The Ramones 1978

The Ramones played the State theater in Minneapolis in 1978.
We did this segment on them for a local PBS Station. KTCA.

[@TheBluesJammer]

R.I.P. Johnny Joey Dee De Tommy

[@storm3dpawesomeanimeandlps132]

TheBluesJammer 😭😭😭😭😭

[@superstarquins]

Dee Dee*

[@carpenoctem775]

Dee dee dee

[@michaelr.4878]

It is sad...they should still be alive. Johnny was the oldest and if he was alive, he'd only be 72 right now. Tommy would be 71...Dee and Joey were slightly younger.

[@sirron777]

1 2 3 4

[@cripbabe111]

The Ramones are right up there with The Beatles, people...

[@PabloCruise91]

Hell yeah. They are never praised like Led Zeppelin or The Who but I've always prefer them over those bands. Not taking anything away from those bands, but I feel they are very underrated.

[@heyholetsgo]

Better.

[@soulCracka1]

The Beatles and Ramones are my two favorite bands and my opinion is the only one that matters. jk😂

[@PAULLONDEN]

*@Jacquie Tellalian* You mean the mop top Beatle era........even _that_ is somewhat overrated .The Beatles caused an earthquake , The Ramones were pleasant enough but no innovators like post 1966 Beatles.........no one needs more than the first three Ramones albums, after those they began to repeat themselves 🥱....

[@louiso.4325]

Jacquie Tellalian in terms of influence...I’d say there’s a good argument that they’re up their with the Beatles! And how the revamped rock and roll and started a whole chain of events that followed

[@saguaroboy]

I always laugh when a smug know-nothing says this music is 'unsophisticated'. Musicians are about as unlikely to reproduce the Ramones' dynamics as anyone could successfully reproduce the Beatles' dynamics.

[@BAMAVADER]

exactly Steve...

[@krasteff]

Any band's dynamics is unique, neither Ramones would reprouce others dynamics.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Who (under the age of 70) uses the word “unsophisticated” anymore?

[@teadair]

Agreed.

[@zepps88]

Joey and Johnny hated each other the most, but they were the 2 Ramones who never changed as they got older.

[@ptcrusa]

zepps88 They didn't hate each other at this point! Their beef came a few years later

[@SergioArellano-yd7ik]

Linda

[@rifframone3330]

To everyone saying Johnny stole Linda from Joey, first you can't steal a girl she can chose to leave the guy shes with for someone else though. Second Joey deserved better, anyone who would leave Joey is fucking crazy

[@robprice5655]

She was his first true love....it's going to hurt

[@crab-dogjones4659]

Well said.

[@leahflower9924]

Not true johnny gave her love potion number 9

[@catidiaz7107]

If he was mine I would never leave him 😍 I'd only cheat on him with johnny XD

[@jimbo1959]

You DON'T break the unwritten rule of friendship among Guys!!, and that's , You don't make a move on your FRIENDS girl!! PERIOD!!

[@alexdelarge1652]

I always can find my happy place when listening to the Ramones. Always.

[@post.hack.depression]

Is that so? I thought it was Beethoven's 9th with you.

[@blackmore4]

What better musical alternative to the 9th than Blitzkrieg Bop?

[@emilyoshiro]

yup///always!

[@bobbyb1754]

How can anyone give this a thumbs down? Long live the Ramones.

[@johnnuyen3981]

I'm thinking its the same kids who thought Green Day was innovative cool "punk" rock band.

[@leoa6652]

John Nuyen Wow you are so wrong Green Day never said they were punk its the critics that label them as that and plus I love the Ramones and Green Day and I don't care what anyone says Green Day is still punk rock

[@c.s.4428]

Who cares if it's 'punk rock' or if it's not punk rock? I only care if it's decent music. "Commando" is decent music. (P.S,: The Ramones invented the 70's punk sound)

[@siggylloyd3566]

Sid Vicious stopped by...

[@Shikta-poobah67]

@@c.s.4428 I’m with you, buddy. Good tunes is good tunes, and it means fuck all whether or not it’s “punk”, but you know, people have to have something to pound their chests about in their dumb little pissing matches, and the whole stupid “punk, or not punk” thing has always been a popular bone of contention. It’s been that way ever since Steve Jones called Bill Grundy a ‘fucking rotter’ on live television in late ‘76. Our grandchildren will probably still be having the same ridiculous arguments (that never amount to anything) over who’s “punk” and who’s not. I’m just glad I quit caring about that nonsense while I was still in high school.

[@LetsGoMetsGo33]

dee dee: all the UK bands "stink" (but are nice guys and our friends). lol.

[@chunkylver99]

Interviewer: What do you think of all the British bands Dee Dee: They all suck Classic Dee Dee RIP Ramones you were my favorite band of all time

[@punkmeathead3792]

chunkylver99 even though sid was his buddy

[@glennoconnor1130]

chunkylver99 love The Ramones but that’s a woeful call 😂 must be jealousy on his American patriotism.

[@edybocman76]

@@glennoconnor1130 the clash was the only band that was in they same level

[@Shikta-poobah67]

@@edybocman76 Oh bullshit. I love the first 3 Clash albums but I get so sick of all that “the only band that matters” nonsense. I can think of several UK punk bands that were better than the Clash off the top of my head: The Damned, Buzzcocks, Wire, Siouxsie & The Banshees, and yes, even the Pistols. I know that Johnny once famously said that the Clash were the only UK band that he thought of as competition, but that doesn’t mean that they actually were. I hate to use the word “overrated”, but the Clash are hands down one of the most OVERRATED bands of all time.

[@MrStefan124]

Wow that bit where Johnny and Dee Dee are playing at a low gain setting is chill as fuck. Of course it's ruined by the hack-job video cuts.

[@soulCracka1]

I know. It sounded great. Anyone know if the un-edited version exists on KZbin?

[@01Bluefin]

I saw another interview can't remember who it was. Thinking Rob Zombie said when he first met them that they played the whole set with small practice amps in the back like that before their set. They said they do it all the time...

[@wa8d4g8i7]

Who the fuck thought that edit was a good idea

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Yeah that was terrible (the editing).

[@pcramon]

Haha haha “they still playing the same song they started about an hour and a half ago” haha. Love that comment. The reaction of what they witnessed which was new and groundbreaking is brilliant. Love it. Hadn’t seen this footage before. Was a 14 year old, in the UK at this moment in history shortly before a school friend loaned me his older brothers Leave Home Album, saw them later in 78’ on the Road to Ruin UK Tour after Tommy had left. Now 55, fan for life.

[@robertcook2680]

I first saw the Ramones in November 1976 in Atlanta, Georgia. They played a four night gig at Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom over the Thanksgiving Weekend. I flew up from Florida and saw them two nights, (two shows per night). I next saw them (just a few weeks after the gig in this film) in March 1978 in Orlando, Florida. After the show, my friend and I were able to go into the dressing room where the Ramones were being interviewed by a local journalist we had met in line outside. When they left, they told us to help ourselves the beers left in the dressing room! I saw them a final time in 1980 in Gainesville, Florida. They were great every time.

[@andchat6241]

Back in 76 if it was an 'allnighter' they could have done 10 gigs a nite!.....as someone from the UK I think the 'Ancestral Home of punk rock ' would be the US with groups like Stooges, Seeds, Sonics, Count 5, etc... its noticeable that Johnny always tried distance himself (& the group ) from 'Punk Rock '. Though It was only his chainsaw guitar that was 'punky" it would seem being seen as 'punk rockers' damaged the chances of success in US .....& they always were a Rock n roll/pop group at heart...

[@elmosworld2113]

god I wish I was 19 years old during this time.

[@user-rj5uj8cc4f]

Craig Cardone nobody asked my guy

[@maya9591]

@@user-rj5uj8cc4f nobody asked for your opinion on their comment.

[@user-rj5uj8cc4f]

@@maya9591 my guy, nobody wants you here. Get out.

[@maya9591]

@@user-rj5uj8cc4f shut up

[@leahflower9924]

Why 19? And not 14-18 lol

[@Share-zv5uw]

They left us wayyy too soon :( Miss them everyday

[@tornmask1]

you just can't get enough of The RAMONES! long live Tommy, Johnny, Dee Dee, Joey, Marky, Richie & CJ 4EVeR!

[@ashwednesday3058]

and Clem

[@Shikta-poobah67]

And Harpo… and Chepo… and Shemp

[@chrishartley4776]

And Elvis (Clem)

[@Jonassssss6]

Shame on the person who ruined that unplugged version of Loudmouth with their editing!

[@PabloCruise91]

Is England "the ancestral home of punk rock"? I thought the Sex Pistols producer came to New York and ripped off the Ramones' image and took it back to England.

[@blackmore4]

The origins of punk are totally American - 60s garage bands, then the *MC5*, *Stooges* and *New York Dolls*. The *Sex Pistols* manager did start the British wave but nothing to do with the *Ramones*. He'd managed the Dolls as they were breaking up and circa '74/'75 back in London started the 'Sex' clothes store with 'punk' fashion designed by Vivian Westwood which definitely took a big page out of the Dolls plastic/pvc trash aesthetic. And the shop hi-fi played 50s rock 'n' roll and trashy glam rock such as the previously mentioned US groups. It became a hang out for hipsters and that's where he found the *Sex Pistols*. The *Ramones* massive influence came when they did a few shows in London in the spring of '76 promoting their first album. This was before any of the British punk crop had made a record and, as mentioned, their impact was huge. All of the key Brit groups - *Pistols*, *Damned* and *Clash* - bought the album and saw the shows.

[@ultrasonicpriest]

agreed. McLaren briefly managed the NY Dolls before Johnny Thunders left to form the Heartbreakers with Richard Hell, who is credited with the ripped clothing/safety pins and spiked hairstyle of Punk.

[@ultrasonicpriest]

oddly enough, I just read a piece from Sylvain Sylvain placing Viv Westwood and McLaren at the scene in NYC in '71. Allegedly Westwood encouraged them to start the 'drag' thing.

[@tokofuwakasglasses1254]

PabloCruise91 they did

[@BongJabbar]

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk is a must read for everyone here

[@StephenKramerstevefunk]

Man...this was really the classic Ramones, with Tommy....love how much groove the songs have with him on drums, not too rushed, Joeys leaping around full of energy and Johnny and Dee dee were still in their prime!

[@smkxodnwbwkdns8369]

i didn’t like how marky made it more hard-hitting sounding and hard rock rather than something more rockability or punk of course which is their style. to me its only the ramones with tommy.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Yeah, not to dis Marky, who’s a great drummer in his own right, but Tommy invented the classic Ramones beat with the doubled-up hi-hat, that really kind of ended up being the signature beat for late 70’s and early 80’s punk in general. Tommy was a true innovator. He had to teach Marky his style when they made the transition just before the Road To Ruin sessions. Just listen to the style Marky was playing in when he was in the Voidoids, before he joined the Ramones. It was completely different. A lot more loose and sloppy (though I loved the Voidoids). Again, not to bash Marky, but what ended up happening was that Marky started speeding things up, and then Richie came along and *REALLY* sped things up. The Ramones were never meant to be a hardcore band, but when you listen to albums like Too Tough To Die and Animal Boy, that’s where it was headed. Tommy had control.

[@titoramone4465]

Never seen this before... Thanks for sharing. God Bless, Joey Johnny Dee Dee Tommy ❤❤❤❤

[@SonicNurse666]

greatest American band of all time. I never stop listening

[@Shikta-poobah67]

*One of the greatest. Cheap Trick might have a thing or two to say about that.

[@slaythembeforeme]

​@@Shikta-poobah67Cheap Trick is nothing compared to the Ramones.

[@slaythembeforeme]

Greatest Band of All Time, World Wide.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

@@slaythembeforeme Well if you say so, then it must be a fact. It’s not like these things are subjective or anything.

[@slaythembeforeme]

@@Shikta-poobah67 despite your sarcasm, it is a fact that Cheap Trick is cheap trash compared to the great Ramones. I don't make the rule on this, I just report it to those who are ignorant of it

[@SirMikeyD]

Yikes, Tommy was the best ... notice how he slightly rushes his bass drum/lags on the snare, to add breathing space (a la Bonzo), while his hi-hat and toms stay tight in the pocket. Damn, the guy was underrated!

[@moester75]

I loved this documentary. Any Ramones fan should see this.

[@nevasnitch]

I Need a Time Machine ...

[@edge_crusher]

playing "loudmouth" unplugged sounds strangely beautiful :)

[@yku713yk86]

Did he seriously call The Ramones clothes a uniform?

[@Brannington]

well technically.....

[@01Bluefin]

That they did call it. Dee Dee hated it. He wanted his own style, hair cut so forth. Johnny wouldn't have it. All about the image...

[@KickflipGnasty]

@@01Bluefin In Johnny's defense, their image is totally legend. Their image helped make them iconic, so I'd have to say he was right.lol

[@j.reveille6815]

It is a uniform but not a costume.

[@leahflower9924]

@@KickflipGnasty they wanted a united look so everyone clearly knew who the band was it wasn't a statement or anything, one of the realest group of guys honestly

[@deedeecapone]

They are the best thing that ever happened to Rock'nRoll!

[@andchat6241]

I love the voice over "in front of thousands of hysterical fans" ....they seem like ordinary people

[@greendaygirl211]

I love The Ramones! Johnny is my favorite even if he has a bad attiude. I rock to The Ramones cds and my mom complans saying "Turn that loud stuff off it sucks" i say "It's not loud your just old and your music sucks this is some awesome stuff

[@brendapunk13]

i love the ramones:] best band in the world!

[@MerCLARR]

did the narrator call England the Ancestral birthplace of punk rock @ 2:50secs? wtf

[@captainhowdy1490]

Lol, England ripped rock & roll from us. I think it's funny when they try to take credit for rock/punk.

[@LetsGoMetsGo33]

+MerCLARR all the more poorly researched a claim given that this is a fucking RAMONES piece!

[@nothx962]

Punk started with the Stooges and New York Dolls...England ripped off the Dolls because Malcom managed them at the tail end of their career for a short period in 74 and then went back to England and started his little fashion shop and put together punks first boy band The Sex Pistols, who if it wasnt for Steve Jones, would have nose dove into the ground immediately.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

You’re all wrong. Punk started well before the Stooges or the Dolls, back around ‘64-‘65, when millions of suburban American teenagers were supercharged with wanting to form bands after seeing the Beatles sing “Love Me Do” on the Ed Sullivan show, and subsequently did start crude rock and roll bands, playing loud, aggressive, snotty 3-chord music (you know, ‘punk’). There were literally thousands of these bands, and they left behind thousands of recordings. This all happened years before the Stooges or the Dolls came into the picture. Also, let’s not forget the Velvet Underground… another NYC band that got in on the ground floor of punk, long before anyone was calling it ‘punk’. I absolutely *LOVE* the Stooges and the Dolls, as well as MC5, Flamin’ Groovies, and The Droogs… but I know they weren’t the first. Those bands were just filling a gap between the big surge of mid 60’s garage punk bands and the next big surge of mid 70’s punk bands.

[@SergioArellano-yd7ik]

McLaren told everybody HE invented Punk

[@roselicifarelli1740]

Best band ever and forever❤️

[@troyrodebaugh2085]

Definitely the most influential band of the last 50 years!

[@roaming740]

Combination of them and Black Sabbath

[@Zopf-international]

Woah! Dee Dee chucking that bass around is so cool.

[@Lundvalnaden]

tommy looks like mark wahlberg in rock star

[@d983394]

joey ramone....what a gorgeous man

[@409STMinority]

Nice! i like Tommy´s voice! RIP JOEY, JOHNNY & DEE-DEE!

[@samwindmill8264]

you can just imagine dudes like bob mould and paul westerberg from minneapolis going to this gig and being in the audience before anyone knew about them...and the girl who said she'd rather see the suicide commandos, that was the one minneapolis band that came out about the exact same time as the ramones in 1974 and the legend goes that when the ramones album dropped in 76, minneapolis people said it was great there was finally another band that sounded like the suicide commandos. brilliant, the ramones at their peak

[@CatherinRodriguezAlvarez]

JOEY Y LOS RAMONES LO MAXIMOOOOOOO!!!

[@RockandrollNegro]

England is the 'ancestral home of punk rock'? How about "The Ramones hail from New York, the undisputed birthplace of punk rock." (Yes, I know the MC5 and The Stooges were from Michigan, but nobody called them 'punk' until after the Ramones.)

[@ugly4711]

Rock Hudson you forgot also the "new york dolls" !!!

[@Shikta-poobah67]

So then, by your logic a thing doesn’t exist until it gets a label? That makes no sense whatsoever. How about “New York - the undisputed birthplace of the ‘punk rock’ label”? Hell, even that’s debatable. There were music journalists in the UK like Caroline Coon applying that label (to the new underground bands) as early as 1976. I say who really gives a shit? Labels have never meant that much to me. What does matter is the music itself and the accompanying attitude, and they existed long before the label.

[@BurningtunaDC]

The clip shows the band warming up in their dressing room. Even after years of performing they would always warm up by playing some songs in their dressing room. I've never known another band to do that.

[@LetsGoMetsGo33]

There aren't a lot of old interviewers where all 4 guys answered questions, this is cool.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

True. Back in those days most of the interviews were relegated to Tommy, or sometimes Johnny.

[@ZRN959]

I LOVE the backstage playing.

[@JesusGarcia-zx4yf]

Full concert!

[@MattBreakdown]

The greatest Rock n Roll band of all time.

[@vincesarmento4854]

I have always heard the Ramones, love all kinds of music but I can tell you that even at 57 you can become a big fan and take the time to miss what was there a life time ago but discovered it now! I only wish I could have seen them in person!

[@leahflower9924]

I hate to sound corny but they were so fucking real even compared to most punk bands

[@vincesarmento4854]

@@leahflower9924 they started it ! The Father's of Punk !

[@Shikta-poobah67]

@@vincesarmento4854 No disrespect to the Ramones, but no they most certainly did not start it. Kicked it into high gear maybe, but there was a very long line of bands before them, stretching all the way back to roughly 1964 or 65 that were doing the punk thing. They just weren’t calling it “punk” yet. Even in their hometown of NYC there was the Dolls, Dictators, Suicide, and Television before them.

[@LarzGustafsson]

Nice one! I read that when Johnny first heard "White Riot" he said: "They copied us!" or something like that. However, I don' t think The Clash set out to copy the Ramones. The Ramones were and still are influential. You can' t avoid being influenced. You may listen to my old punk band - BIZEX-B - here on KZbin and detect some influences there as well. It's inevitable. Johnny Rotten said that all the UK bands were copying them... Anyway, the Ramones started it all.

[@HaRrYRaMoNe90]

awesome interview and footage! johnny was always the leader and spokesman you can see that ^^ long live the rock and roll outcasts!

[@Shikta-poobah67]

More like the drill sargeant or dictator. Johnny was definitely the alpha dog. He ran that band in a military fashion. I suppose it was effective in that it kept them going long past their sell by date, but it also burnt them out. At least it did Joey and Dee Dee, who finally had had enough by the end of the 80’s. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful I got to see them so many times over the years, and they were always great live, but honestly I always thought they should have packed it in after End Of The Century. Maybe even before that.

[@Zopf-international]

Props to the cameraman. Knew his fucking job. Wonderful essence.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Too bad whoever was in charge of sound editing had their head jammed up their butt.

[@RamonePinhead]

Johnny is using a 1965 Mosrite MK II ventures model, the rarest guitar ever. Dee Dees' weapon of choice is a Fender precision bass.

[@tonythetiger324]

Ramones invented punk and made rock a lot better To that one guy that said it was too loud . . . Really? u have to expect LOUD from the Ramones. The best chant ever, HEY HO LET'S GO!!!!!!

[@Shikta-poobah67]

The Ramones most certainly did NOT “invent punk”. They just perfected it. Punk had already been around for about a decade when the first Ramones album came out in ‘76. Just because very few people were calling it “punk” didn’t mean that it didn’t exist. All those mid 60’s bands like the Seeds, ? & The Mysterians, the Sonics, 13th Floor Elevators, Count V, etc were all punk bands, not to mention the Velvet Underground, Stooges, Dolls. The Ramones just brought it into sharp focus and Tommy gave it a trademark drumbeat.

[@steve23464]

While they slipped into their uniforms? That WAS their attire.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Dee Dee himself used to refer to it as a uniform. He hated it. He wanted to dress like the guys in The Heartbreakers. Sharkskin suits and all. He hated having to do the whole pudding bowl haircut thing, but Johnny ran a tight order on their look so he had to go along with it. Was it a cool, iconic look? Very much so, at least until the 70’s were over, but it was indeed a uniform.

[@jimmyleon2983]

I think The Ramones biggest downfall was being labeled a punk band. I never saw them as a punk band. They were a kick ass, high energy rock and roll band. They were closer to a speed metal band than punk. But, anyone that ever played CBGB's got labeled punk. Punk rock only lasted about 3 years. The Ramones had a 20 year career.

[@leahflower9924]

Weird I always thought of them as pure punk I like the clash but them and pistols are like an after thought for me

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Commercially, being labeled punk (and in the Ramones’ case, “godfathers of punk”) was the kiss of death after the Pistols debacle tainted the whole thing. It was the sole reason why the Ramones never got played on the radio. I can pretty much guarantee you that if a song like Sheena had been promoted on FM radio it would have been a top 10 charting hit. Plenty of other songs too. The ‘punk’ label carried way too much baggage with it, and it wasn’t until Nirvana came along about 15 years later that the industry finally embraced it, but by then the Ramones were way past their sell by date. It’s a real shame. Especially for Joey. He so very badly wanted to be on the radio. It still makes me sad. As for whether or not the Ramones were a punk band, OF COURSE THEY WERE. Just because the label was maligned doesn’t take anything away from the fact that they were THEE quintessential punk band. They kicked the doors down for every other punk band that came in their wake. They were also a rock and roll band, and a bubblegum band. I’ve never once thought of them as “speed metal”, though they did kind of flirt with that style a bit on Too Tough To Die.

[@Punk93Metal]

Please don't mention the Sex Pistols in the same sentence as the Ramones and the Clash.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Please don’t mention Tony Orlando in the same sentence as Paper Lace and Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods.

[@renc2000]

I wish they just would have left them playing the dry version of "loudmouth" instead of cutting in w/ "California Sun".

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Yeah, that was some seriously lousy editing there.

[@TheHamburglar666]

this is like 1 of the only interviews ive seen with tommy in the group and talking.

This was a great clip of the best band ever. Thanks for publishing this! Sven

[@gustavmarie]

LOL at the Suicide Commandos comment..I guess they might have opened for the Ramones at this show. Also, gotta wonder if future members of Husker Du and the Replacements were at this show...

[@JMarinelli]

It sounds like ol’ Bob Mould was listening closely to Johnny’s solo on “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.”

[@grewuz]

JOEY...5:12 to 5:21 :) nice dance

[@decemberschild023]

Dee Dee's smile at 3:23 ^-^ ♡ I love these guys though and can't believe that they're almost all gone now :(

[@JcCrazy101]

now they're gone

[@MorayEel]

Some bands have that glue, that POWER that makes them rock when they're together. I think it's more due to the personality and chemistry of the band members than their technical skill.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

I remember an interview with Dee Dee where he said that the common ground they all had (the 4 original members) when they first got together and started the band was that they were all the only Stooges fans that they knew of. The Stooges were the magnet that brought them all together. That was often the case with many of the “first” punk bands in whatever regional scene you look at.

[@caseesparros5812]

R.I.P Tommy

[@zanderkranock]

ramones were the most unique band ever. rip joey, tommy, dee dee and johnny.

[@leahflower9924]

Did you know Layne and Kurt died same day different year

[@zanderkranock]

@@leahflower9924 yes rip layne and kurt :(

[@TotalFootballYT]

"are u particulary mad??" " yea im mad rit now" lmao

[@robr5786]

I read somewhere future members of the Replacements and Husker Du were in the crowd

[@JMarinelli]

Bob Mould hadn’t moved to the Twin Cities at this point, but he did see the Ramones in Montreal in ‘77. I’m certain that Grant, Greg, and at least some of the future Replacements were in attendance.

[@ELMENDORFX]

"Ancestral homeland of punk rock"? Was that an inside punk rock joke by the writer? Everyone knows punk rock started when Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads, in Clarksdale Mississippi. Double Duh

[@JMarinelli]

That’s impossible because the Devil doesn’t exist. Plus, everyone knows that punk started in Boone County, West Virginia in 1956 when Hasil Adkins wrote “She Said.”

[@edfeltch]

This was the last great tour for the Ramones,they did half the tour with the Runaways opening,i saw them at aredneck bar outside Houston,On The Border,theres video of it.Anyway as i said this was the last tour w/Tommy on the throne and he was surely missed.He just tired of it he said.

[@shashwati]

gaaahaaaa.... "they're our good buddies....but they all stink!" awesome...i think it shows that his "dumbness" was an act, as Eileen Polk has said..what even funnier though is to hear that narrator actually advocating punk in that sophisticated voice of his...quite unbelievable :) Ramones forever!!

[@sugarjoe50]

Nothing like that original line up.

[@idoguitarstuff]

“ancestral homeland of punk rock” ok 👍🏻

[@Shikta-poobah67]

No such place exists. Maybe “planet Earth”?

[@lowfatricemilk1860]

best fucken band ever . RIP joey , dee dee , tommy and johnny

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Gotta love the commentary from the people in the audience that were randomly selected to give their opinion. The one that blows my mind was the girl who called them “boring”. I mean yeah, the Ramones had plenty of detractors back then who came up with all kinds of insults, but I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve ever heard them referred to as “boring”. Especially back in those days.

[@kgedgeyo5839]

This is awesome!

[@RamonePinhead]

This is a national treasure!!! THANK YOU!

[@GohAhweh]

so glad i got to see them live a few times.. most memorable was Hollywood Palladium 1980 with Holly and the Italians .❤

[@jeffsims8270]

2:36 - uggghhh! Punk started in America - not England! Even Punk magazine materialized in America.

[@leahflower9924]

Yes thank you! I'm a Yankee and I love to fight people all the time on YT like I'm marky Ramone lol

[@esquinarumbera]

the backstage warming-up stuff is priceless, such a shame it was edited like that.

[@jimbo1959]

" Slipped into their uniforms "???????????????????

[@quieterrps]

Very cool if they really did air this whole segment with the complete footage of Blitzkrieg Bop like that. Such great memories of seeing them in small clubs back then. There was a lot of hope that didn't really pan out in the long run, but man what fun! Cheers!

[@bradhome1323]

I would like to have seen the whole video of that live show !

[@charlesmaximus9161]

What an era. Sad I missed it and even sadder they’re all gone. Every member you see here is now long gone. 😔

[@Shikta-poobah67]

It’s nice to know that their memory and their legend will likely live on forever though. People still not only listen to them and continue to buy their music and merch, but they still talk about them frequently. The Ramones may never have had any commercial success, but they made a HUGE mark on this world and have one hell of a legacy. I’d be willing to bet that if you could time-travel 500 years into the future, people would still be listening to their music and discussing their impact. Yes, it’s sad that they’re all gone, and gone before their time (don’t forget Arturo), but very few bands leave behind the kind of legacy that they have. Personally I choose to focus on that and celebrate it.

[@WetheBest96]

They mixed 'Loudmouth' with 'California Sun'

[@michaelengen7392]

The way they edited rockaway beach at the beginning is criminal. Then the guy says "england is the ancestral homeland of punk?" Lol😂

[@leahflower9924]

A lot of people fight me because I'm from new York and I say punk is Detroit and new York and they say no it's England

[@Shikta-poobah67]

The TRUE “ancestral homeland of punk” is neither England, New York, Detroit, or any other one city or nation. It’s the suburban garage of almost every city in America, and no one place gets to claim it as “ancestral home”. I know someone is bound to come back at me for saying this, but sorry it’s just the truth. Punk didn’t start with the Pistols or the Ramones, as much as I love both of them. It also didn’t start with the Dolls or the Stooges. It started some time in 1964, right after millions of American teenagers saw the Beatles make their big TV debut on the Ed Sullivan show, and then immediately got their parents to buy them an electric guitar, or a drum kit, or a Vox organ and start banging around in their garages. THAT was the true birth of punk.

[@leahflower9924]

@@Shikta-poobah67 if you look at punk as a genre even if it's a broad genre I'm going with Ramones were first punk band playing at CBGB in 1974 with songs like Judy is a punk and loudmouth

[@Shikta-poobah67]

@@leahflower9924 Not that it matters much, but Television were playing at CBGB before the Ramones. Only by a month or two, but as long as we’re splitting hairs it’s worth pointing out. Before that there were hundreds… or probably more like thousands of bands playing loud, fast, crude, snotty, and aggressive 3-chord rock and roll music, and they had been doing so since the mid 60’s. Just because it didn’t have a name yet or had yet been labeled a “movement” doesn’t mean it wasn’t a thing. Those 60’s garage punkers left behind thousands of recordings as evidence of their existence. What the Ramones did was to bring it into sharp focus and give it a trademark drum beat. The ‘punk’ label came courtesy of John Holmstrom and Legs McNeil, at least in conjunction with the Ramones and NYC. Over in England you had journalists like Caroline Coon applying the label to bands like the Pistols, Clash, and Damned right around the same time… and then the media latched on to it and it became a household word.

[@leahflower9924]

@@Shikta-poobah67 fair enough I think I have a biased view because I am from new York area, and Ramones had more of an impact on me than all the other bands.

[@jarmominkkinen2450]

RIP You are the Best punk Band.♥️👍

[@centralscrutinizer66]

Like Clem burke said "their songs are musical tongue twisters" Sometimes timeing and arrangement can be just as intricate and effective as going note, chord and lead crazy.

[@SergioArellano-yd7ik]

AKA Elvis Ramone

[@jakkenton]

This footage is great! I love the complaints by the audience members, 'It was too loud...' etc- Amazing!

[@Shikta-poobah67]

How about the one girl who calls them “boring”? I mean, *WHAT???* Say what you will about the Ramones. They always evoked some pretty strong and polarizing opinions, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone accuse them of being “boring” in all my years on this planet. That’s just nuts.

[@JesusGarcia-zx4yf]

5:56 here today gone tommorrow

[@yonatandush]

"they still play the same song they started an hour and a half ago " funny guy !

[@SargeantFunshine]

Nice vid. Of course, like everyone else, I like the Ramones, but as a local I appreciate the comment at 7:00 about the Suicide Commandos!

[@idoguitarstuff]

hey man, i’m not sure if you’re even active on youtube anymore but could you please post the video of this entire show if you happen to have it. this seems like it would be an awesome show.

[@ChefClary60]

Summer of 1977, our favorite local band and buddies Fools Face (they have some stuff on YT) told us they were opening for a band from New York playing “punk rock”. We’d never heard of punk. The club was small. Fit about 100 people. I was right in front of the stage. That night completely changed my musical tastes and I became a “punk rocker”!

[@leahflower9924]

Where was this?

[@bradkerr3816]

2:30 n While they slipped into their uniforms.... Priceless!!

[@roodyandress8922]

Nice... I didnt know Jim Morrison played drums!

[@JcKramer1991]

i thought tommy was out of the band by 78?

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Yep.

[@JMarinelli]

He was still in the band at that point. His last gig with them was May 4th 1978.

[@rubenmecado7337]

Dee Dee rocked his head so much brain damage. Besides the bad stuff.

[@rubenmecado7337]

Man Hollywood Palladium they were excellent.

[@pompom7x728]

These haircuts make them look like a bunch of mushrooms 😄🍄🎸🎼🌺😊

[@LarzGustafsson]

THE USA is the home of punk rock. The Ramones were the first punk rock band. Period.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

🤦‍♂️

[@DemonDog444]

Right, and Death were the first true death metal band..

[@717rocket]

Rock on Ramones.

[@JesusGarcia-zx4yf]

Full concert!

[@lordcharlesespanto]

they were most energetic in those years :)