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Dee Dee Ramone

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I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.


— Dee Dee Ramone


#biggest #cool #got #i #i quit

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.


— Dee Dee Ramone


#bass #better #car #days #fit

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.


— Dee Dee Ramone


#again #bad #bands #cover #hearing

Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.


— Dee Dee Ramone


#billboard #called #even #great #party

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.


— Dee Dee Ramone


#band #because #career #confidence #grow

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.


— Dee Dee Ramone


#haven #i #rap #too #well

I like California a lot more than New York these days.


— Dee Dee Ramone


#days #i #like #lot #more

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.


— Dee Dee Ramone


#days #down #early #especially #i

I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.


— Dee Dee Ramone


#big #congratulate #give #i #like

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.


— Dee Dee Ramone


#around #die #else #everybody #expected






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Though nearly all of the Ramones' songs were credited equally to all the band members Dee Dee was the band's most prolific lyricist and songwriter writing many of the band's most well-known songs such as "53rd & 3rd" "Commando" "Rockaway Beach" and "Poison Heart". in early 1999. He was initially the band's lead vocalist though his (then) inability to sing and play bass at the same time resulted in original drummer Joey Ramone taking over the lead vocalist duties.

Dee Dee Ramone (born Douglas Glenn Colvin; September 18 1951 – June 5 2002) was an American songwriter and musician best known as founding member songwriter and bassist for punk rock band the Ramones. He toured the world playing his new songs Ramones songs and some old favorites in small clubs and continued to write songs for the Ramones until 1996 when the band officially retired. Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life particularly heroin.

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