If I'm running things like a sergeant in "the army, not everyone can handle that".
But you need someone to make the decisions. Someone's gotta do something,
otherwise you just flounder around.
I think he made a lot of sacrifices for the band too.
He had to put up with a lot of aggravation.
And I think everybody in the band's behavior "offended him".
"He didn't want anybody to do drugs".
I didn't want to conform to some of his ways all the time either.
And I think the Ramones really, really had to conform.
Dee Dee always expresses frustration at having been locked into the bowl haircut.
He wanted to dress differently "and have punk-rock hair".
So I think Dee Dee felt very frustrated by that
cos he came up from that more Jerry Nolan/Johnny Thunders lookin' good
dressing with the styles and all that.
Instead he had to have a uniform, this regimented "Here's your uniform. Put it on. "
The song Chinese Rocks came about because Dee Dee had written it
and Hell had written one of the verses.
The Ramones didn't want to do any songs about heroin
and they didn't like Dee Dee hanging out with Johnny, Jerry and Hell
because they were junkies
and they got pissed off when they found out he was hanging out with The Heartbreakers.
But we had a dope-addict relationship.
We didn't bother with playing guitars when we were hanging out and stuff.
The Heartbreakers were really focused around drugs
and I think Dee Dee would have liked to have been in The Heartbreakers.
Wouldn't it be great to be in a band with junkies
instead of guys who collect baseball cards?
How do you feel about the bands that you really inspired
like Blondie, that have in a sense commercially eclipsed you? Does that make you mad?
No. They took that way to do that and play disco music.
We do it what we believe in and have our integrity
and we're happy doing what we're doing.
By about the third year, for me, things were getting claustrophobic.
Tommy left the band. I don't know for sure why.
I think he didn't like touring, wanted to be a producer.
"It was the two different worlds". "In a studio, I was in control, creating".
And on the road, I was, like, a passenger,
basically being bossed around and not treated very well, actually.
"I felt like I was losing my mind".
And I would explain to people, "I think I'm losing my mind,"
and they would find this amusing, OK?
So the choice was me staying on the road and becoming a vegetable,
or helping them write songs and producing the records,
which I felt would be more productive, and bringing in another drummer.
We were shocked and tried to convince "Tommy to stay".
"What are we gonna do without Tommy?" This was a big thing.
But Tommy convinced us it'd be no problem, just find a drummer who plays better than him.
"OK, fine!"
I went to their rehearsals
and Tommy Ramone sat behind me, but John told me to be on my toes,
and I knew what he meant, that the songs just kept coming and coming,
which was amazing. I never saw that in my life.
So right away I felt more insecure.
Is this real? Is this really the Ramones?
Who are the Ramones?
And then Tommy was never really accepted as a Ramone between the other three,
because he presented such a conservative front to himself
to the rest of us.
I knew Tommy was a total freak.
At the same time, there's certain things that were so wonderful about him
that I could never be like him.
I recognized that and didn't like it about myself.
Tommy was the type of guy,
he would buy some potatoes and "hamburgers and cook himself dinner".
At 21 years old, that's a pretty cool thing to do,
rather than eat some dope and potato chips.
Tommy was important to the sound, do you feel?
No.
Any song recorded with different drummers, bass players, singers
always sounded like the Ramones.
He was pretty important to the sound of the band, don't you think?
No.
Not at all. I think Tommy was in the right place at the right time.
But as far as him being able to claim fame off it,
or artistic credit, or anything, come on.
Give me a break already.
It ain't true.
From Rocket To Russia to Road To Ruin, we spent a lot of time making that record.
They wanted to make a big record that was commercially viable...
...that would get a wider audience.
Tommy told me when they were producing Road To Ruin
that if this record doesn't have a hit,
we're never gonna have a hit.
Joey always thought the next record "was gonna be their hit".
"He was an eternal optimist".
- "Tommy was very realistic". - "The record company couldn't sell our music".
So who are they gonna blame?
They won't blame themselves coś marketing can't sell the damn thing,
so it must be the producer.
I get a call to do Rock'N'Roll High School and come out to Los Angeles to do the tracking
and I actually thought Tommy was going to be there.
And there's no Tommy.
Tommy was sort of in charge.
They would listen to me, "but then I would discuss it with Tommy".
As long as I would agree with what Tommy thought we should do,
Dee Dee would go along.
What about Joey?
He had less to say, "he was quieter at that point".
In the beginning, Joey didn't talk much.
He was enjoying the success that they were having.
It was a continuation "of his shyness and insecurity".
He didn't have a full understanding of even "what the whole Ramones concept was yet".
He didn't really have that much to say
and wasn't sure if he should even talk or not
because he wasn't supposed to.
He seemed like an appreciative, harmless guy
then one day I saw him change in France at a sound check
when Tommy was in the band.
He got mad at Tommy for being the spokesman of the band.
I guess Joey felt like he had "something to say also".
Coś Tommy would try and control what Joey would say in interviews.
"He'd always been ignored most of his life".
Now he's finally getting some attention
and you got guys telling him, "This is what you should say.
"Don't talk about this. "
I guess Joey at that point started to rebel. "Who the fuck are you to tell me what to say?"
So now Tommy's not there, and Joey starts to exert his opinion
and we don't have Tommy there no more
to be the buffer here and decide what we should do and what's right.
So that became a problem.
When we did the Phil Spector album, that's when I met good old Phil.
He was my drinking buddy in Los Angeles
for the five weeks that we were there doing End Of The Century.
Somebody has to be able to do something with this band
that everybody says should be the biggest band in the world.
"So maybe Phil Spector".
I was the biggest Phil Spector fan. He was a hero of mine.
All Things Must Pass and especially the stuff he did with Lennon sounded exceptionally raw.
"Phil really wanted to do the Ramones record".
He was convinced this was gonna be the biggest record of their careers.
It was gonna be No. 1. He would take me to his office and look at me,
and say "This is gonna be the biggest record ever. "
"He was convincing himself". "He had this insane look in his eye about it".
Joey was a Phil Spector fan from the time we were nine, ten, eleven years old.
Every record, even before we knew they were produced by Phil Spector,
we'd buy them
and later on, find out all about Phil Spector, that he had produced all these bands,
put them all together, wrote the songs.
"Phil Spector was his idol".
To me, Phil's music was always kind of like early punk rock in its own kind of way
because Spector was always cutting edge.
I think Phil loved Joey. They had a good relationship. Joey is a great singer.
I think Phil saw in Joey all the influence "of Phil's early stuff".
I think that Johnny knew "that it was a mistake".
"The guy's a producer". "Producers are nothing".
So he did some good records in the 1960s. Big deal.
What has he done lately? The guy hasn't had a hit in 15 years.
Phil's not like, "I'm gonna make you the Beatles,",
it's like, "Man, you're rock'n'roll, you know the New York stuff, I understand you. "
- That's right. - "Let's just make a record. "
"You're the Ramones, I'm Phil Spector, you be you, I'll be me, and we'll have an album. "
Joey working with Phil Spector helped him overcome any insecurities he had
more than any other one thing that happened in his career.
He was interested in the power of the band and in Joey's vocals.
He spent a long time with Joey on the vocals.
He kept doing that throughout the whole session, before we did it, "Joey, Joey. "
Treated us like we weren't even there.
"Phil Spector, he invited us back to his house".
It was like, "Great, let's see what it's like. "
Phil liked to do his preaching, telling them stories about rock'n'roll.
"Joey is a rock'n'roll fanatic".
Then he started raving and putting on weird horror movies and things.
We wanted to go, "but he didn't want us to go".
He said, "You've got to stay here. "
"He had guns in the house".
At one point, Phil pulls out his gun.
"Everyone dived behind the couch".
He kept us hostage for a while up there.
Check it out, the Ramones, a garage band, very intellectual, very hip,
and all of a sudden, they find themselves working with a serious, hard-core,
professional producer of the highest order.
He had this little treasure chest of stuff next to him.
In a cooler. He had some kind of wine in there. In a Thermos.
At this point, Phil was drinking,
I was drinking, Dee Dee was doing drugs,
and... there was a lot of clash of personalities during those sessions.
Phil would make them play one note 60 or 70 times.
The nightmare of that first chord "to Rock'N'Roll High School".
We did two takes and went in and listened to it.
Phil played it back I think I counted around 160 times.
To Johnny, that must be like the Chinese water torture.
So we hit the chord and he paces around the room for three hours, cursing.
He would stop the tape and he would stomp his feet on the floor and go, "Shit, piss, fuck!"
For God knows what reason.
Go back, play the chord again, pace around the room for three more hours,
cursing at the engineer.
This goes on for 12 hours.
Even the engineer had a heart attack "around that time".
It was a lot of stress to do that album.
After three days of this,
Johnny decided he's had enough "and can't take anymore".
"I'm getting the fuck outta here, I'm on the next plane to New York. Bye!"
"No. You're not going nowhere. "
"What you gonna do? Shoot me, Phil? Go ahead. I don't care. I'm leaving. "
He's a little man with the wig "on top of his head, and four guns".
He's like an asshole to everybody, treats everybody horrible.
And... we reluctantly agreed to do the album with him because we thought it would help us.
When we got the mixes,
it was for me just lying kind of on its side.
It wasn't the great record that that record could have been, I thought.
When we heard it, I personally didn't like the drum sound on it,
Dee Dee hated it,
but I think the songs were very good.
And I think Phil did a good job,
considering the situation under the influence he was in... on.
End Of The Century represents the kind of pop music that Joey liked so much,
and wanted to make and wanted "to see the Ramones move towards".
And it was the kind of moving away from pure hard-core punk rock
that Johnny hated seeing happen.
Johnny wanted to see them be the classic first-album Ramones forever.
It isn't anybody's individual fault that we got thrown into this and tried to make the best of it,
but that started the break-up and separation.
"We did an album with Phil Spector". "Here was our big chance".
And again, we didn't sell any records.
So at that point, I knew that I finally accepted that that's it, we didn't sell any records.
Let's just try to maintain our career and keep making money.
Just a job, let's do the best we can do, keep our fans happy,
don't let them down.
And don't worry about it. Accept it.
This is your spot in life.
Then we start giving him more of the pressure.
"Graham Gouldman, work with Graham Gouldman?
"He's in 10cc, he should be producing a Ramones record? It's ridiculous. "
I always thought "that we worked best for Tommy".
I think he always saw what we should be doing and saw clearly
"and I think the band stayed more focused". "Joey had the problem with him".
He started to alienate a lot of people "after a while, like Tommy for one".
Later on, a lot of friends from Forest Hills that we grew up with
and he didn't want to be reminded of the past, of those bad days
when he was kind of a nonentity.
And he needed to forget about that,
he needed to block all that out in order to be that Joey Ramone character,
in order to have that strength and confidence.
Was there kind of a power struggle developing between you and Joey?
I suppose so.
Was there a power struggle going on in the band once Tommy left the band?
- Just answer, come on. - I guess.
- What does that mean, a power struggle? - Just answer.
I'm not really sure what's going on, it's easier looking at it from the outside.
- Once Tommy left. - You were in power until a certain point.
I took over when Tommy left?
There was a power struggle between me and Joey?
Later on.
But I don't think he wanted to be in power, I think he wanted to be treated equal.
OK.
But did you notice then at that point
that Joey was beginning to feel that he could have a life outside the Ramones?
Yeah. And why shouldn't he?
That's only normal. Everybody needs an escape fantasy.
But we were all such a hard-working unit,
I didn't see Joey working any harder than me or John or Mark
that you would think the rest of the guys would, you know...
There was other things going on but I can't talk about it.
Marky and Dee Dee said something happened with some girl.
- Right. - Is that true?
Well, something happened, yeah. You know that.
Do you wanna talk about that?
Well, yeah, I... What do you want me to say?
Joey was seeing this girl and John stole her away from him.
That's life, things happen and you move on,
you don't hold a grudge towards a person in your band
for 18 years, 17 years after that.
There's a lot of girls out there.
Joey was very romantic, hence all those love songs.
And I think he really idealized love,
wanted to have this one girl to hold hands with
and live happily ever after.
This was the first serious relationship he had had
and then all of a sudden she's gone, with his guitar player.
He's into writing and he wrote a lot of good songs,
She's A Sensation and all that.
A lot was written about Linda
"and he was really in love with her".
"He liked the fact that she was flashy looking".
That made him look more like a rock star.
Unfortunately, they never resolved this issue.
I can't see it being intentional because they're still together to this day,
so there had to be more to it
than the typical thing that happens in bands
where the other band mates are jealous of the lead singer getting more attention,
so I'm gonna steal his girlfriend - it wasn't that.
So obviously nature took its course and Linda and John fell in love with each other
but that was, I guess, probably the biggest wedge
that was driven between them two
and they never did speak to each other, really.
He had such inspiration, artistically, through this woman,
"and then that was it".
Then it all fell apart on him and he lost his girlfriend.
"And probably his dream, his ambition".
The fact that John never talked to Joey about it, or Linda didn't, either,
gave him the feeling that they didn't care how he felt about it.
That, I think, is what really hurt him the most.
I can't remember any bad direct confrontations but the hate was there.
That was weird - they'd stay together but they'd hate each other.
Linda was a great reminder that he was this weirdo
and that he couldn't have this great love
and she would just go marry Johnny, his worst nightmare.
Creatively, I think it helped him because he wrote some songs about that.
I think that's why Joey wrote the song "The KKK Took My Baby Away".
"So make your own conclusions".
Listen to the song carefully.
In the tour van, there was always silence, nobody would say anything.
I would come out with a joke and everybody would laugh.
Because I couldn't take it, so I had to humor this situation,
create some humorous levity.
One day, I threw a fish head out the window of a hotel
into a pool, people swimming - that was funny.
"He was always a laugh and a half, you know".
"But he had his problems". He was a heavy alcoholic at the time
and the only time they ever missed a show "was because of him".
I would always talk to John and Dee Dee but nobody called any more.
"But then I got the phone call".
Johnny Ramone had enough,
said, "Mark, you fucked up," he threw me out the band.
I tried to pull the band together with Too Tough To Die
and bring it back to its sound.
I get a phone call from Dee Dee, "of all people".
And they said, "Would you like to work with us?"
And I said, "Sure. "
I mean, they'd changed a lot,
they already started having their own camps, which was something new to me,
"they had a new drummer".
"I came in, I played everything twice as fast".
It got to the point where an hour and 15 minute set was going at 56 minutes.
They'd go, "Wait a minute, we're not playing long enough. " We were blitzing.
"We often ran into them down the road".
I remember I met Johnny Ramone and he said to me, "It's two minutes faster. "
I said, "What is?" And he went, "Our set. "It's two minutes faster than it was last April.
I went, "My God!"
I learnt that from the Ramones,
"that, slam" - "there's that number," where's the next one?
"Coś there's people watching and people have got things to do.
"It's a busy world out there, you've got to give it to them. "
"The '80s were rough". "We were the only band doing this".
You kept doing it because of...
you didn't know how to do anything else.
"But we knew, the '80s, there was no chance".
MTV didn't have concentrated play in the early days.
They were thankful for anything,
so if you handed them a Ramones video, they played it.
As they got more corporate, "the Ramones were kicked out".
"I think MTV destroyed music".
They just started seeing themselves a bit too god-like.
If you didn't have a half-million dollar video, "you wouldn't get aired".
"We were out there by ourselves". "Yeah, rough period".
They were still coming to see the live show.
It's really great to be here in New Hampshire this evening,
playing for all you wild people out there.
We'd like to dedicate this one to Kev.
The day after Richie leaves the band...
for I don't... never really sure what reason, he just left the band.
See, what the Ramones was,
I was Richie Ramone when you wanted me to be
but then I was just a hired guy when you wanted me to be.
And there was a lot of money in t-shirts made.
When it came to t-shirt money, "I wasn't a Ramone".
"This is after five years" - "I felt that I was due".
I felt I should get a little of that t-shirt money, what's the big deal?
We'd like to introduce you to our newest member,
Marky Ramone, yeah.
Take it, Dieter.
A thing with the Ramones that's "important is that they were troubadours".
They constantly were out there, going around the world.
We took them for granted cos they were always there,
they were always great, they always looked the same.
So it didn't matter how much time went by,
it seemed like they trapped in some sort of time bubble where they wouldn't change.
Trends would come and go
and then you'd go see the Ramones and you'd be like, "What year is it?"
There we were, these kids, and their records got to us
"in a place where we didn't fit in".
Everybody, when they heard the Ramones,
it was like, "Whoa! Finally, a band for us. "
If it had only been virtuosos that I had looked up to as a little kid,
"then I would've never gotten started".
I discovered the Ramones and it clicked in my head,
that music was something I could do right now.
There were no standards after the Ramones -
all you had to do was just be yourself
and that gave me a lot of self-esteem when I needed it, and confidence.
So, came back, I was sober and things were fine
except the tension between Johnny and Joey was still there.
And I thought, "Jesus Christ, how long are you gonna hold on to this shit?"
But Joey held it in, he didn't let it go.
Joey never got over anything.
Joey could carry a grudge like an elephant never forgets.
Dee Dee, when I finally left, he wanted to go too
and I think he managed to hang on another year or something
and do shows in like track pants or rap pants, you know.
Dee Dee became a rapper for while, one of the first white rappers,
and started dressing in his rap clothes "before he'd put on his Ramones clothes".
We went to Washington
and he got on the plane and he was wearing these sweats and this big gold chain,
he was like in a rap outfit.
We all look at him, saying, "What's...?" John was like pissed.
"It was bizarre".
He'd start talking like a rapper, talking like a black person.
When Schoolly D came out with that album and you'd say, "What time is it?"
"It's Gucci time. "
I understood that. It's rising above oppression, you know,
a Negro being able to buy a Gucci watch - great. I'm a Negro, too.
I'd felt the same excitement when I could buy a Gucci watch
and spend a lot of money, like an outlaw.
I don't think it was worth fighting over, "it wasn't so good anyway, the album".
I couldn't do rap, I was trying, I don't know how, I'm not good enough,
I'm not a Negro or something, I don't know what it is.
I wanted to.
Dee Dee Ramone says he's left the seminal New York punk group.
In an interview on MTV news,
Dee Dee told us that the Ramones' constant touring jeopardized his health
and his wish to avoid drugs and alcohol.
He also said that he'd been hit hard by his recent divorce
and he was very enthusiastic about working full-time with his rap band, Strength.
A Ramones spokesperson hoped Dee Dee would change his mind,
noting he'd quit a number of times before.
I was sick, I was bulimic and anorexic.
Nobody could tell
because I was on so many antidepressants, I was bloated from them.
And I was dying.
Mussolini slept here for two nights.
I wanna go home.
"I'd had it. It was just too miserable".
"Joey was drinking so much then".
Finally, I said, "I gotta get better. "
I felt kind of hurt by it
because me and Dee Dee had always discussed...
"We're gonna do this till we both decide we don't wanna any more. "
Dee Dee was the main songwriter
and when he left, I felt that it was like Paul McCartney leaving the Beatles.
How can you replace a guy like Dee Dee Ramone?
You can, physically, put somebody in his shoes
but you're not going to get the same
aura, image and quality of songwriting as you did with Dee Dee Ramone.
"So then I start thinking of positives".
Everybody around me going,
"You guys gotta break up now, you can't play without Dee Dee. "
"What do you mean? I'm finding somebody else, that's all.
"Break up? Are you crazy? Break up coś Dee Dee quits?
"I'm just gonna accept defeat and lose?"
I was at that point determined to prove them, "anybody that was around, wrong".
It was, "All right, we'll find a young Dee Dee, a Dee Dee clone. "
And that's Johnny Ramone right there.
And this is Joey.
- And that's C.J., our new bass player. - I made it.
It's a real exciting time with C.J. In the band
and Dee Dee leaving... having left the band.
Actually, I feel he did us a real favor by leaving the band.
C.J. Was great, he was like a breath of fresh air when he came into the group.
Take it, C.J.
In the beginning, I kept my mouth shut and just watched
because if I was going to survive in the band,
I would have to understand the dynamics of the relationships between the guys
and would have to have some kind of relationship with each guy.
It was so weird because Johnny is like ultra-conservative
and Joey is ultra-liberal.
Politically, we were on opposite ends.
- Were you always right wing? - Me? Yeah.
Probably since I was 10 years old.
"I was a Nixon man in 1960".
Now, Joey turned out to be a New York, left-wing, Jewish...
left-wing Jew.
And he was there at every Save The Starving Namibians
or Rwandan Burundians or whatever.
We are here in support of Jerry Brown.
He addresses the issues, understands the problems
and is courageous and adamant enough to challenge, not only the Bush administration,
but America's entire political structure.
These guys were opposites, "a married couple that were total opposites".
But they had one thing in common. They knew they were Ramones.
What's up? Why you didn't vote last year?
If you think not being registered keeps the politicians up at night, forget it.
A lot of them don't want you to vote, that's why they make regiresting so hard.
Makes what?
Washington, what are you afraid of?
I really liked Joey
and I really respected Johnny
but Johnny was always kind of like a father figure to me
and it was hard to have like a friendship with him.
Me and Joey started to develop a good relationship
and we started getting to be kind of friends
and that's when, I think, Johnny really didn't like me much
"for a while there".
It's not that he didn't like me or whatever,
maybe he was frustrated because he could not understand me.
In fact, one time, Joey was really sick, and we were just doing show after show
and it was wintertime and we were in the van.
I said to Joey, "Why don't you just say something?
"Why don't you just say that you can't do it?
"You know what I mean? This tour schedule is ridiculous, man. "
The next morning, Johnny was like,
"Who the fuck do you think you are? Just keep your mouth shut and do what you're told. "
You know when you get so mad that tears start to well up?
That's the point I was at.
Thank you.
I think, honestly, to tell you the truth, "is that that is how Johnny knew to do it".
You just keep going "and you keep going and you don't let up".
You just go and go and go and go and go.
And maybe that's all that Johnny knew.
Johnny was the glue.
He managed the band's financial affairs "on the road. He was tough".
Joey respected Johnny for his business acumen.
"And Joey had money".
Any time during those 20 years, "Joey wanted to leave, Joey could've left".
"And he didn't".
What he did need was, he needed the fix, the fix being the Ramones.
When you go up on stage, it's another world up there
and nothing else matters, there's another whole high.
"It's why they stayed together".
Ramones really are... It's honest and it's pure energy
and it gets handed down through the generations.
The kind of fans that we have, it's not just one set person,
it's like kids into metal and alternative "and all-aged people".
In South America, they were like the Beatles, it was incredible.
It was insane. Going back to the airport,
kids were like following us in convoys of cars
and hanging out of windows and stuff.
They're breaking fucking glass.
Hurry, hurry, hurry, go on, go on, go on.
What the fuck is this?
- Oh, man! - Jesus Christ!
There's always fucking something.
"Things were bad over there".
Brazil is a country where there are a million abandoned kids in Rio,
they are sniffing glue and robbing the businesses
so the business owners hire these death squads to kill children.
That's heavy.
And guys like the Ramones kind of help these guys express a little bit,
a little catharsis about their situation,
"how bad their situations are".
"It's like London in '76. The kids see no future".
And again, it's the rawness of the message "that these kids get".
Playing, like, the soccer stadium with 30,000 people.
Great. You could see what they could've turned into everywhere else.
Come back to the United States "and had to play these clubs" -
"it was very depressing".
I guess it's a little tougher for a band that was the catalyst
and it always seems like it's the pioneers who don't get the full glory.
It's like it's the bands that come after because they do it a little differently
or they compromise the sound and so they break through
or they have a little more of a mainstream act, kind of thing.
When alternative music started to kick, that was our chance to break
and we were right there on that threshold.
Plus you had everybody from Nirvana to Soundgarden trumpeting,
"Yeah, the Ramones, the Ramones. " "Rancid" - "all the biggest-selling bands".
We fit in with those bands "and we just couldn't break it".
I think that's the point where they were like, "We're done. "
"FM1063 on the Jersey shore".
Everybody's been asking this question, let's get it out of the way.
Adios Amigos is the title because you guys are supposedly calling it quits.
There's talk on the internet that you're not.
No, we... This is probably our last area performance.
We made an agreement, we've been doing this for 21 years
and, you know, it's been great and all,
but this is gonna be our last album, studio album,
and the band's gonna like...
We're calling it a retirement as of maybe next February.
FINAL SHOW HOLLYWOOD, AUG. 6, 1996
Thank you!
"Very weird at the end of the last show".
I just went and changed my clothes "and walked out".
Did you say goodbye to anybody?
Not that I remember. Maybe I said, "See you later. " I don't know.
Joey took everything that was wrong with him and made it beautiful,
which I thought was the greatest thing "about Joey".
And the whole philosophy of punk -
you take everything that's shitty and celebrate it and make it good.
But he was to thousands, hundreds of thousands of millions of people
a liberator.
He liberated them
from their own sense of failure, unpopularity.
Joey was a hero
because he overcame the odds,
he triumphed over geekiness
and he started off an alien
"in the world in which he was raised".
Joey was never a healthy person
but he was one of the strongest people "I've ever known".
He managed to fight off anything and everything all the time.
So, you know, one had the impression he was gonna go on for ever.
He was totally convinced that he was going to live.
He was completely convinced.
Four days before he died, he was refusing to be fed by tubes down his throat
because he didn't want his vocal cords damaged.
But at this time,
of course I didn't want to accept that he didn't like me or wasn't my friend
or didn't care or thought I had something against him.
So I'd blame it on the mother and the brother and Arturo - anybody but him.
So why couldn't I have had one last conversation with the guy?
If you don't get along with someone, then go...
I shouldn't talk to her or something, I don't know, I mean...
I'm only gonna be the way I'd want someone to react to me.
You know? And if I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want them calling up if I was dying,
I wouldn't want them to have regrets for not talking to me, I'm happy that they didn't.
If I'm gone, that's how it goes.
I assume, coś of the way he looked, he didn't want me to see him in this condition.
Which is very painful for me because, you know, I wanted to connect with him.
Yeah, no, I cared, I mean, I cared, I couldn't help but care.
I cared.
I was wondering, "Why am I caring so much?" But I cared.
I was questioning it to myself. I'm depressed for the whole week here,
why am I feeling this way? I didn't really get along.
So it bothered me.
Did you ever think about why that was, why it bothered you?
Why? I'm not sure.
I don't know if that's... I don't know.
Why... I wonder if it's a weakness inside, I don't know.
I'm not sure why.
He's a member of the Ramones, I love the Ramones,
we're all in it together.
Even If we didn't get along, if someone did something to him, I'd defend him.
If I saw someone throw something at him, I'd want to go get the person.
I cared coś I took it as an insult to the Ramones.
So, in that way, we were in it together.
I'd like to thank Seymour Stein for everything he's done for the Ramones,
for our whole career.
Danny Fields our first manager,
Gary Kurfirst, who's managed us for the last 22 years,
and Ramones fans, who made this all worthwhile.
God bless President Bush and God bless America.
Hi, everybody, I'm Marky Ramone, I wanna thank Johnny Ramone
for asking me to join the Ramones
and especially Tommy Ramone,
who started that drum style
that I had to work very hard to duplicate.
And thank you very much.
Hi, I'm Dee Dee Ramone and...
I'd like to congratulate myself
and thank myself and give myself a big pat on the back.
Thank you, Dee Dee, you're very wonderful, I love you.
What would they have done without me?
What would I have done without them? "Nothing".
"Probably been dead a million times". "The Ramones definitely saved me".
"I don't know why I'm so sour". "The whole thing is like"...
Well, I guess it's like it was an ugly life,
somehow.
It's not easy being in a rock'n'roll band.
- Stop by, right. - Yeah, I will.
I will come back and... Send the new dates.
OK. I'm practicing for Brazil.
All right.
Oh, God, poor Dee Dee.
The combination of CB's and Ramones was magical,
so it's fitting that Joey, who was the blood singer of the band,
gets this corner named after him.
Four, three, two, one...
Look, I bought this.
It's nice, I'm glad I got it.
- Do you like Mondo Bizarro as an album? - I don't think so.
Let me take a look.
OK...
OK, Mondo Bizarro, no, I don't like it at all.
We've got to get across the street, so...
Look out, Tommy.
That was a great shout.
Chicken Beat Boy is something I invented, I guess.
I would jump around tables and chairs and arch my back
and swing my arms around and start cackling like chicken.
And it was very funny.
But I think due to the presence of alcohol and its influence,
it had a lot to do with Chicken Beat Boy.
Hey, here I am. At the urinal.
Bye.
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