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Joey Ramone's Unearthed Demos
"We really had something totally unique, and there was something completely different about us that was not like anything else before us," Ramone said. "You know, we revolutionized rock 'n' roll and changed the world musically, and changed people's attitudes. And everybody starting playing like us."
Joey Ramone, best known as the band's lead singer, also wrote some of the Ramones' most famous songs, including "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" and "Beat on the Brat." He released one solo album after the band broke up in 1996. When Ramone died of lymphoma in 2001 at age 49, he left behind a number of demo recordings and song fragments, often recorded at home on cheap cassette machines. Joey's brother, Mickey Leigh, recorded two of them.
"The ones I had were recorded on a $38 microphone that I had gotten from [influential rock critic] Lester Bangs," Leigh says. He says the idea for the album started with the two demos he recorded in Ramone's East Village apartment in 2001.
Bare Bones
Leigh also negotiated for the rights to other unreleased recordings, some of them dating to the 1980s. Then, he and producer Ed Stasium went through a time consuming process of stripping those demo recordings down and building them back up around Joey Ramone's vocals.
"We just basically had vocals," Stasium says. "Sometimes, there was just drums on one track, a guitar on one track. It was very minimal."
"All we wanted was the bare bones," Leigh says.
"And that's all we kept from the originals, were Joey's vocals," Stasium adds.
"Some of them are very scratchy, a little distorted," Leigh says. "It was a lot of work. You'd never know if I didn't tell you, so you didn't hear it."
Stasium worked and played on more than 10 albums with The Ramones. He and Leigh say they tried hard to be faithful to what Joey Ramone would have wanted.
"Joey was a perfectionist with his performance," Stasium says. "With his lyrical content . he wanted to make sure all the diction was there."
"He cared. A lot," Leigh says.
Joey Ramone was born replica Van Cleef & Arpels Clover Necklace white diamond Jeffry Ross Hyman in Forest Hills, Queens. He and Mickey Leigh born Mitchel Lee Hyman grew up together. They shared a single record collection and started playing in bands as teenagers.
"He wanted to a be producer," Leigh says. "And he took us into the studio, this band I had called Purple Majesty, and produced a record for us. He was 15 years old. I don't know if that's when I knew he was going to be Joey Ramone. But I knew he had this intense love of music, and making music, and making things happen."
Stay True
Now, it's Leigh's turn to be the producer. He says he felt some pressure to bring in high profile guest artists to play on his brother's posthumous record.
"You know, get the biggest names we could get, because that was going to bring attention to it. And I was totally opposed to that from the get go," Leigh says. "That's not what I want. I really wanted to keep it black van cleef necklace alhambra imitation pure, organic, and to his friends. I wanted to keep the focus on Joey, not on Bono or whoever."
In the end, Leigh only invited Joey Ramone's friends and collaborators to play on the record, including Steven Van Zandt, Richie Ramone and Joan Jett. That's probably how Joey Ramone would have wanted it. In interviews, he talked a lot about how proud he was that the Ramones never strayed from their original vision just for the sake of having a hit.
"You know, we were always there for our fans, and there for ourselves," Ramone once said in an interview. "We never sold ourselves out or we never replica Van Cleef & Arpels Clover Necklace with flower wanted to play dance music or crap like that. We always stayed true to what the Ramones are."
"We really had something totally unique, and there was something completely different about us that was not like anything else before us," Ramone said. "You know, we revolutionized rock 'n' roll and changed the world musically, and changed people's attitudes. And everybody starting playing like us."
Joey Ramone, best known as the band's lead singer, also wrote some of the Ramones' most famous songs, including "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" and "Beat on the Brat." He released one solo album after the band broke up in 1996. When Ramone died of lymphoma in 2001 at age 49, he left behind a number of demo recordings and song fragments, often recorded at home on cheap cassette machines. Joey's brother, Mickey Leigh, recorded two of them.
"The ones I had were recorded on a $38 microphone that I had gotten from [influential rock critic] Lester Bangs," Leigh says. He says the idea for the album started with the two demos he recorded in Ramone's East Village apartment in 2001.
Bare Bones
Leigh also negotiated for the rights to other unreleased recordings, some of them dating to the 1980s. Then, he and producer Ed Stasium went through a time consuming process of stripping those demo recordings down and building them back up around Joey Ramone's vocals.
"We just basically had vocals," Stasium says. "Sometimes, there was just drums on one track, a guitar on one track. It was very minimal."
"All we wanted was the bare bones," Leigh says.
"And that's all we kept from the originals, were Joey's vocals," Stasium adds.
"Some of them are very scratchy, a little distorted," Leigh says. "It was a lot of work. You'd never know if I didn't tell you, so you didn't hear it."
Stasium worked and played on more than 10 albums with The Ramones. He and Leigh say they tried hard to be faithful to what Joey Ramone would have wanted.
"Joey was a perfectionist with his performance," Stasium says. "With his lyrical content . he wanted to make sure all the diction was there."
"He cared. A lot," Leigh says.
Joey Ramone was born replica Van Cleef & Arpels Clover Necklace white diamond Jeffry Ross Hyman in Forest Hills, Queens. He and Mickey Leigh born Mitchel Lee Hyman grew up together. They shared a single record collection and started playing in bands as teenagers.
"He wanted to a be producer," Leigh says. "And he took us into the studio, this band I had called Purple Majesty, and produced a record for us. He was 15 years old. I don't know if that's when I knew he was going to be Joey Ramone. But I knew he had this intense love of music, and making music, and making things happen."
Stay True
Now, it's Leigh's turn to be the producer. He says he felt some pressure to bring in high profile guest artists to play on his brother's posthumous record.
"You know, get the biggest names we could get, because that was going to bring attention to it. And I was totally opposed to that from the get go," Leigh says. "That's not what I want. I really wanted to keep it black van cleef necklace alhambra imitation pure, organic, and to his friends. I wanted to keep the focus on Joey, not on Bono or whoever."
In the end, Leigh only invited Joey Ramone's friends and collaborators to play on the record, including Steven Van Zandt, Richie Ramone and Joan Jett. That's probably how Joey Ramone would have wanted it. In interviews, he talked a lot about how proud he was that the Ramones never strayed from their original vision just for the sake of having a hit.
"You know, we were always there for our fans, and there for ourselves," Ramone once said in an interview. "We never sold ourselves out or we never replica Van Cleef & Arpels Clover Necklace with flower wanted to play dance music or crap like that. We always stayed true to what the Ramones are."
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