Both are home-brewed music as opposed to schooled, and both have an earthy energy. Ramone stated: "There are a lot of similarities between punk and old-time music. Ramone and Claudia Tienan (formerly of underground band the Simplistics) performed as a bluegrass-based folk duo called Uncle Monk. They weren't the type to phone it in, if you see what I mean. They gave everything they could in every show. In October 2007 in an interview to promote It's Alive 1974–1996 a two-DVD set of the band's best televised live performances he paid tribute to his deceased bandmates: Ramone, Daniel Rey, and Clem Burke (also known as Elvis Ramone) in the "Ramones Beat Down on Cancer" concert. On October 8, 2004, on what would have been Johnny Ramone's 56th birthday, he played as a Ramone once again, when he joined C.J. and Marky for their recording of Jed Davis' Joey Ramone tribute "The Bowery Electric". He returned to the producer's chair in 2002, overseeing the reunion of former Ramones C.J. In the 1980s he produced the Replacements album Tim, as well as Redd Kross's Neurotica. He and Ed Stasium played all the guitar solos on the albums he produced, as Johnny Ramone largely preferred playing rhythm guitar. Tommy Ramone wrote " I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" and the majority of " Blitzkrieg Bop" while bassist Dee Dee suggested the title. Tommy Ramone was replaced on drums in 1978 by Marky Ramone, but handled band management and co-production for their fourth album, Road to Ruin he later returned as producer for their eighth album, 1984's Too Tough to Die. He said, "The scene that developed at CBGB wasn't a teenage or garage band there was an intellectual element and that's the way it was for The Ramones." Behind the scenes with the Ramones In a 2007, interview with the BBC, Tommy Ramone said the band had been heavily influenced by 1970s, glam-rock band the New York Dolls, by singer-songwriter Lou Reed and by pop-art figure Andy Warhol. His final show as a Ramones drummer was at Johnny Blitz benefit event at CBGB in New York on May 4, 1978. He remained as drummer from 1974 to 1978, playing on and co-producing their first three albums, Ramones, Leave Home, and Rocket to Russia, as well as the live album It's Alive. "Tommy Ramone, who was managing us, finally had to sit down behind the drums, because nobody else wanted to," Dee Dee later recalled. When the Ramones first came together, with Johnny Ramone on guitar, Dee Dee Ramone on bass and Joey Ramone on drums, Erdelyi was supposed to be the manager, but, even though he never played drums before, was drafted as the band's drummer when Joey became the lead singer, after realizing that he couldn't keep up with the Ramones' increasingly fast tempos. After leaving school at 18, he started working as an assistant engineer at the Record Plant studio, where he worked on the production of the 1970 Jimi Hendrix album Band of Gypsys. In high school, Tommy played guitar in a mid-1960s, four-piece garage band, the Tangerine Puppets, with a schoolmate and guitarist, John Cummings, the future Johnny Ramone. Verona Estates in Forest Hills was the place where Tamás grew up and later described as "home sweet home". Initially settling in the South Bronx, the family moved up to the middle-class neighborhood of Forest Hills in Queens, New York. In 1957 he emigrated with his family to the United States. The family left Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Many of his relatives were killed by the Nazis. His Jewish parents were professional photographers, who survived the Holocaust by being hidden by neighbors. Tamás Erdélyi was born on January 29, 1952, in Budapest. He was the drummer for the influential punk rock band the Ramones from its debut in 1974 to 1978, later serving as its producer, and was the longest-surviving original member of the Ramones. Thomas Erdelyi (born Tamás Erdélyi, January 29, 1952 – July 11, 2014), known professionally as Tommy Ramone, was a Hungarian-American record producer and musician.
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