MARKY RAMONE (3 16 16) Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone.

MARKY RAMONE is back with us. He was the drummer for the Ramones and before that a band called DUST, one of the first
Marky Ramone did two stints with the band 1978 to 1983 and 1987 to 1996. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 and received both a Grammy and an MTV Lifetime Achievement Award. Marky is the only member left and has shared his stories in his memoir, Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone. (Born Marc Bell).
When punk rock reared its spiky head in the early seventies, Marc Bell had the best seat in the house. Already a young veteran of the prototype American metal band Dust, Bell took residence in artistic, seedy Lower Manhattan, where he played drums in bands that would shape rock music for decades to come, including Wayne County, who pioneered transsexual rock, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids, who directly inspired the entire early British punk scene.
If punk had royalty, in 1978 Marc became part of it when he was knighted “Marky Ramone” by Johnny, Joey, and Dee Dee of the iconoclastic Ramones. The band of tough misfits were a natural fit for Marky, who dressed punk before there was punk, and who brought his “blitzkrieg” style of drumming as well as the studio and stage experience the band needed to solidify its lineup. Together, they changed the world.
But Marky Ramone changed, too. The epic wear and tear of a dysfunctional group (and the Ramones were a step beyond dysfunction) endlessly crisscrossing the country and the world in an Econoline-practically a psychiatric ward on wheels-drove Marky from partying to alcoholism. When his life started to look more out of control then Dee Dee’s, he knew he had a problem. Marky left music in the mid-eighties to enter recovery and eventually returned to help the Ramones finally receive their due as one of the greatest and most influential bands of all time.
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Reading the book now! It’s awesome so far.

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Got the audiobook on Audible and have listened to it over 7 times. Currently re listening to it again. Its a very interesting first person account. Conversations depicted. Unlike when you read one of the many great books written by 3 person authors and journalists

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Steppenwolf coined the phrase heavy metal in Born to Be Wild, in 1968, not Lester Bangs. Lester didn't come on the scene as a whacked-out rock journalist until the early 70's.