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Tommy Ramone on The Replacements
07.15.2014
03:17 pm
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Clint Weiler at the MVD Entertainment Group was kind enough to alert me this morning to this complete and unedited interview with the late Tommy Ramone (Tommy Erdelyi) that was conducted for Gorman Bechard‘s documentary Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements in 2011.

Erdelyi produced Tim, The Replacements major label debut for Sire Records in 1985. The Ramones drummer, the last surviving member of the original group died at his home in Ridgewood, Queens last week following treatment for cancer of the bile duct.
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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07.15.2014
03:17 pm
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Tommy Ramone’s rootsy, mournful cover version of ‘I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend’
10.24.2013
04:08 pm
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In this sweet video, the last Ramone standing, Tommy Erdelyi, performs “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend” last year at NYC’s Cutting Room. Tommy performs the song as a kind of mournful, folksy country tune. Technically, it’s not a cover. He wrote it. But he’s doing it in the style of his folk/buegrass duo, Uncle Monk. He’s covering himself.

Ironically, this is the kind of music Hilly Kristal was initially looking to book at CBGB (“country, bluegrass and blues” is what the initials stand for) and instead he got four punk rockers from Queens with Tommy on drums.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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10.24.2013
04:08 pm
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