The Ramones represent a real institution in the current Punk scene. Proclaiming himself as sacred monsters of this kind, in his golden years. The band has shown, during their more than 20 years of career, from 1974 to 1996, to embody slavishly and, moreover, aggressively, spirit typical of the current to which they joined. Furious and overwhelming, the Ramones performed 2263 concerts in total, with an average of two lives per week. Born in Queens, the Ramones were among the advocates of the New York Punk Rock movement.
Rich in ups and downs, their story ends sadly with the worst of the epilogues, seeing the dead of the four founding members of the band, Joey, Dee Dee, Johnny and Tommy, follow each other in the decades following their sudden break-up. Although, to date, the contribution of the band in the history of the great Rock is fully recognized; there was a particularly long period during which Ramones the merits with which they were subsequently covered were not attributed. The underground public has always proved to be a very strong supporter of the furious New York Punk Band; but professionals, they began to praise it only at the dawn of the Third Millennium, given the widespread use of Alternative Rock and the multitude of bands that, in those years, claimed to have drawn strong inspiration from the Ramones. But why is the iconic group called so?
The origin of the name Ramones
The band began to make themselves known as The Ramones and, as we know, each member of the group chose to use the pseudonym Ramone to instill greater compactness in the atmosphere of the band. This decision was approved with low hands, so that the group would take on the appearance of a family. It would seem that the name of the band and, the subsequent nicknames, were an idea of Dee Dee; inspired by the alias used by Paul McCartney during the first tour in Scotland. The Beatles bassist, in fact, began, on that occasion, to introduce himself as Paul Ramone; despite some sources claiming that McCartney had chosen to be called Paul Ramon.
To strengthen the identity and the sense of cohesion of the group, the unmistakable and identical look for all of the four members of the band arrived. Black leather jacket, tattered jeans, shirt and sneakers became a trademark, not only for the Ramones, but for the entire Punk movement of those years. To date, we identify the stylistic canons of the most charismatic Rockstars in the statements previously introduced by the Ramones. In any case, the first performances of the group did not do justice to the phenomenon of customs that would later reveal themselves.
The poor technical skills of every single member of the band led the Ramones not to try their hand at reinterpretations of already famous bands. Since their inception, therefore, the four Americans performed offering songs written by themselves, so that they fit their limits in instrumental terms; dealing with ironic themes, often irreverent and autobiographical and free from political ideologies of any kind.
