So you look at ’76, when The Ramones’ first album came out, and that really sparked that brand-new wave of what I call the American rock ‘n’ roll wardrobe, which is jeans, white T-shirt, leather jacket and sneakers.” It is what it is and what it is is a beautiful moment in time that sparked a revolution in music and in fashion. And luckily, when you have a really genius artist like the Ramones, you don’t have to spin it. “As far as the apparel goes, and really everything, as a company, for me, authenticity is the foundation of everything. “You’re gonna see some really interesting combinations of music and new music and remastered music and apparel,” Jampol says. In leading up to the anniversary the Ramones will be reappearing in several other ways, including remastered music, fashion and music placement. The Ramones were the first punk band and they started the punk movement.” It’ll be a combination of prose, photographs, memorabilia and posters, just kind of documenting the scene. Of the book, Jampol says, “You’ll see a book coming, which is not a biographical book so much, but a story of the band’s formation and those first few records and that craziness that happened. Among the others are a theatrical play, a book and a film, which already has Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese attached. The documentary is just one of several projects in the works. “It came from The Ramones on the road over the years in the ’70s and a little bit in the ’80s, from a gentleman who had shot them. We’re looking at a documentary on The Ramones - we just secured a ton of footage, much of which has never been seen before,” he says. So we have a lot of projects leading up to that. “The 40th anniversary of The Ramones is coming up in 2016 - that’s when the first album came out. Jampol, who also handles estates for The Doors, Janis Joplin, Tupac, Otis Redding and more, has big plans for The Ramones moving forward. And so now everything we’re doing is Ramones-centric.” “JAM as a company, we were not interested in doing this unless it was Dave and I co-managing The Ramones as a whole. It’s Jampol’s JAM and Frey who are now co-managing the band, and Jampol says that was part of his requirement for coming on board. “I spoke to Tommy every week and the legacy was really important to him too.” “With Tommy up there now with them, it even feels more like, ‘Wow, they are all gone,'” she says. Linda jokes, “As we say every day now, ‘We’re all one big happy family.’ ” But that is important for her, as the recent tragic passing of Tommy Ramone makes it even more pressing that the band’s music be preserved and celebrated. “We can move on now and do Ramones, cause me and Mickey now are friends, so that’s cool. And since we weren’t speaking, he did more Joey and I did more Johnny,” Linda says. “It’s always been about the entire band except I had Johnny’s half and Joey’s brother Mickey had Joey’s half. After a long behind-the-scenes dispute, all sides are finally on the same page.
“We’re all gonna focus on The Ramones, and it’s that whole thing of ‘United we stand, divided we fall.’ The legacy is The Ramones, the music is The Ramones, it was the four of them - it was Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee and Tommy - and everybody is cooperating and moving in one direction together as a team.”įor years, Linda Ramone has controlled Johnny’s half of the band’s estate, while Joey’s brother Mickey oversaw the lead singer’s half. We’re gonna do something moving forward, but it’s gonna be Ramones,” Jampol told Billboard. “That was probably the last Johnny Ramone tribute you’re gonna see. Jeff Jampol, who co-manages the band’s estate with Dave Frey, says going forward the tributes will be all about the group as a whole. It was fitting that Zombie, such a close friend of Ramone’s, hosted what may be the last Johnny Ramone-specific public event. We became good friends and stayed that way right until the end.” We started talking, we had a lot of things in common, very similar views on certain things. We first met probably ’95 as The Ramones were wrapping up their touring and they opened for White Zombie on tour,” Zombie told Billboard.
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