The Ramones were friends of mine and I miss them. This photo was taken around 1978 when they were staying at the Sunset Marquis Hotel right off Sunset Blvd. I asked their manager Danny Fields if I could drag them up to the corner at Sunset and Alta Loma for a photo session and he agreed. Life was so simple back then!
The Ramones Museum in Berlin today!
I was sharing this photo of Joey Ramone with my friend Olivier Zahm at his office in Paris yesterday. We were thinking about memories. I have such fond memories of Joey. His style, his shyness and our friendship. Sometimes when I think of Joey, my eyes begin to fill with tears.
This is my favorite Joey Ramone photo. You can see it in the new issue of Purple Magazine full page.
Back in 1977 I spent the entire evening with Joey Ramone inside a Hollywood recording studio. I had my camera with me, but the photos were a bit on the dull side. There are only so many photos you can take of someone signing into a microphone. After the session, I left the studio with Joey and I still had my camera in my hand, cocked and ready. We walked out, I took photos and we headed off to the Tropicana Motel for rather large hamburgs at Dukes Coffee shop.
Sometimes when I think the days spent with my friend Joey and the rest of The Ramones, my eyes begin to fill with tears.
The Ramones were so much fun to photograph. They had all the poses down and it was so natural for them. I think that their brilliant manager Danny Fields, also a photographer, trained them well. I took this photo backstage at a Whiskey A Go Go concert in 1977. In a thousand years historians will be able to pinpoint the exact time and place that this photograph was taken by studying the graffiti on the Whiskey’s wall!
This is a photo I took in 1977 of Joey Ramone with my dear pal Rodney Bingheimer taken in a Hollywood recording session. I think that this was a Phil Spector session.
