the laughing vampire

Johnny wasn’t thinking the Ramones were at the forefront of any revolution at the time. “You never think about it. We didn’t have any conception when we started. We had nothing to do. We weren’t liking any of the music and we just decided to start a group. When we started off, we were going to play other peoples’ [songs] but I don’t know, we couldn’t figure them out or something, so we sat down and started writing right away.

“We knew CBGB, which no one was playing at, and we just went down and asked if we could play and they said “Yeah”, and we just played there. We worked a lot playing there regularly – more or less as much as we wanted.”

- Jim Sullivan

Peter Gadiot as Shanks for @yesimcastielsgirl