GRAMMY MUSEUM - THE RAMONES EXHIBIT HEY HO LET'S GO THE RAMONES and the BIRTH OF PUNK
If you're in Los Angeles, this exhibit ends in February 2017, so you still have time. I went recently and loved the exhibit. Of course, this museum is one that I try to visit at least once a year. I have to say that my favorite things to look at are the clothes or costumes that the singers and musicians wore to perform, and handwritten lyrics. (I'm always looking to see if their handwriting looks like mine!)
"Co-curated by the GRAMMY Museum and the Queens Museum, in collaboration with Ramones Productions Inc., the exhibit commemorates the 40th anniversary of the release of the Ramones' 1976 self-titled debut album and contextualizes the band in the larger pantheon of music history and pop culture."
Event posters, equipment, personal photos, lots of music including in the cinema, their performance.
So I'm walking along reading the placards and I see that TOMMY was born in Budapest. A Hungarian- American!
EXCERPT from the link above; " The Ramones' place in rock & roll history was already assured by 1978 with their first three albums: Ramones, Leave Home, and Rocket To Russia, all made in the span of 18 months, between February 1976 and the fall of '77. When it was time to make records, Tommy said, "Our art was complete." The art was the combined product of four strangely aligned personalities — all living within shouting distance of each other in the conservative, middleclass enclave of Forest Hills, where their mutual needs as fledgling musicians and bored delinquents far outweighed the mess of differences and civil wars that could never quite bust them apart. Once a Ramone, always a Ramone." (TOMMY WAS THE ORIGINAL DRUMMER and with the band four years. He became a music producer.)
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ALL FOUR ORIGINAL RAMONES have died.
From 1976
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THE RAMONES OFFICIAL SITE - 40th ANNIVERSARY of FIRST ALBUM
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A Later Interview. Tommy died in 2014.
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