The Ramones was a group from Forest Hills, New York. Formed in the March of 1974. The original members consisted of Johnny Ramone on the lead guitar, Joey Ramone on lead vocals, Dee Dee Ramone on the bass and backing vocals, and Tommy Ramone on the drums. Ritchie Ramone was replaced soon by Dee Dee Ramone. Joey at first was the drummer who then went on to be the lead vocals and the drummer they got to replace Joey was Tommy. All The Ramones got their last name from the fake name Paul Ramono that Paul McCartney would use when checking into hotels so fans did not know he was at the hotels. Joey liked the idea of using the fake name for a band and hence there being five guys in the band the adopted the name The Ramones. They got their first attention in the New York rock scene in August of 1974. They got arousing approval from audiences in CBGB in the Manhattan Bowery district in New York. The Ramones played many times in CBGB and too all around N.Y.
Sire Records a part of Warner Bros, records located in Burbank California signed The Ramones in late 1975. Their first TV appearance was in Radio City Studios in N.Y 1975 and their debut LP, Ramones, came out in early 1976. This music was really fresh and vibrant. The Ramones were invited into the punk music genre. Their concerts included a summer visit to London. While on their tour there they saw Damned and The Clash on the Fourth of July. The Sex Pistols had started before, but their music was based on The Ramones sound.
Some of the better-known punk groups that followed - The Sex Pistols, The Clash, ect. would be the first ones to say that without The Ramones the whole punk movement never would have happened commented Spin magazine editor-in-chief Alan Light.
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...ral—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.-Arturo Vega The Ramones Artist for the albums.
Works Cited
A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982 Nicholas Rhombes Pages 220-240 this section was on The Ramones.
RamonesWorld.com
JoeyRamone.com
Parenthetical Citation’s from Ramones Mania album Liner Notes.
Four young partners Michael Lang, the manager of a rock band, Artie Kornfeld, and executive of Capital Records, and two venture capitalists, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, created Woodstock. Their original plan had been to build a recording studio in Woodstock, a small town in the Catskill Mountains, which had become a rock center. To promote the idea of the studio, the four partners decided to stage a concert, which they called Woodstock. Naming it after the town in which it was originally going to take place in.
Joey Romone stated, “There is nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean, everybody’s just emulated us, and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations,” (Brainyquote). This proves that the Ramones has had a huge impact on rock. The Romones are the most influential rock band in the 20th century because they sparked the Punk rock bomb in the UK and The United States, they initiated many notorious trends in the punk rock industry, and they have acquired many awards.
movements including Anarchism, Nihilism and Marxism that gave Punk it’s revolutionary zeal. Punk Music though was more than a political statement, it was
Woodstock began with the following four partners: Michael Lang, the manager of a rock band, Artie Kronfeld, an executive at Capitol Records, and two capitalists, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman who supplied most of the money and the original idea. Their original plan was to build a recording studio in Woodstock, a small town in the Catskill Mountains that had become a rock music Mecca when musician Bob Dylan and his rock group called the Band settled there. To get the word out, the four partners decided to hold a concert, which they called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
The Beatles were a legendary rock and pop group that formed in Liverpool, England in 1960. John Lennon met Paul McCartney in 1957. He invited John to join his music group. George Harrison met Paul in grammar school.Later, they discovered George’s talent of the electric guitar, and he was invited to join Lennon's group, The Quarrymen (News, CBS). George Harrison joined them in February of 1958. Later in time, they started experimenting with different type of music styles. The Beatles became the most popular band of all time (A&E Networks Television).
Before The Temptations were the Temptations, they had and were known by another name. Their original band name was called The Elgins. Forming in Detroit, Michigan, the Elgins on their trip visiting their record deal in hopes for success, their original name was dismissed, for the fact Elgins was the same name as a watch. As they rehearsed and though up a new name outside of Motown Records, Berry Gordy finally let them in and fell in love with their sound. After all their hard work and from then on the five African American vocalists and dancers became a hit. Their amazing dance steps and styles were a sure success. The first five members after obtaining the record deal were Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, and Elbridge Bryant. With all splitting the vocals here and there, the...
The Beach Boys formed in 1961. The band members are; Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson who are all brothers, Al Jardine and Mike Love. All but Al Jardine lived in Los Angelas.
The late 1970s gave birth to a punk culture that further distended into an evolution of the genre during the mid-1980s, particularly in Seattle, USA. A punk inspired movement called grunge became internationally recognized after Nirvana’s debut release album ‘Nevermind’, in 1995. Grunge gained a mass recognition for its punk ideology, attire and music, which stemmed further away, and was in itself a rejection to the mainstream metal and pop boom in the music industry of that time. Grunge incorporated a fusion of cultural and social threads that linked themes like feminism, liberalism, anti-authoritarianism, wry post-modernism, and not least a love of dirty, abrasive music; grunge reconciled all these into a seminal whole. (Standard grunge definition, Internet source)
With rioting and terrorism taking place around the world, more aggressive and rebellious styles were being created. The punk look came with this; singers like Johnny Rotton and bands like The Ramones and the Sex Pistols were a few to lead a new generation of teens. There was also the introduction of glam-rock in which musicians mixed glamour with rock. Davis Bowie was the most successful. Fans copied his "rooster" hair cut. He made the androgynous look popular.
Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson were the original founders of the Beach Boys, with them were Mike Love, one of their cousins, and Al Jardine, who was one of Brians’ friends. When the Beach Boys started in 1961, no one expected their music to leave its hometown, Hawthorne, California. In October of 1962, however, the Beach Boys released their first album, "Surfin' Safari." Two years later, in May of 1964, the Beach Boys had their first number on hit with, "I Get Around." On August first of the same year, the Beach Boys had their first concert at the Memorial Coliseum in Sacramento, California. From there, the Beach Boys ratings went up dramatically.
In early 1970 the band Queen was formed. Freddie Mercury on vocals, Brian May on guitar, Roger Taylor on drums and Mike Gross on bass. They had known each other for years. All living in the town of Kensington in Britain, sometimes even living together. Brian and Roger belonged to a band called Smile, and Freddie was a very talented vocalsit playing for the band Ibex. They decided to join forces, to better themselves, and their chances of obtaining fame and fortune. After a few months with only a few gigs Mike Gross left the band. He was replaced by Barry Mitchell, who only played a few gigs with them. After a few short months they were looking for their third bass player. Roger, was at a party one night and was introduced to John Deacon, an electronics major at the University of London and a good bass player. The two hit it off, and Deacon became the new member of Queen.
Before the Beatles were the Beatles, they were just normal musicians. John Lennon the person in charge of the band in the 50’s called the Quarry Men met Paul McCartney on July 6, 1957, where both musicians are performing in Skiffle Groups. After hearing Paul play at the concert John’s manager asked Paul if he would like to join the Quarry Men, Paul accepted his offer. Many musicians tried out to join the Quarry Men, however none of them made it. On February 6, 1958 George Harrison tried out by playing Raunchy and John made him become the newest member of the group. The members of the Quarry Men are; “John, Paul and George, with the addition of Johns Friend from art college, Stu Sutcliffe and a guitarist named Pete Best” (The Beatles pg. 1). They went off to Germany to get a better chance to become known and famous. While they are in Germany, Stu Sutcliffe decides to go back to college to get back into art which he is in love with and be with Astrid which he met in Germany. The members remaining in the Quarry Men group renamed their group and now their group calling it Silver Beatles and returned to Liverpool. As the group thought their luck was terrible, a young record storeowner in the late 1961, with the name of Brian Epstein, noticed the Beatles with their great musicians skills, he thought they have something unique to them (History of The Beatles pg. 1). The Silver Beatles held a tough ima...
They formed their own movement. They made their own music and expressed it in the way they wanted to. They came up with what idea they wanted to spread and effectively distributed it. They did all of the producing, booking, recording, and touring on their own without the help of some other company. They always had an audience interested in them. Most importantly, they never gave up. All of those things are the basic characteristics of DIY punk bands and what makes them stand out from everyone else. To say they were not successful is an understatement. They were very successful in getting their ideas across and getting people to follow them as was described earlier. DIY punk bands deserve to receive more acknowledgement for the hard work and dedication they had to experience along the way of producing and performing their