Chords for Joey Ramone on Conan O'Brien's - July 1999 (Subs en español)

Our next guest tonight is the lead singer of the legendary punk band the Ramones.
They've just released.
Hey, ho let's go
A collection of some of their greatest hits
Here's actually my favorite clip of these guys from rock and roll high school _ _
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_ You hear that again, _ _ [A] _
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_ what do you think I was very catchy _ _
That's not fair got a good beat
They do it.
Well
High praise indeed, you know, there is a lot to talk about here.
And first thing is I don't think people today appreciate
How much you guys?
Changed the whole scene of music you were started the punk movement
You guys are doing it in 74, which is two years before the British punk movement, isn't that right?
And actually even more even more.
Yeah.
Okay, [N] so we're talking maybe three four
You guys are doing appreciates us Green Day in the offspring, right, right
There's a lot of bands now that have said this was the band when you guys first came along
You didn't sound like anybody else.
You didn't look anything like anybody else.
How did the average people react to you back then?
Like we were aliens _ _
From Mars, right?
I remember um, we
_ This agency premier they booked us and they put they wanted us to get more wider exposure
Really put us on tour with not on tour, but we did a show with Toto in the middle of
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St.
Charles, Louisiana
It's supposed to be the most dangerous place on earth Uh-huh
And we played some basketball
Stadium was awesome Toto and the kids just we drove about 15 hours out of the way to get there
It just had done like nine shows like prior we get there and you know, we're you know
We're tired we go on we play the show and everyone's just staring us like we're from Mars or something like that
Right.
There's a story I read somewhere where you guys are coming out
You're coming out of a van right and some woman saw you and she went up to your manager
You might you don't remember this.
Yeah, she went up to one to our road manager Monty
And she said how nice of you to take care of these retarded people _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Now the Sex Pistols, of course they come along in
1976 I believe they come out and and the Sex Pistols.
Well, they came out in like 77
Okay
We had _ _ three elms out before they had their first right you guys came first we established that we're not gonna fight about that
but the the Sex Pistols
Just said they wanted to fight you guys
Isn't that right because there was a perceived rivalry but the Sex Pistols actually wanted to fight you and you didn't well when we first
met them we it was um our first tour over there and
Yeah, they they wanted to come on like, you know, they're gonna you know, they wanted to you know
That's how they were.
They you know, right like they wanted to start something.
So that the first time
77 we came back.
We did a tour and Johnny Rotten wanted to come backstage.
So
_ So for a little prank that we pulled on on Johnny was um that we all kind of pissed in the beer
_ And Johnny you kind of pissed in the beer _ _
Okay, we urinated there you go, yeah, it's in the beer.
Yeah
And um, and then Johnny Johnny Ramone gave Johnny rotten the beer.
Uh-huh.
It's like our little
Yeah
_ Well that _ British beer is pretty bad he probably
_ You've written a million
_ You guys have all these I was looking at the anthology and so many of your songs that occurs to me when you see them
All stacked up one after the other are about the brain.
Give me give me shot treatment _
Teenage lobotomy.
I want to be sedated psychotherapy.
My brain is hanging upside down brain drain
What why this fascination with the brain?
We're screaming out for help _ _
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_ _ Have you ever I mean this you are
Probably have one of the most recognizable looks in rock and roll
Have you ever thought for a second about doing something different with your hair cutting it?
I did think about it
You did think about it.
I don't look good short here when I was a kid
I used to have short hair my my mom, you know, they used to take me to the barbershop
But you know that stick they used to like stick up your hair.
It was like what no
_ I don't think that was a barbershop _ _
_ _ _ You know when they grease you up at the barbershop _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Well, we actually I disagree because we actually we have computer graphics here
Um, we actually thought let's see what Joey looks like with a conservative hairstyle.
Can we take a look at this, please?
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It's a Keanu Reeves thing happening there.
Are you um, you're still a single guy playing the field.
Do you ever think you'll settle down?
I hope so
Yeah, it's on the point you want to do that or you like living the lifestyle.
I like the life _ _
Let's talk more about the life afterwards
_ You know what we got to have you come back I hope you can come back and talk
We'd love to have you guys come on and perform because we're huge.
Yeah telephone call from Joey _ _ _ _ _
_ Yeah, it's your barber from the 50s, yeah he wants you to shut [Ab] up
_ [N] _ Hey, ho, let's go.
The Ramones anthology is in stores now and the booklet that comes with this thing is great
They really did a nice.
Yeah, yeah run under a great really tells the whole story and you're doing a benefit for the independents
Thursday night at Don Hills in New York City because their equipment got stolen right right everything got stolen all their personal belongings and uh, right
They're van.
They'll be performing nude.
All right
_ It was a real pleasure having you on thanks for doing it _ _ _ _ _ _
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