Ramones Mania in Cleveland

Here is a cool way to spend the weekend. A mini festival called Ramonesmania is hitting Cleveland Ohio this weekend in honor of the 30th anniversary of Rock-n-Roll High School. A concert with local bands playing Ramones songs is happening at 07:30pm Saturday at The Happy Dog. A midnight showing of Rock-n-Roll High School is happening on Saturday after the concert at the Capitol Theatre. The Melt Bar & Grilled is featuring special Ramones inspired pizzas this weekend only. Melt has been featured on Man vs. Food, Food Network and the Today show. A very popular local establishment. The pizza choices are:

Friday Feb 18 & Saturday Feb 19. 4 special pizza themed sandwiches for each Ramone!
The Joey Ramone 3 cheese meltdown
The Johnny Ramone veggie lovers
The Dee Dee Ramone meat lovers
The Markey Ramone spicy garlic white

See Rock n Roll High School, Saturday Feb 19 at The Capitol Theatre, midnight.

Also attend Ramonesmania at The Happy Dog before the movie for Ramones cover bands and true Rock n Roll High School mayhem co-sponsored by Melt! Leather jacked not included!

Please send me some photos or get in touch with me if anyone in the Cleveland area attends these events. Hope the jukebox is full of Ramones music! Gabba Gabba Hey!

This promotional poster describes the event.



Happy Dog
Cleveland Scene Magazine
Melt Bar & Grilled

Rock and Roll High School

Joey Solo

Maria Bartiromo - live



What A Wonderful World:


S.L.U.G.


Danny Says


Sonic Reducer w/Pearl Jam

Dee Dee Solo

Video of Dee Dee from 2001 performing Born to Lose, Chinese Rock, and Pills. Well lit and good quality video. Most Dee Dee vids are of pretty marginal quality. He's really hammering on that bass!

Lifetime Achievement Award Update

Sire Records Founder Seymour Stein on 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award recipients Ramones and their pioneering punk rock:

Ramones Lifetime Achievement Award

Ramones to receive Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award

The organizers of the Grammy Awards have announced that The Ramones will be receiving a lifetime achievement in February. They will receive their statuettes at an event in Los Angeles on February 12, a day before the 53rd annual Grammy Awards ceremony is held. The Ramones will join Julie Andrews of The Sound of Music, Dolly Parton and Roy Haynes in the ceremony. The Ramones are notable in the category as they are the only lifetime achievement honourees who have never received a traditional Grammy award.

Sadly, Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee are not alive to receive the honor.

Ramones make NY playlist

New York magazine published a playlist of the "most New York" songs written since 1965. The Ramones song Rockaway Beach was listed at number 6.

"As harmonic and jubilant as any Beach Boys surf classic, this is a three-chord summertime anthem for bored kids left with nothing but fire hydrants and public pools" commented NY magazine.

Thanks to LouReed.com for providing the link.
(BTW Lou himself had 3 songs on the list: 34-Coney Island Baby, 16-I'm Waiting for my Man and 2-Walk on the Wild Side).

New York Magazine NY Ultimate Playlist

Freaky Friday

Joey Ramone's cover of "What a Wonderful World" can be heard in the Disney remake of Freaky Friday.

Cartoon Network Blitzkrieg Bop

Cartoon Network is airing a promo featuring the Blitzkrieg Bop or at least some of it.
View it here:
Hey Ho Let's Go

Ramones SF Civic Center 1979

The Ramones play a free outdoor show at the San Francisco Civic Center in 1979. Wish I coulda been there to see this, but wasn't a West Coaster in those days.
They sound really great.



This most awesome concert footage has been removed by Youtube due to terms of use violation. Basically that means you should do the right thing and go buy a copy of the DVD for your very own and you can Hey Ho and Gabba Gabba Hey as much as you want to. Use the links below to get a legal copy of the It's Alive DVD:

You can buy the It's Alive DVD here or here or here.