MARKY RAMONE Issues Public Service Announcement – "Solution For Assholes Who Hold Up Phones At Concerts"

In cooperation with CH2, Ramones drummer Marky Ramone has issued a public service video announcement offering a solution for assholes who hold up phones at concerts. Enjoy:

In December 2014, Classic Rock Revisited founder Jeb Wright caught up Marky Ramone to discuss his autobiography, Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as A Ramone. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Jeb: You are reflecting on the past in this book. Did a lot of ghosts of the past visit you during the writing process?

Marky: “The skeletons definitely came out. I had to tell it like it was. There were the rehabs and the D.T’s and the craziness that drinking a little too much can do to you. Like going to the furniture store in my car and driving through the store. That was a blackout. We are talking mid-afternoon and I drove right through the window. I was mugged and I was fingerprinted… who wants to go through that again? If I had kept on doing that I could have killed someone or myself. It was just the right time to stop.”

Jeb: You revisited the early days of the Ramones. It had to be interesting to look at your life under such a microscope.

Marky: “The book goes through the whole gamut of my life. I talk about auditioning for The New York Dolls and then hanging out in the New York scene. I talk about making Rock and Roll High School and working with Phil Spector and what went down at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Grammy Awards behind the scenes. It is not just about the Ramones. I talk about being with Richard Hell and the Voidoids and when we toured with The Clash in ’77. I got the firsthand look at how the punk scene was evolving there for four and a half weeks on that tour. This book is very comprehensive.”

Go to this location for the complete interview.