1974-1979
March 30, 1974 held its first public statement by Ramones on one of New York parties. At that time a group was a trio, which was composed of bassist Dee Dee Ramon, who quickly replaced Richie Ramon, Joey the drummer and guitarist Johnny Ramon Ramon. Two months later, their undersized Ederley manager Tommy sat down at the drums, also took the alias Ramon and Joey switched to vocals. Earlier, three of the future participants Ramones played in a school group Tangerine Puppets, and Joey has managed to stay in the glam-rock band Sniper.
In November 1975, the group came under the care manager named Danny Fields (English Danny Fields), before opening the world with The Stooges Iggi pop and MC5, but also worked with Lou Reed. Fields identified in the extraordinary potential - it was one of the few figures show the industry, who estimated the speed monotonous and noisy songs, which the group performed about 17 at a concert. Shocked the public not only an active and noisy music, but also the appearance of Ramones - tattered jeans and leather jackets, in conjunction with stoptannymi kedami. Earlier still, no group did not dare go on stage in costumes ordinary street Spahn. By mid-1975, a team famous in his native New York because of the club became a cult CBGB, around which united the world's largest alternative scene (including the Ramones, Talking Heads, Johnny Tandersa, Blondie, Television, Patti Smith, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Dead Boys and others). In the same gathering at the end of 1975 the first born fenzin «Punk», which actually gave the name of the entire musical movement.
By early 1976, the local Ramones fame attracted the attention of record-company «Sire Records», and he signed a contract to produce long album (after a long resistance groups, as well as his original proposal was only a single). Album (and named «Ramones») was recorded for little in those times the amount in 6400 dollars. By the time of recording, the group has been written already about three dozen songs, but they picked the album is not even the best, and those that were written before the rest. The remaining portion was hit in the next two albums. On the recording team to play with metronome, which was included in the extreme right - the high-speed position, has not been previously used in the studio by anyone. With the exception of one urban ballad «I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend», entire disk consisted of a strong aggressive tracks with a guitar sound like benzopila, and a powerful rhythm section (the most famous of them - «Judy is a Punk», «Beat on the Brat »,« 53rd & 3rd »). The first single, became a «Blitzkrieg Bop», while the album reached the 111 seats in shtatovskih charts.
In England longpley was adopted with great interest, rather than in the United States. Legendary radioveduschy John Peel immediately began to scroll the album on the radio, what led to the horror of dedicated fans of his transfer, but it attracted a lot of young people who have not yet been familiar with an England embryonic punk rock. Composition «Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue» has been the subject of debate in the British parliament, as was devoted to snuffing glue. 4 July, 1976 Ramones gave his first concert in London, laying the foundation for the development of punk in England.
In 1977 the band recorded two drives - «Leave Home» (with the influence of CERF) and «Rocket To Russia» (more melodic and less speed). Then the group visited two times in the British charts - with singles «Swallow My Pride» and «Sheena is a Punk Rocker», but commercial success, especially against the backdrop of the triumph of Sex Pistols, Damned and the Clash, was more than a modest (and remain so until the end of the history of the group). Song «Carbona Not Glue» from «Leave Home» again focused on substance abuse; «carbona» - the name of a cleaning fluid that American teenagers have used as a drug. The company producing this chemical has been unhappy with that is the name used by punk band, and eventually had to delete a song from the album, starting with the second edition. In the UK «Leave Home» came out with the song «Babysitter» instead of «Carbona Not Glue»; but after a while an additional one perekomponovka, and has since been reprinted album with the song «Sheena is a Punk Rocker» instead of «Carbona Not Glue». For many years it has remained inaccessible fans until Rhino Records did not include it in a double collection «Hey Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology »1999, and later in the series remastirovannuyu переизданий early albums the group.
Christmas concert Dec. 31, 1977 in London was recorded and released a year later as a double live album «It's Alive», which has music critics considered one of the best «living» drives in the history of rock music.
In May 1978, the group departed Tommy Ramon, the remainder of the producer and replacing him was taken, Mark Bell (eng. Marc Bell) of The Voidoids, In his nickname Brands Ramon. The new album recorded «Road To Ruin», which is a bit surprised the audience that was noticeably slower, calmer and more diverse group of early works. Nevertheless, mad speed Ramones music is still evident in the best concerts.