5/27/2023 0 Comments Ramones warthogHe had awesome natural musical instincts (though he remained completely untrained as a bass guitarist, fulfilling the ideals of the punk-rock savage). He did not go to high school, and instead dove into New York City’s music, fashion, hard drug and male prostitution scenes. Raised on a German army base where his American father was stationed, Dee Dee came to the USA as a teenager with his German-born mother, feeling like an alien in every way. These scenes appear in the early chapters in Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones, which was edited by Veronica Kofman and published by a small outfit called Fire Fly in England in 1997, five years before Dee Dee died. ![]() ![]() He often watched his drunken father beat up his mother, and after she left him to raise Dee Dee alone he quickly adopted patterns of severe substance abuse and found himself wanting to beat his mother up himself. Douglas Colvin of Forest Hills, Queens, better known as Dee Dee Ramone.)ĭee Dee Ramone was an unhappy child. Today, let’s look at the revealing confessions of Mr. I’ve recently launched a new series on Litkicks, “The Great Lost Rock Memoir”, which will mine the rich archives of neglected rock memoirs. These include many worthy or surprising works published by small presses that are out of print or nearly forgotten today. Rock musicians have been writing memoirs for decades, often without receiving the publicity that new books by the likes of Keith Richards and Neil Young have recently received. But many readers may not realize that the rock memoir format has deep, twisted roots. (Rock star memoirs are a hot book trend these days.
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