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Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone, performing with the Ramones, 1979.
Dee Dee Ramone, performing with the Ramones, 1979. The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first Punk rock group
Background information
Birth name Douglas Glenn Colvin
Also known as Dee Dee King, Dee Dee Ramone
Born September 18, 1951 Fort Lee, Virginia
Died June 5, 2002 (aged 50)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Genre(s) Punk rock
Rap("Standing in the Spotlight" album)
Occupation(s) Musician
Songwriter
Instrument(s) Bass guitar
Vocals
Years active 1974–2002
Label(s) Sire, Wanker Rec, World Service, Other People's Music, Corazong
Associated acts Ramones
Website Official Dee Dee Site

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Dee Dee was also known for his distinctive count-in style, used to start off many Ramones songs.

Though nearly all of the Ramones' songs were credited equally to all the band members, Dee Dee was the group's primary lyricist and songwriter, penning songs such as "53rd & 3rd", "Commando", "Rockaway Beach" and "Poison Heart". He was the bass guitarist for the group from their formation in 1974 through 1989, although at first he wanted to play the guitar. The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the He then left to pursue a short-lived career in rap music under the name Dee Dee King. Hip hop music, also referred to as rap music, is a Music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rap which is accompanied with Afterwards, Dee Dee returned to his punk roots and released three little-known solo albums featuring brand new songs (many were used later on Ramones records). Dee Dee also got married to Argentinian teenager Barbara Zampini, toured the world playing his songs, Ramones songs and some old favorites in small clubs and continued to write songs for the Ramones until 1996, when the band retired.

Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life, especially heroin; he began using drugs as a teenager, and continued to use for the majority of his adult life. Drug addiction is widely considered a pathological state. The disorder of addiction involves the progression of acute Drug use to the development of drug-seeking Heroin ( INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is a semi-synthetic opioid synthesized from Morphine, a derivative He seemed to clean up his act in the early 1990s and to remain clean for most of that decade until 2002, when he was found dead from a heroin overdose.

Contents

Biography

Childhood

Colvin was born in Fort Lee, Virginia and raised in Berlin, Germany, the son of an American soldier stationed there and a German woman. Fort Lee is a Census-designated place (CDP in Petersburg and Prince George County, Virginia, United States. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. His parents separated around his late childhood/early teens, and he lived in Berlin until the age of 15, when he, his mother and sister moved to the Forest Hills section of New York City's borough of Queens. Forest Hills is a neighborhood in the central part of the New York City borough of Queens. The City of New York There he met John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi (later dubbed Johnny and Tommy "Ramone"), then playing in a band called The Tangerine Puppets, named after a Donovan song of the same name. John William Cummings (October 8 1948 &ndash September 15 2004 better known by the stage name Johnny Ramone, was the Guitarist for the seminal Punk rock Tommy Ramone (born Erdélyi Tamás, January 29, 1952 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian Record producer Donovan ( Donovan Phillips Leitch, born 10 May 1946 in Glasgow) is a Scottish Singer-songwriter and guitarist

Ramones

Colvin and Cummings quickly became friends, as they were both outcasts in their heavily middle class neighborhood. The middle class, in colloquial usage consists of those who have some economic independence but not a great deal of social Influence or power. After an unsuccessful guitar audition for Television, Cummings and Colvin formed the Ramones with then-drummer Jeffrey Hyman (soon to be Joey Ramone) in 1974. Television, formed in New York City in 1973 is an American Rock music band Joey Ramone ( May 19 1951 – April 15 2001) born as Jeffrey Ross Hyman, was a vocalist and Songwriter best Hyman took over vocal duties after Colvin decided that he could not sing lead vocals for longer than a few songs as his voice shredded. Joey Ramone also suggested that Dee Dee could not sing and play bass well at the same time.

Dee Dee was the one who thought to name the band the Ramones; he read that Paul McCartney often signed into hotels under the alias "Paul Ramon". Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942 is an English rock Singer, Bass guitarist songwriter Composer, A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) He added an 'e' to the end of that surname and the band members all adopted the name Ramone.

Colvin wrote or co-wrote most of the Ramones' repertoire, such as "53rd and 3rd" (a song about male prostitution at 53rd Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, allegedly based on personal experience), "Glad to See You Go" (written about his then-girlfriend, a stripper and fellow drug user with a volatile personality), "It's a Long Way Back to Germany", "Chinese Rock" (originally recorded by Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, as guitarist Johnny Ramone was not enthusiastic about the Ramones doing songs about drugs) and "Wart Hog" (a song Colvin wrote in rehab). Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. A striptease or Exotic dance is a form of erotic entertainment usually a Dance, in which the performer known as a "stripper" gradually undresses "Chinese Rocks" or "Chinese Rock" is a song written in 1976 by New York City punk legends Dee Dee Ramone and Richard Hell Johnny Thunders, born John Anthony Genzale Jr ( July 15, 1952 - April 23, 1991) was an Italian American Rock and roll This article is about the punk group For information on Tom Petty's backing band see The Heartbreakers. After he quit the Ramones, Dee Dee continued to write songs for them, contributing at least three songs to each of their albums.

According to Mondo Bizarro, for example, the Ramones bailed him out of jail in exchange for the rights to "Main Man", "Strength to Endure" and "Poison Heart", a minor hit for the Ramones. The Adios Amigos album is molded around the strength of several of Dee Dee's solo songs, for example "I'm Makin' Monsters for My Friends" and "It's Not for Me to Know" from the album I Hate Freaks Like You.

Post-Ramones

In 1989, after leaving the Ramones, Colvin started a brief career as rapper "Dee Dee King" with the album Standing in the Spotlight. This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1989 Standing in the Spotlight is the album by Dee Dee Ramone, under the rap Moniker Dee Dee King released in 1989 (Colvin had recorded "Funky Man" as Dee Dee King in 1987, before leaving the Ramones. Funky Man is a Song written and performed by Douglas Colvin under the alias " Dee Dee King " ) Critic Matt Carlson writes that the album "will go down in the annals of pop culture as one of the worst recordings of all time. Popular culture (or pop culture) is the Culture — patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance — Which, of course, makes it one hell of a great collector's item. "[1] After the album failed, he returned to punk rock with various short lived projects such as Sprokkett (which also featured Richard 'The Atomic Elf' Bacchus) of D Generation and later, The Spikey Tops. D Generation (also known as DGen) were a Glam punk band formed in 1991 in New York City.

In 1991, Colvin was briefly involved with transgressive punk rock performance artist GG Allin, playing second guitar with Allin's backup band The Murder Junkies. Kevin Michael "GG" Allin ( 29 August 1956 &ndash 29 June 1993) was a Punk rock Singer-songwriter and Musician The Murder Junkies are an American rock tribute band most known for being the former backing band of notorious Punk rock performer GG Allin. Colvin's involvement lasted a week, enough for him to be briefly interviewed during the filming of the Allin documentary Hated: GG Allin And The Murder Junkies; rehearsal recordings of him with Allin appear on the Hated soundtrack, and on the posthumous live Allin compilation Res-Erected; while video footage of rehearsals is available on DVD through Allin's estate's website [2]. Hated is a 1994 documentary directed by Todd Phillips about the life of GG Allin, an extreme punk musician whose career ended with his death from a

In 1992, Colvin formed another short lived project named The Chinese Dragons, which was followed by the best of Dee Dee's post Ramones projects. The group was named Dee Dee Ramone I.C.L.C. Inter-Celestial Light Commune from 1994 to 1996 The group was created by Dee Dee Ramone and recruited New York City bassist John Carco (former Queens N.Y.H.C. group Misguided and a member of several lines ups with singer/songwriter Jesse Malin (DGeneration) when the two became friends attending AA Meetings together during the summer of 1992 in New York City. Dee Dee Ramone ICLC was a solo project by Ramones (1974-1989 founder/chief songwriter and bassist Dee Dee Ramone. Misguided is Argyle Park 's first and only release as Argyle Park Jesse Malin (born January 26, 1968 in Whitestone Queens, New York, U D Generation (also known as DGen) were a Glam punk band formed in 1991 in New York City. The City of New York After writing more than a dozen songs and recording several demos for an upcoming Ramones album with Ramones producer Daniel Rey, Dee Dee decided to keep the new material for his own band Dee Dee Ramone I. Daniel Rey (born Daniel Rabinowitz) is an American Music producer and Songwriter from New York City best known for his work with the C. L. C. After working with several drummers and doing several live shows in the New York area Dee Dee and John Carco moved to Amsterdam to record a four song EP and fourteen track album for Rough Trade World Service label, Dee Dee Ramone I. Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west Rough Trade Records began as an Independent record label, based in London, England. C. L. C. 4 Song EP and Dee Dee Ramone I. C. L. C. I Hate Freaks Like You were released on April 17, 1994, featuring Nina Hagen on two of the album's fourteen tracks. I Hate Freaks Like You is an album released by Dee Dee Ramone I Events 69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Nina Hagen (born Catharina Hagen on March 11, 1955) is a singer from Berlin, Germany. The three-piece line up now consisted of Dee Dee Ramone (vocals, guitar) John Carco (electric bass, vocals), and Dutch drummer Danny Arnold Lommen (drums, percussion).

The group Dee Dee Ramone I. C. L. C. would go on to promote the I Hate Freaks Like You album by touring twenty-two countries in a 10 month period. During the tour in November 1994, Dee Dee was searching for his lost guitar on the street outside his hotel in Argentina when he met 16-year-old Barbara Zampini. [2] She was a Ramones fanatic and had been playing bass for 2 years. Dee Dee and Barbara would later become married and remained together until his death. In January 1995, the group had completed their 10 month tour and returned to their headquarters in Amsterdam to begin recording a second album. Upon Dee Dee's personal troubles with their record label Rough Trade World Service the group was dropped. Upon this news I. C. L. C. bassist John Carco decided to leave the group and move to Los Angeles to form his own group, Metro with Frankie O. A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway or metro(politan system is an electric passenger railway and Pete Stahl (former D.C. punk/hardcore band Scream). Peter Stahl was the vocalist for seminal Washington DC punk / hardcore band Scream with brother Franz Stahl. Hardcore punk (now usually referred to as simply hardcore) is a subgenre of Punk rock that originated in North America in the late 1970s Scream was a Hardcore punk band from Washington DC active from 1981 to 1990. John Carco would later pursue an acting career in Los Angeles and New York. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Songs written by Dee Dee Ramone and John Carco for the never released second I. C. L. C. album would eventually be recorded by the Ramones on their final album Adios Amigos in 1995, one of these songs a fan favorite Born to Die in Berlin was to be the final song on the last Ramones album, which also featured Dee Dee's return singing in German on the bridge of the song. ¡Adios Amigos! is the Ramones ' last studio album It was released in 1995 The Ramones Adios Amigos album would also have several songs previously recorded from Dee Dee Ramone I. C. L. C. I Hate Freaks Like You album.

Dee Dee was a special guest at the final Ramones show at The Palace in Los Angeles on August 6, 1996, performing the lead vocals for "Love Kills". For the arena see The Palace of Auburn Hills. For the hotel see The New York Palace Hotel. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Events 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) (C. J. Ramone was by then the group's bassist. Christopher Joseph Ward (born October 8, 1965) better known as "C ) In his true to Punk form Dee Dee missed two verses (even though he wrote the song), and as he left the stage he shouted "gracias".

Even before the Ramones retired, Colvin formed a Ramones tribute band called The Ramains (later The Ramainz) with his wife Barbara ("Barbara Ramone", bass) and former Ramones bandmates CJ (guitar) and Marky (drums). The Ramainz were a US Tribute band to The Ramones. Its members included Dee Dee Ramone, Dee Dee's wife Barbara Zampini (also known He also recorded several solo albums under his old name Dee Dee Ramone: Zonked/Ain't It Fun which featured another song written by Dee Dee Ramone and John Carco meant for the second I. Zonked/Ain't It Fun is an album by Dee Dee Ramone. Zonked is the record released in America on the Other People's Music label and Ain't It fun is the version released C. L. C. album "Fix Yourself Up" (1996), Do The Bikini Dance (2002), Hop Around (1999) and Greatest & Latest (2000). A single released by Dee Dee Ramone the day the Ramones were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2002 Hop Around is an album by Dee Dee Ramone. Track listing "I Don't Wanna Die in the Basement" "Mental Patient" Greatest & Latest is an album by Dee Dee Ramone. Track listing Blitzkrieg Bop Timebomb Sheena Is A Punk Rocker Dee Dee Ramone's voice is audible on the Nina Hagen album Freud Euch (1995) and on the Furious George EP Goes Ape! (1996). Nina Hagen (born Catharina Hagen on March 11, 1955) is a singer from Berlin, Germany. Furious George has been the name of a few bands including the well-known Punk rock band on Lookout Records.

In new millennium, Colvin teamed up with Paul Kostabi, leader of the hardcore punk band Youth Gone Mad and former guitarist for White Zombie. Paul Indrek Kostabi (b October 1, 1962) is an American artist musician and producer Hardcore punk (now usually referred to as simply hardcore) is a subgenre of Punk rock that originated in North America in the late 1970s Youth Gone Mad is a Post-punk band founded in California in 1980 by Paul "ENA" Kostabi (also of White Zombie and Psychotica An established artist, Kostabi was instrumental in getting Dee Dee's new career as a painter off the ground. Together with Barbara, the trio collaborated on several hundred works that sold quickly for a few hundred dollars each.

In 2000, he formed the Dee Dee Ramone band with guitarist Christian Martucci (Christian Black), who is now the singer for Black President. Christian Martucci aka Christian Black (born June 5, 1977) is an American Guitarist vocalist and Songwriter Black President is an American Punk rock supergroup. It was formed in 2005 by Circle Jerks / Bad Religion guitarist This lineup consisted of Colvin (vocals and guitar/bass), Christian Martucci (vocals and guitar), Anthony Smedile (drums), Chase Manhattan (drums), and Stefan Adika (bass). Stefan Adika is a bass guitarist who has played in the bands Dad's Porno Mag and L With the exception of one show at the Spa Club in NYC and a club Makeup performance, this was Dee Dee's last touring band. Martucci appeared as "Chris the Creep" in Colvin's last book, Legend of a Rock Star, A Memoir: The Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone.

Colvin moved to the West Coast partly to pursue an acting career. He landed a major role as The Pope in Bikini Bandits (2002) [3] and contributed the song "In A Movie" to the soundtrack which features wife Barbara on lead vocal.

His next album was supposed to be a live album produced by Gilby Clarke (ex-Guns N' Roses), taking place on June 12, 2002, at Hollywood's Key Club Hollywood. Gilby Clarke is a Guitarist and Record producer, born in Cleveland Ohio, on August 17, 1962. Guns N' Roses is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985 Events 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. There are several bootlegs of this line-up (Dee Dee Ramone Band), including Live in Milan, Italy. Dee Dee's final studio recordings were released on the album Youth Gone Mad featuring Dee Dee Ramone (trend is dead! records in USA 2002) and Wanker Records in Germany (www.wanker-records.de) 2002). trend is dead! records is an Independent record label based out of Normal Illinois, United States. Wanker Records is a Marburg, Hessen based Independent record label, focused on Punk rock, which was started by Nick Wanker (founder

Death

Colvin was found dead on the evening of June 5, 2002, by his wife Barbara at his Hollywood, California apartment. Events 70 - Titus and his Roman Legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. An autopsy established heroin overdose as the official cause of death and is available for viewing at The Smoking Gun [4]. The Smoking Gun is a Website that posts legal documents arrest records and police Mugshots on a daily basis

Dee Dee was buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, not far from the cenotaph of his former bandmate Johnny Ramone. Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. A cenotaph is a tomb or a Monument erected in honour of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere John William Cummings (October 8 1948 &ndash September 15 2004 better known by the stage name Johnny Ramone, was the Guitarist for the seminal Punk rock His headstone features the Ramones seal surrounded by the line "I feel so safe flying on a ray on the highest trails above" taken from his song "Highest Trails Above", from the Ramones album Subterranean Jungle (1983). Subterranean Jungle is the seventh studio album by punk band the Ramones. At its base is the quote "Ok. . . I gotta go now".

Writings

Under the name Dee Dee Ramone, Colvin wrote two books: Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones (aka Lobotomy) and Legend of a Rock Star, a daily journal of commentary on his last, hectic European tour in the spring of 2001. Both were released as "non-fiction" autobiographies, despite the fact that "Legend of a Rock Star" features a sequence in which Dee Dee murders a border guard.

Dee Dee also penned a novel, titled Chelsea Horror Hotel, in which he and his wife move into New York City's famous Chelsea Hotel and believe they are staying in the same room where Sid Vicious allegedly killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. The Hotel Chelsea is a well-known residence for artists musicians and writers in the neighborhood of Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City. John Simon Ritchie (born May 10, 1957, died February 2, 1979) better known as Sid Vicious, was an English Punk Nancy Laura Spungen (February 27 1958 – October 12 1978 was the American girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. In the book, Dee Dee is visited by Sid, as well as other dead punk rock friends such as Johnny Thunders, Stiv Bators, and Jerry Nolan. Johnny Thunders, born John Anthony Genzale Jr ( July 15, 1952 - April 23, 1991) was an Italian American Rock and roll Steven John Bator, known as Stiv Bators ( October 22 1949 – June 2 1990) was an American Rock and roll and Jerry Nolan ( May 7, 1946 &ndash January 14, 1992) was an American Punk rock Drummer, best known for playing with

Discography

Albums with Ramones

Solo albums

Singles with Ramones

Solo singles

External links

References

  1. ^ http://digilander.libero.it/Devil_Loser/DDR.jpg
  2. ^ Ramones: Interview With Barbara Zambini
  3. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53rd_&_3rd
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