Advertisement
Pop & Hiss

Johnny Ramone tribute set for Saturday at Hollywood Forever

By Randy Lewis
Share

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts.

It’s time again for the annual Johnny Ramone Tribute Concert, in which fans of one of the original punk rockers will gather at — where else? — the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Saturday to celebrate his life and pop-culture legacy.

This year’s show — the seventh since the Ramones guitarist, born John Cummings, died of cancer in 2004 — brings venerable New Jersey punk group the Misfits and latter-day punk band JuiceheaD to perform during the evening’s festivities. Visitors will be led to the cemetery’s 8-foot statue of Ramone, and to the grave marker for his band mate Dee Dee Ramone, who died in 2002.

Advertisement

The band’s only surviving original member, drummer Tommy Ramone, also is slated to be on hand for the event that also will include screenings of vintage footage of the Ramones playing live along with a showing of the 1959 Ed Wood camp sci-fi classic “Plan 9 From Outer Space.” The doors open at 5:30 p.m., and tickets are $10. Complete information is available at www.johnnyramone.com.

RELATED:

Johnny Ramone, 55: Punk Guitar Drove the Ramones

Joey Ramone, punk rock legend, died 10 years ago today

‘I Slept With Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir’ by Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil

-- Randy Lewis

Pop & Hiss
Randy Lewis

Randy Lewis covered pop music for the Los Angeles Times from 1981 to 2020, working in that time as a reporter, music critic and editor for the Calendar section. He has interviewed most of the members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He’s also written first-person accounts of performing the music of Shostakovich and Prokofiev on clarinet and singing Mozart’s Requiem with world-class professionals. In addition, he enjoys belting out “Wooly Bully” in dive bars with his band, the Rounders.

Advertisement