Chords for Ramones - End Of The Century - Extras 2

_ _ _ We loved rock and roll.
We looked at the great things in rock and roll and tried to learn from it and _ knew we were following in its footsteps.
That we had to get up there and give a professional show and how important it was image [Eb] and charisma.
These kids now don't understand that.
They've never seen anything good.
They don't even know what it takes to be good.
If you look at bands in the 90s, _ they've never seen anything good.
_ _ _ We saw all the great stuff.
[G] I'd go to shows and _ _ _ see everything the band [Bb] did and go,
Wow, they didn't walk on the stage very well.
_ _ Well, that band walked on the stage great.
_ _ _ [N] Make all these mental notes and stuff and every little piece that would be so important. _ _
We stood on the stage, how you walked on the stage, how I had the PA set up to bring things in to make the stage a certain size
as opposed to getting too big of a stage and wandering around on the stage.
Don't look at the drummer.
Don't be looking across at me.
Look forward.
The audience is forward.
_ _ _ You don't need to be grooving or communicating with the drummer.
I'd tell CJ, _ looking over there.
Don't be facing your amplifiers.
_ So everything became very important, every little detail.
[Abm] Did [B] the film Freaks have [Bb] anything to do with it?
Oh, riding [E] pinhead, yeah. _
_ We always [Eb] found them [Bb] fascinating to look at and see pictures of.
We were riding around and we saw something that seemed like a pinhead or anything like that.
We once thought we saw a pinhead while riding in the van one day in the car next [Eb] to us.
_ How much did you get?
We were all [Bb] excited.
_ _ _ _ We must pull up to a stop.
You don't have to ask Monty on this, but we [B] get out.
_ It [Eb]
was somewhere like in Arizona or New [Bb] Mexico.
We get out of the van and Lays says,
_ _ Hey Monty, _ [Ab] are you taking care [N] of these retarded boys?
And he [Eb] goes, oh yeah, yeah. _ _ _
_ And Lays thought that we were retards.
_ [Em]
I guess they must have saw Mark.
_ [Ab] Did you guys talk to each other on the bus?
_ _ _ _ [G] In the van?
_ _ [E] _ _ Well, I'd sit in the front seat next to the driver.
_ [Eb] [E] There was a whole bunch of people.
Sometimes it was CJ's friend [Bb] Richard.
_ _ Mark would sit in the first row.
Then Joey, _ then Monty.
Me and CJ would sit in the back row. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I guess when me and Mark would be talking, which would be most of the time, we'd be like_
[E] _ _ _ _
With Monty, we'd put him to sleep.
_ We'd tell the driver, step on the brakes.
And we'd go, watch out!
You know?
[C] _ _
_ Monty would pop up.
_ [E] Whenever he would do anything like that, _ we'd always be doing things. _
Oh, I can't believe he made the wrong turn.
Monty would pop up again.
What'd you do?
You can't follow my directions, you know?
_ _ A lot of mental illness in the band.
_ Genuine mental illness?
Yeah, genuine.
I _ was friends with Johnny.
We had a working relationship.
That's probably where it ended.
He talked about baseball.
I was a big baseball freak.
I enjoyed baseball and the Yankees.
But it kind of ended there.
You'd do a show.
You'd go to your room.
But before we went to the room, we always had to stop at a 7-Eleven so Johnny could get milk and cookies.
_ You'd get that little pack of cookies.
I don't know, Fig Newtons or Oreos.
And a milk. _
You've got to understand, the kids are following us.
And you find the nearest 7-Eleven, you'd jump in there, get his milk and cookies.
Every night, that was it.
That was his thing after a show.
And that became nuts.
And then that was it.
You wouldn't see him.
But you'd always see Dee Dee and you'd always see Joey.
We'd hang out.
Joey and I would _ _ take all the beers from the show.
We'd go to our room and drink all night and then get on the bus.
And Dee Dee too.
We'd all talk.
But you never saw John at any part of that.
All that time.
In fact, he would take a different floor in the hotel.
I don't know what he did.
But _ [Cm]
Johnny was just strictly a working relationship.
_ That was basically it.
_ When I got in the band, the first song I wrote had some kind of minor 7th chord.
And John freaked out.
What is that?
How do you play that chord?
It was like a big fight at the time.
I said, it's a minor.
It creates suspense.
Try it. _
And finally we got to a minor chord.
Come on.
Let's go from 3.
Let's learn a 4th chord, John. _
Dee Dee would always write about his life.
That's what made him creative.
When he was in the program and going to the_
This guy would go to the program 3 or 4 times a day.
_ Dedicate his life.
But then every song he wrote was about the program.
Went to the program at 9am.
That _ _ _ _ video we did was all about his wife wanting a Mercedes-Benz.
And he's telling a different story.
So he really wrote about life.
He's the only guy I know _ who, when he took a shower,
had a special pipe or a tube that went into the shower.
And he could put it_
smoke, fill his bowl and smoke while he was in the shower.
He had this whack device set up.
_ I don't know anybody like that.
He was special.
When I was in the band, we did normal things.
We'd go to the hotel and go for a swim.
I'd say, Joey, let's go for a swim.
I remember the first time we went swimming.
He had all that hair.
But when it got wet, his head was only a really tiny head.
And he had those_
with his glasses.
It was so funny.
But _ he was a really normal guy.
There was nothing.
He did normal things.
I took him to Brooklyn to go bowling.
You think he ever went to Brooklyn and went bowling?
Come on.
People are looking. _ _
He got to experience a lot of different things with me that he never really did.
He used to stay in that house all day and then just go to a club.
_ He didn't have to with me.
I got him out in the world in different ways that he never really