| The
Ramones |
 "On
The Road With The Ramones"
The Ramones' music has influenced nearly every power pop, punk, alternative,
and metal band. Monte A. Melnick served as The Ramones tour manager from
their early New York club days at CBGB's in the '70s to their farewell gigs
in 1996. Filled with memorabilia including photographs and interviews collected
along the way, this is his view of life on the road with the band as baby-sitter
to psychiatrist, booking agent to travel agent, paymaster to van driver.
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Heart : Surviving the Ramones
The publisher, Helter Skelter Publishing Limited (Distributed by
Interlink in US) helter@skelter.demon.co.uk , March 28, 1998 Autobiography
of bassist with seminal NY punk band Poison Heart is Dee Dee Ramone's perspective
on 15 years touring with the band, following the ups and downs caused by
the chemical and psychological imblances it produced. Remarkably, unlike
cohorts Vicious, Thunders and Bators, Dee Dee survived to tell this tale.
"One of the great rock books" Q magazine - five stars out of five
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Lobotomy:
Surviving the Ramones
Lobotomy is a lurid and unlikely  temperance
tract from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. Taking readers on a wild rollercoaster
ride from his crazy childhood in Berlin and Munich to his lonely methadone-soaked
stay at a cheap hotel in Earl's Court and newfound peace on the straight
and narrow, Dee Dee Ramone catapults readers into the raw world of sex,
addiction, and two-minute songs. It isn't pretty. With the velocity of a
Ramones song, Lobotomy rockets from nights at CBGB's
to the breakup of the Ramones' happy family with an unrelenting backbeat
of hate and squalor: his girlfriend ODs; drug buddy Johnny Thunders steals
his ode to heroin, "Chinese Rock"; Sid Vicious shoots up using toilet water;
and a pistol-wielding Phil Spector holds the band hostage in Beverly Hills.
Hey! Ho! Let's go! Purchase
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 Ramones
: An American Band The authorized story of an American band
who shaped the history of music for generations. Today's new music-makers
are looking back at the bands that broke the ground, and the Ramones are
it: the original high priests of punk, the stars of rock 'n roll high school,
the royal avatars of rock, raunch, and rebellion. 60 photographs and illustrations.
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