“I don’t make a commission selling plots. She recommended the park for Cornell’s funeral and burial when his wife, Vicky, reached out the night of his suicide. “Johnny was so into having people visit his statue,” says Linda. It was unveiled a year after his death, and Linda says she’s arranged to be buried there beside her husband’s ashes. The bassist was the first Ramone to be buried there, and Johnny began making plans for his epic statue. Johnny (born John Cummings in 1948) was already battling cancer when he attended Dee Dee’s funeral at Hollywood Forever in 2002, just six months after the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
really gets into the details, and it shows.” “Their music, of course, has aged so well,” says Armisen, who calls the annual tribute “a special time for everyone. This year, Jones will perform a set of “fun, goofy” songs with Armisen, another friend to Linda, best known for his years on “Saturday Night Live” and “Portlandia.” Armisen never got to know Johnny but as a teen once scored an autographed poster from the Ramones guitarist at a New York record convention. “I saw Johnny on his last legs - I actually saw him when he was in the La-Z-Boy dead.”
He has appeared at every one of the tributes, and was a personal friend to the Ramones guitarist. “It’s a good rock ’n’ roll hang,” says Jones, now a popular radio DJ on KLOS. Dee Dee Ramone and Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell also are buried there. The gathering is anchored around the large bronze statue of the guitarist - leaning back, mid-riff - that stands at the cemetery. 11, curated by filmmaker Vincent Gallo with performances by Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, comedian Fred Armisen, the band Starcrawler, an outdoor screening of the 1979 film “The Warriors” and an exhibit of vintage punk and glitter rock photography. It’s back for its 14th edition on Sunday, Aug. In New York, Leigh hosts the annual Joey Ramone Birthday Bash, while Linda has created the yearly Johnny Ramone Tribute on the lawn of Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which in recent years has drawn such performers/hosts as Rob Zombie, Johnny Depp, Billy Idol and Eddie Vedder. As partners, they don’t always agree, but together they keep the Ramones name actively in motion through merchandising, album releases, licensing and special events. With all four original Ramones deceased - three from cancer, and bassist Dee Dee from a heroin overdose - their legacy rests in the hands of two heirs: Linda and singer Joey Ramone’s younger brother, Mickey Leigh. That to me is the most important thing because that’s what they all wanted.”
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But that doesn’t mean the legacy goes away. And they all got sick and they all passed away. “What can you do?” asks Linda, 59, speaking in a lively New York brogue rooted in her youth in Rosedale, Queens, just 30 minutes from the Ramones’ old Forest Hills neighborhood. Despite modest sales during their career, the Ramones have arguably become as influential a force as the Rolling Stones. Her husband has been gone from cancer since 2004, but his presence and the legacy of the Ramones, the band of punk rock originators he led for two decades and 2,263 live performances, is as strong as ever. A large black urn with his ashes rests on the mantle nearby. “Johnny died on the couch right over there,” she says, pointing just a few feet away.
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The home is a lovingly assembled museum of pop culture and rock ’n’ roll artifacts, personally decorated by the late punk-rock guitar hero Johnny Ramone and his wife, Linda, who’s pouring tall glasses of iced coffee with Kahlua in the kitchen.Ī playlist of ancient pop unspools in the living room as she takes a seat, looking mid-‘60s mod in a bright orange skirt and metallic knee-high boots, a sparkly tiara in her strawberry blond hair. In the suburban hills above Sherman Oaks, summertime comes easily at Ramone Ranch.
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