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hollywood forever cemetery
from the ramones posted in music by donkeyoti
Two of the Ramones are buried at this cemetery: Dee Dee (original bass player) and Johnny (original guitar player).
Dee Dee Ramone (aka Douglas Colvin) died on June 5, 2002 of a heroin overdose.
Johnny Ramone (aka John Cummings) died on September 15, 2004 from prostrate cancer.
While Dee Dee is buried here (his tombstone reads "O.K...I gotta go now."), Johnny was cremated. His ashes are placed in the base of a bronze statue created in his honor.
view full location details...the palace (avalon hollywood)
from the ramones posted in music by donkeyoti
The Palace (now known as Avalon Hollywood) was where the Ramones played their final show on August 6th, 1996. It was recorded for the album "We're Outta Here." It was their 2,263rd show.
view full location details...gaslight cafe
from bob dylan posted in music by crabapple
Opened in 1958, the Gaslight Cafe was a beat and folk music hangout in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. The Gaslight (or "The Village Gaslight") was originally a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of a performance to earn money.
Numerous musicians, poets and comedians made their way through the Gaslight. Bob Dylan recorded a performance "Live at The Gaslight 1962" that was released in 2005.
According to the Folk Music Encyclopedia: "The Gaslight was weird then because there were air shafts up to the apartments and the windows of the Gaslight would open into the air shafts, so when people would applaud, the neighbors would get disturbed and call the police. So then the audience couldn't applaud; they had to snap their fingers instead."
The Gaslight closed its doors in 1971.
914 sound studios
from the ramones, bruce springsteen posted in music by donkeyoti
914 Sound Studios was a recording studio in Blauvelt, New York during the 1970s. Created by Brooks Arthur, it was his idea to create a high-quality studio where artists could record at reasonable rates.
Bruce Springsteen recorded here in 1972 for tracks that would end up "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." The Ramones recorded their demo here in 1975.
The number 914 is the area code for Blauvelt.
birchwood towers
from joey ramone, the ramones posted in music by donkeyoti
Joey Ramone lived at these apartments with his mother and brother. He recalls the experience as being an influence for the song "Beat on the Brat":
"There was a playground with women sitting around and a kid screaming, a spoiled, horrible kid just running around rampant with no discipline whatsoever. The kind of kid you just want to kill. You know, 'beat on the brat with a baseball bat' just came out. I just wanted to kill him."- Joey Ramone