I never wanted to sound like someone else, but...

[jd56hawk]

...I sure wish I could play like this guy.

He didn't just play the bass, he slayed the bass!

[NancyJohnson]

We had a song about Dee-Dee, but changed a few of lyrics and it became 'Supermodel in Cocaine Shocker!'.

 

Go figure.

 

1-2-3-4!

[jonno1981]

Downstrokes, fresh swing bass 66, all the attitude!

[Cato]

Best gig I ever went to was The Ramones at the Humming Bird Birmingham in around 1993.

 

My one slight regret is that by the time was old enough to see them Dee Dee had left the band.

 

Still both he and the rest of the band were a huge influence on me from the first time I heard them in my early teens & I'm glad I got to see them a couple of years before they finally stopped touring.

 

 

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[Lozz196]

Great bassist, plenty of attitude, whilst people might say he didn’t play anything difficult he did it with the attitude and aggression the material required, doing that for a whole gig is harder than many might think.

[chris_b]

I don't play with attitude or aggression, but I do remember when I was that shape. Oh for those days again!!

[MacDaddy]

1 hour ago, Cato said:

Best gig I ever went to was The Ramones at the Humming Bird Birmingham in around 1993.

 

My one slight regret is that by the time was old enough to see them Dee Dee had left the band.

 

Still both he and the rest of the band were a huge influence on me from the first time I heard them in my early teens & I'm glad I got to see them a couple of years before they finally stopped touring.

 

 

 

They were incredibly lucky that when someone left they always had a family member who could step into the role.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Aka Dee Dee King

 

 

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the only rapping he had ever heard before recording as Dee Dee King was the Two Ronnies 'Pink Rupee Rap'