First time I heared RAMONES must have been around 1989/1990 I guess. I was at my little brother who had became a punk, and he had the "Rocket To Russia" album and the song "We Want The Airwaves". I really liked some of the songs - "I Don't Care", "Do You Wanna Dance?" and "We Want The Airwaves" - and it wasen't until later I got the whole "Rocket To Russia" album. In 1993 I visited Hultsfredsfestivalen (Sweden's largest festival at the time) for the first time, and I got the chance to see RAMONES live.
This is a pretty heavy book with a lot of text and photos, so if you're thinking about reading it you better be a big fan of RAMONES, 'cus otherwise you will definetely get tired of it. It took me about 2 months to read it, and I see RAMONES as 1 of my favorite bands (even though there's a lot of other favorites too).
It's all written in English by a Finnish dude who calls himself Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone. Sometimes his English is a bit weird though, but who am I to judge?
This book is a little like a really fat fanzine, 'cus it mainly consist of plenty of interviews with surviving members and various other people in the music scene. There's a little too many not so intresting people that is interviewed towards the end of the book, but that's just how nerdy this book is. So, like I said in the beginning, for big fans (fanatics). I was a little surpriced that so many metal artists was RAMONES fans though.
Well, after all it's a damned good book, so it's definetely worth checking out!
ramones.kauhajoki.fi 2010-01-17 12:31:52 Up to the menu
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