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How the Ramones took New York punk round the world
From the Archive Starting from the repurposed CBGB’s club, and harnessing a style based on their utter inexperience, the NYC punk antiheroes rewrote a 40-year-old rule about playing guitar
Green Day, Rancid, and Blink-182 members celebrate the Ramones’ 50th anniversary with a set at a cemetery
Newly formed supergroup Cretin Family featured Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, Blink-182’s Travis Barker, and late-era Ramones bassist C.J. Ramone – and blazed through Ramones hits and deep cuts
Billie Joe Armstrong teams up with Blink-182 and Rancid members for Ramones-honoring supergroup
The band will play a special charity event celebrating 50 years of the Ramones' debut album
CJ Ramone landed the gig of a lifetime with the Ramones, but his audition got him sent to naval prison
Replacing Dee Dee was no easy task, but CJ helped energize the band’s last stand by relearning how to play and using his predecessor’s rig – and he has no regrets about how it ended
How C. J. Ramone landed the role of Ramones bassist while he was in jail
Christopher Joseph Ward, a.k.a C. J. Ramone, on how he deserted the Marine Corps to live out his rock ‘n’ roll dreams
How the 1970s became the greatest decade for rock guitar
As big beasts like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple dominated the era, players such as Steve Howe and Brian May transformed the landscape and the guitar hero cult grew, producing its GOAT by the dawn of the ‘80s
Tommy Ramone on why Johnny Ramone's playing forced him to switch from managing to drumming
Johnny Ramone’s strumming technique contributed to the lightning-in-a-bottle sound of the band’s debut album
Johnny Ramone's iconic 1965 Mosrite Ventures II guitar sells at auction for $937,500
The battered offset was used by the guitarist on every single Ramones album, as well as at almost 2,000 of the band's shows between 1977 and 1996
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