THE GUESTBOOK IS DOWN INDEFINITELY DUE TO SPAMMERS

SPAMMERS SUCK!

 to the right is a new poster being hung all over NYC for an upcoming exhibition in the world renowned Mary Boone Gallery.

I LOVE MY SCENE

An exhibition in three parts
Curated by Jose Freire (TEAM)

View: Nine/Scene I
5 January - 25 February 2006

View: Nine/Scene II
2 March - 1 April 2006

View: Nine/Scene III
6 April 2006 - 13 May 2006

photos in "SCENE I" to include pictures by Roberta Bailey, the artist who shot the 1st ramones album cover photo in the poster on the right >

Mary Boone Gallery and the Ramones in NYC.

rockabilly punk

Yo Punk! - What happens in a dark dank alley when a stray cat struttin' meets a brat packin' a baseball bat? The answer is in CMH Records’ latest release entitled "The Rockabilly Tribute to the Ramones". Picture if Joey, Dee Dee and Elvis ever hung out for a dream recording session...Joey and Dee Dee writing and Elvis crooooning Rockaway Beach! Wow!
 

Rockaway Beach

READ MORE HERE

THEY'RE BAAAAACK!!!!

8.08.05 - SAVE CBGB

RED ALERT: The Countdown

SAY IT AINT SO...

WHY ISN'T CBGB's A NYC LANDMARK, GRANTED WITH LANDMARK STATUS?

SEE A CRIME AS IT HAPPENS ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK, AT THE BOWERY AND "JOEY RAMONE PLACE" TO PUT IT RIGHT...OR STOP IT!

THIS IS A TRAGEDY WAITING TO HAPPEN. INTERVENE!

JUMP IN!

STOP THE SLAUGHTER!

CBGB is a symbol of raw American energy – for 31 years CBGB has provided a space for new creativity in music and art, a spotlight for young talent, and a unique safe-space to pursue art and free expression.

CB's has always kept its prices affordable for all music lovers, evolved to fill the needs of the music and cultural communities of New York City, and jump started the careers of thousands of performers.

Now CBGB needs your help to keep its doors open.

 OFFICIAL SAVE CBGB's .org WEBSITE here

 SAVE CBGB's BENEFIT CONCERT LIST here

 CBGB main site here

 SAVE CBGB BLOG here

If your at this RAMONES site you are a influenced by CBGB's. Period.

A NY TRAGEDY: "Here today, gone tomorrow...take it Dee Dee.."

The back-story - CBGB does not own their space. Their rent in downtown NYC is about to jump astronomically high after their current lease expires this month. This is a place that should be "landmarked" or given an affordable lease by the building owners, which they are not. This aint no fancy boutique selling $900 garments and $2000 shoes in trendy NYC? What gives?

This is a smaller space that might be 3 times the size of your bedroom, selling $5 beers (warm sometimes) and bad music most of the time for 31 years. A breeding ground for bands at best. Not a GOLDMINE. Sometimes you get lucky and you get a band who gets a little heat nationally and comes "back" to play there. Some come for the 1st time, like Greenday, go to play there to just play "THERE". You get a little "goose" to your merch sales, which are usually dead for 25 years, and make a little press for the moment. No huge "5-night 20,000 IN ATTENDANCE...nothing like that shit happens ever or can happen. If you walk from the front straight to the stage, 100 feet or so in front of you, you have experienced the entire space, fit for 300-500 at best.

The RAMONES, the TALKING HEADS, PATTI...these are names of yesteryear, when no (literally) fortunes were made, just a lotta' cool press, warm beers and mostly bad music. Gold nuggets "in a mound of dirt". The Bowery was "unwanted" until a few years ago when trendy boutiques and NYU needed to spread their wings further than SOHO and the E.Village where NYU dorms where predominanlty located. Away from the bowery bums and homeless, away from the "dark" club scene (the boggie man) that was left for the lower income downtrodden NY'ERS or artists. Music artists and otherwise.

You get the point. The fact that Hilly allows the music scene to use his "spot" for 31 years like a gold miner does, sifting through mounds of dirt to find a few RARE gold nuggets has been to his credit, but this is not Donald Trump here, and this aint even no MUD CLUB...its just CBGB's. Tiny, smelly and classic for what is represents to rising bands and fans of punk music everywhere around the world.

Punk is hot now. It was hot once or twice before too. But for more time than not, it was not hot. That's PUNK. Hilly Krystal, the proprietor of CB's deserves better than this for managing what has easily become New York City most well known live music mecca today, bar none.

We're talking losing CBGB's. Have you ever been? Have you been lately? Wanna go again and again? Or would you prefer a $9 cup of coffee and another "specialty cupcake" shop? $5 for a single cupcake. Yes...a .30 cent frickin' cupcake for $5 and a .50 cent coffee for $9.

Yipeeee! Are we having fun yet? NO. HELP OUT IF U CAN - Zippy

You can click the banner above to learn more on how to let your voice or actions be heard, and they need it heard in NYC!

It wont take much of your time to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING.

7.07.05 - This f*ckin' rocks!!

Premieres Saturday July 9

at 10pm ET/11pm PT


“All you need is one guy or girl to stand up and say “Fuck this,” and everyone goes: Voice of a generation - thank you. I’ve been thinking that, I never had the guts to say it - and all of a sudden - “Fuck this” has a backbeat.”

Henry Rollins in PUNK: attitude

The Independent Film Channel Presents:

PUNK: attitude

An IFC Original

by Acclaimed Filmmaker Don Letts

 GET THIS MOVIE!

VICTORY!!!!

wea.de PuNks oUt!!!!

  latest message sent from RAMONES.DE in germany:

"commandos win again!" "wea.de backs off. message over."

gabba gabba!

 a fight well fought and a win well deserved!

Visit

 ramones.de 

and support them.

Gabba Gabba Hey!

Read below -  German RAMONES fan website at war w/WEA.de -

  message sent: "...Help needed...send in the commandos"

  return message: "...roger, Commandos, involved again" 

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below email from:> tHe wEbSiTe oWNer oF Ramones.de

WEA against Fansite "Ramones.de“

Hoping for your support in any way. Thanks!

With a letter dated April 7,2005 the Warner Music Group Germany told me to give the Internet domain “Ramones.de” to them in 2(!) weeks. Otherwise there will be juridical steps, which will cost me a lot of money...Their explanation is, they “having the only right to use the name of  the band and their pictures...”.

Ramones.de is an non-commercial fan site, where for example a couple of crazy German followers to the band, who had the luck to meet them personal many times, write about their... experiences... we did an official Fanzine in 1994, an authorized Fan-Sampler in 1999, and Tribute-Concerts and Festivals to honour them in 1994,1996,1999 and 2004 so far.

This German “Ramones-Thing” is even known under the name “Loudmouth!”cause we originally named the Fanzine this way. It all was authorize by the that-time-members in 1993 and by Dee Dee Ramone (the originally Bassplayer) in 1994. None of us ever will forget when Johnny said, “if someone should do it, these crazy German Followers must do it!”.

In fact, we think, the big media tycoon WEA is afraid of our Site. But why?Cause the people who visit us will never buy any Ramones-Stuff...Bullshit!They will... so we should be „good“ for the WEA because of our kinda Promotion for the Band, Promotion by the WEA was missed here especially in Europe over all the Decades the Band were active- that’s only as a Side comment! But now as the Ramones (and that’s a good thing) are having a kinda “Boom” over here, it explains this WEA-Reaction. A very late one indeed... the Site was registered by a fan in 1996, who gave it to us in 2002, not for money, just because to support us.None of us knows what to do now... fighting against the Tycoon? That’s a very expensive thing... and because of the unclear law in Germany, no one knows what will be the result.

There is a chance, cause we have this relationship to the Band.
 

What will be the next step of WEA... forbidden any Websites having the name “Ramones” in it... and pics... forbidden any cover bands... that’s all a BAD WORK AGAINST the Ramones, isn’t it!? And what about any other band’s fan sites.....Would please like to know your meaning about it.

Up the Ramones forever!

A petition is in the works next!

LOUDMOUTH! - Punk'N Roll for Boys & Girls and the official German Ramones-Thing* est. 1994 Jörg F. Büscher - Dorotheenstrasse 94 - D-40235 Düsseldorf Tele *49 (0)211 240 62 35

http://www.loudmouth.de  & http://www.ramones.de

*authorized by Johnny and Joey Ramone November 1993 and by Dee Dee Ramone in May 1994. Still FUCKING official, even some people don't like it this way.

Those Creeps we hate!

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- end of email to ramonesmania.com

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zippy the admin - Leave your comments here.

4.14.05

Marky feels he has to move on and that he won't be on the next European tour with them. The last shows he will be doing with Jerry and Dez will be in Mexico. Then he will be doing mainly Ramones related things and will be seeing you soon, with his own band.

Marky wishes Jerry and Dez the best of luck.