JOHNNY RAMONE - Last Interview PT 2

EXCLUSIVE! PART 2 of an interview Taped in March 2003. This may be the last major interview given by Johnny Ramone. Produced by Carlo Generelli. Videography by Bill Day. Audio by Terry Schwartz. In this clip, Johnny discusses his early influences and his thoughts on what makes a good band. You can watch part 1 at • JOHNNY RAMONE - Last I...

[@Cali62825]

This interview opens my eyes to see that these musicians are and were intelligent. They had purpose. They weren’t just doing it willy nilly. Ramones were no accident. They had a plan.

[@MikieH-hr3vi]

Competitive...awesome.

[@P0LICEstateWATCH]

johnny got right to the point, just like Ramones music. Alot of haters out there, tho, probably playing their 7 minute guitar solos

[@clydebk]

As a teen, most of my friends liked the long solos, but I just wanted RnR songs with a catchy melody.

[@PAULLONDEN]

*@POLICEstateWATCH* Love how you call people who don't think punk saved music "haters" .... Sorry for having a deviating opinion . Besides that a big👍🏻 for keeping a watch on the the U.S. one party state .

[@madeleinehague648]

"..a boisterous woman..." LOL. What a great interview. So funny, so smart - gets right to the point. Gone too soon: Jonny Ramone.

[@c-force5217]

MICHAEL BUERGNER chill

[@daltonmoree]

You're a loudmouth baby.. ya better shut it up!

[@LynnThomas-c5g]

♥️🙏🏻

[@michaelr.4878]

Ladies and gentlemen, get comfortable and listen to every word the man says.... You are listening to THE man. The coolest 'rockstar' of all time...Johnny Ramone.

[@LynnThomas-c5g]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@jimmyjarrett939]

This man has immaculate taste in music, He dislike the overblown, self indulgent late 60's American rock, he likes Bowie, little Richard, Slade and the Dolls. He's no nonsense all round. I wonder if he was aware he was dying at this point?

[@jasonmeza9500]

Just catchy songs. Good verse. Great chorus. And a bridge. Hopefully a bridge thats better than the chorus. Dont over do it. Words of wisdom Loyd , words of wisdom.

[@jasonmeza9500]

"Shut that dame up!" , "They should be seen and not hearrrd" , "Tell her to take it down 20 decibels". I love this guy. Rock n' Roll!

[@respobabs]

not my conclusion personally

[@BigSmoke-bu6ib]

@@respobabs nobody cares about YOUR conclusion, personally.

[@jenniferbuckle273]

Man or woman shouldn't be talking over top of a Ramone. Just happens to be a dame lol

[@cindyurban150]

He always spoke his mind. He had a Sam Spade quality "Tell those Dames to take it down a few decibels"😆 I could listen to him all day. I saw them live at CBGB's and a few other venues..He seemed like he was the leader,and he even calculated their entrance onto the stage. Funny, How he told Dee Dee to throw the mic on the floor if there were sound problems, NEVER show weakness. I miss these guys so much.

[@opaljk4835]

I think he was joking but he’s definitely a bit of a jerk

[@kylefitzgerald4779]

this dude is super wise wow

[@americanrockbands4228]

Funny thing about the sex pistols, they were a nothing band when they came to america. hahahahaha. But when the ramones went to england, every pre-punk, teddy-rocker and admirer of the 50s went to see em. Even the sex pistols, which just ripped off fair amount of their sound and the new york punk scene.

[@CelestialWoodway]

Sex Pistols were better.

[@EmperorNero]

No they weren't. Not even fit to lace up the Ramones boots.

[@anguswalsh2387]

It’s hard. I prefer The Ramones. More albums, best members, great songs and also greatest band. It’s my opinion.

[@hotdogwater7037]

The sex pistols are more comparable to spinal tap or the monkees than the ramones. The sex pistols were created by malcolm mcclaren to make a movie about a band so he could sell clothes at his clothing shop. They were essentially living mannequins

[@kitwalker2968]

@@hotdogwater7037 John Lydon wrote much of the lyrics for my money personiies distinctive angry punk vocals

[@BEAST1968]

Awesome Interview, thanks for posting. I was lucky to meet Johnny after Ramones broke up, he was attending a Cramps show at the HOB in Hollywood in1997or 1998. He was a very cool cat. I remember him saying he was selling his guitar and never to play again, no solo records, nothing.

[@billschannel]

BEAST1968 Sure thing

[@AngryRantsAndStuff]

He played on Joey's first solo album though.

[@BEAST1968]

@@AngryRantsAndStuff then I guess he missed recording music haha

[@artis1969]

@@AngryRantsAndStuff John didn't play on that record. Marky played drums. But most guitar parts were Daniel Rey and Andy Shernoff.

[@rothbj1]

Johnny had a very blue collar mentality. The Ramones were a job to him. It's like a machinist retiring and selling his tools.

[@pimtool9351]

Johnny Ramone is my favorite person ever! "shut that dame up" hahaha 100%

[@cherylb2008]

i never knew how intelligent this guy was.very thoughtful.

[@swampmusicinfo]

Remember kids....this was back in the days when the masses would sneer at Paul Simon and Sting for playing with "ethnic" groups and exploiting their sound. That Daryl Hall and John Oates were sneered at for being "blue eyed soul" and multi-racial Ska bands from the UK people wondered "what were they gettin at" rather then listing to the music. This was a time when DeeDee tried rap and pissed off his best friends and bandmates ! So for a young John playing R&B and Blues would be out there idea.

[@AStri-zg5xc]

This interview was done mid 2001. I call Bull.

[@Hothero1980]

The most forthcoming interview with Johnny I have ever seen. He actually seemed to enjoy being interviewed, which was rare I think.

[@AStri-zg5xc]

Yeah he hated interviewers

[@alexramone6288]

this man is one of my top 3 idols. even though he's gone, he still influences me to this day.

[@daevidharvey7113]

I'm surprised he didn't mention The Alice Cooper Group or The Stooges and The Sonics

[@Junketsuadidas]

Rest in peace Johnny!!!

[@Admiralex91]

He thinks like a designer

[@thewalruswaspawl]

He was joking, you hate him because of his political view. Silly Vlad.

[@punkgrl325]

He was a troll. He admitted he would drop an old TV from a building as someone's about to walk there below just to fuck with them. As terrible as that is, I can't help but laugh at it. He regretted a lot of the douchy things he did later on in life though.

[@punkgrl325]

This is normal for bands. Even the most punk bands around. Sex Pistols had almost everything decided for them by Malcolm McLaren. Many bands just don't want to admit it. A band is a collective unit. If you can't keep your band organized or together, it's not going to go anywhere. Try being spontaneous in a band and see how much your band members hate you afterwards. I'm all for the creativity of music but one of the most fundamental parts of being in any band is structure and planning.

[@SevenSinsChoppers]

JOHNNY MACHINE GUN RAMONE....RIP & THANK YOU FOR YOUR ROCKET FIRE GUITAR, THE RAMONES & YOUR INFLUENCE!

[@THENAKEDBEACH]

what an awesome interview!

[@darbytat2]

rip Johnny

[@Slammerworm1]

There is more to it than that. You know, you can disagree with someone without insulting them. You might even make more friends that way.

[@nelsonl.8344]

Wow, they're all gone now.

[@razzledazzle1462]

I find what he said about Motown to be a lil strange. I've always thought that the Ramones *most* resembled (when you just look at the songs strictly as compositions) early 60's surf rock and Motown. I thought the influence definitely was there.

[@stevenicholls1986]

who much i would pay, to watch johnny play now !! RIP JOHNNY,JOEY,DEE DEE :'( x

[@captainrhodes83]

...you can listen to the blues and rock n roll and be influenced by them, The New York Dolls (a band he loved) was heavily influenced by Robert Johnson and James Brown also the Beatles (looked up to Chuck Berry)...you don't have to be a false flagger like Eminem and pretend to be street...

[@Slammerworm1]

Okay, on one level you're quite right, punk is young, loud and stupid. However, it is also an intellectual, artistic multi-media (music, print, verse, etc.) movement on a far more fundamental level than the other genres you mention. You had the Voidoids AND the Exploited. Participants may not have been conscious of the more esoteric cultural references, but they were there nonetheless. It is fascinating on musical and sociological grounds alone, and historically epochal, to boot. And it rocks.

[@jonathancroce709]

Really cool interview.

[@pbmorris74]

johnny always makes for a good interview. very informative

[@robertmcmahon1580]

“Shut that dame Up”. Tell her to take it down 20 decibels 😂

[@jasonmeza9500]

Str8t forward. To the point. Hey Ho lets go!

[@MBOYA22]

I dont think he was a Racist at all. I clearly understood what he meant. Everyone body doesnt relate to everything.

[@danielasamota1191]

Its obvious he was sick. He doesn't look good.

[@BugzKiller]

How can you tell?

[@cachiruleta]

The "Great" Johnny Ramone

[@Slammerworm1]

From its initial crucial synthesis onward (i.e. when the Ramones formed and thereafter) punk had room to accommodate both hard-Right and hard-Left views (and hard-everything else, for that matter). At its heart was the attitude, which was claimed by many political persuasions and owned by none. As to smart Punks, most prominent 'first wave' (74-76) bands had at least one clever-clogs (Rotten, Sensible, Harry/Stein, Hell/Quine, Shelley/Devoto, all of Wire etc). Except maybe the Heartbreakers.

[@hudentdw2]

I love Johnny because He thinks like me RIP, I miss the Ramones!

[@punkyramone1794]

I like all music. I don’t put one thing above the other. I just gravitate towards things based on my moods. I like Pink Floyd for a mood; the Ramone’s for another mood. I’ll keep it at that and not trash anyone. Long live rock n roll.

[@IrishCatholic72]

RAMONES FOREVER !!!

[@rothbj1]

1:58 '"Shut that dame up"

[@listentothenightfilms]

Legit old school NY man's man. A real tough guy who ran on NY streets before it became Disneyland. Johnny wasn't perfect, but he was real.

[@timourban8641]

happy b-day johnny !

[@zepps88]

he wasn't necessarily smart. he was just in control.

[@manu_g1576]

The man. The coolest man ever

[@mikesgarage18]

He's pretty smart about music which is rare... Usually famous musicians are way less articulate.

[@LarzGustafsson]

He's a genious.

[@MrLuigiFercotti]

Smart guy. Read that Johnny was the guy that made the band work, figuratively and literally. Obvious now.

[@captainrhodes83]

@DiegosHideout I agree with you....all the artists he looked up to (Beatles, the Stones) looked up to Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley....you don't necessarily have to be "like" them but you can learn from someone different...or maybe he's thinking because he is white he can't be as good...Tommy and Joey's outlook seemed to be different

[@angelbaldrich6980]

Thank god he didn't get to see how shitty music is now

[@Slammerworm1]

Implying I'm 'particularly pretentious' and 'not very bright' constitute insults in my book.I don't have any problem with your disagreement, but it would seem to be based more in emotion than fact. If punk was so thematically and costitutionally simple, why are we discussing it decades later? Incidentally, I made several lifelong friends in the late 1970s around the original punk movement. Like minds do that. Guess that's not gonna happen with you..

[@anguswalsh2387]

That is why Johnny Ramone is my favourite Ramone member. Shame he died of prostate cancer in September 15th 2004 at the age of 55.

[@jasonmeza9500]

Not a huge fact fan on the Ramones. Never had any of their albums. Dug it everytime I heard them tho. This guy sounds like the leader or John lennon of the group.

[@carvercapitalequitypartner122]

Somehow not the thing you play at home, but awesome at the right time

[@Pinebrookjohn75]

Jason Meza he was the leader if it wasn't for him they wouldn't have made it out of the 70s

[@EmperorNero]

Both him and Joey were the leaders kinda like Mom and Dad. Johnny was the Dad pushing and pushing to make them better, and Joey was the mom always worried about the state of the band and what not being a bit more easy going.

[@septimiusseverus343]

He was the counterpart to AC/DC's Malcolm Young.

[@StevieDamnit]

1:30 - Someone tell Karen to shut up.

[@obscurebandfan]

It's called having a sense of humor.

[@Del-Mondo]

British Punks were the worst..

[@abelaraujo6186]

R.I.P. Johnny Ramone the coolest guitar player in the band.🤙😥

[@Pamplemousse82322]

Johnny is a fantastic interview. Very intrigued.

[@kinksboss1]

glad he mentioned the Kinks

[@Patriotkinvolk]

Thanks for the Music Johnny. You were alwasys one of my favorite Rock Stars. You guy's are SO MISSED!!! When I get to Heaven look me up. Cool?

[@decimated550]

1:21 "boisterous women" talking ruin the interview and Johnny has hilarious observations: "shut that dame up" kk kk! miss you johnny!

[@MudClubb]

Captain Sensible - black musician??? But he's the guitarist of The Damned!!

[@pierrebenoit-j1q]

The dude was the master at downstroke guitar playing.....

[@Jimmyhoffa_1234]

Based

[@LetsGoMetsGo33]

sure johnny would've known that. he also talks about his early favorites including little richard and chuck berry, and he was a big hendrix guy. but blues is a riff oriented genre, followed by blues rock that included instrumental prowess (guitar solos). soul or motown emphasizes groove and feeling. elvis and early british invasion were, as johnny says, playing catchy pop music, verse/chorus/verse, that doesn't emphasize those other elements... neither did the ramones.

[@Ryan-mq2mi]

1:36 based 1:57 Such a good interview, I wish there was more

[@bagrampissant]

SNOTTY; not stupid...STUPID. Who wishes they could have been born at 30? There will always be young, loud and snotty......if its too young, too snotty or too loud...you know how the saying goes

[@glengamble526]

Why do you put your watermark all over everything you publish? It’s not even YOUR original material to begin with. Jesus...

[@ianbarnett4511]

Johnny Ramone was my hero and still is. Barney Glasgow. 😎

[@jwwmantis]

Thanks. You have any rare Ramones shows?

[@honey_bee65]

This is NOT his last interview.

[@myyootube2]

I like his comments about how they would study the world of rock and adjust to their best stance. For most musicians/stars that would be a vulnerable admission but they were studying how not to be vulnerable. And they weren't. They were bulletproof in their presentation. Great interview.

[@CrazyLeiFeng]

Johnny was possibly the smartest punk rocker in history.

[@5HlNOBI]

so cool...

[@velvetundergrind]

he did what malcolm mclaren told him to. Matlock wrote the songs, and sid had the better image. Johnny Rotten just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

[@warshipsatin8764]

6:36 thats so much more rock n roll than timidly tapping the mic and looking around bewildered

[@David-n7f8h]

Johnny Ramones revitalised r and roll

[@ZXPA2]

It's doo-wop on speed. )

[@russburton725]

So glad I got to see this legend rip his Mosrite to pieces! Gabba Gabba Hey!

[@MegaJujos]

Jea-Joey is king

[@kalimanbuda6501]

I miss the ramones very much..as well as the door's jim morrison

[@David-n7f8h]

Real genius and saved r n roll r n roll is about style attitude energy youth

[@anomalousclouds]

Miss ya, Johnny.

[@LetArtsLive]

if you speed up the blues what do ya get?

[@imsocuteimsorich4952]

R,I,p,joey johnny+Dee Dee,God bless you , amen 💙✌

[@d_walsh]

Haha. Classic johnny

[@squiremuldoon5462]

Imagine being straight edge your whole life only to die of prostrate cancer.

[@xEdddie]

Both Johnny Ramone & Johnny Rotten. Both BIG Punk influence.

[@timcarr6381]

Never got it with the Ramones..... I think England did punk rock far better...

[@joel8750]

The Adverts, Buzzcocks, GBH and the Lurkers are really good. Not much else from England did it for me personally.

[@nickcirillo6191]

Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue..

[@eddieds312]

What a great musical mind. Johnny would be rolling in his grave if he saw what ROCK has become.

[@tomgenerazio]

sorry i didn't mean to raise my voice , like the adverts ...

[@Muppio]

I would like to hear a conversation between the two.

[@DeeDeeRanged]

Sawngs.... heh

[@jarmominkkinen9409]

R.I.P Johnny ❤️🎸🎸🎼🎼❤️🌷

[@redlabl]

He was a Great Man...."sigh"

[@MikieH-hr3vi]

👍👍👍💯🇺🇸🤟😎

[@coolio3500]

Very cool is there anymore?

[@karlkamp1384]

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