PipemanRadio Interviews Marky Ramone at Aftershock 2024

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0:59 This is pipe Man here on the Adventures of Pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here with Markey Ramon Nice here after Shock. So have you played in all your life? Have you played After Shock before? No? I played every other festival. Yeah, US Festival, the one Inch Hellfest, the one the last month in Kentucky, Louder than Life, Louder than Life, walk to you know Lollapolo's. Yeah, I know you've been. You were you played US Festival? I was there? Yeah right, I was like, what was I was sixteen years old. I remember I told my dad, I'm like, I'm going to a music festival. I'll see you after the weekend. Craziest experience in my life.

1:42 One hundred ten degrees. Yeah. Out there were with all other jackets on and there must have been about two hundred thousand people when we went on. Yeah. So it was the great experience. You know. So I love that you said that because it must have been memorable when you met janieass festival, Like, wow, that means it was a memorable things. I got with the tape of the whole thing. Nice. So tell our listeners a little bit about your whole journey, one story, good or bad, in your whole musical journey that you stand on your mind. What would it be. Being appreciated by our fans and bands that were influenced by us and seeing it all over the world when you tore the world and then eventually getting being the first punk band to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Yeah, and then winning a Grammy. We never thought we would win anything?

2:38 Is that wild? Right? Wild? And the first record that I recorded with Johnny Joey, indeed, he was I Want to Be Sedated and that just became double platinum, and who. Knew, Like who could imagine? Right? I haven't knew that, you know, you know, I know from just watching some of the documentaries and stuff, like you guys were auditioning or at Sea be GB's and it was like, I don't think you thought you would ever get it in a million years. And then it was like, okay, you're playing. Yeah, Tommy asked me to join the group along with Deity. He wanted to produce. I just got over for tour with the Clash with Richard Helnavodoids and the Deedy and Johnny approached me at CBGB's at the Bar and they gave me a tape of the live show and the album that I was on Cold Road to ruin the demo for him, and I had to do that in two weeks.

3:32 Wow. Yeah, that's how I did it, you know, and we started touring. How do you compare what music's like then to music today? Well, it was a lot more original then, that's true. The cup teach to his own. Yeah. You know, if you like blues, if you like jazz, you like rap, you like hip hop, you like punk, you like rock. Good you know, Destroite is for everybody. This is my shout out to new bands. Just try to formula, try to get some something that's original. Yeah, because what I noticed, a lot of bands just follow a formula and they end up sounding alike. It's so funny you say that, because I talk about that all the time now. Like you take the old school bands, even if they were in the same genre, they never sounded the same and I find that there are a lot of new balands. I always say they follow like an algebraic equation to create a song. And I think what's good about today blending on genres? Like when you have a band that has like four different people and they're all into different genres. That's where we get the original music today because there is no formula for what they're doing. Well hopefully, yeah, exactly. So what keeps you going all these years later?

4:48 Well, after Johnny, Joey and Dedie died and Tommy, well they died first, I took it upon myself to keep the music alive. I feel that the song's too good not to be played. And I travel the world. Yeah, and I play these songs and I do thirty seven songs, not today because the cell is the short up, because but that's what I like to do. What's your favorite song to play? Rock? Rom High School? Which I was in good movie, nice funny movie. Yeah, and I want to be Sedated and Blitz Creakbob. Does it blow your mind? That was good to be my next one after you mentioned it? How many bands played that song during their set?

5:34 Well, we just did the Kentucky Festival. And what's their names not. Some band was on after us from LA and before then we did blitz Creabob my band. Then after we got off the stage, towards the end of their set, they did blitz Creakbob. So I was happy because there was a homage and you know that they were thankful that you know that we existed, Yeah, and that we were one of their influences. And what's the other band. Well, Zombie does it all the time. Yeah, Dave Brows band's. Oh yeah, food Fighters, Yeah. They do blitz creabop. Yeah, so everywhere you go it wants blitz creak bopping. I know, right, fine, it's fine.

6:17 You gotta love it, like cause I think there wouldn't be punk music today if it weren't for you guys. No, not not as we know. It, right Exactly What was it that really connected you to music before all of this. Oh little boy listening to Jimmy Hendrix, the Beatles, the Ooh for Kinks, the Girl Phil Spector girl groups, things like that, you know, Hal Blaine, drama, Keith moon Well, jazz dramas like Buddy Rich, Joe Morello from Dave Beck, all these Tony Williams, all these guys affected me one way or in the so yeah, yeah, you mixed that up.

7:02 And I think that's the difference too with bands today, is like, so all the old school punk bands had influence of a totally different genre because punk didn't exist. So you did create something original because you saw that, love that, but you wanted something different. I wanted to be able to attempt to play like those great jazz drummers. But eventually, of course I started playing rock, and jazz is a lot harder. Yeah, and I can play some jazz, but those guys Buddy Rich and all those great plays really well, unbelievable. Oh yeah, you know. So that's how I grew up, you know, just drumming and listening to people who inspired me.

7:51 I love it, you know. And so how old were you when you first twelve? Wow? Nice? And did you know at that beginning that this was what you were going to do here? Yes, this is what I wanted to do school. I wasn't unimpressed about if if there were certain subjects I did very well. I went to summer school three years in a row, but I didn't have to go all year round. But I knew I could pass the tests because they were easy, right, So I passed the tests in summer school, so on actuality, it took me six months to graduate high school.

8:33 Wow, I love it because in high school. As long as you pass the tests, that's all I matted. I always looked at as like babysitting, not going, like not going to school. They were just babysitting. Yeah, it's just you know, they teacher the same old typical stuff. You know that that wasn't necessary for me to learn because I knew what I really wanted to do. Yeah, so my teachers who are on the stereo. There you go. I love it. And that's earn thing too. I think the difference music like you and I growing up when you buy an album, first of all, you didn't hear what it sounded like first unless you went to a live show and it was a whole experience, like I think kids today are missing that.

9:20 Well, you know, I like the smell. When I opened up the album, I like obviously like the band a lot. I was so impressed what they did before that, so I did buy the next album. Yeah, and the final sounds better. It's warmer, and I missed the scratches on all that stuff. Plus they look good. You could read the liner notes. They had good artwork. Yep, you could open up the sleeve and see it and who did what and what did where with? You know what I mean? Oh? Yeah, my first album I ever owned myself, not the ones I stole from my brother, but the one I owned for myself. I won at Seaside Heights on the boardwalk up there were these four dudes on an album that looked really cool and it was the original Kiss album when it first came out, and I won it at the boardwalk.

10:09 Yeah. My guitar player from my first band produced them. Wow. First two albums. Wow, that's pretty cool. My band dust very cool. So any final words you want to leave our listeners with? Yeah, hey, ho, let's go. I got five new songs that I just recorded, are out on downstreaming favored downstreaming things, and I will eventually put out vinyl. But they're out there now. Okay, I did five songs. Oh cool. Well I have to make sure everybody checks it out. Yeah. See that puts me in awe at your stage after all these years, still putting out new songs. That amazes me, true musician. Yeah, they're covers, but Ramon's style. Yeah, one is cool, It's not unusual. By Tom Jones. Nice, I'll keep on dancing by the Gentries. Octopus has gone by the Beatles New York who Frank Sinatra did originally, and this five of them altogether, so very cool.

11:06 Well, everybody's gonna have to check out those. Songs and on your you know, downloading thing. Thanks for keeping the music alive and I'm so happy you're here it after shot. Thanks, thanks for being on The Adventures pipe Man. Thank you my pleasure. Hey everybody, this is Markey Ramone and you're listening to The Pipe Man four C. Why thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin. I'm w for CUI Radio.