madison Wisconsin, Barrymore theater May 28: Somerset, Wisconsin, Float-Rite Park, "Edge Fest 2" [5] May 29: Milwaukee, Wisconsin "New Rock 102.1 Fest" Jun 3: RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C., HFStival Jun 24: Skellefteåfestivalen, Skellefteå, Sweden Jun 25: Kalvoyafestivalen – Oslo, Norway Jun 27: Astoria London, England Jun 28: Astoria London, England Jun 29: Queens Hall, Leicester University, England July 2: Le Plan, Ris Orangis, France July 8: Zwemdokrock, Lummen, Belgium July 9: Dour Festival, Dour, Belgium July 10: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands August 2: The Strand, Providence, Rhode Island August 5: The Academy, 234 W. 43rd St., New York August 9: The Capitol Ballroom, Washington DC August 11: Agawam, Massachusetts. Riverside Park August 17: Pontiac, Michigan, Phoenix Plaza August 18: Chicago, Riviera Theater August 19: Maryland Heights, Missouri Riverport Amphitheater "Pointfest 4" August 23: Salt Lake City – Saltair[6] August 25: Las Vegas, NV - Hard Rock Hotel - The Joint August 26: Party Gardens, Phoenix, Arizona August 28: SOMA, San Diego August 29: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles August 30: Tejon Theatre, Bakersfield, California August 31: The Warfield, San Francisco September 2: Roseland Ballroom, Portland, Oregon September 3: Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle September 10: Lakewood Amphitheater, Atlanta September 13: Veterans Mem. Coliseum, Phoenix, Arizona September 14: The Pan Am Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico September 16 – South Park Meadows Austin, Texas, opening for Pearl Jam[7][8][9] September 17: The Gormley Stadium, New Orleans October 2: Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 3: Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 4: Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 5: Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 6: Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 7: Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 16: Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan October 17: Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan October 18: Club Cita, Tokyo, Japan October 20: Crossing Hall, Fukuoka, Japan October 22: Matsumoto, Japan October 23: Club Cita, Tokyo, Japan October 25: Zanadu, Sapporo, Japan October 27: Diamond Hall, Nagoya, Japan October 28: Club Cita, Tokyo, Japan October 29: Club Cita, Tokyo, Japan October 30: Diamond Hall, Nagoya, Japan November 1: Imperial Hall, Osaka, Japan November 2: Imperial Hall, Osaka, Japan November 6: San Diego Sports arena, San Diego November 7: San Diego Sports arena, San Diego November 18: Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Michigan November 20: Louisville Gardens, Louisville, Kentucky November 21: Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati November 22: Convocation Center, Cleveland November 24: L.C. Walker Arena, Muskegon, Michigan November 25: Wendler Arena, Saginaw, Michigan November 27: Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON November 28: Verdun Auditorium, Verdun, Quebec November 29: Central Maine Civic Central, Lewiston, Maine December 2: Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford, Connecticut December 4: War Mem. Auditorium, Rochester, New York December 5: International Agri-Center, Hamburg December 6: Broome Co. Arena, Binghampton, New York December 10: Wicomico Civic Center, Salisbury December 12: Civic Center, Salem December 13: Civic Center, Philadelphia December 14: Patriot Center, Fairfax, Virginia 1996 January 17: Florence, Tenax (CANCELLED, 'cause of some health problems) January 18: Rome, Tent Theatre (CANCELLED, 'cause of some health problems) January 19: Budrio (Bologna), Sport Hall January 20: Pordenone, Sport Hall January 22: Milano, Palatrussardi January 23: Munich, Terminal 1 January 24: Offenbach, Stadthalle January 26: Bonn, Biskuithalle January 28: Berlin, Huxley's Neue Welt January 29: Hamburg, Docks January 30: Hanover, Capitol January 31: Amsterdam, Paradiso February 2: Kortruk (Kortrijk), Ontmoetingscentrum February 3: Brixton, Academy (London) February 9: Late Show with David Letterman February 12: Providence R.I. Strand Theater February 13: Northampton, Ma. Pearl Street February 14: Boston Ma. Avalon February 16: Philadelphia, Pa. Electric Factory February 17: Washington, D.C. Capitol Ballroom February 18: Port Chester NY. Capitol Theater February 20: Harrisburg PA. Metron February 21: Lido Beach, L.I. Malibu February 23: New Haven Ct. Toads Place February 24: Baltimore Maryland Hammerjacks February 25: Redbank, New Jersey. The Count Basie February 27: NYC Coney Island High February 28: NYC Coney Island High February 29: NYC The Academy (live album) March 7: Rio de Janeiro, The Metropolitan March 8: Mogi das Cruzes, La Boom March 9: Porto Alegre, Gigantinho (this show was cancelled because a Protestant church got the place for a religious event.) March 10: Aramacan, Santo Andre March 11: São Paulo, The Olympia March 12: São Paulo, The Olympia March 13: São Paulo, The Olympia March 16: River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina April 18: Indianapolis, Vogue April 19: Chicago, Riviera Theatre April 20: Kalamazoo, State Theatre April 21: Detroit, State Theatre April 23: Cleveland April 25: Allentown, Starz April 26: Pittsburgh, I.C. Light Amphitheatre April 27: Rochester, University Of Rochester April 28: Albany, Lincoln Park April 29: Coney Island High, NYC May 1: Coney Island High, NYC May 22: Little Rock, AR, Midnight Rodeo May 23: Memphis, Tennessee, The 616 May 25: Atlanta, Georgia, Masquerade Outdoor Park May 26: Birmingham, Alabama, Five Points Music Hall June 27 – Longview Lake (Kansas City, Missouri)† June 28 – State Fairgrounds (Des Moines, Iowa)† June 30 – Winnebago County Fairgrounds (Rockford, Illinois)† July 2 – Deer Creek Field (Indianapolis)† July 3 – Buckeye Lake (Columbus, Ohio) July 5 – Molson Park (Barrie, Ontario, Canada)† July 7 – Hippodrome (Quebec City, Quebec, Canada)† July 9 – Green Mountain Fairgrounds (Pownal, Vermont)† July 10 – Randall's Island (New York City)† July 11 – Randall's Island (New York City)† July 13 – New York State Fairgrounds (Syracuse, New York)† July 16 – Charles Town Raceway (Charles Town, West Virginia)† July 18 – Southern Florida Fairgrounds (West Palm Beach, Florida)† July 20 – Rockingham Dragway (Rockingham, North Carolina)† July 21 – The Forks of the River (Knoxville, Tennessee)† July 23 – Tad Gromley Stadium (New Orleans)† July 25 – Old Fort Dallas (Ferris, Texas)† July 27 – Compton Terrace (Phoenix, Arizona)† July 30 – The Gorge (George, Washington)† August 2 – Spartan Stadium (San Jose, California)† August 3 – Irvine Meadows (Irvine, California)† August 4 – Irvine Meadows (Irvine, California)† August 6 – The Palace in Los Angeles (Final Show) †Tour dates performed as part of the Lollapalooza '96 tour. Douglas Glenn Colvin (September 18, 1951 – June 5, 2002), known professionally as Dee Dee Ramone, was a German-American musician, singer and songwriter best known as founding member, songwriter, bassist and occasional lead vocalist for the punk rock band the Ramones. Though nearly all of the Ramones' songs were credited equally to all the band members, Dee Dee was the band's most prolific lyricist and composer, writing many of their best-known songs, such as "53rd & 3rd", "Commando", "Wart Hog", "Rockaway Beach", and "Poison Heart". He also co-wrote "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg", retitled "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down," with Ramones producer Jean Beauvoir, who was originally from The Plasmatics. The song was featured in the film School Of Rock. Dee Dee and Beauvoir also co-wrote the song "Something To Believe In", featured on the Ramones album Animal Boy. "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" won the New York Music Award for best independent single of the year in 1986 and Animal Boy won for best album. Beauvoir and Dee Dee later co-wrote the song "Cut Me To Pieces", which was featured in the film Rock and Roll High School Forever. Dee Dee was initially the band's lead vocalist, though his (then) inability to sing and play bass at the same time resulted in original drummer Joey Ramone taking over the lead vocalist duties (however, he still sang lead vocals in the band on occasion). Dee Dee was the band's bassist and songwriter from 1974 until 1989, when he left to pursue a short-lived career in hip hop music under the name Dee Dee King. He soon returned to his punk roots and released three solo albums featuring brand-new songs, many of which were later recorded by the Ramones. He toured the world playing his new songs, Ramones songs and some old favorites in small clubs, and continued to write songs for the Ramones until 1996, when the band officially retired. Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life, particularly heroin. He began using drugs as a teenager and continued to use for the majority of his adult life. He appeared clean in the early 1990s but began using heroin again sometime later. He died from a heroin overdose on June 5, 2002.[1] Contents 1 Personal life 1.1 Marriages 2 Ramones 2.1 Later projects 3 Death 4 Equipment 5 Books authored 6 Discography 6.1 Ramones 6.2 Solo 7 Videography 8 References 9 External links Personal life Douglas Glenn Colvin was born on September 18, 1951, in Fort Lee, Virginia, US.[2] He was the son of an American soldier and a German woman. As an infant, his family relocated to Berlin, Germany, due to his father's military service. His father's military career also required the family to relocate frequently. These frequent moves caused Douglas to have a lonely childhood with few real friends. His parents separated during his early teens, and he remained in Berlin until the age of 15, when he, along with his mother and sister Beverley, moved to Forest Hills, New York, in order to escape Dee Dee's alcoholic father.[3] There, he met John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi (later dubbed Johnny and Tommy Ramone), then playing in a band called the Tangerine Puppets, named after a Donovan song. In the early 1970s, Dee Dee Ramone worked at The Bureau of Advertising, located at 485 Lexington Ave., Manhattan, NYC. Later renamed The Newspaper Advertising Bureau, the agency promoted newspapers as the best media source for advertising. Dee Dee was a printer's helper for maybe one year in the company's small in-house print shop. Because of his creative abilities he would hang out, when he could, with the graphic designers in the company’s art department. Bassist Monty Colvin from the progressive metal band Galactic Cowboys is one of Dee Dee's cousins. Marriages In 1978, he married Vera Boldis.[4] According to Vera, Dee Dee's struggles with mental illness and drug abuse put a strain on the couple's relationship.[5] They separated in 1990 before finalizing their divorce in 1995.[6][7] By then, Dee Dee was making music as the Ramainz with his second wife, Barbara Zampini (also known as Barbara Ramone). Since his death, she continues to manage his estate, calling herself Barbara Ramone Zampini.[8] Ramones Colvin, later Dee Dee, and Cummings, later Johnny, quickly became friends, as they were both social outcasts in their heavily middle-class neighborhood. After an unsuccessful guitar audition for Television, Johnny convinced Dee Dee to form their own band with then-drummer Jeffrey Hyman, later Joey Ramone, in 1974. Joey took over vocal duties after Dee Dee decided that he could not sing lead vocals for longer than a few songs as his voice shredded. Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each song's tempo with his signature rapid-fire shout of "1-2-3-4!" It was Dee Dee who first suggested naming the band the Ramones, after reading that Paul McCartney often signed into hotels under the alias "Paul Ramon". He added an 'e' to the end of that surname and the band members all agreed to adopt the surname "Ramone" as a means of conveying their unity. Dee Dee wrote or co-wrote much of the Ramones' repertoire, such as "53rd and 3rd" (a song about male prostitution at 53rd Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, allegedly based on personal experience), "Glad to See You Go" (written about his then-girlfriend, a stripper and fellow drug user with a volatile personality), "It's a Long Way Back", "Chinese Rocks" (originally recorded by Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, as guitarist Johnny Ramone was not enthusiastic about the Ramones doing songs about drugs) and "Wart Hog" (a song Dee Dee wrote in rehab). After he quit the Ramones, Dee Dee continued to write songs for them, contributing at least three songs to each of their albums. According to Mondo Bizarro's liner notes, for example, the Ramones once bailed Dee Dee out of jail in exchange for the rights to his songs "Main Man", "Strength to Endure" and "Poison Heart", which would become a minor hit for the band. The band's final studio album, 1995's ¡Adios Amigos!, features several of Dee Dee's solo songs, such as "I'm Makin' Monsters for My Friends" and "It's Not for Me to Know" from his album I Hate Freaks Like You. Dee Dee was present when the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, the first year they were eligible, and not long after lead singer Joey had died. Dee Dee humorously congratulated himself at the induction. He died later that year.[9] Later projects In 1987, before leaving the Ramones, Dee Dee embarked on a brief hip hop career as rapper "Dee Dee King" with the album Standing in the Spotlight. Dee Dee had recorded "Funky Man" as Dee Dee King in 1987. Music critic Matt Carlson wrote that the album "will go down in the annals of pop culture as one of the worst recordings of all time".[10] After the album failed, he returned to punk rock with various short-lived projects such as Sprokkett (which also featured Richard 'The Atomic Elf' Bacchus of D Generation and the Spikey Tops). In 1987 Dee Dee wrote and produced a song called "Baby Doll" for the Chesterfield Kings ("Baby Doll"/"I Cannot Find Her", acoustic version 1987, Mirror Records, later recorded by American rock and roll band the Connection, on their album New England's Newest Hit Makers). Months after he left the Ramones, in the fall of 1989, Dee Dee already performed songs such as "Poison Heart" and "Main Man" (later to be recorded by the Ramones) with his band the Spikey Tops.[11] In 1991, Dee Dee was briefly involved with transgressive punk rock singer-songwriter GG Allin, playing the guitar with Allin's backup band the Murder Junkies. His involvement lasted approximately one week, enough for him to be briefly interviewed during the filming of Todd Phillips' Allin documentary Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies. In the film, Dee Dee reveals that he was unaware of the band's name, even after joining. Rehearsal recordings of him with Allin and the Murder Junkies appears on the Hated soundtrack, as well as on the posthumous live Allin compilation Res-Erected. Video footage of the rehearsals is available on DVD through Allin's estate's website.[12] Dee Dee never actually played a live gig with the band.[13] In 1992, Dee Dee formed another short-lived project named Dee Dee Ramone and the Chinese Dragons, which was followed by the most successful of his post-Ramones projects, a group named Dee Dee Ramone I.C.L.C. (Inter-Celestial Light Commune), which lasted from 1994 to 1996. The group featured New York City bassist John Carco (formerly of Queens hardcore group Misguided) who befriended Dee Dee when the two attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings together during the summer of 1992. After writing more than a dozen songs and recording several demos for an upcoming Ramones album with producer Daniel Rey, Dee Dee decided to keep the material for his new band. After working with several drummers and playing several live shows in the New York City area, Dee Dee and Carco moved to Amsterdam to record a four-song EP and fourteen-track album for Rough Trade Records. I Hate Freaks Like You was released on April 17, 1994, featuring Nina Hagen on two of the album's fourteen tracks. The three-piece line up now consisted of Dee Dee (vocals, guitar), Carco (bass, vocals), and Dutch drummer Danny Arnold Lommen. I.C.L.C. would go on to promote the I Hate Freaks Like You album by touring 22 countries over a 10-month period. During this tour, in November 1994, Dee Dee met 16-year-old Barbara Zampini while searching for his lost guitar outside his hotel in Argentina.[14] Zampini was a big fan of the Ramones and had been playing bass for two years, heavily influenced by Dee Dee's early work. They later married and remained together until his death. Barbara had some tours with Dee Dee Ramone.[15] In January 1995, the group had completed their 10-month tour and returned to their headquarters in Amsterdam to begin recording a second album. The group was soon dropped, however, by their record label, Rough Trade World Service. With this development, bassist John Carco left the group and moved to Los Angeles where he formed and played with Frankie O. and Pete Stahl (singer of D.C.H.C. group Scream) in the group Metro. Carco would later pursue an acting career. Songs written by Dee Dee and Carco for the never released second I.C.L.C. album would eventually be recorded by the Ramones on their final album ¡Adios Amigos!. One of these songs, "Born to Die in Berlin", would ultimately be the final song on the final Ramones' album, and featured Dee Dee singing in German on the bridge of the song. Also the song Fix Yourself Up eventually recorded by Dee Dee on the album Zonked. Dee Dee was also a special guest at the final Ramones show at the Palace in Los Angeles on August 6, 1996, performing the lead vocals on the song "Love Kills". Dee Dee formed a Ramones' tribute band called the Ramainz with his wife Barbara ("Barbara Ramone", bass) and former Ramones' member Marky (drums). They recorded an album, Live in NYC, released in Argentina and many other countries, and played a couple of times with C.J. Ramone. Dee Dee also recorded several solo albums. Zonked!, the first album release under the Dee Dee Ramone moniker, was re-titled Ain't It Fun? for the European release, but other than the addition of the bonus track "Please Kill Me", the music is identical. The line-up for this album was Dee Dee Ramone on guitars and lead vocals, Marky Ramone on drums, longtime partner Daniel Ray producing and on guitars, and Barbara "Ramone"/Zampini on bass and lead vocals. Guests included Joey Ramone singing lead on "I am seeing UFOs", and the Cramps' vocalist Lux Interior doing the same on "Bad Horoscope". The second solo album was called Hop Around; the line-up consisted of Dee Dee Ramone, Barbara Ramone/Zampini, Chris Spedding on guitars and Billy Rogers on drums. Dee Dee also released Greatest and Latest, with Barbara, Spedding and Chase Manhattan on drums. This album consisted of re-recording of Ramones songs, a re-recorded solo song ("Fix Yourself Up", originally from Zonked!/Ain't It Fun?), cover-songs and an unreleased new solo-song ("Sidewalk Surfin'"). In the 21st century, Dee Dee teamed up with Paul Kostabi, leader of the hardcore punk band Youth Gone Mad and former guitarist for White Zombie. An established artist, Kostabi was instrumental in getting Dee Dee's new career as a painter off the ground. Together with Barbara, the trio collaborated on several hundred works that sold quickly for a few hundred dollars each. In 2012, the tenth anniversary of Dee Dee's death was observed by a show at a prominent art gallery in California.[16] Dee Dee touring with his band in Sweden in 2000. Dee Dee (back row, third from left), his wife and bassist Barbara Zampini (in front of Dee Dee), drummer Chase Manhattan (third from right), and various crew members. On Halloween, 1998, while staying at the Hotel Chelsea, Dee Dee and Zampini met the Hollywood band SEXYCHRIST, which featured adult film star Kurt Lockwood. Lockwood encouraged them to move to Hollywood, and together the two bands shared a successful tour of the U.S. in early 1999. Afterwards, Dee Dee formed the Dee Dee Ramone Band, with members including Christian Martucci (vocals and guitar), Anthony Smedile (drums), Chase Manhattan (drums), and Stefan Adika (bass). With the exception of one show at the Spa Club in NYC and a Club Makeup performance, this would be his last touring band. Dee Dee would release a book, entitled Legend of a Rock Star, A Memoir: The Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone, written while on tour in Europe in 2001.[17] Dee Dee later moved to California where he continued to make music and pursued an acting career. Though largely unsuccessful as an actor, he landed a major role in the 2002 low-budget film Bikini Bandits.[18] He also contributed the song "In a Movie" to the film's soundtrack, which features his wife Barbara on lead vocals. His next album—a live album produced by Gilby Clarke (ex-Guns N' Roses), to have been recorded on June 12, 2002, at Hollywood's Key Club—never materialized. Several bootlegs of the Dee Dee Ramone Band exist, including, Live in Milan, Italy. Dee Dee's final studio recordings were released by tREND iS dEAD! records as the 2002 album Youth Gone Mad featuring Dee Dee Ramone. He also worked with the band Terrorgruppe. Death Gravestone at Hollywood Forever Cemetery Dee Dee Ramone was found dead on the evening of June 5, 2002, by his wife Barbara at his apartment in Hollywood. An autopsy established heroin overdose as the official cause of death. He had been booked to perform at the Majestic Ventura Theater, which ended up being a memorial show in his honor. Dee Dee Ramone is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, not far from the bronze memorial to his former Ramones bandmate, Johnny Ramone. His headstone features the Ramones seal with the line "I feel so safe flying on a ray on the highest trails above" taken from his song "Highest Trails Above", from the Ramones' Subterranean Jungle album. At the stone's base is the line "O.K...I gotta go now." A picture of the headstone can be seen in the music video for the Dropkick Murphys song "Rose Tattoo" from their 2013 album, Signed and Sealed in Blood. In the 2013 film CBGB Dee Dee Ramone is played by actor Steven Schub (lead singer of ska bands the Fenwicks and HaSkaLA). [1] Equipment Dee Dee Ramone used Ampeg amplification during his entire career with the Ramones.[19] His preferred bass guitars included: Danelectro Bass: Natural, White pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1974–1975) Fender Musicmaster Bass: red, white pickguard, rosewood fretboard ( 1974–1975 ) Fender '62 Precision Bass: White, Tortoise pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1975–1977) Fender '75 Precision Bass: Black, Black pickguard, Maple neck (1975–1977) Fender '76 Precision Bass: White, Black pickguard (changed to Red), Maple neck (1977–1983) (He used at least 3 such basses). Fender '78 Precision Bass: Sunburst, Black pickguard, Maple neck (1982–1983) (He used at least 2 such basses). Fender '79 Precision Bass: Black, White pickguard, Maple neck (1983–1988) Fender '83 Precision Bass: White, White pickguard, Maple neck (1983–1988) ESP Custom Precision Bass: Cream, White pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1986–1988) ESP Custom P-style Bass: Orange w. Spider Graphic, Rosewood fretboard (1986–1989) ESP Custom Thunderbird Bass: Yellow w. Chinese Dragon Graphic and "Ramones" lettering, Rosewood fretboard (1988–1989) Books authored Dee Dee Ramone wrote his autobiography, first titled My Right to Survive then published as Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones, then republished as Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones. He wrote one book related to his music career, Legend of a Rock Star, a daily journal of commentary on his last, hectic European tour in the spring of 2001. He also penned a novel, Chelsea Horror Hotel, in which he and his wife move into New York City's famous Hotel Chelsea and believe they are staying in the same room where Sid Vicious allegedly killed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. In the book, Ramone is visited by Vicious himself, as well as other dead punk rock friends such as Johnny Thunders, Stiv Bators, and Jerry Nolan. Discography Ramones Ramones (1976) Leave Home (1977) Rocket to Russia (1977) Road to Ruin (1978) It's Alive (1979) End of the Century (1980) Pleasant Dreams (1981) Subterranean Jungle (1983) Too Tough to Die (1984) Animal Boy (1986) Halfway to Sanity (1987) Brain Drain (1989) ¡Adios Amigos! (1996) (guest appearance on "Born to Die in Berlin" only) You Don't Come Close (2001) NYC 1978 (2003) Solo Standing in the Spotlight (1989) I Hate Freaks Like You (1994) Zonked! (1997) Hop Around (2000) Videography 1987 – Funky Man 1994 – I'm Making Monsters For My Friends 2002 – In a Movie (OST "Bikini Bandits") 2012 – The Crusher (Short Promo)
The founding bassist and songwriter for the legendary New York punk band the Ramones, Douglas Glenn Colvin (a.k.a. Dee Dee Ramone), died June 5, 2002 of a heroin overdose. He was 50. Ramone’s wife Barbara found her husband unconscious on a couch in their Los Angeles apartment surrounded by drug paraphernalia, including a used syringe. Paramedics confirmed that Ramone was dead at 8:40 PM. Toxicology results determined that Ramone died from a lethal heroin overdose. In his late '90s autobiography, Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones, Ramone wrote about his on-and-off struggle with drugs and alcohol. He died 14 months after vocalist Joey Ramone succumbed to cancer at age 49. Guitarist John William Cummings (a.k.a. Johnny Ramone, who died in 2004) had been friends with Dee Dee since 1969. They met at a building in New York, where Dee Dee worked in the mail room and Johnny did construction. One day, they both decided to cash their paychecks and buy guitars; Johnny got a Mosrite, Dee Dee purchased a Danelectro. After fumbling around the band with different members in different positions -- Dee Dee was originally the vocalist and Jeffrey Ross Hyman (Joey Ramone) played drums -- they officially became the Ramones in 1973. Dee Dee, who had a reputation of being the wildest member, came up with the name after learning that Paul McCartney often used the alias Paul Ramon when he checked into hotels. The band changed the spelling to “Ramone” and every member used the title as their surname to demonstrate their solidarity. The Ramones debuted live on March 30, 1974 and soon became an in-demand club act. Using just three and four chords, the Ramones mixed their love for bubblegum girl pop with the hard rock of the Who and the MC5 and the proto-punk of The Stooges, then put the blender on full-speed, creating a wall of primal, melodic, abrasive and bouncy sound that was both visceral and infectious. The Ramones quickly became leaders of the New York punk rock scene and in 1976 released their seminal self-titled debut, which included “Blitzkrieg Bop,” “Beat on the Brat,” “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend” and “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue.” While the Ramones endured numerous lineup changes, Dee Dee remained with the band until 1990, playing on 11 records. After leaving the Ramones he had a short, unsuccessful career as rapper Dee Dee King, recorded a few solo albums and appeared on various collaborations. Despite serious substance abuse problems, he remained musically active until his death. In the intro to Dee Dee Ramone’s book Lobotomy, Legs McNeil wrote, “Dee Dee was the archetypical f--k-up whose life was a living disaster. He was a male prostitute, a would-be mugger, a heroin user and dealer, an accomplice to armed robbery -- and a genius poet who was headed for an early grave, but was sidetracked by rock ‘n’ roll.” And without him, the Ramones likely would never have existed and the history of punk music as we know it would not have been the same. Filmography Jump to: Soundtrack | Actor | Writer | Music department | Thanks | Self | Archive footage Hide HideSoundtrack (125 credits) 2018 The Deuce (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - There's an Art to This (2018) ... (writer: "You're Gonna Kill That Girl") 2018 Fight Like a Girl (TV Movie documentary) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2018 A.P. Bio (TV Series) (writer - 11 episodes) - Drenching Dallas (2018) ... (writer: "Listen to My Heart") - Walleye (2018) ... (writer: "Listen to My Heart") - Rosemary's Boyfriend (2018) ... (writer: "Listen to My Heart") - We Don't Party (2018) ... (writer: "Listen to My Heart") - Selling Out (2018) ... (writer: "Listen to My Heart") Show all 11 episodes 2018 Hoy nos toca (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode dated 9 January 2018 (2018) ... (writer: "Poison Heart") 2017 Mr. Mercedes (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Pilot (2017) ... (writer: "Pet Sematary" - uncredited) 2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2017 Dare to Be Different (Documentary) (writer: "Rockaway Beach" - as Douglas Colvin) 2017 Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Avalanche (2017) ... (writer: "Rock 'n' Roll High School" - uncredited) 2017 Lip Sync Battle (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Jay Leno Vs. Craig Ferguson (2017) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2016 Atmos the Addict (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Sundown (2016) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2016 Roadies (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Life Is a Carnival (2016) ... (writer: "Loudmouth" - uncredited) 2015-2016 Ochéntame... otra vez (TV Series documentary) (writer - 2 episodes) - Soy rebelde (2016) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") - La juventud canta y baila (2015) ... (writer: "Rock 'N' Roll High School") 2015 Pan (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2015/II The Program (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - as Dede Ramone) 2015 It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC (TV Movie) (writer: "Rock 'n' Roll High School") 2015 Terminator Genisys (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2015 No Offence (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode #1.7 (2015) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2015/I A Perfect Day (writer: "Pinhead" - as D. Colvin) 2015 Routine Republic: Taco Bell® Breakfast (Short) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2015 Danny Says (Documentary) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") / (writer: "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", "Listen to My Heart" - as The Ramones) 2015 BetVictor Welsh Open (TV Series) (writer - 3 episodes) - 2015: Day Five - Highlights (2015) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) - 2015: Day Five - Part 2 (2015) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) - 2015: Day Five - Part 1 (2015) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2014 Parenthood (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Aaron Brownstein Must Be Stopped (2014) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2014 Constantine (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - The Devil's Vinyl (2014) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - uncredited) 2013 The Crazy Ones (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Sixteen-Inch Softball (2013) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2013 The Vampire Diaries (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Because the Night (2013) ... (writer: "Loudmouth" - uncredited) 2012 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode #21.17 (2012) ... (writer: "Pet Sematary") 2012 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (writer: "Rock 'N' Roll High School") 2012 Burning Man: Metropolis (Documentary) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - as Douglas Colvin) 2012 Shameless (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Just Like the Pilgrims Intended (2012) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2012 Yle Live: Michael Monroe (TV Movie) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2011 CSI: NY (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Keep It Real (2011) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2011 My Life (TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode) - Boyracers (2011) ... (writer: "BLITZKRIEG BOP" - uncredited) 2010 Glory Daze (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Pilot (2010) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - uncredited) 2010 NHL 11 (Video Game) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2010 Get Him to the Greek (writer: "Cretin Hop" - as Dee Ramone) 2010 Date Night (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2005-2010 Cold Case (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes) - Bombers (2010) ... (writer: "We Want the Airwaves" (Uncredited) - as Douglas Colvin) - Blank Generation (2005) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2009 Whip It (writer: "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" - as Douglas Colvin) 2009 Everybody Hates Chris (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Everybody Hates the G.E.D. (2009) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2009 Nitro Circus (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - The Circus Heads West (2009) ... (writer: "Rockaway Beach") 2008 Banda sonora (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode #4.15 (2008) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2008 90210 (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Hollywood Forever (2008) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2008 It Might Get Loud (Documentary) (writer: "Glad to See You Go" - as Douglas Colvin) 2008 The Wave (writer: "Rock 'n' Roll High School") 2007 Rock Band (Video Game) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop", "Rockaway Beach") 2007 ER (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Blackout (2007) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2007 South Park (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Guitar Queer-o (2007) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2007 The Simpsons (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Treehouse of Horror XVIII (2007) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2007 My Name Is Earl (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - My Name Is Inmate #28301-016: Part 1 (2007) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2007 SingStar Amped (Video Game) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2007 Por Toda Minha Vida (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Renato Russo (2007) ... (writer: "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue") 2007 Skate. (Video Game) (writer: "Psycho Therapy") 2007 The Hunting Party (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Calvin) 2007 Young@Heart (Documentary) (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Colvin) 2007 Shrek the Third (writer: "Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio?" - as Douglas Colvin) 2007 Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (Documentary) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2006 NFL Thursday Night Football (TV Series) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2006 Men in Trees (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Power Shift (2006) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2006 Accepted (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2006 Entourage (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - I Wanna Be Sedated (2006) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - as Douglas Colvin) 2006 The Lather Effect (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated", "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" - as D. Colvin) 2006 Too Tough to Die: A Tribute to Johnny Ramone (Documentary) (writer: "Durango 95", "Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World", "Pin Head", "I Just Wanna Have Something To Do", "I Wanna Be Sedated", "She's The One", "It's A Long Way Back", "Wart Hog", "Don't Come Close", "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)", "Cretin Hop", "I Believe In Miracles", "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker", "Judy Is A Punk", "Commando", "Blitzkrieg Bop", "Something To Believe In", "Teenage Lobotomy" - as Colvin) 2006 Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi (Documentary) (writer: "Judy Is a Punk", "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Colvin) 2006 Final Destination 3 (writer: "Blitzkreig Bop" - as Douglas Colvin) 2005 Guitar Hero (Video Game) (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2005 Cover Art (TV Series short) (writer - 1 episode) - Jason Mraz: Blitzkrieg Bop (2005) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2005 Nearing Grace (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" - as Douglas Colvin) 2005 Quo Vadis, Baby? (writer: "Poison Heart") 2005 Punk: Attitude (Documentary) (writer: "Chinese Rocks" - as Colvin) / (writer: "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You", "Blitzkrieg Bop", "Loudmouth" - as Douglas) 2004 Christmas with the Kranks (as Douglas Colvin, "Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)" (1989)) 2004 Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (Video Game) ("Rock and Roll High School") 2004 Ramones Raw (Documentary) (performer: "Apeman Hop", "Funky Man") / (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop", "Teenage Lobotomy", "Rockaway Beach", "Cretin Hop", "I Wanna Be Sedated", "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker", "Today Your Love Tomorrow the World", "53rd & 3rd", "Rock and Roll High School", "Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio", "Pinhead", "Apeman Hop", "I Don't Want You", "I Don't Care", "I Can't Make It on Time", "I Just Wanna have Something to Do", "She's the One", "Funky Man") 2004 The King of Queens (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Icky Shuffle (2004) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2004 I Was Born, But... (Documentary) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2003 Less Than Perfect (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Roomies (2003) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 2002-2003 What's New, Scooby-Doo? (TV Series) (writer - 3 episodes) - Homeward Hound (2003) ... (writer: "Now I Wanna Be a Good Boy") - Lights! Camera! Mayhem! (2003) ... (writer: "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You") - She Sees Sea Monsters by the Sea Shore (2002) ... (writer: "Rockaway Beach") 2003 Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special (TV Special) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2003 School of Rock (as Colvin Douglas, Douglas Colvin, "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)", "Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio") 2003 Shattered Glass (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - as Douglas Colvin) 2003 Mayor of the Sunset Strip (Documentary) (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Colvin) 2003 11:14 (writer: "I Just Want To Have Something To Do" - as Douglas Colvin) 2003 Daddy Day Care (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Colvin) 2003 House of 1000 Corpses (writer: "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" - as Douglas Colvin) 2003 End of the Century (Documentary) (performer: "Funky Man" - as Dee Dee King) / (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop", "Judy Is a Punk", "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", "Loud Mouth", "I Don't Wanna Walk Around with You", "Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World", "Beat on the Brat", "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue", "53rd & 3rd", "Glad to See You Go", "You're Gonna Kill That Girl", "I Wanna Be Well", "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker", "Teenage Lobotomy", "Chinese Rock", "Cretin Hop", "I Wanna Be Sedated", "Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio", "Rock 'N' Roll High School", "Danny Says", "I Want You Around", "KKK Took My Baby Away", "Wart Hog", "Mama's Boy", "Psycho Therapy", "Funky Man", "I Wanna Live", "We're a Happy Family", "Pinhead", "Durango 95", "Commando" - as Douglas Colvin) 2003 The West Wing (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - The Long Goodbye (2003) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - uncredited) 2002 Fastlane (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Mighty Blue (2002) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2002 Gilmore Girls (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Application Anxiety (2002) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - uncredited) 2002 Titus (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Insanity Genetic: Part 2 (2002) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Colvin, uncredited) 2002 The New Guy (writer: "Outsider") 2002 The Ramones and I (Documentary short) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop", "53rd & 3rd", "Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio"") 2001 Go-Go's from Central Park (Video documentary) (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2001 Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (as Douglas Colvin, "Blitzkreig Bop") 2001 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (Video Game) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - uncredited) 2001 The Royal Tenenbaums (writer: "Judy Is A Punk" - as Douglas Colvin) 2001 Characters (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 2001 Freddy Got Fingered (writer: "We're A Happy Family" - as Douglas Colvin) 2001 Sugar & Spice (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop" - as Douglas Colvin) 1999 Detroit Rock City (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated", "Blitzkreig Bop" - as Douglas Colvin) 1999 Final Rinse (writer: "I Just Wanna Have Something To Do" - as D. Colvin) 1999 Idle Hands (as Douglas Colvin, "I Wanna Be Sedated") 1999 200 Cigarettes (as Douglas Colvin, "I Don't Care") 1998 Jidder (Short) (writer: "Teenage Lobotomy") 1998 SLC Punk! (writer: "Cretin Hop", "She's The One" - as Douglas Colvin) 1998 Whatever (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" - as Douglas Colvin) 1997 Private Parts (writer: "Pinhead" - as Douglas Colvin) 1996 Carpool (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" - as Douglas Colvin) 1996 Lukas (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Rivalen (1996) ... (writer: "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" - uncredited) 1995 1995 MTV Movie Awards (TV Special) (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop", "I Wanna Be Sedated") 1995 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode dated 29 June 1995 (1995) ... (writer: "The Cretin Family") 1994 Airheads (writer: "We Want the Airwaves" - as Douglas Colvin) 1993 Beavis and Butt-Head (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Blood Drive (1993) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 1993 Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Monster A-Go Go (1993) ... (writer: "Rock 'n' Roll High School") 1992 Pet Sematary II ("Poison Heart") 1991 Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever (performer: "Cut Me To Pieces") / (writer: "Cut Me To Pieces") 1989 Roadkill (writer: "Howlin' At the Moon (Sha La La)") 1989 Pet Sematary ("Pet Sematary") / (writer: "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker") 1989 Rockopop (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode dated 11 February 1989 (1989) ... (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bod") 1988 Tapeheads (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 1987 15 Minutes (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Show #4 (1987) ... (writer: "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg (My Brain is Hanging Upside Down)") 1983 National Lampoon's Vacation (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop") 1981 Fear No Evil (as Ramones, "Blitzkrieg Bop") 1980 Times Square (writer: "I Wanna Be Sedated") 1979 Rock 'n' Roll High School (writer: "Blitzkrieg Bop", "I Just Wanna Have Something to Do", "I Wanna Be Sedated", "I Want You Around", "Pinhead", "Questioningly", "Rock 'n' Roll High School", "She's the One", "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker", "Teenage Lobotomy") 1979 Over the Edge (writer: "Teenage Lobotomy") 1978 Punking Out (Documentary short) (writer: "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You", "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue", "Blitzkrieg Bop" - as The Ramones) Show ShowActor (3 credits) Show ShowWriter (2 credits) Show ShowMusic department (2 credits) Show ShowThanks (4 credits) Show ShowSelf (22 credits) Show ShowArchive footage (7 credits) Related Videos End of the Century -- Theatrical Trailer from Magnolia Pictures Edit Personal Details Other Works: Album: "Do The Bikini Dance", 2002 (Wanker) See more » Publicity Listings: 1 Biographical Movie | 3 Print Biographies | 1 Portrayal | 2 Articles | See more » Official Sites: Official Site Alternate Names: Douglas Glen Colvin | Douglas Colvin | C.C. Ramone Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m) Dee Dee Ramone (born Douglas Glenn Colvin, Sept. 18, 1951 – June 5, 2002) was a founding member, and primary songwriter in the world famous Ramones. He was the bassist from their start in 1974 until leaving the band in 1989 to pursue a solo career and other endeavors. Dee Dee continued to write songs for the Ramones until they retired in 1996. His unique perspective and invaluable artistic contributions were a vital element to the chemistry of the Ramones. Recipient of a Grammy award for lifetime achievement, Dee Dee is the most influential punk rock bassist, and one of the most prolific punk rock songwriters of all-time. His signature “1-2-3-4” count off will forever be emulated and ingrained in pop culture and had it not been for Dee Dee, the band might not have been known as “The Ramones”. After Dee Dee read about (Beatles) Paul McCartney's habit of checking into hotels under the name “Paul Ramon” for anonymity, Dee Dee began using the name and suggested that Joey, Johnny and Tommy also adopt “Ramone” (adding the letter ‘e’) and the “Ramones” were born. 28 years later, the band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame alongside the Beatles themselves. Beyond his work in the Ramones, Dee Dee had a thriving solo career and expressed himself artistically in many different mediums. He continued writing and recording music consistently, eventually switching from bass to guitar with wife Barbara Ramone Zampini on bass and occasionally on vocals. He released a string of singles and solo albums from 1987 - 2002, (many of which remain long out of print). A true renaissance man, Dee Dee’s multi-faceted art included an ongoing series of paintings, some of which are prominently displayed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum in Cleveland. His pieces have sold in galleries all over the world for impressive amounts throughout his lifetime and only continue to escalate in value. Dee Dee’s creativity knew no boundaries and neither did his imagination. He authored several books including the novel “Chelsea Horror Hotel”. The story centers on Dee Dee and his wife Barbara moving into NYC’s infamous Chelsea Hotel where they believe they’re staying in the very room where his old friend Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen. Dee Dee is tormented by demons that plague the hotel (both living and dead), visited by the ghost of Sid Vicious and other deceased punk rock friends (including Johnny Thunders and Stiv Bators). While his other books: “Lobotomy” and “Legend of a Rock Star”, are “non-fiction” autobiographies, they intentionally contained many completely fictitious sequences. Dee Dee was truly enigmatic. He was known for being a colorful storyteller and enjoyed blurring the lines of reality. This is no-doubt, one of the qualities that made Dee Dee and his work so fascinating and endearing. The style of punk rock that he embodied and helped to create with the Ramones was a mainstay in his persona and his work to the very end. He always exuded the sense of humor and pop sensibilities that made the Ramones so groundbreakingly original, iconic and immortal. Dee Dee's gravesite is located at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA. Douglas Glenn Colvin, better known as Dee Dee Ramone, the founding bassist and songwriter of the pioneering punk band the Ramones, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles of an apparent heroin overdose. He was 50, and lived in Hollywood. The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said that his wife, Barbara, came home and found him unconscious on a couch with drug paraphernalia nearby. A rescue team confirmed that he was dead at 8:40 p.m. Capt. David Campbell of the coroner's office said the cause of death appeared to be an accidental drug overdose. An autopsy was performed yesterday and toxicological tests are being done. Mr. Ramone was the punkiest member of the Ramones, the four-man band from Queens that defined punk rock. The band's lead singer, Joey Ramone, died of cancer last year. This year, the first year they were eligible, the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ''I'd like to congratulate myself,'' Mr. Ramone said then. Johnny Ramone, the band's guitarist, said in a statement after his bandmate's death: ''Dee Dee and I started the Ramones in 1974 and have been friends since 1969. In 33 years, we have been through a lot. This is very shocking to me. He was a star and the most influential punk-rock bassist. I believe he has influenced every kid playing bass that saw him perform.'' He had a gift for writing the kind of terse, tuneful songs that made the Ramones a worldwide influence on rock. He wrote punk-rock standards including ''Teenage Lobotomy'' and ''Rockaway Beach,'' songs that distilled frustration, humor and pleasure into a few words and a few chords. His later songs, like ''Poison Heart'' and ''Too Tough to Die,'' grew darker but no less concise. After he left the Ramones in 1989, tired of touring, he continued to write songs for the Ramones, even as he recorded solo albums. Continue reading the main story Mr. Ramone also had a volatile personality and a long history of drug use, though in recent years his friends thought he had left heroin behind. ''He was really the ultimate punk,'' said Arturo Vega, the Ramones' art director. ''He always did what he wanted, and he never settled for anything. He should be remembered as somebody that showed us how much fun it was and how much it hurt to be a real punk.'' Legs McNeil, who started Punk magazine in the 1970's, said yesterday: ''Dee Dee was very charming, he was very cute. He was the Paul McCartney of the Ramones. But you never knew when he was going to go off. I think it takes really disturbed people to make great rock and roll, and Dee Dee was a greatly disturbed person. I don't think he had a peaceful day on the planet.'' Douglas Colvin was born in Fort Lee, Va. His father was in the United States Army, and the family spent time in Korea, Japan and then Germany, where Douglas grew up. His autobiography: ''Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones'' (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2000), says both his parents were heavy drinkers and that his father regularly beat him and his sister, Beverly. She survives him along with his mother, Tony, who left Mr. Colvin in the late 1960's. Tony Colvin moved her children to New York in the late 1960's. They settled in Forest Hills, Queens, where Douglas met the future members of the Ramones, described in ''Lobotomy'' as ''the obvious creeps of the neighborhood.'' He began using LSD and then heroin and dropped out of high school. He tried petty crime as a drug dealer and mugger. He and John Cummings, who became Johnny Ramone, decided to start a band; Jeffrey Hyman (Joey Ramone) started out on drums and became the group's lead singer, and their manager, Tommy Erdelyi (Tommy Ramone), became the drummer. A new club on the Lower East Side, CBGB, booked them. ''The first time they played it was terrible,'' Hilly Kristal, the owner of CBGB, recalled recently. ''They didn't get good for a few months. But when they did, they played 20 songs in 17 minutes without stopping and that caused a sensation.'' From 1976 to 1978 the Ramones turned out four albums -- ''Ramones,'' ''Leave Home,'' ''Rocket to Russia'' and ''Road to Ruin'' -- that became punk cornerstones. Radio stations ignored the music, but the Ramones toured and recorded constantly, a routine that wearied the band even as it persevered. In 1989 Mr. Ramone made a rap album, ''Standing in the Spotlight.'' Soon afterward, he quit the Ramones, tired of years touring and bickering with the other members. He made solo albums for independent labels: ''I Hate Freaks Like You'' in 1995, ''Zonked!!'' in 1997 and ''Greatest and Latest'' in 2000, and he toured on his own. He wrote his autobiography, ''Lobotomy,'' and a novel, ''Chelsea Horror Hotel'' (2001). Another novel, ''Legend of a Rock Star,'' is to be published by Thunder's Mouth Press in the fall. On May 4 he performed Ramones songs at the Roseland Ballroom for a BookExpo America party with C. J. Ramone, who replace him on bass, and Marky Ramone, Tommy Ramone's successor on drums. He met his wife, Barbara Zampini, in Argentina, and they married in 1997. He also began collaborating with Mr. Vega on paintings in a style they called Minimalist Nihilism; to Mr. Vega's geometric shapes, Mr. Ramone added words and drawings. For their first collaboration, a square divided into black and white rectangles, he drew a ''good Dee Dee'' and ''the other Dee Dee,'' who had devil's horns. ''He was a demon in angel's disguise,'' said Danny Fields, the Ramones' first manager. ''He was a true rock star.'' The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first band to define the punk rock sound.[1][2] Despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was vastly influential in both the United States and the United Kingdom. All of the band members adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname "Ramone", although none of them were related. They performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years.[2] In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played a farewell concert and disbanded.[3] By 2014, all four of the band's original members had died – lead singer Joey Ramone (1951–2001), bass guitarist Dee Dee Ramone (1951–2002), guitarist Johnny Ramone (1948–2004) and drummer Tommy Ramone (1949–2014).[4][5][6][7] Recognition of the band's importance built over the years, and they are now mentioned in many assessments of all-time great rock music, such as number 26 in the Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time"[8] and number 17 in VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".[9] In 2002, the Ramones were ranked the second-greatest band of all time by Spin magazine, trailing only the Beatles.[10] On March 18, 2002, the original four members and Tommy's replacement on drums, Marky Ramone, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on their first year of eligibility, though Joey had died by then.[2][11] In 2011, the group was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.[12][13] Contents 1 History 1.1 Formation: 1974–1975 1.2 Spearheading punk: 1976–1977 1.3 Recordings turn more pop: 1978–1983 1.4 Shuffling members: 1983–1989 1.5 Final years: 1990–1996 1.6 Aftermath and deaths 2 Conflicts between members 3 Style 3.1 Musical style 3.2 Visual imagery 4 Influence 4.1 Tribute albums 5 Band members 6 Discography 7 See also 8 References 9 Sources 10 External links History Formation: 1974–1975 Forest Hills High School, attended by the four original members of the Ramones The original members of the band met in and around the middle-class neighborhood of Forest Hills in the New York City borough of Queens. John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi had both been in a high-school garage band from 1965 to 1967 known as the Tangerine Puppets.[14] They became friends with Douglas Colvin, who had recently moved to the area from Germany,[15] and Jeffrey Hyman, who was the initial lead singer of the glam rock band Sniper, founded in 1972.[16][17] The Ramones began taking shape in early 1974 when Cummings and Colvin invited Hyman to join them in a band. Colvin wanted to play guitar and sing, Cummings would also play guitar and Hyman would play drums. The lineup was to be completed with their friend Richie Stern on bass. However, after only a few rehearsals it became clear that Richie Stern could not play bass, so in addition to singing, Colvin switched from guitar to bass and Cummings became the only guitarist.[18] Colvin was the first to adopt the name "Ramone", calling himself Dee Dee Ramone. He was inspired by Paul McCartney's use of the pseudonym Paul Ramon during his Silver Beetles days.[19][20] Dee Dee convinced the other members to take on the name and came up with the idea of calling the band the Ramones.[21][22] Hyman and Cummings became Joey and Johnny Ramone, respectively.[21] A friend of the band, Monte A. Melnick (later their tour manager), helped to arrange rehearsal time for them at Manhattan's Performance Studios, where he worked. Johnny's former bandmate Erdelyi was set to become their manager. Soon after the band was formed, Dee Dee realized that he could not sing and play his bass guitar simultaneously; with Erdelyi's encouragement, Joey became the band's new lead singer.[19] Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each song's tempo with his signature rapid-fire shout of "1-2-3-4!" Joey soon similarly realized that he could not sing and play drums simultaneously and left the position of drummer. While auditioning prospective replacements, Erdelyi would often take to the drums and demonstrate how to play the songs. It became apparent that he was able to perform the group's music better than anyone else, and he joined the band as Tommy Ramone.[23] The Ramones played before an audience for the first time on March 30, 1974, at Performance Studios.[2] The songs they played were very fast and very short; most clocked in at under two minutes. Around this time, a new music scene was emerging in New York centered on two clubs in downtown Manhattan—Max's Kansas City and, more famously, CBGB (usually referred to as CBGB's). The Ramones made their CBGB debut on August 16, 1974.[24] Legs McNeil, who cofounded Punk magazine the following year, later described the impact of that performance: "They were all wearing these black leather jackets. And they counted off this song... and it was just this wall of noise... They looked so striking. These guys were not hippies. This was something completely new."[25] The band swiftly became regulars at the club, playing there seventy-four times by the end of the year. After garnering considerable attention for their performances—which averaged about seventeen minutes from beginning to end—the group was signed to a recording contract in late 1975 by Seymour Stein of Sire Records. After they were seen by Sire A&R man Craig Leon[26] he brought the band to the attention of the label. Stein's wife, Linda Stein, saw the band play at Mothers; she would later co-manage them along with Danny Fields.[27] By this time, the Ramones were recognized as leaders of the new scene that was increasingly being referred to as "punk".[28][29] The group's unusual frontman had a lot to do with their impact. As Dee Dee explained, "All the other singers [in New York] were copying David Johansen [of the New York Dolls], who was copying Mick Jagger... But Joey was unique, totally unique."[30] Spearheading punk: 1976–1977 "Blitzkrieg Bop" MENU0:00 The title of the Ramones' debut single, writes critic Steve Huey, is a "nice encapsulation of the group's aesthetic: simple, bouncy, pre-British Invasion rock & roll played at top volume and twice the speed. Blaring the same three chords for most of its duration, the song was rock at its most basic".[31] Problems playing this file? See media help. April 1976 issue of Punk. The cover image of Joey, by Punk cofounder John Holmstrom, was inspired by the work of comic book artist Will Eisner.[32] Holmstrom would go on to do album art for Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin.[33] The Ramones recorded their debut album, Ramones, in April 1976. Of the fourteen songs on the album, the longest, "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", barely surpassed two and a half minutes. While the songwriting credits were shared by the entire band, Dee Dee was the primary writer.[34] The Ramones album was produced by Sire's Craig Leon, with Tommy as associate producer, on an extremely low budget of about $6,400 and released in April.[35] The now iconic front cover photograph of the band was taken by Roberta Bayley, a photographer for Punk magazine.[36] Punk, which was largely responsible for codifying the term for the scene emerging around CBGB, ran a cover story on the Ramones in its third issue, the same month as the record's release.[32][37] The Ramones' debut LP was greeted by rock critics with glowing reviews. The Village Voice's Robert Christgau wrote, "I love this record—love it—even though I know these boys flirt with images of brutality (Nazi especially)... For me, it blows everything else off the radio".[38] In Rolling Stone, Paul Nelson described it as "constructed almost entirely of rhythm tracks of an exhilarating intensity rock & roll has not experienced since its earliest days." Characterizing the band as "authentic American primitives whose work has to be heard to be understood", he declared, "It is time popular music followed the other arts in honoring its primitives."[39] Newsday's Wayne Robbins simply anointed the Ramones as "the best young rock 'n' roll band in the known universe."[40] Despite Sire's high hopes for it,[41] Ramones was not a commercial success, reaching only number 111 on the Billboard album chart.[42] The two singles issued from the album, "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", failed to chart. At the band's first major performance outside of New York, a June date in Youngstown, Ohio, members of Cleveland punk legends Frankenstein aka the Dead Boys were present and struck up a friendship with the band.[43] It wasn't until they made a brief tour of England that they began to see the fruits of their labor; a performance at the Roundhouse in London on July 4, 1976, second-billed to the Flamin' Groovies, organized by Linda Stein, was a resounding success.[44] T-Rex leader Marc Bolan was in attendance at the Roundhouse show and was invited on stage.[45][46] Their Roundhouse appearance and a club date the following night—where the band met members of the Sex Pistols and the Clash—helped galvanize the burgeoning UK punk rock scene.[4] The Flamin' Groovies/Ramones double bill was successfully reprised at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles the following month, fueling the punk scene there as well. The Ramones were becoming an increasingly popular live act—a Toronto performance in September energized yet another growing punk scene.[47] Their next two albums, Leave Home and Rocket to Russia, were released in 1977. Both were produced by Tommy and Tony Bongiovi, the second cousin of Jon Bon Jovi.[48] Leave Home met with even less chart success than Ramones, though it did include "Pinhead", which became one of the band's signature songs with its chanted refrain of "Gabba gabba hey!" Leave Home also included a fast-paced cover of the oldie "California Sun", written by Henry Glover & Morris Levy, and originally recorded by Joe Jones,[49] though the Ramones based their version on the remake by the Rivieras. Rocket to Russia was the band's highest-charting album to date, reaching number 49 on the Billboard 200.[50] In Rolling Stone, critic Dave Marsh called it "the best American rock & roll of the year".[51] The album also featured the first Ramones single to enter the Billboard charts (albeit only as high as number 81): "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker". The follow-up single, "Rockaway Beach", reached number 66—the highest any Ramones single would ever reach in America. On December 31, 1977 the Ramones recorded It's Alive, a live concert double album, at the Rainbow Theatre, London, which was released in April 1979 (the title is a reference to the 1974 horror film of the same name).[52] Recordings turn more pop: 1978–1983 Joey Ramone in c. 1980. Tommy, tired of touring, left the band in early 1978. He continued as the Ramones' record producer under his birth name of Erdelyi. His position as drummer was filled by Marc Bell, who had been a member of the early 1970s hard rock band Dust, Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys,[53] and the pioneering punk group Richard Hell & the Voidoids.[54] Bell became Marky Ramone. Later that year, the band released their fourth studio album, and first with Marky, Road to Ruin. The album, co-produced by Tommy with Ed Stasium, included some new sounds such as acoustic guitar, several ballads, and the band's first two recorded songs longer than three minutes. It failed to reach the Billboard Top 100. However, "I Wanna Be Sedated", which appeared both on the album and as a single, would become one of the band's best-known songs.[55] The artwork on the album's cover was done by Punk magazine cofounder John Holmstrom.[56] After the band's movie debut in Roger Corman's Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), renowned producer Phil Spector became interested in the Ramones and produced their 1980 album End of the Century. There is a long-disputed rumor that during the recording sessions in Los Angeles, Spector held Johnny at gunpoint, forcing him to repeatedly play a riff.[57] Though it was to be the highest-charting album in the band's history—reaching number 44 in the United States and number 14 in Great Britain—Johnny made clear that he favored the band's more aggressive punk material: "End of the Century was just watered-down Ramones. It's not the real Ramones."[58] This stance was also conveyed by the title and track selection of the compilation album Johnny later oversaw, Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits. Despite these reservations, Johnny did concede that some of Spector's work with the band had merit, saying "It really worked when he got to a slower song like 'Danny Says'—the production really worked tremendously. 'Rock 'N' Roll Radio' is really good. For the harder stuff, it didn't work as well."[59] The string-laden Ronettes cover "Baby, I Love You" released as a single, became the band's biggest hit in Great Britain, reaching number 8 on the charts.[60] Pleasant Dreams, the band's sixth album, was released in 1981. It continued the trend established by End of the Century, taking the band further from the raw punk sound of its early records. As described by Trouser Press, the album, produced by Graham Gouldman of UK pop act 10cc, moved the Ramones "away from their pioneering minimalism into heavy metal territory".[61] Johnny would contend in retrospect that this direction was a record company decision, a continued futile attempt to get airplay on American radio.[1][59] While Pleasant Dreams reached number 58 on the U.S. chart, its two singles failed to register at all.[62] Subterranean Jungle, produced by Ritchie Cordell and Glen Kolotkin, was released in 1983.[63] According to Trouser Press, it brought the band "back to where they once belonged: junky '60s pop adjusted for current tastes", which among other things meant "easing off the breakneck rhythm that was once Ramones dogma."[61] Billy Rogers, who had performed with Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, played drums on the album's second single, a cover of the Chambers Brothers' "Time Has Come Today", becoming the only song showing three different drummers: Rogers on recording, Marky on album credits and Richie on video clip.[64] Subterranean Jungle peaked at number 83 in the United States—it would be the last album by the band to crack the Billboard Top 100.[65][66] In 2002, Rhino Records released a new version of it with seven bonus tracks.[67] Shuffling members: 1983–1989 Joey and Dee Dee Ramone in concert, 1983 After the release of Subterranean Jungle, Marky was fired from the band due to his alcoholism.[68] He was replaced by Richard Reinhardt, who adopted the name Richie Ramone. Joey Ramone remarked that "[Richie] saved the band as far as I'm concerned. He's the greatest thing to happen to the Ramones. He put the spirit back in the band."[69] Richie is the only Ramones drummer to sing lead vocals on Ramones songs, including "(You) Can't Say Anything Nice" as well as the unreleased "Elevator Operator". Joey Ramone commented, "Richie's very talented and he's very diverse... He really strengthened the band a hundred percent because he sings backing tracks, he sings lead, and he sings with Dee Dee's stuff. In the past, it was always just me singing for the most part."[70] Richie was also the only drummer to be the sole composer of Ramones songs including their hit "Somebody Put Something in My Drink" as well as "Smash You", "Humankind", "I'm Not Jesus", "I Know Better Now" and "(You) Can't Say Anything Nice". Joey Ramone supported Richie's songwriting contributions: "I encouraged Richie to write songs. I figured it would make him feel more a part of the group, because we never let anybody else write our songs."[71][72] Richie's composition, "Somebody Put Something in My Drink", remained a staple in the Ramones set list until their last show in 1996 and was included in the album Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits.[73] The eight song bonus disc, The Ramones Smash You: Live '85, is also named after Richie's composition "Smash You". The first album the Ramones recorded with Richie was Too Tough to Die in 1984, with Tommy Erdelyi and Ed Stasium returning as producers. The album marked a shift to something like the band's original sound. In the description of Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the "rhythms are back up to jackhammer speed and the songs are down to short, terse statements."[74] "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" MENU0:00 Over a "power-pop beat and melodic hooks galore", writes David Corn, Joey "snarls" the beginning of the refrain—"Bonzo goes to Bitburg/then goes out for a cup of tea/As I watched it on TV/somehow it really bothered me".[75] In contrast, Salon.com arts editor Bill Wyman writes of "Joey's pained, pleading voice".[76] Problems playing this file? See media help. The band's main release of 1985 was the British single "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg"; though it was available in the United States only as an import, it was played widely on American college radio.[77] The song was written, primarily by Joey, in protest of Ronald Reagan's visit to a German military cemetery, which included graves of Waffen SS soldiers.[78] Retitled "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)", the song appeared on the band's ninth studio album, Animal Boy (1986). Produced by Jean Beauvoir, formerly a member of the Plasmatics, the album was characterized by a Rolling Stone reviewer as "nonstop primal fuzz pop".[79] Making it his pick for "album of the week", New York Times critic Jon Pareles wrote that the Ramones "speak up for outcasts and disturbed individuals".[80] The following year the band recorded their last album with Richie, Halfway to Sanity. Richie left in August 1987, upset that after being in the band for five years, the other members would still not give him a share of the merchandising money.[81] Richie was replaced by Clem Burke from Blondie, which was disbanded at the time. According to Johnny, the performances with Burke—who adopted the name Elvis Ramone—were a disaster. He was fired after two performances (August 28 & 29, 1987) because his drumming could not keep up with the rest of the band.[81] In September, Marky, now clean and sober, returned to the band.[21] In December 1988, the Ramones recorded material for their eleventh studio album, Brain Drain; co-produced by Beauvoir, Rey, and Bill Laswell. However, the bass parts were done by Daniel Rey and the Dictators' Andy Shernoff. Dee Dee Ramone would only record the additional vocals on the album citing that the other members of the band (including himself) were going through personal troubles and changes to the point where he didn't want to be in the band anymore. After the band finished their Halfway to Sanity tour in February 1989, Dee Dee became sober and left the band. He was replaced by Christopher Joseph Ward (C.J. Ramone), who performed with the band until they disbanded. Dee Dee initially pursued a brief career as a rapper under the name Dee Dee King. He quickly returned to punk rock and formed several bands, in much the same vein as the Ramones, for whom he also continued to write songs.[82] Final years: 1990–1996 After more than a decade and a half at Sire Records, the Ramones moved to a new label, Radioactive Records. Their first album for the label was 1992's Mondo Bizarro, which reunited them with producer Ed Stasium.[83] Acid Eaters, consisting entirely of cover songs, came out the following year.[84] In 1993, the Ramones were featured in the animated television series The Simpsons, providing music and voices for animated versions of themselves in the episode "Rosebud".[85] Executive producer David Mirkin described the Ramones as "gigantic, obsessive Simpsons fans." In 1992 Mondo Bizarro was certified Gold in Brazil after selling 100,000 copies, being the first Gold certification The Ramones was ever awarded. [86] [87] [88] In 1995, the Ramones released ¡Adios Amigos!, their fourteenth studio album, and announced that they would be disbanding in 1996.[89][90] Its sales were unremarkable, garnering it just two weeks on the lower end of the Billboard chart.[91] The band spent late 1995 on what was promoted as a farewell tour. However, they accepted an offer to appear in the sixth Lollapalooza festival, which toured around the United States during the following summer.[92] After the Lollapalooza tour's conclusion, the Ramones played their final show on August 6, 1996, at the Palace in Hollywood. A recording of the concert was later released on video and CD as We're Outta Here!. In addition to a reappearance by Dee Dee, the show featured several guests including Motörhead's Lemmy, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, Numskull's Ralph Foster and Rancid's Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen.[3] Aftermath and deaths On July 20, 1999, Dee Dee, Johnny, Joey, Tommy, Marky, and C.J. appeared together at the Virgin Megastore in New York City for an autograph signing. This was the last occasion on which the original four members of the group appeared together. Joey, who had been diagnosed with lymphoma in 1995, died of the illness on April 15, 2001, in New York.[4][93] Joey and Marky, who had been involved in a feud, buried the hatchet and made up on live radio on the Howard Stern Show in 1999.[94] On March 18, 2002, the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which specifically named Dee Dee, Johnny, Joey, Tommy, and Marky. At the ceremony, the surviving inductees spoke on behalf of the band. Johnny spoke first, thanking the band's fans and blessing George W. Bush and his presidency. Tommy spoke next, saying how honored the band felt, but how much it would have meant for Joey. Dee Dee humorously congratulated and thanked himself, while Marky thanked Tommy for influencing his drum style. Green Day played "Teenage Lobotomy", "Rockaway Beach", and "Blitzkrieg Bop" as a tribute, demonstrating the Ramones' continuing influence on later rock musicians. The ceremony was one of Dee Dee's last public appearances, as he was found dead on June 5, 2002 from a heroin overdose.[5] On November 30, 2003, New York City unveiled a sign designating East 2nd Street at the corner of Bowery as Joey Ramone Place. The singer lived on East 2nd for a time, and the sign is near the former Bowery site of CBGB.[95] The documentary film End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones came out in 2004. Johnny, who had been privately suffering from prostate cancer, died on September 15, 2004 in Los Angeles, shortly after the film's release.[6] On the same day as Johnny's death, the world's first Ramones Museum opened its doors to the public. Located in Berlin, Germany, the museum features more than 300 items of memorabilia, including a pair of stage-worn jeans from Johnny, a stage-worn glove from Joey, Marky's sneakers, and C.J.'s stage-worn bass strap.[96] The Ramones were inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.[97] That October saw the release of a DVD set containing concert footage of the band: It's Alive 1974-1996 includes 118 songs from 33 performances over the span of the group's career.[98] In February 2011 the group was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Drummers Tommy, Marky, and Richie attended the ceremony.[12][13] Marky declared, "This is amazing. I never expected this. I'm sure Johnny, Joey, and Dee Dee would never have expected this."[12] Richie noted that it was the first time ever that all three drummers were under the same roof, and mused that he couldn't "help thinking that [Joey] is watching us right now with a little smile on his face behind his rose-colored glasses."[13] On April 30, 2014, their first album, Ramones, became certified Gold by the Recording Industry of America after selling 500,000 copies, 38 years after its release. Arturo Vega, creative director from their formation in 1974 until their disbanding in 1996 and often considered the fifth Ramone[citation needed], died on June 8, 2013, at the age of 65. The final original member, Tommy Ramone, died on July 11, 2014 after a battle with bile duct cancer.[99] On October 30, 2016, the RAMONES WAY was unveiled at the intersection of 67th Avenue and 110th Street in front of the main entrance of Forest Hills High School in the borough of Queens.[100] Conflicts between members There were strong tensions between Joey and Johnny, which colored much of the Ramones's career. The pair were politically antagonistic, Joey being a liberal and Johnny a conservative. Their personalities also clashed: Johnny, who spent two years in military school, lived by a strict code of self-discipline,[101] while Joey struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder and alcoholism.[102][103] In the early 1980s, Linda Ramone began a relationship with Johnny after having already been romantically involved with Joey. Consequently, despite their continued professional relationship, Joey and Johnny had become aloof.[6] It was not until after Joey's death that Johnny had admitted to not calling Joey prior to his passing, and in the documentary End of the Century Johnny claimed that Joey's death had a profound impact on him emotionally and that he was depressed for "the whole week" after his death.[81] Dee Dee's bipolar disorder and repeated relapses into drug addiction also caused significant strains.[104] Tommy would also leave the band after being "physically threatened by Johnny, treated with contempt by Dee Dee, and all but ignored by Joey".[105] As new members joined over the years, disbursement and the band's image frequently became matters of serious dispute.[106] The tensions among the group members were not kept secret from the public as was heard on the Howard Stern radio show in 1997, where during the interview Marky and Joey got into a fight about their respective drinking habits.[107] Style Musical style "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" MENU0:00 Cultural critic Anders Johannsson uses this 1977 single as an example of how most Ramones songs "work in the same way: the same hammering on the drums, the same distorted guitars, the same howling of an extremely short text, in a simple tune with an even simpler chorus".[108] Problems playing this file? See media help. The Ramones's loud, fast, straightforward musical style was influenced by pop music that the band members grew up listening to in the 1950s and 1960s, including classic rock groups such as the Beach Boys, the Who, the Beatles, the Kinks, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and Creedence Clearwater Revival; bubblegum acts like the 1910 Fruitgum Company and Ohio Express; and girl groups such as the Ronettes and the Shangri-Las. They also drew on the harder rock sound of the MC5, Black Sabbath,[109] the Stooges and the New York Dolls, now known as seminal protopunk bands.[110] The Ramones' style was in part a reaction against the heavily produced, often bombastic music that dominated the pop charts in the 1970s. "We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard," Joey once explained. "In 1974 everything was tenth-generation Elton John, or overproduced, or just junk. Everything was long jams, long guitar solos ... . We missed music like it used to be."[111] Ira Robbins and Scott Isler of Trouser Press describe the result: With just four chords and one manic tempo, New York's Ramones blasted open the clogged arteries of mid-'70s rock, reanimating the music. Their genius was to recapture the short/simple aesthetic from which pop had strayed, adding a caustic sense of trash-culture humor and minimalist rhythm guitar sound.[112] As leaders in the punk rock scene, the Ramones' music has usually been identified with that label,[1] while some have defined their characteristic style more specifically as pop punk[113] and others as power pop.[114] In the 1980s, the band sometimes veered into hardcore punk territory, as can be heard on Too Tough to Die.[112] On stage, the band adopted a focused approach directly intended to increase the audience's concert experience. Johnny's instructions to C.J. when preparing for his first live performances with the group were to play facing the audience, to stand with the bass slung low between spread legs, and to walk forward to the front of stage at the same time as he did. Johnny was not a fan of guitarists who performed facing their drummer, amplifier, or other band members.[115] Visual imagery The Ramones' art and visual imagery complemented the themes of their music and performance. The members adopted a uniform look of long hair, leather jackets, T-shirts, torn jeans, and sneakers. This fashion emphasized minimalism – a powerful influence on the New York punk scene of the 1970s – and reflected the band's short, simple songs.[116] Tommy Ramone recalled that, musically and visually, "We were influenced by comic books, movies, the Andy Warhol scene, and avant-garde films. I was a big Mad magazine fan myself."[116] The band's logo, based on the Seal of the President of the United States The band's logo was created by New York City artist Arturo Vega, with the Ramones. Vega, a longtime friend, had allowed Joey and Dee Dee to move into his loft.[117] He produced the band's T-shirts – their main source of income – basing most of the images on a black-and-white self-portrait photograph he had taken of his American bald eagle belt buckle, which appeared on the back sleeve of the Ramones' first album.[118] He was inspired to create the band's logo after a trip to Washington, D.C.: I saw them as the ultimate all-American band. To me, they reflected the American character in general—an almost childish innocent aggression ... . I thought, 'The Great Seal of the President of the United States' would be perfect for the Ramones, with the eagle holding arrows—to symbolize strength and the aggression that would be used against whomever dares to attack us—and an olive branch, offered to those who want to be friendly. But we decided to change it a little bit. Instead of the olive branch, we had an apple tree branch, since the Ramones were American as apple pie. And since Johnny was such a baseball fanatic, we had the eagle hold a baseball bat instead of the [Great Seal]'s arrows.[118] The scroll in the eagle's beak originally read "Look out below", but this was soon changed to "Hey ho let's go" after the opening lyrics of the band's first single, "Blitzkrieg Bop". The arrowheads on the shield came from a design on a polyester shirt Vega had bought. "Ramones" was spelled out in block capitals above the logo using plastic stick-on letters.[27] Where the presidential emblem read "Seal of the President of the United States" clockwise in the border around the eagle, Vega placed the pseudonyms of the band members: Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, and Tommy. Over the years the names in the border would change as the band's line-up fluctuated.[119] "It's the American presidential seal – anyone can use it," said Marky Ramone of the logo's ubiquity. "We share the royalties on the t-shirt and on the merchandise. A lot of the kids wearing that shirt might not even have heard of the Ramones' music. I guess if you have the shirt, your curiosity might bring you to buy the music. Whatever, it is a strange phenomenon."[120] Influence Johnny Ramone in concert, 1977 The Ramones had a broad and lasting influence on the development of popular music. Music historian Jon Savage writes of their debut album that "it remains one of the few records that changed pop forever."[121] As described by AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, "The band's first four albums set the blueprint for punk, especially American punk and hardcore, for the next two decades."[122] Trouser Press's Robbins and Isler similarly wrote that the Ramones "not only spearheaded the original new wave/punk movement, but also drew the blueprint for subsequent hardcore punk bands".[112] Punk journalist Phil Strongman writes, "In purely musical terms, the Ramones, in attempting to re-create the excitement of pre-Dolby rock, were to cast a huge shadow—they had fused a blueprint for much of the indie future."[28] Writing for Slate in 2001, Douglas Wolk described the Ramones as "easily the most influential group of the last 30 years."[123] The Ramones' debut album had an outsized effect relative to its modest sales. According to Generation X bassist Tony James, "Everybody went up three gears the day they got that first Ramones album. Punk rock—that rama-lama super fast stuff—is totally down to the Ramones. Bands were just playing in an MC5 groove until then."[124] The Ramones' two July 1976 shows, like their debut album, are seen as having a significant impact on the style of many of the newly formed British punk acts—as one observer put it, "instantly nearly every band speeded up".[125] The Ramones' first British concert, at London's Roundhouse concert hall, was held on July 4, 1976, the United States Bicentennial.[126] The Sex Pistols were playing in Sheffield that evening, supported by the Clash, making their public debut. The next night, members of both bands attended the Ramones' gig at the Dingwall's club. Ramones manager Danny Fields recalls a conversation between Johnny Ramone and Clash bassist Paul Simonon (which he mislocates at the Roundhouse): "Johnny asked him, 'What do you do? Are you in a band?' Paul said, 'Well, we just rehearse. We call ourselves the Clash but we're not good enough.' Johnny said, 'Wait till you see us—we stink, we're lousy, we can't play. Just get out there and do it.'"[127] Another band whose members saw the Ramones perform, the Damned, played their first show two days later. The central fanzine of the early UK punk scene, Sniffin' Glue, was named after the song "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue", which appeared on the debut LP.[128] Ramones concerts and recordings influenced many musicians central to the development of California punk as well, including Greg Ginn of Black Flag,[129] Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys,[130] Al Jourgensen of Ministry,[131] Mike Ness of Social Distortion,[132] Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion,[133] and members of the Descendents.[134] Canada's first major punk scenes—in Toronto and in British Columbia's Victoria and Vancouver—were also heavily influenced by the Ramones.[47][135] In the late 1970s, many bands emerged with musical styles deeply indebted to the band's. There were the Lurkers from England,[136] the Undertones from Ireland,[137] Teenage Head from Canada,[138] and the Zeros[139] and the Dickies[140] from southern California. The seminal hardcore band Bad Brains took its name from a Ramones song.[141] The Riverdales emulated the sound of the Ramones throughout their career.[142] Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong named his son Joey in homage to Joey Ramone, and drummer Tré Cool named his daughter Ramona.[143] New Jersey's horror punk/hardcore punk band the Misfits (whose bassist Jerry Only was a longtime friend of the band) were influenced by the "Blitzkrieg" tempo of the Ramones, infusing it into their already medium-fast tempo, R&B style of punk rock. The Ramones also influenced musicians associated with other genres, such as heavy metal. Their influence on metal gave birth to the punk-metal "fusion" genre of thrash. Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, one of the originators of thrash guitar, has described the importance of Johnny's rapid-fire guitar playing style to his own musical development.[144] Motörhead lead singer Lemmy, a friend of the Ramones since the late 1970s, mixed the band's "Go Home Ann" in 1985. The members of Motörhead later composed the song "R.A.M.O.N.E.S." as a tribute, and Lemmy performed at the final Ramones concert in 1996.[145] In the realm of alternative rock, the song "53rd and 3rd" lent its name to a British indie pop label cofounded by Stephen Pastel of the Scottish band the Pastels. Evan Dando of the Lemonheads,[146] Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters,[128] Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam[147] (who introduced the band members at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction) and the Strokes[148] are among the many alternative rock and metal musicians who have credited the Ramones with inspiring them.[149] The band members were also individually influential. Johnny Ramone was named one of Time's "10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players" in 2003.[150] That same year, he was number 16 on the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list in Rolling Stone.[151] "We think of the Ramones as a classic, iconic band," observed Gene Simmons. "They have one gold record to their name. They never played arenas; couldn't sell them out. It was a failed band. It doesn't mean they weren't great. It means the masses didn't care."[152] Kevin Morby's fourth album City Music features the track "1234" inspired by the singer's childhood love of Ramones. It features the lyrics "Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy/ They were all my friends, but they died." Tribute albums In April 2009, Spin writer Mark Prindle observed that the Ramones had to date "inspired a jaw-dropping 48 (at least!) full-length tribute records."[153] The first Ramones tribute album featuring multiple performers was released in 1991: Gabba Gabba Hey: A Tribute to the Ramones includes tracks by such acts as the Flesh Eaters, L7, Mojo Nixon, and Bad Religion.[149] In 2001, Dee Dee made a guest appearance on one track of Ramones Maniacs, a multi-artist cover of the entire Ramones Mania compilation album. The Song Ramones the Same, which came out the following year, includes performances by the Dictators, who were part of the early New York punk scene, and Wayne Kramer, guitarist for the influential protopunk band MC5. We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones, released in 2003, features performers such as Rancid, Green Day, Metallica, Kiss, the Offspring, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, and Rob Zombie (who also did the album cover artwork).[154] Also some other famous bands recorded tribute songs. Motörhead's Phil Campbell tells in Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone's book Ramones: Soundtrack Of Our Lives: "We did a cover of Rockaway Beach with me on backing vocals, which was quite enjoyable. When Johnny Ramone heard it, he refused to put it on the tribute album. Lemmy and I thought we did a good version."[155] Punk bands such as Screeching Weasel, the Vindictives, the Queers, Parasites, the Mr. T Experience, Boris the Sprinkler, Beatnik Termites, Tip Toppers, Jon Cougar Concentration Camp, McRackins, and Kobanes have recorded cover versions of entire Ramones albums—Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket to Russia, It's Alive, Road to Ruin, End of the Century, Pleasant Dreams, Subterranean Jungle, two versions of Too Tough to Die, and Halfway To Sanity respectively.[153][156] The Huntingtons' File Under Ramones consists of Ramones covers from across the band's history.[157] Shonen Knife, an all-woman trio band from Osaka, Japan, was formed in 1981 as a direct result of founder-lead singer-guitarist Naoko Yamano's instant infatuation with the music of the Ramones. In 2012, to observe the band's 30th anniversary, Shonen Knife released Osaka Ramones, which featured thirteen Ramones songs covered by the band.[158] There are also many other tribute albums listed on Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone's site.[159] Band members Final lineup Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman) – lead vocals (1974–1996), drums (1974) Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) – guitars (1974–1996) Marky Ramone (Marc Bell) – drums (1978–1983, 1987–1996) C. J. Ramone (Christopher Joseph Ward) – bass, backing vocals (1989–1996) Other members Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) – bass, vocals (1974–1989), synthesizer (1989) Tommy Ramone (Thomas Erdelyi) – drums (1974–1978) Richie Ramone (Richard Reinhardt) – drums, backing vocals (1983–1987) Elvis Ramone (Clem Burke) – drums (1987) (fill in drummer for two shows) Timeline Discography Main article: Ramones discography Studio albums Ramones (1976) Leave Home (1977) Rocket to Russia (1977) Road to Ruin (1978) End of the Century (1980) Pleasant Dreams (1981) Subterranean Jungle (1983) Too Tough to Die (1984) Animal Boy (1986) Halfway to Sanity (1987) Brain Drain (1989) Mondo Bizarro (1992) Acid Eaters (1993) ¡Adios Amigos! (1995) Dee Dee Ramone was one of the strangest people I've ever met. Whenever we saw him, we were never sure if we were going to get the good Dee Dee or the bad Dee Dee. In the 90s, when I was asked to write a forward to his book, Lobotomy, I described him as, “the last of the dying breed of authentic rock star, an authentic bad guy who got over it, and in so doing, changed the face of rock ‘n’ roll. Dee Dee was the archetypical fuk-up whose life was a living disaster. He was a male prostitute, a would-be mugger, a heroin user and dealer, an accomplice to armed robbery—and a genius poet who was headed for an early grave, but was sidetracked by rock ‘n’ roll.” Needless to say, I doubt we’ll see any more Dee Dee Ramones coming along in the near future. Rock ‘n’ roll these days is just too clean. And if I had to put a diagnosis on what Dee Dee suffered from, I wouldn’t know what to say. He was that unique. The following interview was conducted in 1989, a few months after he left the Ramones. He called me and said he wanted to spill the beans. Since we’d been friends since 1976, I was happy to turn on the tape recorder and let him go—which he did for about ten hours. DEUTSCHLAND UBER ALLES My parents fought a lot. I don't wanna get into that, but I remember it vividly—I mean I remember a lotta other crumby things, and some good things too—but I had a bad childhood. What I did to compensate for it was to live in a total fantasy world. I grew up in Germany and when I went to school, I failed the first grade and never went back. Actually I tried to go back the next semester, all my friends were going to the second grade—and I had to make a left and go down the hallway—and they said, “Where ya goin'?” I said, “I'm going home!” That was in Munich, it was an American army school for the military people stationed there. We didn't live right in the city, we lived on the outskirts, and there was some farmland and a lot of old bombed out houses and stuff. I’d wander around there and do things like swing on the swings—and I'd go into these intense fantasies—and imagine I was a fighter pilot. I also lived in Pirmasens, which is a small town right on the French border. The German side of the border was called the Siegfried Line and the French side was the Maginot Line. I used to wander round in the old bunkers and look for war relics. I used to pick ‘em up all the time, like old helmets and gas masks and bayonets and machine gun belts. This went on for like a year and I started dealing these war relics—but I used to have fun with them too. I'd always been fascinated by Nazi symbols—from finding them in the rubble in Germany. They were so glamorous. They were just so pretty. My parents were very upset by that. One time my father said something fuking ridiculous. I had found a Luftwaffe sword that was beautiful, and I knew I could keep it or sell it for a fortune, like 80 marks. When I brought that home, my father got uptight and said something really sick, he said, “Can you imagine all our guys that died because of that?” I thought, This guy is a real asshole. As if he really cared. I didn't figure my father for any passions like that, about anything. And from that day on, he just became a total joke to me—and I stopped fearing him. DRUGS I don't know how I got turned on to morphine—I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. A lot of my friends were Americans, their fathers were in the State Department or the Army or Air Force, they were very young kids and they were very excited that you could drink at any age in Germany. So everybody drank, but I really didn't hang out with people that much. I had to have a lot of time alone to wander around in fantasy, ya know? And I didn't want anything to disturb that. Doing drugs was always a very solitary thing with me. I did it alone, usually in some hallway or on some roof. I started getting high on morphine—they didn't have pot or heroin or anything like that in Germany. I started very young, like 12. I used to trade daggers and stuff for morphine syrettes from some soldiers I knew. I used to go up to the Army Base and cop there. They used to sell it in a big plastic bottle and you would go to the drug store and buy your works and go up there and they'd give you like 2.5cc for 50 cents. You'd go to the department store and get off—everybody got off there and the place was a wreck, ya know? The department store was good because it had a nice bathroom. It's funny, but I didn't smoke pot till I was like 15 or 16—until I came to America. I didn't like to drink. I tried it a few times—but I didn't really know how to drink. A lot of times my parents didn't want me around, they really didn't care what I did, as long as I didn't play the guitar in the house. I picked up the guitar when I was around 12. I really wanted to play the guitar. I don't know why. I got exposed to rock real early cause my mother always liked it—she would always tell me what to listen to. She told me about the Beatles, Ricky Nelson, everybody. I don’t think I really discovered rock until the Rolling Stones started breaking me away from my mother. I knew my mother couldn't listen to them, ya know? Then when I moved to America and I heard Jimi Hendrix, either in 1966 or 67, something like that. Then I knew I had my own music. AMERICA I hated it when I came to America—the kids weren't very cool, they didn't dress good. And there didn't seem to be any youth culture here—and the youth culture they had, I didn't like it because it wasn't very glamorous. Everything seemed turned out on an assembly line. There was this thing you were supposed to do and it all started at those damn head shops. I just didn't go for it. Later on, when I started to find myself, I started going to the discothèques, when the disco thing first started happening in New York. There were these clubs in the late 60s where Spanish and Italian kids would get together and they were like kids clubs—a lot of them were just like juice bars. But they were some of the first discothèques—like the Sanctuary, Superstar, and Tamburlaine. That's where I'd usually go. And I'd get really dressed up—to the hilt. When I was 15, I hitchhiked to California, but I got arrested on the way. I don't really wanna talk about this too much, but I'll tell you a little bit. I was arrested in Indiana for armed robbery. I asked my father if he could pay a small bail to get me out. That's one of the first times I ever asked him for anything, ya know? I was desperate. I was really scared, it was a rough place. And my father said, “Fuk you, rot there! You deserve it!” And then hung up. I was stuck there for a pretty long time. It was pretty bad. You see, I was hitchhiking and I met these kids from Flint, Michigan. I was kinda scared of them. They were very crazy. They were talking all this sick stuff and they kept saying how they wanted to cut someone’s head off. They wanted to strangle somebody. They had a thin wire and two hoops and they wanted to garrote somebody. Finally they pulled over to a gas station in South Bend, Indiana, and robbed the place. We all got arrested. The police caught us because the driver tried to step on the gas in the junk car and it stalled. No one got away with nuthin’! When I finally got out of jail, I went to Chicago. I managed to get a bus ticket, because I was really paranoid to hitchhike. I just didn't wanna see any cops. I forget where I took the bus to—somewhere like Amarillo, Texas. And then I just went to highway and started hitchhiking. I got a ride from this really nice guy all the way to Newport Beach, and that's where I spent my first night in California. The night before I was in Las Vegas and I remember thinking, “Man I gotta get outta here; this is the worse place on Earth!” So the next day I took some mescaline and I came into the city tripping my brains out. I hated the Sunset Strip, so I started hitchhiking down Sunset Boulevard to Route One and took that all the way up to Big Sur. I went up to this place called the Gorge. You couldn't get there easy, you had to swim to the entrance and walk along the bank of this creek, where the cliffs came together—and then it just opened up into these beautiful woods. I just lived there like an Indian for months, until I went back to LA. I’d traveled so much through Europe and the world—and I was always going through culture shock. I had a hard time adjusting—and I just didn't like America. And I didn't like California. It was too weird. See, I was hitching through Topanga Canyon and this biker picked me up. He said, “Where you goin?” I said “I'm just hangin out.” So he drove me up to the hills—and on top of the hill there was this plateau and they had all these gasoline generators up there and amplifiers. They had a whole weird band up there, doin this real psychedelic music and they asked me if I wanted some acid. I said sure, and I took some, but I didn’t like it very much after it started coming on. So I asked to leave, and the biker said, “Sure I'll drive ya!” He drove about 2000 miles an hour down this little twisting path down the mountain—it was very upsetting for me. Then I ended up taking some STP or something—and I went into this nightmare four-day trip. At the end of it, when I was coming down, I went into this sleazy barbershop and had him cut all my hair off! [laughs] EARLY RAMONES I had to have different guys to hang out with to do my different drugs. Joey Ramone couldn't do drugs. He tried them, but he couldn't handle it. He would freak out. One time I saw him smoke some pot and start convulsing on the floor in the fetal position, yelling “I'm freaking out! I'm freaking out!” At the time, Joey was painting—and he would chop-up carrots and lettuce and turnips and strawberries and mix it all together and paint with it! [laughs] His paintings were very good—and then he would try to make tapes of like different sounds. His parents had an apartment on the 20th floor and it was lightning out and he stuck a microphone from the tape recorder out on the balcony to tape the thunder—and the lightning struck the mike and burnt everything! He'd have me come over and bounce the basketball for half hour and he'd tape it. Then he'd listen to it all day in a daze. Joey and I used to sit on the steps of the bank in Queens Boulevard with a bottle of wine—when John would wanna go in the hallway and sniff glue. So John was up, when Joey was down—or whatever. Johnny Ramone had stopped doing hard drugs by then. He really was a pot smoker. He was the first person to introduce me to really good pot—no one even knew about good pot, but John did. He'd say, “Dee Dee, I promise you, three tokes of this stuff and you'll by really out of it!” I said, “Alright,” and I would be. Yeah, there was a lot of glue and Tuinals and Seconals—what a party! You couldn't get your head outta that bag! We used to call up numbers on the phone, it would go, “Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,” and we’d listen to that for hours. And sniff some glue a little more, because we knew these numbers to dial where you could get these weird sounds. John was a construction worker at 1633 Broadway, and I got transferred there. I was a mail clerk in the office building. I'd pack up the mail in the morning and sort it out. I had my cart and I'd have it lined up according to how the desks in the office were organized. And I'd drop off the mail and I'd gossip with the people a little bit—and then do it all over again ten times a day. So John and I would meet every day for lunch and usually we'd go to the Metropole and have a few beers. The Metropole was like a go-go place and after we got a little tipsy we'd go next door to look at the guitars. But we thought it was wrong to be in a band. We thought it was a bad thing. I thought we should work, you know, and try to hold down a job. But then one day it was a payday, and we both bought guitars and decided to start a band. John bought a Mosrite and I bought a Danelectro. Tommy Ramone definitely got us off the ground, the Ramones wouldn't have done anything without Tom. We were really green, we didn't know what the hell was going on, but Tommy was really annoying too. Tommy was a control freak, he was like a mother that was always upset with us. But Tommy cracked real early on. All our drummers cracked, every couple years one would crack—and then the group would be really happy, because we'd get rid of someone. And nobody would say we're gonna add this quality or that quality—they would just say we're gonna get faster! So every drummer we got we'd make them play faster and faster. One time we were outside some hotel and some fan came up and pulled out a pen and asked Tommy for an autograph. Tommy said, “That's not a knife is it? You aren't going to stab me, are you?” The Ramones gigs, especially the early ones in England, were very violent. And Tommy was very tiny and it was hard on him, ya know? And John was very nasty to Tommy and then Joey started getting nasty to Tommy. Tommy and I got along cause I was obviously not in competition to be the leader of that group—and Joey and John we're always striving for it. I remember the first time we went outta town to play and I couldn't cop that morning. We went to some awful place in New England, on the ocean to some awful club, it was called Frolics, a real sleazy beer-stinking ballroom, ya know? And I was getting sick. It was winter and it was cold—and afterwards we went back to some fleabag motel. I've been in some bad places, but this hotel was disgusting. Plus, I was getting sick, I was in withdrawal. So I took a blanket and I put it over the sink and I started running the water. And I sat underneath the blanket, underneath the sink. I just tried to make myself think I was sitting underneath a waterfall to forget where I was. We wanted to get outta there so bad, but we only had one van. We had to be there three days and the third day I was a wreck. We hated being outta New York and that night it was like the coldest night I ever been through. And as soon as we stopped playing this cop came in and took out this big pistol, and said “You guys better play more!” He was real drunk and this went on for an hour. We just wanted to leave and everything was so disorganized. So the next morning we called up Danny Fields, our manager, and said, “Danny we ain’t never doing this again!” And he said, “Well you’re playing this place and that place tomorrow!” CHINESE ROCKS I wrote that song outta spite for Richard Hell, cause he told me he was gonna write a song better than Lou Reed's “Heroin.” I went home and wrote “Chinese Rocks.” I wrote it by myself, in Debbie Harry's apartment on First Avenue and First Street. I always wrote my songs with all the same verse and chorus, like “53rd & 3rd.” It's always the same thing—so I could just repeat, "My girlfriend's crying in the shower stall." Then I took it and showed it to Richard Hell—and he put something else in there, he put that line in, "It’s hot as a bitch, I shoulda been rich, I shoulda been digging a Chinese ditch," so I give him some credit. That's how people are—we had this competition going, ya know? He put me in that position. He's very argumentative. He's smart and all—but he had to be the top dog, and he never really was, ya know? For people who used my song—from Lee Childers to Johnny Thunders, to Richard Hell—they never gave me much respect as a writer, ya know? Johnny Thunders got on my nerves about that song—I don't understand why he was so touchy about it. Johnny Thunders is great at everything he did, so why did he have to take it out on my song? I mean I love his song, "I Love You," I think that's a great song, but I have no idea why he stole “Chinese Rocks” from me. The more I realize how good a song “Chinese Rocks” is—then I think, “But it ain't the best song in the world,” ya know? The Ramones said they wouldn't do Chinese Rocks, and I had an apartment on 10th Street with this girl Pam, that I was going out with. So Jerry Nolan came up one day and I showed him the song and Jerry said, “Perfect.” So I gave the song to Jerry and said, “Why don't you guys do it?” And then the Heartbreakers L.A.M.F. album came out, they all had their names on it. I think everybody thought that was like a real tough thing to be a junkie—but I don't really know the real reason why he stole it from me. SID VICIOUS Sid used to follow me all over the place when we went to London. He wasn't in the Pistols then—and he was very nice. He was like a little kid, ya know? He wasn’t a nut then, he was very nice and very innocent. Then one night we had a big party—it was the summer, and in London, there's no air conditioning. It was at a place called Country Cousin or Country Club, where everybody has their parties. They were just serving beer and wine and everybody was bombed. The whole bathroom was filled with puke and piss and shit—in the sink, in the toilets, on the floor—the whole place! It was really disgusting, and Johnny Lydon or somebody asked me, “Dee Dee, do you need anything?” I said, “Yeah, I want some speed!” So all of a sudden I had a huge amount of speed in my hand. I started sniffing it like crazy and I was so high, and I saw Sid and he asked me, “Do you have anything to get high?" I said, “Yeah I got some speed.” So we went in the bathroom Sid pulled out a set of works. He puts a whole bunch a speed in the syringe—and then stuck the needle and the works in the toilet with all the puke and piss in there and loaded it. He didn’t cook it up—he just shook it and stuck it in his arm and got off. I just looked at him, ya know? I'd seen it all by then—and he just looked at me kinda dazed and said, “Man where did you get this stuff?” PHIL SPECTOR Working with Phil Spector was a nightmare. First of all, we had no money. We'd been together four or five years and we were flat broke. We were staying in some flea bag motel in Culver City—with just enough money to buy two damn Tuinals and a beer every day. And Phil was like totally out of his mind—I hadn't met anyone crazier than him. We hated his music and we hated each other, but he liked me a lot. He used to pull guns all the time, and he had two guys with him that were fully armed. Johnny Ramone took care of it—he told Phil to cut it out or we're gonna leave. Then Phil said, “Alright you guys, just try and leave! I’m not letting you leave!” So we just sat there for a couple days. He just held us with these guns, and we had to sit there in the living room and listen to him play “Baby, I Love You” over and over. [laughs] I don't know what he was drinking. I couldn't figure it out because he had this big gold goblet with all these jewels on it and he looked like Dracula drinking blood, so I said “Phil let me have some of that…” And he said, “OK, Dee Dee,” and it was ManischewitzWine. I hated him. I don't like anything about him. I don't like people who are in the music business who are bitter and trying too hard to prove something. He was all that. The recording was a nightmare, it couldn't have been worse. One time he made John play the guitar chord to the beginning of “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School” over and over again for about six or eight hours. Phil just sat there listening to it in a daze, and finally Johnny said, “Look I can't do this anymore, I'm going back to New York!”' Phil said, “No, just give it a chance, there’s something I'm trying to hear.” And he'd sit there dazed—it sounded the same every time John played it—I don't know what he was listening for. Phil would always just get real violent around me. I seemed to bring out something bad in him. He always seemed to be competing with me to try and let me know he could be tougher than me, and I wasn't going for it. Finally one night I put him in his place. I got real heavy with him—I had to. I’d had enough. The album took forever to start because Phil wouldn't even tell us where we were recording. Then finally, he gave us a list of three studios, all within 50 miles of each other and said, “Call this one every day at a certain hour and that way you'll be able to know where we’re going to record.” That's how paranoid he was. He rented three studios and paid for them all—had them open sessions that he booked weeks before. I mean, when he went outta the house it was all a big strategy of how he was armed, and what his security was. End of the Century was our biggest selling album, but it almost ruined our careers because the people who bought the record came and saw us, they came to see “Baby, I Love You,” and as soon as we started playing they left. The next tour we did it was half empty seats. I couldn't believe it. I don't think we really recovered till I wrote Too Tough to Die. I was driving home with the band from the record company in New York and they put on something from the End of the Century album, I think it was, “I'm Affected.” I couldn't believe how awful it sounded! It was horrible! And I didn’t like our version of “Baby, I Love You.” Not at all. Some of the worst crap I ever wrote went on that album. I don't even want to say the names of the songs, but that was me at my worst. After I heard that album, I said, “Never again!” LEAVING THE RAMONES I don’t know when I left the Ramones, I'm not certain. I made a lot changes in my life in the last five to six months. I left my wife, I left the band, and I left my girlfriend—and it was hard, you know? I had to do it because I had to become myself. I’m not a puppet—I didn't want to be a little boy anymore. I wouldn't grow up, and a lot of things were irritating me about the Ramones. One thing that's always been important to me is to be myself. I don't write music according to a certain style that I'm noted for or familiar with. I write how I feel at the moment. I write current. I don't try to recreate the past, and that was the Ramones' thing. That was hard to deal with. I was also sick and tired of the little boy look—bowl haircut and the motorcycle jacket. And really, for four middle-aged men trying to be teenage juvenile delinquents is ridiculous. The thing that you want to strive for is to become a man, whether you want to be an adult or not. I think it's better to be an adult—to be secure enough with yourself not to hang on to what may have worked before. I was just getting sick of playing in a revival act. See, I was trying to say something about life and something positive. I don't know if what I was doing was right at the time—and I don't think the kids buying the albums wanted to hear what I was trying to say. I would write things about getting down on my knees and praying' for peace and all that, ya know? I was doing that kinda stuff and that's how I felt—and it was really hard to do that in the Ramones because they're very bigoted, very prejudice, and very right wing. And then I'd come out on the total left side of the field, and it was causing trouble. No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was. I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to them, they gave right back to me. The Ramones stand for nothing but pure hate. So now that I can write what I want to write and don't have to censor what I'm writing, unbelievable things are coming outta me that I didn't know I had in me. I always knew I could write a good song, but I listen to a Ramones album now and there's very few things on there that I'm really happy with. Of course, Joey writes all his love songs, crying about his broken heart, which I think is embarrassing. I always thought a rock star should never have his heart broken. He should break hearts and be a real lady-killer, and not be whining. That’s all Joey did in all his songs. It was annoying the hell outta me. So I started trying to write more serious. I think I was doing it just to flaunt it right back at them. I don't know that it was the right thing for the group now, but I think rock ‘n’ roll should be three words and a chorus. And the three words should be good enough to say it all. He was the group's primary songwriter, penning songs such as 'Rockaway Beach', '53rd & 3rd', and 'Poison Heart' for one of the most treasured and loved groups to emerge from the new wave – punk era. Everybody loved The Ramones. On 5th June 2002, Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Glenn Colvin), bass guitarist with the group died, aged 49, at his Hollywood, California apartment of a heroin overdose. Dee Dee was initially the band's lead vocalist, though his (then) inability to sing and play bass at the same time resulted in original drummer Joey Ramone taking over the lead vocalist duties. Born Douglas Glenn Colvin in Fort Lee, Virginia, he was the son of an American soldier and a German woman. As an infant, his family relocated to Berlin, Germany, due to his father's military service. His parents separated during his early teens, and he remained in Berlin until the age of 15, when he, along with his mother and sister Beverley, moved to the Forest Hills section of New York City's borough of Queens, in order to escape Dee Dee's alcoholic father. There he met John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi (later dubbed Johnny and Tommy "Ramone"), who were then playing in a band called The Tangerine Puppets, named after a Donovan song. The three were joined by drummer Jeffrey Hyman in 1974 and The Ramones were born. Jeffrey became Joey Ramone, taking over vocal duties after Dee Dee decided that it weas too hard on his voice to sing lead vocals for more than a few songs. It was Dee Dee who first suggested naming the band the Ramones, after reading that Beatle Paul McCartney often signed into hotels under the alias "Paul Ramon". He added an 'e' to the end of that surname and the band members all agreed to adopt the surname "Ramone" as a means of conveying their unity. Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life, particularly heroin. He began using drugs as a teenager, and continued to use them for the majority of his adult life. Appearing to clean up his act in the early 1990s, he resumed his heroin use some time later. On the evening of June 5, 2002, he was found dead by his wife Barbara at his Hollywood, California apartment; an autopsy established heroin overdose as the official cause of death. He had been booked to play a show at the Ventura Theatre, which ended up being a memorial show in his honor. Dee Dee Ramone is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, not far from the cenotaph of his former Ramones' bandmate, Johnny Ramone. His head stone features the Ramones seal with the line "I feel so safe flying on a ray on the highest trails above" taken from his song, "Highest Trails Above", from the Ramones' Subterranean Jungle album. At the stone's base is the line "O.K...I gotta go now." The following is a list of concert performances by the Ramones, complete through mid-1992.[1] They performed 2,263 in all. Contents 1 1974 2 1975 3 1976 4 1977 5 1978 6 1979 7 1980 8 1981 9 1982 10 1983 11 1984 12 1985 13 1986 14 1987 15 1988 16 1989 17 1990 18 1991 19 1992 20 1993 21 1994 22 1995 23 1996 24 References 1974 March 30 – Performance Studio (New York City; as a trio) August 16 – CBGB (New York City) August 17 – CBGB (New York City) August 24 – CBGB (New York City) August 25 – CBGB (New York City) August 29 – CBGB (New York City) August 30 – CBGB (New York City) August 31 – CBGB (New York City) September 1 – CBGB (New York City) September 2 – (party in SoHo, New York City) September 7 – CBGB (New York City) September 8 – CBGB (New York City) September 15 – CBGB (New York City) September 17 – CBGB (New York City) September 22 – CBGB (New York City) September 24 – CBGB (New York City) October 1 – CBGB (New York City) October 6 – CBGB (New York City) October 8 – CBGB (New York City) October 12 – CBGB (New York City) October 13 – CBGB (New York City) October 20 – CBGB (New York City) October 31 – CBGB (New York City) November 1 – CBGB (New York City) November 2 – CBGB (New York City) November 3 – CBGB (New York City) November 16 – Performance Studio (New York City) November 17 – CBGB (New York City) December 7 – Performance Studio (New York City) December 20 – Performance Studio (New York City) 1975 February 3 – Arturo Vega's Loft February 14 – Brandy's II (New York) February 28 – Performance Studio (New York City) March 1 – Performance Studio (New York City) March 6 – CBGB (New York City) March 7 – CBGB (New York City) March 8 – CBGB (New York City) April 11 – Performance Studio (New York City) April 14 – CBGB (New York City) April 15 – CBGB (New York City) April 25 – Performance Studio (New York City) May 12 – CBGB (New York City) May 13 – CBGB (New York City) May 30 – Coventry (Queens, New York) June 5 – CBGB (New York City) June 6 – CBGB (New York City) June 7 – CBGB (New York City) June 8 – CBGB (New York City) June 20 – CBGB (New York City) June 21 – CBGB (New York City) June 22 – CBGB (New York City) July 4 – CBGB (New York City) July 5 – CBGB (New York City) July 6 – CBGB (New York City) July 11 – Waterbury, Connecticut July 16 – CBGB (New York City) July 17 – CBGB (New York City) July 18 – CBGB (New York City) July 31 – CBGB (New York City) August 1 – CBGB (New York City) August 22 – CBGB (New York City) August 23 – CBGB (New York City) August 24 – CBGB (New York City) September 12 – Performance Studio (New York City) September 13 – Performance Studio (New York City) October 3 – Mother's (New York City) October 4 – Mother's (New York City) October 5 – Mother's (New York City) October 24 – CBGB (New York City) October 25 – CBGB (New York City) October 26 – CBGB (New York City) November 21 – CBGB (New York City) November 22 – CBGB (New York City) November 23 – CBGB (New York City) December 18 – CBGB (New York City) December 19 – CBGB (New York City) December 31 – Sea of Clouds (New York City) 1976 January 30 – CBGB (New York City) January 31 – CBGB (New York City) February 1 – CBGB (New York City) February 25 – Nashua, New Hampshire Mt. St. Mary Seminary February 26 – Boston February 27 – Brockton, Massachusetts March 22 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) April 1 – CBGB (New York City) April 2 – CBGB (New York City) April 3 – CBGB (New York City) April 9 – Phase V (New Jersey) April 10 – Phase V (New Jersey) April 18 – Max's Kansas City (New York City) May 10 – The Bottom Line (New York City) May 11 – The Bottom Line (New York City) May 12 – The Club, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA May 13 – CBGB (New York City) May 14 – CBGB (New York City) May 15 – CBGB (New York City) May 20 – Boston May 21 – Boston May 22 – Boston May 28 – New Canaan, Connecticut – New Canaan High School auditorium May 29 – Fairfield, Connecticut - Andrew Warde High School auditorium June 10 – Dover, New Jersey June 11 – Max's Kansas City (New York City) June 12 – Max's Kansas City (New York City) June 19 – Cleveland, Ohio (rainout) June 20 – Youngstown, Ohio July 4 – The Roundhouse (London, England) July 5 – Dingwalls (London, England) July 13 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) July 16 – Islip, New York July 17 – Islip, New York July 18 – Asbury Park, New Jersey July 22 – New Haven, Connecticut August 11 – Roxy (Los Angeles) August 12 – Roxy (Los Angeles) August 16 – Starwood (Los Angeles) August 17 – Starwood (Los Angeles) August 19 – San Francisco August 20 – San Francisco August 21 – San Francisco August 22 – San Francisco August 23 – Huntington Beach, California August 24 – Huntington Beach, California August 25 – Huntington Beach, California August 27 – Redondo Beach, California August 28 – Redondo Beach, California September 2 – Hempstead, New York September 3 – Friar Tuck's (Connecticut) September 4 – Friar Tuck's (Connecticut) September 9 – CBGB (New York City) September 10 – CBGB (New York City) September 11 – CBGB (New York City) September 12 – White Plains, New York September 17 – Westport, Connecticut September 18 – Westport, Connecticut September 19 – Dover, New Jersey September 24 – The New Yorker Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 25 – The New Yorker Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 27 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) September 28 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) October 8 – Max's Kansas City (New York City) October 9 – Max's Kansas City (New York City) October 16 – Detroit October 22 – Washington, D.C. October 23 – Washington, D.C. October 24 – Washington, D.C. October 29 – Freedom Hall Civic Center, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA October 30 – VCU, Richmond, Virginia November 12 – Newport, Rhode Island November 13 – Newport, Rhode Island November 24 – Atlanta November 25 – Atlanta November 26 – Atlanta November 27 – Atlanta 1977 January 28 – Boston January 29 – Boston January 30 – Boston, Massachusetts February 2 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) February 3 – CBGB (New York City) February 4 – CBGB (New York City) February 4 – Nassau Coliseum (Long Island, New York) February 5 – CBGB (New York City) February 8 – Dover, New Jersey February 10 – Poughkeepsie, New York February 11 – Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA February 16 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) February 17 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) February 18 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) February 19 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) February 20 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) February 22 – San Francisco February 23 – San Francisco February 24 – San Jose, California February 25 – Berkeley, California February 26 – Berkeley, California February 28 – Palo Alto, California March 2 – Sacramento, California March 4 – Bremerton, Washington March 5 – Aberdeen, Washington March 6 – Seattle March 10 – Encinitas, California March 11 – San Bernardino, California March 12 – San Diego March 13 – Norwalk, California March 15 – Denver March 16 – Denver March 25 – State University of New York College at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York March 26 – Countryside, Illinois March 27 – Detroit March 28 – Ann Arbor, Michigan March 31 – CBGB (New York City) April 1 – CBGB (New York City) April 2 – CBGB (New York City) April 3 – CBGB (New York City) April 8 – Westport, Connecticut April 9 – Philadelphia April 10 – West Islip, New York April 13 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) April 14 – My Father's Place (Roslyn, New York) April 15 – Salisbury, Massachusetts April 16 – Salisbury, Massachusetts April 17 – Boston, Massachusetts April 20 – CBGB (New York City) April 24 – Zürich, Switzerland April 27 – Geneva, Switzerland April 28 – Lyon, France April 30 – Le Havre, France May 2 – Paris, France May 3 – Orléans, France May 4 – Lille, France May 5 – Brussels, Belgium May 6 – Amsterdam, Netherlands May 7 – Eindhoven, Netherlands May 8 – Groningen, Netherlands May 10 – Rotterdam, Netherlands May 11 – Utrecht, Netherlands May 12 – Copenhagen, Denmark May 15 – Stockholm, Sweden May 16 – Helsinki, Finland May 17 – Tampere, Finland May 19 – Liverpool, England May 20 – Leeds, England May 20 – Glasgow, Scotland May 21 – Glasgow, Scotland May 22 – Manchester, England May 23 – Doncaster, England May 24 – Birmingham, England May 26 – Aylesbury, England May 28 – Slough, England May 29 – Croydon, England May 30 – Bristol, England May 31 – Swindon, England June 1 – Plymouth, England June 2 – Penzance, England June 4 – Canterbury, England June 5 – London, England June 6 – London, England June 9 – CBGB (New York City) June 10 – CBGB (New York City) June 11 – CBGB (New York City) June 17 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 18 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 21 – Countryside Civic Center, Countryside, Illinois June 23 – El Tejon (Madison, Wisconsin) June 24 – Waukesha, Wisconsin June 26 – Ann Arbor, Michigan June 28 – Cincinnati, Ohio June 29 – Waukegan, Illinois June 30 – Rockford, Illinois July 1 – Minneapolis, Minnesota July 2 – Minneapolis, Minnesota July 4 – Milwaukee, Wisconsin July 6 – Chicago, Illinois July 8 – Lebanon, Illinois July 14 – Austin, Texas July 15 – Houston, Texas July 16 – Houston, Texas July 18 – San Antonio, Texas July 20 – Killeen, Texas July 24 – Dallas, Texas July 28 – Huntington Beach, California July 30 – Winterland (San Francisco) August 4 – Seattle, Washington August 5 – Portland, Oregon August 6 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada August 9 – Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, Los Angeles, California August 10 – The Whisky (Los Angeles, California) September 3 – The Camera Mart Stages, New York City October 1 – Dover, New Jersey October 4 – Palace Theater (Waterbury, Connecticut) October 6 – Palladium (New York City) October 8 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada October 9 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 11 – Washington, D.C. October 12 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 15 – Baltimore, Maryland October 19 – Cleveland, Ohio October 20 – Cobo Hall (Detroit, Michigan) October 21 – The Whisky (Los Angeles, California) October 22 – Chicago, Illinois October 27 – CBGB (New York City) October 28 – CBGB (New York City) October 29 – CBGB (New York City) October 30 – CBGB (New York City) November 5 – Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) November 7 – Poughkeepsie, New York November 8 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 11 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania November 12 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania November 14 – Utica, New York November 15 – Providence, Rhode Island November 16 – Amherst, Massachusetts November 18 – Orpheum (Boston, Massachusetts) November 19 – Capitol Theatre (Passaic, New Jersey) November 25 – Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, USA December 17 – Carlisle, England December 18 – Edinburgh, Scotland December 19 – Glasgow, Scotland December 20 – Newcastle, England December 21 – Manchester, England December 23 – Cambridge, England December 28 – Birmingham, England, The Top Rank Suite, Dale End. December 29 – Stoke-on-Trent, England December 30 – Aylesbury, England December 31 – Rainbow Theatre (London, England; recorded for live album) 1978 January 1 – Rainbow Theatre (London, England) January 5 – New Haven, Connecticut January 6 – Hartford, Connecticut January 7 – Palladium (New York City) (live album) January 9 – Dover, New Jersey January 13 – Buffalo, New York January 14 – Detroit January 15 – Youngstown, Ohio January 16 – Cleveland January 18 – Madison, Wisconsin January 19 – Milwaukee January 20 – Chicago January 21 – Minneapolis January 23 – Kansas City, Kansas January 27 – Civic Center (Santa Monica, California) January 30 – San Francisco January 31 – San Francisco February 2 – Eugene, Oregon February 3 – Seattle February 4 – Portland, Oregon February 7 – San Diego February 8 – Phoenix, Arizona February 10 – Albuquerque, New Mexico February 12 – Tulsa, Oklahoma February 14 – San Antonio February 17 – Austin, Texas February 18 – Fort Worth, Texas February 19 – Houston February 21 – New Orleans February 22 – Baton Rouge, Louisiana February 24 – Kingfish Club, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA February 25 – Atlanta February 27 – Park Center Charlotte, North Carolina March 2 – Orlando, Florida March 3 – Miami, Maurice Gusman Cultural Center March 6 – Belleville, Illinois March 8 – Ann Arbor, Michigan March 9 – Columbus, Ohio March 10 – Cincinnati March 12 – Champaign, Illinois March 13 – Akron, Ohio March 15 – Norfolk, Virginia March 17 – Baltimore March 18 – Philadelphia March 19 – Washington, D.C. March 21 – Boston March 22 – Boston March 24 – Hempstead, New York March 25 – Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey March 31 – Syracuse, New York April 1 – Yatesboro, Pennsylvania April 2 – Jamestown, New York April 4 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 5 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 16 – Trenton, New Jersey April 20 – Rochester, New York April 21 – Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania April 23 – Toledo, Ohio April 24 – Lansing, Michigan April 25 – Indianapolis April 27 – Sunderland, Massachusetts April 29 – Shaboo Inn, Mansfield, Connecticut May 4 – CBGB, New York City (Last Tommy Show) June 29 – Poughkeepsie, New York (First Marky Show) July 1 – New Brunswick, New Jersey July 2 – Greenwood Lake, New York July 5 – Roslyn, New York July 7 – Boston July 8 – Boston July 9 – Boston July 10 – Providence, Rhode Island July 12 – Portland, Maine July 16 – Youngstown, Ohio July 17 – Lansing, Michigan July 19 – Flint, Michigan July 21 – Columbus, Ohio July 23 – Cincinnati, Ohio July 25 – Palatine, Illinois July 26 – Madison, Wisconsin July 27 – DeKalb, Illinois July 29 – Kansas City, Kansas July 30 – Springfield, Missouri July 31 – St. Louis, Missouri August 1 – Champaign, Illinois August 2 – Highwood, Illinois August 5 – Asbury Park, New Jersey August 11 – Hurrah (New York City; audition for movie) August 12 – Hurrah (New York City; audition for movie) August 13 – Hurrah (New York City; audition for movie) August 18 – Dover, New Hampshire August 19 – Shaboo Inn, Mansfield, Connecticut August 21 – New Haven, Connecticut August 26 – New Brunswick, New Jersey September 5 – Helsinki, Finland September 7 – Stockholm, Sweden September 8 – Malmö, Sweden September 9 – Ronneby, Sweden September 11 – Hamburg, Germany September 12 – Berlin, Germany September 13 – Musikladen, Bremen, Germany September 14 – Brussels, Belgium September 15 – Amsterdam, Netherlands September 16 – Arnhem, Netherlands September 18 – Paris, France September 21 – Metro Club, Plymouth, England September 23 – Belfast, Northern Ireland September 24 – Dublin, Ireland September 26 – Bristol, England September 28 – Newcastle, England September 29 – Manchester, England September 30 – Birmingham, England October 2 – London, England October 3 – Cardiff, Wales October 4 – Leeds, England October 5 – Coventry, England October 6 – Edinburgh, Scotland October 7 – Glasgow, Scotland October 19 – New Haven, Connecticut October 21 – Queens College (Queens, New York) October 22 – Providence, Rhode Island October 23 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 25 – Albany, New York October 26 – Amherst, Massachusetts October 27 – Ontario Theater, Washington, D.C., USA October 28 – Richmond, Virginia November 12 – Raleigh, North Carolina November 13 – Atlanta, Georgia November 15 – Highwood, Illinois November 17 – Omaha, Nebraska November 18 – St. Paul, Minnesota December 1 – San Bernardino, California December 2 – Stockton, California December 4 – Long Beach, California December 5 – Phoenix, Arizona December 14 – Roxy (West Hollywood, California; three performances filmed for movie) December 15 – San Diego December 18 – Costa Mesa, California December 24 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) December 25 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) December 27 – The Whisky (Los Angeles) December 28 – San Francisco December 29 – Reno, Nevada December 30 – Santa Cruz, California December 31 – San Jose, California 1979 January 3 – Portland, Oregon January 4 – Seattle January 5 – Seattle January 6 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada January 9 – Boise, Idaho January 10 – Idaho Falls, Idaho January 11 – Salt Lake City January 13 – Boulder, Colorado January 14 – Boulder, Colorado January 18 – Dallas January 19 – Austin, Texas January 20 – San Antonio January 21 – Houston January 23 – Lafayette, Louisiana January 24 – New Orleans January 25 – Baton Rouge, Louisiana January 26 – Lake Charles, Louisiana January 28 – Nashville, Tennessee January 29 – Birmingham, Alabama January 30 – Atlanta January 31 – Raleigh, North Carolina February 2 – College Park, Maryland February 4 – Baltimore, Maryland February 6 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada February 7 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada February 8 – Buffalo, New York February 10 – Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey February 14 – Shelton, Connecticut February 15 – Sunderland, Massachusetts February 16 – New Brunswick, New Jersey February 17 – Providence, Rhode Island February 23 – Toledo, Ohio February 24 – Chicago February 25 – Detroit February 26 – Ann Arbor, Michigan February 27 – Cleveland February 28 – Cincinnati March 1 – Columbus, Ohio March 2 – Orpheum Theatre, Boston, USA March 3 – Boston March 4 – Hartford, Connecticut March 6 – Pittsburgh March 7 – Pittsburgh March 9 – Palladium, New York City March 22 – West Orange, New Jersey March 23 – Princeton, New Jersey March 24 – Browns Mills, New Jersey March 25 – Asbury Park, New Jersey March 29 – Dover, New Jersey March 30 – Columbia University (New York City) March 31 – Jamesburg, New Jersey April 6 – Roslyn, New York April 7 – Roslyn, New York April 8 – New Brunswick, New Jersey April 10 – CBGB (New York City) June 8 – San Francisco] June 16 – Dover, New Jersey June 17 – New Haven, Connecticut June 19 – Amityville, New York June 21 – West Orange, New Jersey June 22 – Asbury Park, New Jersey June 23 – Browns Mills, New Jersey June 24 – Allentown, Pennsylvania June 26 – Staten Island, New York June 27 – Staten Island, New York June 29 – Boston, Massachusetts June 30 – Boston, Massachusetts July 2 – Exhibition Stadium (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) July 5 – Poughkeepsie, New York July 6 – Syracuse, New York July 7 – Rochester, New York July 8 – Albany, New York July 11 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 12 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 13 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 14 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 19 – Roslyn, New York July 20 – Roslyn, New York July 21 – Roslyn, New York July 22 – Taunton, Massachusetts July 26 – Washington, D.C. July 27 – Baltimore July 29 – Ocean City, Maryland July 30 – Virginia Beach, Virginia July 31 – Raleigh, North Carolina August 3 – Hartford, Connecticut August 4 – Brooklyn, New York August 6 – Central Park (New York City) August 8 – Asbury Park, New Jersey August 9 – Dover, New Jersey August 11 – Amityville, New York August 12 – Amityville, New York August 13 – Port Chester, New York August 30 – Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle, England September 11 – Albany, New York September 14 – Port Chester, New York September 15 – Port Chester, New York September 18 – Wayne, New Jersey September 22 – Cookstown, New Jersey September 27 – C.W. Post College (Long Island, New York) September 28 – Brooklyn, New York September 29 – Brooklyn, New York September 30 – New Haven, Connecticut October 2 – Bergenfield, New Jersey October 3 – Wayne, New Jersey October 4 – West Orange, New Jersey October 6 – Boston October 7 – Hotel Diplomat (New York City) October 8 – Queens College (Queens, New York) October 9 – Philadelphia October 11 – Dayton, Ohio October 12 – Galesburg, Illinois October 13 – Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois October 14 – Grand Rapids, Michigan October 15 – Chicago October 17 – Marietta, Ohio October 18 – Detroit October 19 – Chicago October 20 – Milwaukee October 23 – Denver October 26 – University of California, Davis (Davis, California) October 27 – Oakland, California October 28 – UCLA (Los Angeles) October 29 – UCLA (Los Angeles) October 31 – San Diego November 2 – Costa Mesa, California November 4 – Irvine, California November 5 – Claremont, California November 6 – Garden Grove, California November 8 – Tucson, Arizona November 9 – El Paso, Texas November 11 – Lubbock, Texas November 13 – Austin, Texas November 14 – Dallas November 16 – Houston November 18 – New Orleans November 20 – Birmingham, Alabama November 22 – Atlanta November 23 – Nashville, Tennessee November 24 – Memphis, Tennessee November 26 – St. Louis November 27 – Headliners (Madison, Wisconsin) November 28 – Minneapolis November 30 – Milwaukee December 1 – Cincinnati December 4 – Ann Arbor, Michigan December 5 – Bloomington, Indiana December 6 – Indianapolis December 8 – Carlisle, Pennsylvania December 10 – Lowell, Massachusetts December 11 – New Haven, Connecticut December 13 – West Islip, New York December 21 – Hartford, Connecticut December 28 – Dover, New Jersey December 29 – Freeport, New York December 31 – Palladium (New York City) 1980 January 6 – Port Chester, New York January 15 – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, England (TV Show) January 16 – Brighton, England January 17 – Leicester, England January 18 – Cambridge, England January 19 – Norwich, England January 21 – Exeter, England January 22 – Cardiff, Wales January 23 – Aylesbury, England January 24 – Portsmouth, England January 26 – Leeds, England January 27 – Edinburgh, Scotland January 28 – Glasgow, Scotland January 29 – Newcastle, England January 31 – Top of the Pops, London, England February 1 – Manchester, England February 2 – Lancaster, England February 3 – Sheffield, England February 4 – Birmingham, England. Odeon, New Street. February 6 – Bournemouth, England February 7 – Bristol, England February 8 – Colchester, England February 9 – London, England February 11 – Amsterdam, Netherlands February 12 – Brussels, Belgium February 14 – Reggio Emilia, Italy February 15 – Udine, Italy February 16 – Milan, Italy February 18 – Turin, Italy February 20 – Le Palace, Paris, France February 21 – Chorus, Paris, France February 22 – London, England February 23 – London, England February 24 – Théatre de l'Empire, Paris, France March 6 – Asbury Park, New Jersey March 7 – Cherry Hill, New Jersey March 8 – Cherry Hill, New Jersey March 21 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 22 – Toronto, Canada March 23 – Detroit March 24 – Cleveland March 26 – The Agora, Columbus, Ohio March 28 – Atlanta March 29 – Atlanta, Georgia March 30 – Gainesville, Florida March 31 – Birmingham, Alabama April 1 – New Orleans, Louisiana April 3 – Austin, Texas- Armadillo World Headquarters April 4 – Houston April 5 – Dallas April 7 – Phoenix, Arizona April 8 – San Diego April 10 – Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California April 11 – Santa Cruz, California April 12 – San Francisco April 13 – Palo Alto, California April 15 – Berkeley, California April 21 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 22 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 24 – Pocatello, Idaho April 26 – Boulder, Colorado April 27 – Denver April 29 – Omaha, Nebraska May 1 – DeKalb, Illinois May 2 – Champaign, Illinois May 3 – Lansing, Michigan May 4 – Chicago May 6 – Carbondale, Illinois May 8 – Milwaukee May 9 – Chicago May 10 – Grinnell, Iowa May 11 – Minneapolis May 13 – Chicago May 14 – Chicago May 15 – Chicago May 16 – Chicago May 17 – Chicago May 19 – Sha Na Na, Los Angeles May 20 – London, Ontario, Canada May 21 – Burlington, Ontario, Canada May 23 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada May 25 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 26 – Guelph, Ontario, Canada May 27 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada May 29 – Albany, New York May 30 – Hartford, Connecticut May 31 – Lynn, Massachusetts June 2 – Boston June 3 – Boston June 4 – Boston June 5 – Staten Island, New York June 6 – Six Flags Great Adventure (Jackson Township, New Jersey) June 8 – College Park, Maryland June 10 – Tampa, Florida June 11 – Hallandale, Florida June 12 – Hallandale, Florida June 15 – Club 57 (New York City) June 27 – Tokyo, Japan June 28 – Tokyo, Japan June 29 – Tokyo, Japan July 1 – Nagoya, Japan July 2 – Kyoto, Japan July 3 – Osaka, Japan July 4 – Fukuoka, Japan July 6 – Logan Campbell Centre, Auckland, New Zealand July 8 – Sydney, Australia July 9 – Sydney, Australia July 10 – Melbourne, Australia July 11 – Adelaide, South Australia, Australia July 13 – Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia July 14 – Sydney, Australia July 15 – Sydney, Australia July 16 – Canberra, Australia July 18 – Brisbane, Australia July 19 – Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia July 21 – Auckland, New Zealand July 22 – Wellington, New Zealand July 24 – Christchurch, New Zealand August 7 – Long Branch, New Jersey August 8 – Asbury Park, New Jersey August 9 – Hull, Massachusetts August 10 – Cherry Hill, New Jersey August 11 – Central Park (New York City) August 24 – Edinburgh, Scotland August 28 – Stockholm, Sweden August 30 – Oslo, Norway August 31 – Lund, Sweden September 1 – Copenhagen, Denmark September 3 – Berlin, Germany September 4 – Hanover, Germany September 6 – Alvelgem, Belgium September 7 – Rotterdam, the Netherlands September 8 – Munich, Germany September 9 – Zürich, Switzerland September 11 – Sanremo, Italy September 12 – Genoa, Italy September 13 – Milan, Italy September 14 – Rome, Italy September 15 – Casalmaggiore, Italy September 17 – Montpellier, France September 19 – Barcelona, Spain September 22 – Oporto, Portugal September 23 – Lisbon, Portugal September 24 – Lisbon, Portugal September 26 – Madrid, Spain September 27 – San Sebastian, Spain September 29 – Lyon, France September 30 – Le Bataclan, Paris, France October 2 – London, England October 3 – Derby, England October 4 – Manchester, England October 5 – Edinburgh, Scotland October 6 – Liverpool, England October 8 – Dublin, Ireland October 9 – Belfast, Northern Ireland October 11 – Birmingham, England October 12 – Canterbury, England December 26 – Cherry Hill, New Jersey December 27 – Staten Island, New York December 29 – Dover, New Jersey December 31 – Lido Beach, New York 1981 January 3 – Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York January 4 – Rockaway, New York January 6 – Boston January 7 – Providence, Rhode Island January 8 – Hartford, Connecticut February 13 – Philadelphia February 14 – Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, New York) February 15 – Talleon Room Student Center (Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey) February 16 – New Paltz, New York February 19 – Bond's (New York City) February 20 – Bond's (New York City) February 21 – New Brunswick, New Jersey February 27 – Seton Hall University (South Orange, New Jersey) February 28 – Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) July 3 – Hampton Beach, New Hampshire July 4 – Hampton Beach, New Hampshire July 5 – Hull, Massachusetts July 7 – Passaic, New Jersey July 9 – Lido Beach, New York July 10 – Palladium (New York City) July 12 – Staten Island, New York July 13 – Wildwood, New Jersey July 14 – College Park, Maryland July 15 – Long Island, New York July 17 – Palladium (New York City) July 18 – Roselle Park, New Jersey July 25 – Tampa, Florida July 26 – Miami July 27 – Miami July 28 – Miami July 29 – Orlando, Florida July 31 – Atlanta, Agora Ballroom August 1 – Atlanta, Agora Ballroom August 4 – Dallas August 5 – Houston August 6 – San Antonio– Randy's on Bandera August 7 – Austin, Texas August 9 – Denver August 12 – Phoenix, Arizona August 13 – San Diego August 14 – Palladium (Hollywood, California) August 15 – Pasadena, California August 18 – San Francisco August 19 – Petaluma, California August 20 – Santa Cruz, California August 21 – San Francisco August 27 – Islip, New York August 29 – The Pier (New York City) September 3 – Albany, New York September 4 – Binghamton, New York September 5 – Saratoga Springs, New York September 9 – Mount Vernon, New York September 11 – Hartford, Connecticut September 12 – Cherry Hill, New Jersey September 13 – New Haven, Connecticut September 14 – Providence, Rhode Island September 15 – Boston September 17 – Rochester, New York September 18 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 19 – Detroit September 20 – Detroit, Michigan September 22 – Cleveland September 24 – Bloomington, Indiana September 25 – Chicago September 26 – Twin Lakes, Wisconsin September 28 – Minneapolis September 29 – Madison, Wisconsin October 1 – Champaign, Illinois October 2 – Chicago October 3 – Chicago October 4 – Youngstown, Ohio October 5 – Ann Arbor, Michigan October 7 – Dayton, Ohio October 8 – Columbus, Ohio October 10 – Virginia Beach, Virginia (Marky missed; cancelled) October 11 – Washington, D.C. October 22 – London, England October 24 – Amsterdam, Netherlands October 27 – Stockholm, Sweden October 28 – Lund, Sweden October 29 – Copenhagen, Denmark November 1 – Alsdorf, Germany, Odeon, Herzogenrather Strasse November 2 – Hanover, Germany November 4 – Munich, Germany November 6 – Milan, Italy November 7 – Bordeaux, France November 9 – Barcelona, Spain November 10 – Valencia, Spain November 11 – Madrid, Spain November 12 – Madrid, Spain November 13 – A Coruña, Spain November 15 – San Sebastian, Spain November 17 – Paris, France November 18 – Brussels, Belgium November 19 – London, England December 26 – Trenton, New Jersey[2] Nov-Dec 31 – Lido Beach, New York 1982 January 2 – Hull, Massachusetts January 3 – New Haven, Connecticut January 7 – Passaic, New Jersey January 8 – Pawcatuck, Connecticut January 9 – Staten Island, New York January 22 – Glen Cove, New York February 11 – Boston February 12 – Delhi, New York February 13 – Manchester, New Hampshire February 18 – Newark, Delaware February 19 – Fairfield, Connecticut February 20 – Providence, Rhode Island February 21 – Oswego, New York March 1 – Baltimore, Maryland March 6 – West Islip, New York March 13 – Buffalo, New York March 16 – Cleveland March 17 – Detroit March 25 – Albany, New York March 26 – Bear Mountain, New York March 27 – Mansfield, Pennsylvania April 3 – Madison, New Jersey April 4 – Framingham, Massachusetts April 14 – Columbia University (New York City) April 16 – Millersville, Pennsylvania April 17 – Matawan, New Jersey April 18 – Saratoga Springs, New York April 21 – Montclair, New Jersey April 22 – Salem, Massachusetts April 23 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) April 24 – Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) April 25 – Glassboro, New Jersey April 27 – Virginia Beach, Virginia (makeup for canceled show) April 28 – Columbia, South Carolina April 29 – Morgantown, West Virginia April 30 – New Rochelle, New York May 1 – Hofstra University (Hempstead, New York) May 2 – Newark, New Jersey May 6 – Fitchburg, Massachusetts May 7 – Hull, Massachusetts May 8 – Framingham, Massachusetts May 9 – Hampton Beach, New Hampshire May 14 – Trenton, New Jersey May 16 – Burlington, Vermont May 18 – Jersey City, New Jersey May 20 – Poughkeepsie, New York May 21 – Poughkeepsie, New York May 22 – Brooklyn, New York May 29 – Schenectady, New York May 30 – Tyngsborough, Massachusetts July 2 – Dover, New Jersey August 24 – Brooklyn, New York August 25 – Poughkeepsie, New York August 27 – Asbury Park, New Jersey August 28 – Hampton Beach, New Hampshire August 29 – East Hampton, New York September 3 – US Festival (San Bernardino, California) October 1 – Providence, Rhode Island October 3 – Washington, D.C. October 4 – Virginia Beach, Virginia October 6 – New Haven, Connecticut October 7 – Hartford, Connecticut November 15 – Bangor, Maine November 16 – Boston November 20 – Mount Vernon, New York November 21 – Hofstra University (Hempstead, New York) November 26 – Islip, New York November 27 – Islip, New York (Marky´s Last Show) 1983 February 13 – Utica, New York (Richie´s First Show) February 17 – Philadelphia February 18 – Poughkeepsie, New York February 19 – Wellesley, Massachusetts February 20 – Boston February 24 – Middlebury, Vermont March 12 – Southampton, New York March 13 – Danbury, Connecticut March 14 – Burlington, Vermont March 16 – Philadelphia March 17 – Philadelphia March 18 – Brooklyn, New York March 19 – Brooklyn, New York March 23 – Washington, D.C. March 24 – Washington, D.C. March 25 – New Haven, Connecticut March 26 – Hartford, Connecticut March 30 – Boston, Massachusetts March 31 – Amherst, Massachusetts April 8 – Atlanta April 9 – New Orleans April 11 – Beaumont, Texas April 13 – Dallas April 14 – Houston April 15 – Austin, Texas April 16 – San Antonio– The Bonham Ballroom April 19 – Las Cruces, New Mexico April 20 – Phoenix, Arizona April 22 – Palladium (Hollywood, California) April 23 – Jack Murphy Stadium (San Diego) April 24 – Pasadena, California April 26 – Goleta, California April 27 – Santa Cruz, California April 28 – Palo Alto, California April 29 – San Francisco April 30 – Sacramento, California May 2 – Eugene, Oregon May 3 – Portland, Oregon May 4 – Seattle May 5 – Seattle May 6 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada May 9 – Denver May 11 – St. Louis May 12 – Kansas City, Missouri May 13 – Wichita, Kansas May 15 – Minneapolis May 16 – Madison, Wisconsin May 17 – Milwaukee May 19 – Chicago May 20 – Chicago, Illinois May 21 – Cleveland May 22 – Detroit May 24 – Indianapolis May 26 – Columbus, Ohio May 27 – Wheeling, Illinois May 28 – Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) May 29 – University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) May 31 – Omaha, Nebraska June 1 – Des Moines, Iowa June 2 – Rockford, Illinois June 3 – Wausau, Wisconsin June 5 – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada June 7 – Calgary, Alberta, Canada June 8 – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada June 10 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 12 – Ann Arbor, Michigan June 13 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 14 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 20 – Virginia Beach, Virginia June 22 – Raleigh, North Carolina June 23 – Columbia, South Carolina June 24 – Hallandale, Florida June 25 – Hallandale, Florida June 26 – St. Petersburg, Florida June 29 – Washington, D.C. June 30 – Washington, D.C. July 9 – Bridgeport, Connecticut July 11 – Margate, New Jersey July 13 – Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania July 14 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania July 16 – The Pier (New York City) July 22 – Hicksville, Ohio July 24 – Richmond, Virginia July 27 – Buffalo, New York July 28 – Roslyn, New York July 29 – Philadelphia July 30 – Cape Cod, Massachusetts August 5 – Hampton Bays, New York August 6 – Poughkeepsie, New York August 12 – Brooklyn, New York August 13 – Queens, New York December 20 – Cedar Grove, New Jersey December 22 – Poughkeepsie, New York December 23 – Hartford, Connecticut December 27 – Levittown, New York December 29 – The Ritz (New York City) December 30 – Providence, Rhode Island 1984 January 5 – New Haven, Connecticut January 6 – Boston January 7 – Queens, New York January 12 – Philadelphia January 14 – Roslyn, New York March 9 – Portland, Maine March 10 – Providence, Rhode Island March 16 – Waterbury, Connecticut March 17 – Brooklyn, New York March 20 – Washington, D.C. March 22 – Manchester, New Hampshire March 23 – Albany, New York March 29 – Hartford, Connecticut March 30 – Brockton, Massachusetts April 6 – Salisbury, Massachusetts April 26 – Charlottesville, Virginia April 27 – Bronx, New York (Fordham University)[3] April 28 – Rochester, New York April 29 – Storrs, Connecticut May 4 – Ithaca, New York May 5 – Cortland, New York May 17 – Garden City, New York May 18 – New Haven, Connecticut May 19 – Mount Ivy, New York May 31 – Richmond, Virginia June 1 – Norfolk, Virginia June 8 – Ellington, Connecticut June 9 – Keene, New Hampshire June 16 – Queens, New York June 28 – Providence, Rhode Island June 29 – Taunton, Massachusetts June 30 – Syracuse, New York July 1 – Washington, D.C. August 1 – Rochester August 17 – Hackettstown, New Jersey August 28 – New Haven, Connecticut August 30 – Selden, New York August 31 – Hartford, Connecticut September 2 – Lido Beach, New York September 15 – Stony Brook, New York October 5 – Spring Valley, New York October 6 – Queens, New York October 9 – Washington, D.C. October 11 – North Dartmouth, Massachusetts October 12 – Providence, Rhode Island October 13 – Manchester, New Hampshire October 19 – Bethany, West Virginia October 20 – Norfolk, Virginia October 26 – Tampa, Florida (canceled due to rain) October 28 – Hallandale, Florida October 29 – West Palm Beach, Florida October 30 – Hallandale, Florida October 31 – Gainesville, Florida November 2 – Atlanta November 3 – Atlanta November 5 – Destin, Florida November 7 – New Orleans November 10 – Houston November 11 – Austin, Texas November 12 – Dallas November 14 – Albuquerque, New Mexico November 15 – Phoenix, Arizona November 17 – Los Angeles November 18 – San Diego November 20 – Los Angeles November 21 – Pomona, California November 23 – San Francisco November 24 – Palo Alto, California November 27 – Portland, Oregon November 29 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada November 30 – Seattle December 1 – Eugene, Oregon December 3 – Sacramento, California December 4 – San Jose, California December 5 – Berkeley, California December 7 – Las Vegas December 9 – Los Angeles December 12 – St. Louis, Missouri December 13 – Milwaukee December 14 – Chicago December 15 – Detroit, December 16 – Detroit, Michigan December 26 – West Islip, New York December 27 – The Ritz (New York City) December 28 – The Ritz (New York City) December 29 – Providence, Rhode Island 1985 January 3 – Boston January 4 – Hartford, Connecticut January 9 – Mount Vernon, New York January 12 – Asbury Park, New Jersey January 25 – Lexington, Virginia January 30 – Washington, D.C. January 31 – Washington, D.C. February 8 – Brooklyn, New York February 12 – Bronx, New York February 14 – Lowell, Massachusetts February 15 – Worcester, Massachusetts February 16 – Manchester, New Hampshire February 17 – Philadelphia February 18 – Baltimore February 24 – London, England February 25 – London, England February 26 – London, England February 27 – London, England March 7 – Garden City, New York March 8 – Providence, Rhode Island March 9 – Brooklyn, New York March 14 – Athens, Ohio March 15 – Detroit March 16 – Detroit, Michigan March 18 – Columbus, Ohio March 19 – Cincinnati March 20 – Pittsburgh March 29 – Buffalo, New York March 30 – Syracuse, New York March 31 – Hamden, Connecticut April 4 – Baltimore April 5 – Norfolk, Virginia April 6 – Newark, Delaware April 12 – Durham, New Hampshire April 13 – Trenton, New Jersey April 27 – Worcester, Massachusetts May 3 – New Haven, Connecticut May 4 – Jamesburg, New Jersey May 5 – Trenton, New Jersey May 7 – Garden City, New York May 9 – Rochester, New York May 10 – Buffalo, New York May 12 – Hartford, Connecticut May 20 – Providence, Rhode Island May 25 – Hartford, Connecticut May 27 – Blacksburg, Virginia May 28 – Richmond, Virginia May 30 – The Ritz (New York City) May 31 – The Ritz (New York City) June 7 – Oyster Bay, New York June 8 – Hampton Beach, New Hampshire June 14 – Scotia, New York June 15 – Brooklyn, New York June 22 – National Bowl, Milton Keynes, England June 24 – Dublin, Ireland June 25 – Dublin, Ireland June 26 – Belfast, Northern Ireland June 28 – Glasgow, Scotland June 30 – Roskilde, Denmark July 1 - Freibad Hiltrup, Münster, Germany (TV Show) July 2 – Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany. July 3 – Hamburg, Germany July 4 – Bochum, Germany July 6 – Torhout, Belgium July 7 – Werchter, Belgium August 9 – Worcester, Massachusetts August 10 – Middletown, New York August 11 – Hampton Bays, New York August 12 – New Haven, Connecticut August 21 – Boston August 22 – Branford, Connecticut August 24 – Norfolk, Virginia August 25 – Washington, D.C. August 26 – Washington, D.C. August 27 – Ocean City, Maryland September 1 – Lido Beach, New York September 20 – Hartford, Connecticut September 21 – Albany, New York October 5 – Asbury Park, New Jersey October 11 – Spring Valley, New York October 12 – Providence, Rhode Island October 13 – East Meadow, New York October 26 – College Park, Maryland November 22 – Commack, New York November 23 – Lewistown, Pennsylvania November 27 – Trenton, New Jersey November 29 – Brooklyn, New York December 31 – The World (New York City) 1986 April 11 – Fredonia, New York April 12 – Rochester, New York April 14 – Philadelphia April 19 – Burlington, Vermont April 20 – Durham, New Hampshire April 25 – Randolph, New Jersey April 26 – New Brunswick, New Jersey May 4 – London, England May 5 – London, England May 6 – London, England May 7 – Brighton, England May 8 – Poole, England May 9 – St. Austell, England May 11 – Bristol, England May 12 – Birmingham, England May 13 – Preston, England May 14 – Edinburgh, Scotland May 15 – Newcastle, England May 17 – Leeds, England May 18 – Manchester, England May 19 – Nottingham, England June 20 – Albany, New York June 21 – Hartford, Connecticut June 22 – Hampton Beach, New Hampshire June 24 – New Haven, Connecticut June 25 – Providence, Rhode Island June 27 – Brooklyn, New York June 28 – Philadelphia June 29 – Baltimore, Maryland June 30 – Norfolk, Virginia July 1 – Washington, D.C. July 2 – Washington, D.C. July 8 – Oyster Bay, New York July 11 – Trenton, New Jersey July 12 – Asbury Park, New Jersey July 17 – Pittsburgh July 19 – Detroit July 20 – Detroit, Michigan July 21 – Cleveland July 22 – Columbus, Ohio July 24 – Newport, Kentucky July 25 – Chicago July 26 – Chicago, Illinois July 27 – Minneapolis August 2 – Veurne, Belgium August 3 – Sneek, Netherlands August 4 – Amsterdam, Netherlands August 5 – Amsterdam, Netherlands August 31 – Lido Beach, New York September 11 – San Diego September 13 – Los Angeles September 14 – Sacramento, California September 15 – San Francisco September 16 – San Francisco September 17 – Santa Clara, California September 19 – Long Beach, California September 21 – Los Angeles, California September 22 – Riverside, California September 23 – San Diego September 24 – The Whisky (West Hollywood, California) October 10 – Trenton, New Jersey October 11 – Brooklyn, New York October 16 – Northampton, Massachusetts October 17 – Hartford, Connecticut October 18 – Providence, Rhode Island October 24 – Washington, D.C. October 25 – Philadelphia October 31 – Roslyn, New York November 1 – Bridgeport, Connecticut November 3 – Boston November 6 – The Ritz (New York City) November 7 – The Ritz (New York City) November 15 – Kent, Ohio November 16 – Buffalo, New York November 18 – Montclair, New Jersey November 21 – Sayreville, New Jersey November 22 – Medford, Massachusetts December 4 – Waltham, Massachusetts December 5 – Rochester, New York December 6 – Alfred, New York December 19 – Queens, New York December 20 – Bay Shore, New York December 31 – Roslyn, New York 1987 January 3 – Trenton, New Jersey January 4 – Washington, D.C. January 23 – Providence, Rhode Island January 24 – Poughkeepsie, New York January 31 – São Paulo, Brazil February 1 – São Paulo, Brazil February 4 – Buenos Aires, Argentina February 20 – Pittsburgh February 21 – Allentown, Pennsylvania February 26 – Wayne, New Jersey February 27 – Asbury Park, New Jersey February 28 – Philadelphia March 20 – Dallas March 21 – Austin, Texas March 22 – Houston March 23 – New Orleans March 25 – Atlanta March 26 – Tallahassee, Florida March 27 – Tampa, Florida March 28 – Cocoa Beach, Florida March 29 – Miami Beach, Florida April 22 – Garden City, New York April 23 – Staten Island, New York April 25 – Hartford, Connecticut April 26 – New Haven, Connecticut April 30 – Williamstown, Massachusetts May 1 – Brunswick, Maine May 2 – Albany, New York May 3 – Hadley, Massachusetts May 8 – Randolph, New Jersey May 9 – Brooklyn, New York May 15 – Providence, Rhode Island May 16 – Bay Shore, New York May 29 – Darien Lake, New York May 30 – Poughkeepsie, New York June 18 – Harrisburg, Pennsylvania June 19 – Ocean City, Maryland June 20 – Philadelphia June 26 – Oyster Bay, New York June 27 – Flushing Meadows Park (Queens, New York) June 28 – Washington, D.C. June 29 – Washington, D.C. June 30 – Washington, D.C. July 1 – Norfolk, Virginia July 21 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 22 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 23 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 24 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada August 12 – East Hampton, New York (Last Richie Show) August 28 – Providence, Rhode Island (with Clem Burke on drums) August 29 – City Gardens, Trenton, New Jersey (with Clem Burke on drums) September 4 – Oyster Bay, New York (First Show with Marky again) September 5 – Washington, D.C. September 6 – Commack, New York September 10 – The Ritz (New York City) September 11 – The Ritz (New York City) September 16 – San Diego September 18 – Los Angeles September 19 – Fresno, California September 21 – San Francisco September 22 – San Francisco September 23 – Santa Clara, California September 25 – Long Beach, California September 26 – Northridge, California September 27 – Los Angeles October 5 – Copenhagen, Denmark October 6 – Hamburg, Germany October 7 – Amsterdam, Netherlands October 8 – Düsseldorf, Germany October 9 – Munich, Germany October 11 – Milan, Italy October 12 – Zürich, Switzerland October 13 – La Mutualité, Paris, France October 15 – Sheffield, England October 16 – Newcastle, England October 17 – Leeds, England October 18 – Glasgow, Scotland October 20 – Nottingham, England October 21 – Norwich, England October 22 – Manchester, England October 23 – Liverpool, England October 24 – Cardiff, Wales October 25 – Birmingham, England October 26 – London, England October 31 – Alexandria, Virginia November 12 – Wilmington, North Carolina November 13 – The Attic Greenville, North Carolina November 14 – Kidnappers Charlotte, North Carolina November 15 – Charlottesville, Virginia November 19 – The Living Room, Providence, Rhode Island November 20 – Allentown, Pennsylvania November 21 – Brooklyn, New York November 22 – Glassboro, New Jersey December 3 – New Haven, Connecticut December 4 – Randolph, New Jersey December 9 – Baltimore, Maryland December 10 – Washington, D.C. December 11 – Washington, D.C. December 12 – Oyster Bay, New York December 13 – Philadelphia December 31 – Bay Shore, New York 1988 January 1 – Trenton, New Jersey January 2 – The Ritz (New York City) January 28 – Dallas January 29 – Austin, Texas-The Backroom January 30 – Austin, Texas January 31 – Houston February 1 – New Orleans February 3 – Atlanta February 4 – Tallahassee, Florida February 5 – Jacksonville, Florida February 6 – St. Petersburg, Florida February 7 – Miami February 19 – Aguadilla, Puerto Rico February 20 – Aguadilla, Puerto Rico March 11 – Sayreville, New Jersey March 12 – Queens Village, New York March 13 – Hempstead, New York March 18 – Oswego, New York March 19 – Rochester, New York March 24 – Staten Island, New York March 26 – Allentown, Pennsylvania April 22 – Trenton, New Jersey April 23 – Philadelphia April 27 – Providence, Rhode Island April 29 – Commack, New York April 30 – Oswego, New York May 3 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 4 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 5 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 6 – Buffalo, New York May 7 – Rochester, New York May 19 – Brewster, New York May 20 – New Rochelle, New York May 21 – Philadelphia June 2 – Stockholm, Sweden June 3 – Lund, Sweden June 4 – Seinäjoki, Finland June 6 – Paris, France June 7 – Tilburg, Netherlands June 8 – Amsterdam, Netherlands June 9 – Amsterdam, Netherlands June 10 – Groningen, Netherlands June 11 – Göttingen, Germany June 12 – Berlin, Germany June 13 – Düsseldorf, Germany June 15 – London, England July 1 – Brooklyn, New York July 2 – Poughkeepsie, New York July 7 – San Diego July 8 – Los Angeles July 10 – The Fillmore (San Francisco) July 11 – The Fillmore (San Francisco) July 12 – Santa Clara, California July 13 – Santa Clara, California July 15 – Anaheim, California July 16 – Los Angeles July 17 – Santa Barbara, California July 18 – Roxy (West Hollywood, California) August 2 – New Haven, Connecticut August 3 – Easthampton, Massachusetts August 4 – Brewster, New York August 5 – Trenton, New Jersey August 12 – Commack, New York August 13 – Philadelphia August 14 – Baltimore August 15 – Washington, D.C. August 16 – Washington, D.C. August 19 – The Ritz (New York City) August 20 – The Ritz (New York City) August 26 – Reading, England August 27 – Hechtel, Belgium September 13 – Sayreville, New Jersey September 14 – Boston September 15 – Providence, Rhode Island September 21 – Pittsburgh September 22 – Kent, Ohio September 23 – Chicago September 24 – Detroit September 26 – Cincinnati September 27 – Columbus, Ohio September 28 – Indianapolis September 29 – St. Louis, October 1 – Cleveland, Ohio October 6 – Staten Island, New York October 7 – Poughkeepsie, New York October 8 – Rochester, New York October 9 – Albany, New York October 13 – Island Park, New York October 14 – Trenton, New Jersey October 15 – Trenton, New Jersey October 24 – Tokyo, Japan October 25 – Tokyo, Japan October 26 – Kobe, Japan October 27 – Osaka, Japan October 28 – Tokyo, Japan November 11 – Dallas November 12 – Austin, Texas November 13 – Austin, Texas November 14 – College Station, Texas November 15 – Houston November 16 – New Orleans November 18 – St. Petersburg, Florida November 19 – Miami Beach, Florida November 20 – Orlando, Florida November 22 – Atlanta December 1 – Bronx, New York December 2 – Baltimore, Maryland December 10 – Durham, New Hampshire December 11 – New Haven, Connecticut December 30 – Providence, Rhode Island December 31 – Irving Plaza (New York City) 1989 January 16 – Washington, D.C. January 17 – Washington, D.C. January 19 – Nashville, Tennessee January 20 – Lexington, Kentucky January 21 – Louisville, Kentucky January 23 – Columbia, South Carolina January 24 – Pterodactyl Club (Charlotte, North Carolina) January 25 – Norfolk, Virginia January 27 – The Ritz (New York City) January 28 – The Ritz (New York City) February 7 – Madrid, Spain February 8 – Barcelona, Spain February 9 – Valencia, Spain February 10 – Valencia, Spain February 11 – San Sebastian, Spain February 12 – San Sebastian, Spain February 24 – Poughkeepsie, New York March 24 – Canton, New York March 25 – Albany, New York March 31 – Queens Village, New York April 1 – Baltimore April 6 – New Haven, Connecticut April 7 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania April 15 – Stony Brook, New York May 2 – Monfalcone, Italy May 3 – Milan, Italy May 4 – Florence, Italy May 6 – Dueville, Vicenza, Italy May 7 – Rimini, Italy May 8 – Modena, Italy May 9 – Rome, Italy May 10 – Perugia Ellera, Italy May 12 – Athens, Greece May 13 – Athens, Greece May 14 – Athens, Greece May 15 – Athens, Greece May 26 – Boston May 27 – Providence, Rhode Island June 2 – Los Angeles June 3 – Long Beach, California June 4 – Reseda, California June 17 – San Francisco, California June 18 – Petaluma, California June 19 – Santa Clara, California June 20 – Santa Barbara, California June 22 – San Diego June 23 – Tijuana, Mexico June 24 – San Pedro, California June 25 – Reseda, California June 27 – Portland, Oregon June 28 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada June 29 – Seattle July 1 – The Fillmore (San Francisco) July 2 – The Fillmore (San Francisco) July 3 – Santa Cruz, California July 4 – Santa Clara, California July 5 – Santa Clara, California (Dee Dee's last show) September 30 – Leicester, England (C. J´s First Show)CJ First show live October 1 – Liverpool, England October 2 – Glasgow, Scotland October 3 – Newcastle, England October 4 – Manchester, England October 6 – Leeds, England October 7 – Birmingham, England October 8 – Bristol, England October 9 – London, England October 10 – London, England October 11 – London, England October 31 – Auckland, New Zealand November 1 – Auckland, New Zealand November 3 – Melbourne, Australia November 4 – Melbourne, Australia November 5 – Melbourne, Australia November 6 – Perth, Australia November 7 – Adelaide, Australia November 9 – Sydney, Australia November 10 – Sydney, New South Wales, Australia November 11 – Sydney, New South Wales, Australia November 12 – Brisbane, Australia November 22 – Offenbach, Germany November 23 – Bonn, Germany November 24 – Oberhausen, Germany November 25 – Hamburg, Germany November 26 – Berlin, Germany November 27 – Berlin, Germany November 28 – Bielefeld, Germany November 29 – Neumarkt, Germany November 30 – Böblingen, Germany December 1 – Deinze, Belgium December 2 – Utrecht, Netherlands December 3 – Rotterdam, Netherlands December 4 – Amsterdam, Netherlands December 12 – New Haven, Connecticut December 13 – Poughkeepsie, New York December 14 – Philadelphia December 15 – The Ritz (New York City) December 16 – The Ritz (New York City) 1990 February 23 – Trenton, New Jersey February 24 – Sag Harbor, New York February 25 – Albany, New York March 1 – Charlottesville, Virginia March 2 – Fredericksburg, Virginia March 3 – St. Mary's City, Maryland March 4 – Reading, Pennsylvania March 8 – Boston March 9 – Boston, Massachusetts March 10 – Providence, Rhode Island March 22 – Copenhagen, Denmark March 23 – Tampere, Finland March 24 – Turku, Finland March 25 – Helsinki, Finland March 27 – Stockholm, Sweden March 28 – Gothenburg, Sweden March 29 – Lund, Sweden March 30 – Karlskoga, Sweden March 31 – Hultsfred, Sweden April 1 – Oslo, Norway April 18 – Norman, Oklahoma April 19 – Dallas April 20 – Austin, Texas April 21 – Austin, Texas April 23 – New Orleans April 24 – Birmingham, Alabama April 26 – Miami Beach, Florida April 27 – Melbourne, Florida April 28 – Tampa, Florida April 29 – Orlando, Florida May 1 – Atlanta May 2 – Nashville, Tennessee May 4 – Winston-Salem, North Carolina May 5 – Wilmington, North Carolina May 6 – Raleigh, North Carolina May 8 – Columbia, South Carolina May 9 – Charlotte, North Carolina May 11 – Baltimore, Maryland May 12 – Norfolk, Virginia May 13 – Richmond, Virginia May 14 – Washington, D.C. May 15 – Washington, D.C. June 23 – Lorelei, Germany June 28 – Columbia, Maryland June 29 – Bristol, Connecticut July 1 – Milwaukee July 2 – Detroit July 3 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 4 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 6 – Boston July 7 – Portland, Maine July 8 – Burlington, Vermont July 9 – Philadelphia July 11 – Jones Beach, New York July 12 – Holmdel Township, New Jersey July 13 – Darien, New York July 14 – Cleveland July 16 – Columbus, Ohio July 17 – Chicago July 18 – Cincinnati July 19 – Atlanta, Georgia July 22 – St. Louis, Missouri July 23 – Memphis, Tennessee July 24 – Kansas City July 25 – Tulsa, Oklahoma July 26 – Dallas July 27 – Houston July 28 – Austin, Texas July 30 – Santa Fe, New Mexico July 31 – Denver August 1 – Salt Lake City August 2 – Irvine, California August 4 – San Diego August 5 – Las Vegas August 6 – Mesa, Arizona August 8 – Los Angeles August 9 – Los Angeles August 10 – Ventura, California August 11 – Berkeley, California August 12 – San Francisco August 14 – Portland, Oregon August 15 – Seattle August 16 – Victoria, Canada August 17 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada September 3 – Osaka, Japan September 4 – Nagoya, Japan September 5 – Kawasaki, Japan September 6 – Kawasaki, Japan September 8 – Nagoya, Japan September 9 – Nagoya, Japan September 10 – Osaka, Japan September 11 – Osaka, Japan September 13 – Kawasaki, Japan September 14 – Kawasaki, Japan September 15 – Kawasaki, Japan September 16 – Kawasaki, Japan October 4 – Philadelphia October 5 – Baltimore October 6 – The Ritz (New York City) October 7 – Trenton, New Jersey November 13 – Paris, France November 14 – Munich, Germany November 15 – Völklingen, Germany November 16 – Bremen, Germany November 17 – Ghent, Belgium November 19 – Lyon, France November 20 – Zürich, Switzerland November 21 – Vienna, Austria November 22 – Graz, Austria November 24 – Zagreb, Yugoslavia November 25 – Ljubljana, Yugoslavia November 26 – Milan, Italy November 27 – Rimini, Italy November 29 – Zaragoza, Spain November 30 – Madrid, Spain December 1 – Barcelona, Spain December 2 – San Sebastian, Spain December 4 – Valencia, Spain December 5 – Murcia, Spain December 7 – Manchester, England December 8 – Brixton Academy, London, England December 27 – Providence, Rhode Island December 28 – Boston December 29 – The Ritz (New York City) December 30 – New Haven, Connecticut 1991 January 22 – Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia January 23 – Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia January 25 – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia January 26 – Sydney, Australia January 27 – Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia January 29 – Sydney, Australia January 31 – Adelaide, Australia February 1 – Melbourne, Australia February 2 – Perth, Australia February 5 – Tokyo, Japan February 6 – Tokyo, Japan February 7 – Tokyo, Japan March 6 – Madrid, Spain March 7 – La Real, Oviedo, Spain March 8 – Valladolid, Spain March 9 – Vigo, Spain March 11 – Barcelona, Spain (Loco Live) March 12 – Barcelona, Spain (Loco Live) March 13 – Valencia, Spain March 15 – Pamplona, Spain March 16 – Mondragón, Spain March 17 – Bilbao, Spain March 18 – Melgar, Spain April 4 – New Haven, Connecticut April 5 – Philadelphia April 6 – Baltimore April 12 – Allentown, Pennsylvania April 13 – Columbus, Ohio April 14 – Detroit April 15 – Cincinnati April 16 – Pittsburgh April 26 – Buenos Aires, Argentina April 27 – Buenos Aires, Argentina April 28 – Buenos Aires, Argentina April 30 – São Paulo, Brazil May 1 – São Paulo, Brazil May 2 – São Paulo, Brazil May 4 – Porto Alegre, Brazil May 28 – New Haven, Connecticut May 29 – Trenton, New Jersey May 30 – New Britain, Connecticut May 31 – Spring Valley, New York June 1 – Asbury Park, New Jersey June 7 – Tampa, Florida June 8 – Miami June 9 – Orlando, Florida June 11 – Atlanta June 12 – Charlotte, North Carolina June 14 – Raleigh, North Carolina June 15 – Winston-Salem, North Carolina June 16 – Greenville, North Carolina June 18 – Athens, Georgia June 19 – Knoxville, Tennessee June 21 – Norfolk, Virginia June 22 – Richmond, Virginia June 23 – Washington, D.C. July 6 – La Spezia, Italy July 8 – Turin, Italy July 10 – Leysin, Switzerland August 6 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 8 – Kitchener, Ontario, Canada August 9 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 10 – Bala, Ontario, Canada August 11 – Bala, Ontario, Canada August 13 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada August 14 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada August 15 – St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada August 16 – Hamilton, Ontario, Canada August 24 – Berlin, Germany August 25 – Hasselt, Belgium August 27 – Helsinki, Finland August 28 – Stockholm, Sweden October 4 – Trenton, New Jersey October 5 – Philadelphia October 6 – Middletown, New York October 7 – Northampton, Massachusetts October 11 – Warwick, Rhode Island October 14 – Cleveland October 15 – Columbus, Ohio October 16 – Pittsburgh October 18 – Baltimore October 19 – Washington, D.C. October 24 – Boston October 25 – New Britain, Connecticut October 26 – Sea Bright, New Jersey November 25 – Utrecht, Netherlands November 27 – Hamburg, Germany November 28 – Düsseldorf, Germany November 29 – Deinze, Belgium November 30 – Salle Omnisports, Rennes, France December 2 – Birmingham, England December 3 – Newcastle, England December 4 – Glasgow, Scotland December 5 – Academy, Manchester, England December 7 – Brixton Academy, London, England December 8 – Brixton Academy, London, England December 27 – New Haven, Connecticut December 28 – Baltimore December 29 – The Ritz (New York City) 1992 March 14 – Fontanafredda, Italy March 15 – Florence, Italy March 16 – Milan, Italy March 17 – Correggio, Italy March 19 – Athens, Greece March 20 – Athens, Greece March 21 – Athens, Greece April 9 – New Haven, Connecticut April 10 – Columbia University (New York City) April 11 – Sea Bright, New Jersey April 12 – Trenton, New Jersey April 23 – Baltimore April 24 – Norfolk, Virginia April 25 – Washington, D.C. April 26 – Allentown, Pennsylvania May 3 – Bourges, France May 4 – Lyon, France May 5 – Paris, France May 6 – Paris, France May 7 – Mulhouse, France May 9 – Pau, France May 10 – Niort, France June 4 – Kitchener, Ontario, Canada June 5 – Oshawa, Ontario, Canada June 6 – Hamilton, Ontario, Canada June 7 – London, Ontario, Canada June 9 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 10 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 12 – Quebec City, Quebec, Canada June 13 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 14 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 19 – Nummirock festival, Nummijärvi, Kauhajoki, Finland June 27 – Alsdorf, Germany, Bizarre Festival September 13 – Velódromo Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile September 16 – Buenos Aires, Argentina September 17 – Buenos Aires, Argentina September 18 – Buenos Aires, Argentina September 19 – Buenos Aires, Argentina September 20 – Buenos Aires, Argentina (Show T.V. "Hacelo x Mi") October 6 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada October 7 – Seattle October 10 – Berkeley, California October 23 – Houston October 28 – Detroit, Michigan, State Theater November 3 – Cincinnati November 8 – Providence, Rhode Island – Johnson and Wales College November 11 – New York – Roseland Ballroom November 13 – Boston, Massachusetts Orpheum Theater December 3 – Freiburg, Germany, Stadthalle December 5 - Cologne, Germany December 6 – Hanover, Germany, Music Hall December 10 – Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands 1993 Jan 9: Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan Jan 11: Mel Park Hall, Tokyo, Japan Jan 12: Mel Park Hall, Tokyo, Japan Feb 22: Élysée Montmartre, Paris, France Feb 23: Hippodrome, Cabourg, France Feb 24: Le Forum, Dijon, France Feb 26: Le Summum, Grenoble, France Feb 27: Le Confluent, Portet-sur-Garonne, France Feb 28: Rock School Barbey, Bordeaux, France Mar 5, Cochera Avda. Escaleritas, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Mar 11: Coliseum, A Coruña, Spain Mar 15: Zeleste, Barcelona, Spain Mar 16: Zeleste, Barcelona, Spain Mar 18: Palau de Fires, Girona, Spain Apr 22: Donovan Dining Center, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Apr 24: Skytop Field, Syracuse, New York, USA May 7: Rodon Club, Athens, Greece May 9: Auditorium Flog, Florence, Italy May 10: Rototom, Spilimbergo, Italy May 11: Big Club, Turin, Italy May 13: Il Tempo Discothèque, Gualtieri, Italy May 14: Teatro Tendastrice, Rome, Italy May 15: Palasport, Macerata, Italy May 16: Rolling Stone, Milan, Italy May 18: Hipódromo Son Pardo, Palma, Spain May 19: Sala Driza, Santander, Spain May 22: Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid, Spain Jun 25: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jun 26: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jun 27: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jun 28: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jun 29: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jul 2: Ex-Balneario Olímpico Juan de la Barrera, Mexico City, Mexico Jul 22: Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Jul 24: The Academy, New York, USA Jul 27: RPM Warehouse, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Aug 01: Infest, High River, Alberta, Canada Aug 12: Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo, Norway Aug 13: Folkets Park, Hultsfred, Sweden Aug 14: Graspop Festival, Dessel, Belgium Aug 15: Waldbühne, Northeim, Germany Aug 27: Michigan State Fairgrounds Coliseum, Detroit, Michigan, USA Sep 22: Tuxedo Junction, Danbury, Connecticut, USA Sep 23: Tradewinds, Sea Bright, New Jersey, USA Oct 1: The Sting, New Britain, Connecticut, USA Oct 2: Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, USA Nov 13: The Boathouse, Norfolk, Virginia, USA Nov 14: Pterodactyl Club, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Nov 17: Desperado's, Charleston, South Carolina, USA Dec 7: Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany Dec 10: Terminal 1 Flüghafen München, Munich, Germany Dec 14: Alsterdorfer Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany Dec 16: Grugahalle, Essen, Germany Dec 17: Eissport-Halle, Halle, Germany 1994 Jan 23: Melbourne, Australia Jan 26: Sydney, Australia Jan 26 Adelaide Australia Jan 28 Perth Australia Jan 29 Fremantle Australia Jan 30 Swanbourne, surf club, Australia Feb 2: Tokyo Japan Feb 3: Tokyo Japan Feb 5: Fukuoka Japan Feb 6: Osaka Japan Feb 7: Nagoya Japan Feb 9: Tokyo, Japan (Show #2000) Feb 10: Tokyo, Japan Feb 11: Tokyo, Japan Mar 8: San Francisco, USA Mar 10: Hollywood, USA Mar 12: UCI Crawford Hall – Irvine, California Mar 18: CU Boulder, USA Mar 20: Dallas, USA Mar 26: Detroit, State Theater, USA Mar 27: Columbus, USA Mar 30: Providence, USA Mar 31: New York, USA Apr 1: New York, USA Apr 2: Philadelphia, USA Apr 8: Atlanta, USA Roxy Theater[4] Apr 9: Birmingham, USA Apr 12: Orlando, USA Apr 26: University of Maryland, USA May 10: São Paulo, Brazil May 11: São Paulo, Brazil May 14: Velez Sarsfield Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina May 16: Teatro Caupolicán, Santiago, Chile May 18: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina May 19: Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jun 10: Sion, Switzerland Jun 11: Nieuw Schoonebeek, Netherlands Jun 12: Brussels, Belgium Jun 14: Élysée Montmartre, Paris, France Jun 23: Helsinki, Finland Jun 24: Nummirock festival, Kauhajoki, Finland Jun 25: Ringe, Denmark Aug 5: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Aug 12: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Aug 14: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Aug 16: Rochester, USA Sep 24: Newcastle, England Sep 25: London, England Sep 26: Nottingham, England Sep 28: Geneva, Switzerland Sep 29: Milan, Italy Sep 30: Sassari, Italy Oct 1: Rimini, Italy Oct 4: Rome, Italy Oct 7: Athens, Greece Oct 8: Athens, Greece Oct 10: Ljubljana, Slovenia Oct 11: Zagreb, Croatia Oct 13: Prague, Czech Republic Oct 15: Arendonk, Belgium Oct 16: Rotterdam, the Netherlands Nov 6: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Nov 9: Porto Alegre, Brazil Nov 12: Curitiba, Brazil Nov 14: Montevideo, Uruguay Nov 16: Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina Nov 17: Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina Nov 18: Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1995 March 17: The Boathouse, Norfolk, VA March Unknown Day: Jarmon Hall, Farmville, VA, Longwood College (Largely unknown show booked by a Fraternity. No known audio or video footage exists) April 8: The Capitol Theater Port Chester NY April 9: Garden City, New York, Nassau Community College April 10: Poughkeepsie, New York, The Chance April 23: Panama City Beach, Florida, Spinnaker Beach Club May 24: Pine Knob – Clarkston MI opening for Duran Duran at Planet Fest May 25: Madison Wisconsin, Barrymore theater May 28: Somerset, Wisconsin, Float-Rite Park, "Edge Fest 2" [5] May 29: Milwaukee, Wisconsin "New Rock 102.1 Fest" Jun 3: RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C., HFStival Jun 24: Skellefteåfestivalen, Skellefteå, Sweden Jun 25: Kalvoyafestivalen – Oslo, Norway Jun 27: Astoria London, England Jun 28: Astoria London, England Jun 29: Queens Hall, Leicester University, England July 2: Le Plan, Ris Orangis, France July 8: Zwemdokrock, Lummen, Belgium July 9: Dour Festival, Dour, Belgium July 10: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands August 2: The Strand, Providence, Rhode Island August 5: The Academy, 234 W. 43rd St., New York August 9: The Capitol Ballroom, Washington DC August 11: Agawam, Massachusetts. Riverside Park August 17: Pontiac, Michigan, Phoenix Plaza August 18: Chicago, Riviera Theater August 19: Maryland Heights, Missouri Riverport Amphitheater "Pointfest 4" August 23: Salt Lake City – Saltair[6] August 25: Las Vegas, NV - Hard Rock Hotel - The Joint August 26: Party Gardens, Phoenix, Arizona August 28: SOMA, San Diego August 29: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles August 30: Tejon Theatre, Bakersfield, California August 31: The Warfield, San Francisco September 2: Roseland Ballroom, Portland, Oregon September 3: Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle September 10: Lakewood Amphitheater, Atlanta September 13: Veterans Mem. Coliseum, Phoenix, Arizona September 14: The Pan Am Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico September 16 – South Park Meadows Austin, Texas, opening for Pearl Jam[7][8][9] September 17: The Gormley Stadium, New Orleans October 2: Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 3: Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 4: Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 5: Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 6: Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 7: Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 16: Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan October 17: Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan October 18: Club Cita, Tokyo, Japan October 20: Crossing Hall, Fukuoka, Japan October 22: Matsumoto, Japan October 23: Club Cita, Tokyo, Japan October 25: Zanadu, Sapporo, Japan October 27: Diamond Hall, Nagoya, Japan October 28: Club Cita, Tokyo, Japan October 29: Club Cita, Tokyo, Japan October 30: Diamond Hall, Nagoya, Japan November 1: Imperial Hall, Osaka, Japan November 2: Imperial Hall, Osaka, Japan November 6: San Diego Sports arena, San Diego November 7: San Diego Sports arena, San Diego November 18: Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Michigan November 20: Louisville Gardens, Louisville, Kentucky November 21: Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati November 22: Convocation Center, Cleveland November 24: L.C. Walker Arena, Muskegon, Michigan November 25: Wendler Arena, Saginaw, Michigan November 27: Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON November 28: Verdun Auditorium, Verdun, Quebec November 29: Central Maine Civic Central, Lewiston, Maine December 2: Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford, Connecticut December 4: War Mem. Auditorium, Rochester, New York December 5: International Agri-Center, Hamburg December 6: Broome Co. Arena, Binghampton, New York December 10: Wicomico Civic Center, Salisbury December 12: Civic Center, Salem December 13: Civic Center, Philadelphia December 14: Patriot Center, Fairfax, Virginia 1996 January 17: Florence, Tenax (CANCELLED, 'cause of some health problems) January 18: Rome, Tent Theatre (CANCELLED, 'cause of some health problems) January 19: Budrio (Bologna), Sport Hall January 20: Pordenone, Sport Hall January 22: Milano, Palatrussardi January 23: Munich, Terminal 1 January 24: Offenbach, Stadthalle January 26: Bonn, Biskuithalle January 28: Berlin, Huxley's Neue Welt January 29: Hamburg, Docks January 30: Hanover, Capitol January 31: Amsterdam, Paradiso February 2: Kortruk (Kortrijk), Ontmoetingscentrum February 3: Brixton, Academy (London) February 9: Late Show with David Letterman February 12: Providence R.I. Strand Theater February 13: Northampton, Ma. Pearl Street February 14: Boston Ma. Avalon February 16: Philadelphia, Pa. Electric Factory February 17: Washington, D.C. Capitol Ballroom February 18: Port Chester NY. Capitol Theater February 20: Harrisburg PA. Metron February 21: Lido Beach, L.I. Malibu February 23: New Haven Ct. Toads Place February 24: Baltimore Maryland Hammerjacks February 25: Redbank, New Jersey. The Count Basie February 27: NYC Coney Island High February 28: NYC Coney Island High February 29: NYC The Academy (live album) March 7: Rio de Janeiro, The Metropolitan March 8: Mogi das Cruzes, La Boom March 9: Porto Alegre, Gigantinho (this show was cancelled because a Protestant church got the place for a religious event.) March 10: Aramacan, Santo Andre March 11: São Paulo, The Olympia March 12: São Paulo, The Olympia March 13: São Paulo, The Olympia March 16: River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina April 18: Indianapolis, Vogue April 19: Chicago, Riviera Theatre April 20: Kalamazoo, State Theatre April 21: Detroit, State Theatre April 23: Cleveland April 25: Allentown, Starz April 26: Pittsburgh, I.C. Light Amphitheatre April 27: Rochester, University Of Rochester April 28: Albany, Lincoln Park April 29: Coney Island High, NYC May 1: Coney Island High, NYC May 22: Little Rock, AR, Midnight Rodeo May 23: Memphis, Tennessee, The 616 May 25: Atlanta, Georgia, Masquerade Outdoor Park May 26: Birmingham, Alabama, Five Points Music Hall June 27 – Longview Lake (Kansas City, Missouri)† June 28 – State Fairgrounds (Des Moines, Iowa)† June 30 – Winnebago County Fairgrounds (Rockford, Illinois)† July 2 – Deer Creek Field (Indianapolis)† July 3 – Buckeye Lake (Columbus, Ohio) July 5 – Molson Park (Barrie, Ontario, Canada)† July 7 – Hippodrome (Quebec City, Quebec, Canada)† July 9 – Green Mountain Fairgrounds (Pownal, Vermont)† July 10 – Randall's Island (New York City)† July 11 – Randall's Island (New York City)† July 13 – New York State Fairgrounds (Syracuse, New York)† July 16 – Charles Town Raceway (Charles Town, West Virginia)† July 18 – Southern Florida Fairgrounds (West Palm Beach, Florida)† July 20 – Rockingham Dragway (Rockingham, North Carolina)† July 21 – The Forks of the River (Knoxville, Tennessee)† July 23 – Tad Gromley Stadium (New Orleans)† July 25 – Old Fort Dallas (Ferris, Texas)† July 27 – Compton Terrace (Phoenix, Arizona)† July 30 – The Gorge (George, Washington)† August 2 – Spartan Stadium (San Jose, California)† August 3 – Irvine Meadows (Irvine, California)† August 4 – Irvine Meadows (Irvine, California)† August 6 – The Palace in Los Angeles (Final Show) †Tour dates performed as part of the Lollapalooza '96 tour. Douglas Glenn Colvin (September 18, 1951 – June 5, 2002), known professionally as Dee Dee Ramone, was a German-American musician, singer and songwriter best known as founding member, songwriter, bassist and occasional lead vocalist for the punk rock band the Ramones. Though nearly all of the Ramones' songs were credited equally to all the band members, Dee Dee was the band's most prolific lyricist and composer, writing many of their best-known songs, such as "53rd & 3rd", "Commando", "Wart Hog", "Rockaway Beach", and "Poison Heart". He also co-wrote "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg", retitled "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down," with Ramones producer Jean Beauvoir, who was originally from The Plasmatics. The song was featured in the film School Of Rock. Dee Dee and Beauvoir also co-wrote the song "Something To Believe In", featured on the Ramones album Animal Boy. "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" won the New York Music Award for best independent single of the year in 1986 and Animal Boy won for best album. Beauvoir and Dee Dee later co-wrote the song "Cut Me To Pieces", which was featured in the film Rock and Roll High School Forever. Dee Dee was initially the band's lead vocalist, though his (then) inability to sing and play bass at the same time resulted in original drummer Joey Ramone taking over the lead vocalist duties (however, he still sang lead vocals in the band on occasion). Dee Dee was the band's bassist and songwriter from 1974 until 1989, when he left to pursue a short-lived career in hip hop music under the name Dee Dee King. He soon returned to his punk roots and released three solo albums featuring brand-new songs, many of which were later recorded by the Ramones. He toured the world playing his new songs, Ramones songs and some old favorites in small clubs, and continued to write songs for the Ramones until 1996, when the band officially retired. Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life, particularly heroin. He began using drugs as a teenager and continued to use for the majority of his adult life. He appeared clean in the early 1990s but began using heroin again sometime later. He died from a heroin overdose on June 5, 2002.[1] Contents 1 Personal life 1.1 Marriages 2 Ramones 2.1 Later projects 3 Death 4 Equipment 5 Books authored 6 Discography 6.1 Ramones 6.2 Solo 7 Videography 8 References 9 External links Personal life Douglas Glenn Colvin was born on September 18, 1951, in Fort Lee, Virginia, US.[2] He was the son of an American soldier and a German woman. As an infant, his family relocated to Berlin, Germany, due to his father's military service. His father's military career also required the family to relocate frequently. These frequent moves caused Douglas to have a lonely childhood with few real friends. His parents separated during his early teens, and he remained in Berlin until the age of 15, when he, along with his mother and sister Beverley, moved to Forest Hills, New York, in order to escape Dee Dee's alcoholic father.[3] There, he met John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi (later dubbed Johnny and Tommy Ramone), then playing in a band called the Tangerine Puppets, named after a Donovan song. In the early 1970s, Dee Dee Ramone worked at The Bureau of Advertising, located at 485 Lexington Ave., Manhattan, NYC. Later renamed The Newspaper Advertising Bureau, the agency promoted newspapers as the best media source for advertising. Dee Dee was a printer's helper for maybe one year in the company's small in-house print shop. Because of his creative abilities he would hang out, when he could, with the graphic designers in the company’s art department. Bassist Monty Colvin from the progressive metal band Galactic Cowboys is one of Dee Dee's cousins. Marriages In 1978, he married Vera Boldis.[4] According to Vera, Dee Dee's struggles with mental illness and drug abuse put a strain on the couple's relationship.[5] They separated in 1990 before finalizing their divorce in 1995.[6][7] By then, Dee Dee was making music as the Ramainz with his second wife, Barbara Zampini (also known as Barbara Ramone). Since his death, she continues to manage his estate, calling herself Barbara Ramone Zampini.[8] Ramones Colvin, later Dee Dee, and Cummings, later Johnny, quickly became friends, as they were both social outcasts in their heavily middle-class neighborhood. After an unsuccessful guitar audition for Television, Johnny convinced Dee Dee to form their own band with then-drummer Jeffrey Hyman, later Joey Ramone, in 1974. Joey took over vocal duties after Dee Dee decided that he could not sing lead vocals for longer than a few songs as his voice shredded. Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each song's tempo with his signature rapid-fire shout of "1-2-3-4!" It was Dee Dee who first suggested naming the band the Ramones, after reading that Paul McCartney often signed into hotels under the alias "Paul Ramon". He added an 'e' to the end of that surname and the band members all agreed to adopt the surname "Ramone" as a means of conveying their unity. Dee Dee wrote or co-wrote much of the Ramones' repertoire, such as "53rd and 3rd" (a song about male prostitution at 53rd Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, allegedly based on personal experience), "Glad to See You Go" (written about his then-girlfriend, a stripper and fellow drug user with a volatile personality), "It's a Long Way Back", "Chinese Rocks" (originally recorded by Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, as guitarist Johnny Ramone was not enthusiastic about the Ramones doing songs about drugs) and "Wart Hog" (a song Dee Dee wrote in rehab). After he quit the Ramones, Dee Dee continued to write songs for them, contributing at least three songs to each of their albums. According to Mondo Bizarro's liner notes, for example, the Ramones once bailed Dee Dee out of jail in exchange for the rights to his songs "Main Man", "Strength to Endure" and "Poison Heart", which would become a minor hit for the band. The band's final studio album, 1995's ¡Adios Amigos!, features several of Dee Dee's solo songs, such as "I'm Makin' Monsters for My Friends" and "It's Not for Me to Know" from his album I Hate Freaks Like You. Dee Dee was present when the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, the first year they were eligible, and not long after lead singer Joey had died. Dee Dee humorously congratulated himself at the induction. He died later that year.[9] Later projects In 1987, before leaving the Ramones, Dee Dee embarked on a brief hip hop career as rapper "Dee Dee King" with the album Standing in the Spotlight. Dee Dee had recorded "Funky Man" as Dee Dee King in 1987. Music critic Matt Carlson wrote that the album "will go down in the annals of pop culture as one of the worst recordings of all time".[10] After the album failed, he returned to punk rock with various short-lived projects such as Sprokkett (which also featured Richard 'The Atomic Elf' Bacchus of D Generation and the Spikey Tops). In 1987 Dee Dee wrote and produced a song called "Baby Doll" for the Chesterfield Kings ("Baby Doll"/"I Cannot Find Her", acoustic version 1987, Mirror Records, later recorded by American rock and roll band the Connection, on their album New England's Newest Hit Makers). Months after he left the Ramones, in the fall of 1989, Dee Dee already performed songs such as "Poison Heart" and "Main Man" (later to be recorded by the Ramones) with his band the Spikey Tops.[11] In 1991, Dee Dee was briefly involved with transgressive punk rock singer-songwriter GG Allin, playing the guitar with Allin's backup band the Murder Junkies. His involvement lasted approximately one week, enough for him to be briefly interviewed during the filming of Todd Phillips' Allin documentary Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies. In the film, Dee Dee reveals that he was unaware of the band's name, even after joining. Rehearsal recordings of him with Allin and the Murder Junkies appears on the Hated soundtrack, as well as on the posthumous live Allin compilation Res-Erected. Video footage of the rehearsals is available on DVD through Allin's estate's website.[12] Dee Dee never actually played a live gig with the band.[13] In 1992, Dee Dee formed another short-lived project named Dee Dee Ramone and the Chinese Dragons, which was followed by the most successful of his post-Ramones projects, a group named Dee Dee Ramone I.C.L.C. (Inter-Celestial Light Commune), which lasted from 1994 to 1996. The group featured New York City bassist John Carco (formerly of Queens hardcore group Misguided) who befriended Dee Dee when the two attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings together during the summer of 1992. After writing more than a dozen songs and recording several demos for an upcoming Ramones album with producer Daniel Rey, Dee Dee decided to keep the material for his new band. After working with several drummers and playing several live shows in the New York City area, Dee Dee and Carco moved to Amsterdam to record a four-song EP and fourteen-track album for Rough Trade Records. I Hate Freaks Like You was released on April 17, 1994, featuring Nina Hagen on two of the album's fourteen tracks. The three-piece line up now consisted of Dee Dee (vocals, guitar), Carco (bass, vocals), and Dutch drummer Danny Arnold Lommen. I.C.L.C. would go on to promote the I Hate Freaks Like You album by touring 22 countries over a 10-month period. During this tour, in November 1994, Dee Dee met 16-year-old Barbara Zampini while searching for his lost guitar outside his hotel in Argentina.[14] Zampini was a big fan of the Ramones and had been playing bass for two years, heavily influenced by Dee Dee's early work. They later married and remained together until his death. Barbara had some tours with Dee Dee Ramone.[15] In January 1995, the group had completed their 10-month tour and returned to their headquarters in Amsterdam to begin recording a second album. The group was soon dropped, however, by their record label, Rough Trade World Service. With this development, bassist John Carco left the group and moved to Los Angeles where he formed and played with Frankie O. and Pete Stahl (singer of D.C.H.C. group Scream) in the group Metro. Carco would later pursue an acting career. Songs written by Dee Dee and Carco for the never released second I.C.L.C. album would eventually be recorded by the Ramones on their final album ¡Adios Amigos!. One of these songs, "Born to Die in Berlin", would ultimately be the final song on the final Ramones' album, and featured Dee Dee singing in German on the bridge of the song. Also the song Fix Yourself Up eventually recorded by Dee Dee on the album Zonked. Dee Dee was also a special guest at the final Ramones show at the Palace in Los Angeles on August 6, 1996, performing the lead vocals on the song "Love Kills". Dee Dee formed a Ramones' tribute band called the Ramainz with his wife Barbara ("Barbara Ramone", bass) and former Ramones' member Marky (drums). They recorded an album, Live in NYC, released in Argentina and many other countries, and played a couple of times with C.J. Ramone. Dee Dee also recorded several solo albums. Zonked!, the first album release under the Dee Dee Ramone moniker, was re-titled Ain't It Fun? for the European release, but other than the addition of the bonus track "Please Kill Me", the music is identical. The line-up for this album was Dee Dee Ramone on guitars and lead vocals, Marky Ramone on drums, longtime partner Daniel Ray producing and on guitars, and Barbara "Ramone"/Zampini on bass and lead vocals. Guests included Joey Ramone singing lead on "I am seeing UFOs", and the Cramps' vocalist Lux Interior doing the same on "Bad Horoscope". The second solo album was called Hop Around; the line-up consisted of Dee Dee Ramone, Barbara Ramone/Zampini, Chris Spedding on guitars and Billy Rogers on drums. Dee Dee also released Greatest and Latest, with Barbara, Spedding and Chase Manhattan on drums. This album consisted of re-recording of Ramones songs, a re-recorded solo song ("Fix Yourself Up", originally from Zonked!/Ain't It Fun?), cover-songs and an unreleased new solo-song ("Sidewalk Surfin'"). In the 21st century, Dee Dee teamed up with Paul Kostabi, leader of the hardcore punk band Youth Gone Mad and former guitarist for White Zombie. An established artist, Kostabi was instrumental in getting Dee Dee's new career as a painter off the ground. Together with Barbara, the trio collaborated on several hundred works that sold quickly for a few hundred dollars each. In 2012, the tenth anniversary of Dee Dee's death was observed by a show at a prominent art gallery in California.[16] Dee Dee touring with his band in Sweden in 2000. Dee Dee (back row, third from left), his wife and bassist Barbara Zampini (in front of Dee Dee), drummer Chase Manhattan (third from right), and various crew members. On Halloween, 1998, while staying at the Hotel Chelsea, Dee Dee and Zampini met the Hollywood band SEXYCHRIST, which featured adult film star Kurt Lockwood. Lockwood encouraged them to move to Hollywood, and together the two bands shared a successful tour of the U.S. in early 1999. Afterwards, Dee Dee formed the Dee Dee Ramone Band, with members including Christian Martucci (vocals and guitar), Anthony Smedile (drums), Chase Manhattan (drums), and Stefan Adika (bass). With the exception of one show at the Spa Club in NYC and a Club Makeup performance, this would be his last touring band. Dee Dee would release a book, entitled Legend of a Rock Star, A Memoir: The Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone, written while on tour in Europe in 2001.[17] Dee Dee later moved to California where he continued to make music and pursued an acting career. Though largely unsuccessful as an actor, he landed a major role in the 2002 low-budget film Bikini Bandits.[18] He also contributed the song "In a Movie" to the film's soundtrack, which features his wife Barbara on lead vocals. His next album—a live album produced by Gilby Clarke (ex-Guns N' Roses), to have been recorded on June 12, 2002, at Hollywood's Key Club—never materialized. Several bootlegs of the Dee Dee Ramone Band exist, including, Live in Milan, Italy. Dee Dee's final studio recordings were released by tREND iS dEAD! records as the 2002 album Youth Gone Mad featuring Dee Dee Ramone. He also worked with the band Terrorgruppe. Death Gravestone at Hollywood Forever Cemetery Dee Dee Ramone was found dead on the evening of June 5, 2002, by his wife Barbara at his apartment in Hollywood. An autopsy established heroin overdose as the official cause of death. He had been booked to perform at the Majestic Ventura Theater, which ended up being a memorial show in his honor. Dee Dee Ramone is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, not far from the bronze memorial to his former Ramones bandmate, Johnny Ramone. His headstone features the Ramones seal with the line "I feel so safe flying on a ray on the highest trails above" taken from his song "Highest Trails Above", from the Ramones' Subterranean Jungle album. At the stone's base is the line "O.K...I gotta go now." A picture of the headstone can be seen in the music video for the Dropkick Murphys song "Rose Tattoo" from their 2013 album, Signed and Sealed in Blood. In the 2013 film CBGB Dee Dee Ramone is played by actor Steven Schub (lead singer of ska bands the Fenwicks and HaSkaLA). [1] Equipment Dee Dee Ramone used Ampeg amplification during his entire career with the Ramones.[19] His preferred bass guitars included: Danelectro Bass: Natural, White pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1974–1975) Fender Musicmaster Bass: red, white pickguard, rosewood fretboard ( 1974–1975 ) Fender '62 Precision Bass: White, Tortoise pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1975–1977) Fender '75 Precision Bass: Black, Black pickguard, Maple neck (1975–1977) Fender '76 Precision Bass: White, Black pickguard (changed to Red), Maple neck (1977–1983) (He used at least 3 such basses). Fender '78 Precision Bass: Sunburst, Black pickguard, Maple neck (1982–1983) (He used at least 2 such basses). Fender '79 Precision Bass: Black, White pickguard, Maple neck (1983–1988) Fender '83 Precision Bass: White, White pickguard, Maple neck (1983–1988) ESP Custom Precision Bass: Cream, White pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1986–1988) ESP Custom P-style Bass: Orange w. Spider Graphic, Rosewood fretboard (1986–1989) ESP Custom Thunderbird Bass: Yellow w. Chinese Dragon Graphic and "Ramones" lettering, Rosewood fretboard (1988–1989) Books authored Dee Dee Ramone wrote his autobiography, first titled My Right to Survive then published as Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones, then republished as Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones. He wrote one book related to his music career, Legend of a Rock Star, a daily journal of commentary on his last, hectic European tour in the spring of 2001. He also penned a novel, Chelsea Horror Hotel, in which he and his wife move into New York City's famous Hotel Chelsea and believe they are staying in the same room where Sid Vicious allegedly killed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. In the book, Ramone is visited by Vicious himself, as well as other dead punk rock friends such as Johnny Thunders, Stiv Bators, and Jerry Nolan. Discography Ramones Ramones (1976) Leave Home (1977) Rocket to Russia (1977) Road to Ruin (1978) It's Alive (1979) End of the Century (1980) Pleasant Dreams (1981) Subterranean Jungle (1983) Too Tough to Die (1984) Animal Boy (1986) Halfway to Sanity (1987) Brain Drain (1989) ¡Adios Amigos! (1996) (guest appearance on "Born to Die in Berlin" only) You Don't Come Close (2001) NYC 1978 (2003) Solo Standing in the Spotlight (1989) I Hate Freaks Like You (1994) Zonked! (1997) Hop Around (2000) Videography 1987 – Funky Man 1994 – I'm Making Monsters For My Friends 2002 – In a Movie (OST "Bikini Bandits") 2012 – The Crusher (Short Promo)
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