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First two West Coast Tours, August 1976 & February 1977
Los Angeles, Orange County and San Francisco |
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I've posted several Ramones
stories, more to come (submit your memories, 1976-1980). I am
struggling to post these. It's hard to focus through my tears,
looking at the young, hopeful, beautiful faces of Joey, Dee
Dee and Johnny and realize they are gone. These photos flood
me with so many mixed feelings, happy and sad, bitter and joyful.
I have over 100 shots to post, so these will move from one page
to another, captions added and expanded, ever changing. Listen
to Rhino's repacked CDs with bonus live recordings from their
debut nights at the Roxy in Los Angeles, August 11 and 12, 1976
while you are looking at my shots from those shows.
If that doesn't get you up dancing among your tears, go away.
Gabba gabba hey.
from Falling James: re "End of the
Century, " recently broadcast on PBS: "Thanks for
the updates about . . . everything! You
remember/are so much Ramones history. You're right, they
left out the left coast and L.A. We were always the looked-down-upon
scene, why waste film on us now. But it is interesting how much
L.A. figured in the Ramones' history." |
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[76-08 Ram AqSF 19]
Joey hanging outside Aquarius Records,
San Francisco, August 19-22, 1976. I shot them during their
first California tour, after their triumphant debut at LA's
Roxy on August 11 and 12, 1976. They later told Creem magazine
they "were followed around by a 250 pound cherub named
Jenny." Ah, I weighed about 170 then, ouch.
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[76-08 Ram AqSF 20]
Dee Dee hanging outside
Aquarius Records, San Francisco, August 19-22, 1976. |
[76-08 Ram AqSF 22] |
[76-08 Ram AqSF
02] |
[76-08 Ram AqSF 05]
(smiling face seen in Spin, November 2004)
Johnny
at Aquarius Records, San Francisco, August 19-22, 1976. |
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[76-08 Ram Car 14] Dee Dee lookin' like a typical California
kid somewhere in Orange County, August 23-25, 1976. |
[76-08 Ram Car 15] Dee Dee LOVED my big old unwashed powder
blue Chrysler New Yorker, but Joey posed against it, wearin'
his Max's Kansas City t-shirt, somewhere in Orange County,
August 23-25, 1976. |
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[77-02-RamLT22JoeyKamen]
Joey
Ramone,
Little Tokyo in LOS ANGELES
February 1977 [Spin's Obit]
Shot with Tomata du Plenty of the Screamers
and Arturo Vega, Ramones art director.
The Ramones changed my life -- my first
photos. It's so tragic they didn't live to enjoy all their
success til they were old withered men. But they left a legacy
that endures. Bless them all. |
[76-08-Po10aJoeyPool]
Joey Ramone,
San Francisco, August 1976. This has been published through
the years. Hard to track it -- it's hard when people steal
it and don't send me tear sheets or product. People LOVE this
shot and that always makes me feel so good. Joey was wonderful
to shoot. We were both so shy and vulnerable, but he was very
relaxed in front of my camera. |
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