Ramone Joey (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Magazine. First edition. Fine magazine with light signs of handling. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The December 30, 2001, issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine, their annual in memoriam issue for people of note who passed away that year, with individual biographical essays: Richard B. Woodward on Louis Faurer with a photo of Faurer by Robert Frank and one of Frank by Faurer; James Gleick on Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, with a large portrait by Henri Cartier-Bresson; Paul Berman on Milan Hlavsa with a large portrait by Antonin Kratochvil; Ann Patchett on Eudora Welty and Dale Earnhardt with a large portrait of Welty by Rollie McKenna and another by Jill Krementz; Robert Plunket on Anne Morrow Lindbergh with a large portrait by Leonard McCombe; Amy M. Spindler on Audrey Withers, editor of British Vogue during WWII, with a portrait by John Rawlings; Tony Kushner on Nixon's shrink, Arnold Hutschnecker; Frank Rich on Perry Como and Troy Donohue; Colin Harrison on Robert Ludlum; Mark Jacobson on Joey Ramone, Abe Beame, and Carroll O'Connor; and much more. Staple-bound magazine; 58 pages; color and b&w reproductions throughout; 9.5 x 11.5 inches.…

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c1994. Handwritten working lyrics by Joey Ramone for the Steel Reserve commercial jingle "High Gravity Lager," 2pp (8 ½" x 11"), unsigned, in blue and black ballpoint on the versos only of two scrap pages with late 1993 dates (a Ramones interview request from Ray Gun Magazine and an order form from Eggbert Records). On the right side of the first sheet, Ramone adds a phone number and pens a few lines to the Adios Amigos song "She Dreams of Rainbows." Some light creasing and toning to the edges. Ex. Daniel Rey with a letter from him. "High Gravity Lager" was one of three commercial jingles the Ramones were commissioned to write for the Steel Brewing Company and their Steel Reserve lager, alongside "Gimme My Steel Reserve" and "Fill My Cup." These 1994 commissions arrived during the Ramones' final years as a touring band, a period when punk's original iconoclasts navigated the contradictions between their anti-commercial ethos and economic survival. Writing on verso of discarded ephemeral materials represents common creative practice across artistic disciplines where the urgency of composition occurs opportunistically on whatever materials are at hand when inspiration strikes. By the mid-1990s, the Ramones occupied a paradoxical cultural position: acknowledged as foundational figures whose minimalist aesthetic and three-chord template had shaped punk, hardcore, and alternative music, yet commercially operating through the same pragmatic strategies that sustained independent musicians. The manuscript's inclusion of lines to "She Dreams of Rainbows" from Adios Amigos (1995) complicates simple distinctions between artistic and commercial work.…