(The opening, on October 13, will include a performance by the band.) Yet X still gets marginalized as merely “L.A.’s seminal punk band.” X was, in fact, among the greatest bands anywhere, as evidenced by the group’s first two studio albums, Los Angeles and Wild Gift, and an upcoming exhibition, “ X: 40 Years of Punk in Los Angeles,” at L.A.’s Grammy Museum. X’s country-inflected punk was the equivalent of an aural speedball-somehow manic and nuanced-with Cervenka and Doe trading hyper-literate lyrics like deranged noir lovers. They broke up and she began dating Johnny, causing a rift that lasted through the life of the band.If X had formed in New York City rather than Los Angeles, would it have been as big as the Ramones? The band (co-songwriters Exene Cervenka and John Doe, guitarist Billy Zoom and drummer D.J.
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She was with them every day in a Los Angeles recording studio during the making of "End of the Century," and during the filming of their 1979 cult movie "Rock 'n' Roll High School." By the time Linda was 21, she and the singer were growing apart. They dated for three years, and she traveled regularly in the band's tour van. But it was during a trip to Los Angeles, and a chance meeting at the Tropicana Motel in West Hollywood, that she connected with Joey Ramone. In the kitchen, a large painting of Johnny shares wall space with the image of John Wayne and a sign reading "Reagan Country." Down the hall are a Disney-themed bathroom and a Horror room, which holds artifacts from both Hollywood and real-life horror, including Tim Burton drawings and an Adolf Hitler autograph.īorn Linda Marie Daniele in 1960, she first saw the Ramones perform at CBGB in the mid-1970s. Blues." Presley's old Union 76 credit card is framed on the wall, near a snapshot of Linda with Elvis' widow, Priscilla Presley. The Elvis room is still covered in old movie posters starring the King of Rock 'n' Roll: "Harum Scarum," "Clambake," "G.I. Much of Ramone Ranch is exactly how Johnny left it. You were more influential,' and he'd say, 'I'd rather be both. "And they would go, 'Oh, that's not important.
"He'd go, 'But no, you sold more records,'" Linda recalls of her husband's attitude. It was only after the band was over that it became clear what they had achieved, as friends like Cornell, Eddie Vedder and Kirk Hammett insisted. After 'End of the Century' and they didn't have a hit, Johnny gave up," says Linda, adding that the guitarist remained committed to live performing, where "he felt like he was king of the hill."
"Joey always thought he was going to have a hit. The Phil Spector-produced "End of the Century" was supposed to be their pop breakthrough but wasn't. Records and some of the most hook-filled songs of their era, mainstream success rock radio airplay largely eluded them. "It doesn't matter who I like or what I like, business is business and that's what Johnny taught me."ĭespite several classic albums for Sire/Warner Bros. Johnny Ramone didn't and I don't," Linda says. "I never let anything get in the middle of business. If creative and business divisions can sometimes mirror old conflicts within the original punk quartet, band business mostly rolls forward.
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"We sell many millions of dollars worth of T-shirts every year," he says, with millions more for song placements in movies, TV and commercials. Jampol wouldn't place a financial value on the Ramones estate, but said that the most in-demand name on "the Mount Rushmore of punk" earns significant income from music, apparel, posters and more. "She was an intrinsic part of that whole scene, and she protects and promotes it with a vigor that I've scarcely ever seen." "I call Linda the princess of punk," says Jeff Jampol, who manages her half of the Ramones estate and also represents Janis Joplin, Charlie Parker and the Doors. She deals with Ramones business much of the week. A new deluxe edition of the 1979 live album "It's Alive" arrives in September, and producer Rick Rubin is currently involved in an upcoming expanded reissue of the "End of the Century" album. The event, with proceeds going to prostate cancer research, is just the most public expression of Linda's work promoting her husband's music with the band he formed in 1974.
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