Hardly Ramone
I'm a musician/artist and music producer, and this is my Ramones content channel. I mostly make guitar covers, tutorials, music videos, and remasters here. I also release original music as "Foxxear", and offer music mixing/mastering services (linked below). I recommend my PLAYLISTS to sift through my videos easiest.
About my RAMONES guitar covers:
I grew up playing these songs, they're very familiar to me. Sadly, the Ramones guitar style gets watered down in many tabs & tutorials. Easy power chords & strumming styles are substituted for the more challenging barre chords & downstrokes that defined Johnny Ramone as a player. People should play guitar however they want, and it can be fun to learn/teach easy versions of songs, but I think it's a shame to see these techniques become lost to time. The true Ramones guitar style has a powerful quality that aided the band's impact & success. For this reason, since 2013, this channel has existed largely to showcase the authentic guitar style.
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Just a heads up: For whatever reason, YouTube just unblocked these stylized Road To Ruin remasters I did a couple years ago
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I got interviewed on the radio last week, you can hear the full clip here on my official artist channel
10 months ago | [YT] | 6
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My new music video is also available on my newer official Artist Channel. If you want to follow this project of mine, and don't want to miss any of the songs I'm putting out, I do recommend subscribing here. One of my other new songs has essentially constant downstrokes (recorded on my Hallmark guitar!), and I'll be uploading a guitar playthrough there, probably after I finish the Johnny Ramone iceberg video for this channel.
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I'll be shooting the Johnny Ramone Iceberg soon, now that I've finally finished the full music video for my solo artist project. It has been a ridiculous undertaking to make this by myself, but I'm really proud of how it turned out. If you give it a watch, thank you. I'll see you guys in the next video!
1 year ago | [YT] | 10
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Having a favorite band like the Ramones gives you an interesting chance to look at the big picture of the members' lives and careers, and think about your own life. Those guys were all flawed people, but they became something extraordinary when they put their good sides together. As a band, they didn't just have the ability to make songs. They had Tommy's intelligence & vision, Johnny's strength & resilience, Dee Dee's creativity & authenticity... and Joey's heart. If we could all be like the best parts of the Ramones, perhaps we can succeed, too. And ultimately, you'll always be stronger when you have some help.
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If you haven't been reading the newspapers, you probably missed that I mixed & mastered three EPs for rock sensations St. Joe & The Dorms. They write exceptional material, and it has been my pleasure to influence the sonics of the recordings. Their new EP dropped TODAY, and I've also put together a playlist of my favorite cuts from all three records. Don't pretend you don't need some new music... www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
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If you haven't seen, I posted my remasters of four tracks off "Leave Home", which you can find collected in a new playlist. I'm not sure if I'll have time to do more, as I whipped these up from an existing half-finished project, during moments when my computer was rendering footage for a music video. My next priority for the channel is shooting the now 7000+ word Johnny Ramone Technique Iceberg. It'll be simple to film now, but it won't be a short video!
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I spent a couple hours typing up a loose script, to prompt myself on what I think I'll need to say in the Johnny Ramone iceberg video, in order to cover everything. It came out over 6000 words long, with over 30,000 characters. God help us all
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My main objective filming this video will be not rambling too much
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In this video I mention that I'm cranking out a quick Johnny Ramone Technique Iceberg video, which I'm actually pretty excited about. So far, I've written down 15 topics/elements of Johnny's playing to cover. What are some things you think I might mention, or that you'd definitely like to hear me talk about?
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