In the suburban hills above Sherman Oaks, summertime comes easily at Ramone Ranch. The home is a lovingly assembled museum of pop culture and rock ’n’ roll artifacts, personally decorated by the late punk-rock guitar hero Johnny Ramone and his wife, Linda, who’s pouring tall glasses of iced coffee with Kahlua in the kitchen.
In New York, Leigh hosts the annual Joey Ramone Birthday Bash, while Linda has created the yearly Johnny Ramone Tribute on the lawn of Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which in recent years has drawn such performers/hosts as Rob Zombie, Johnny Depp, Billy Idol and Eddie Vedder. It’s back for its 14th edition on Sunday, Aug.
Johnny was already battling cancer when he attended Dee Dee’s funeral at Hollywood Forever in 2002, just six month after the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The bassist was the first Ramone to be buried there, and Johnny began making plans for his epic statue. It was unveiled a year after his death, and Linda says she’s arranged to be buried there beside her husband’s ashes.
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. “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.If creative and business divisions can sometimes mirror old conflicts within the original punk quartet, band business mostly rolls forward.
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. “He’d go, ‘But no, you sold more records,’” Linda recalls of her husband’s attitude. “And they would go, ‘Oh, that’s not important. You were more influential,’ and he’d say, ‘I’d rather be both. Both is good.’”
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