It was during a long hot New York summer, that we liked to refer to as our own little patch of hell, that I discovered the Ramones. After seeing the kind of effect the music had on our friends when we played it at our lame parties or how much it improved long trips into the city to see unknown bands in dingy dive bars, it became the soundtrack of our lives.
Today we sat down with Marky Ramone, the drummer and lone surviving member of the iconic and much loved band and chatted about fame, fans, and why he'd be great to have over during a cookout at your house.
Hi Marky, how are you today?
I'm great, how are you?
Doing well, thanks. I'd like to start off talking a little bit about this virtual autograph session (via IMAGE Personal Experiences) that's taking place this Friday. This is fascinating to me. It's like the fourth wall has come down and you are engaging directly with your audience. Tell me how this is going to work, because I'm sure there are many rabid fans out there that would love to get a face to face with you.
Definitely. Well, how's it going to work? I wish I had a really concrete answer to that but it's definitely the fifth dimension here. I think what they do is call in with some sort of video service from the internet, they Skype basically. Then I sign the autograph to the fan and then they have it and they absolutely know it's me signing it because I'm there in front of them. I guess at that point what I signed gets sent to them.
What's interesting about this is that there are so many bogus autographs out there circulating, that this whole process takes the guess work out of it.
That's right, because I've been a victim of that and other people have been duped thinking they got my autograph and it seems to make it more legitimate.
