While many of Clem's memories on the tour were happy, he admitted to clashing horribly with Ramones star, Johnny Ramone ... "Johnny’s guitar was just a means to an end for him, and I don ...

The song that launched him to six-string immortality, Misirlou, was led by an iconic riff that was less a song-starter than a hell-raiser – the sort of guitar buzzsaw that Johnny Ramone (a big ...

There isn’t a soul on the planet who picks up a guitar and doesn’t want to be one of the greatest to ever play the instrument. No one likes settling for second best, so it’s everyone’s dream to try to ...

The Ramones’ late drummer Tommy Ramone tells MOJO’s Bob Mehr about the blink-and ... none of them worked out because their drumming just didn’t click in with Johnny’s guitar style. The style of ...

Once you strip back the guitar distortion and blitzkrieg delivery ... like glue sniffing,” guitarist Johnny Ramone later recalled. “We thought it was funny. We thought we could get away with anything.

He closely studied the work of Keith Moon in the Who (“Moon filled in the blanks, especially with [Pete] Townshend playing quite a bit of rhythm guitar”), and further credited Earl Palmer’s ...

Paul [McCartney] would check into a hotel using the name Paul Ramon,' Johnny Ramone once revealed. He added: 'Dee Dee was a big fan, so he changed his name to Dee Dee Ramone. We decided to call ...

Artists mourning the loss include The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood, the Ramones’ Johnny Ramone, The Kinks’ Dave Davies, and the E Street Band’s Stevie Van Zandt. “RIP Clem Burke ...