The Ramones were a seminal American punk band that lasted over 20 years with an ever rotating cast of members, some lineups being better than others.
10. Katie Ramone
Due to an administrative mixup, Ithaca resident Katie Ramone became the drummer of The Ramones for a short time. She called the experience the worst, most tumultuous three hours of her life.
9. CiCi Ramone
CiCi played guitar in the Ramones for their North American tour in 1985. It was said that during a gig at Bucknell University he saw how many college students were willing to eat garbage pizza as long as it was cheap. He left the band shortly after to open a chain of low-quality pizza buffets.
8. Randy Ramone
Randy was a Bay Area plumber who was accidentally locked in the bathroom of the Ramones tour bus for 33 hours while servicing the toilet. As part of the legal settlement, he was named an official member of the band as well as granted an undisclosed amount of money.
7. Ramone Ramone
This Spanish flamenco guitarist was utilized at a gig in Barcelona in 1993 when the current guitarist fell sick from eating too many Spicy Calamari Tapas. His fancy fingerwork and impressive chord knowledge got him labeled a showoff and he was promptly kicked out of the band.
6. Kitty Ramone
This stray cat is technically the longest active member of the Ramones by living in their practice space from his birth in an air duct to his death on a blanket in a kick drum 24 years later. He is immortalized by his slowly mummifying corpse being left in the kick drum to this very day.
5. Selfi Ramone
The name rights to the Ramones were sold to the Disney corporation in 2015 and a short-lived revival of the band occurred on a stage in Walt Disney World’s Epcot park. Selfi was a spunky millennial teen who loved her phone, her friends, and sticking it to “the man”.
4. Lenny and Squiggy Ramone
These two knuckleheads were part of the short lived sit-com spin off of Laverne & Shirley, Homegrown Ramone. The story focused on two wannabe punks that move to New York in an effort to join the Ramones but their farce-like antics always screw up their chances at success. The show only lasted 1 episode.
3. Joey Ramone
The band’s accountant, the name is purely a coincidence but he’s a wiz with numbers.
2. Timofey Ramone [Тимофей Рамон]
Before the Iron Curtain fell, there was a group of Russian punks that also called themselves The Ramones [Рамоунз] who just lip-synced to Ramones songs recorded off the radio transmitted from West Berlin. They disappeared after their name made the government believe they were part of the Romanov Family.
1. Chi-Chi Ramone
Known only to be kicked off RuPaul’s Drag Race within 45 seconds of being introduced; all footage of the episode was destroyed. Some say Chi-Chi still haunts the sewers under the studio where the show is filmed.