The Electro-Harmonix Mike Matthews Freedom amp was also signed by Johnny Ramone. It was also used on all 15 of the band’s albums from that time period, the auction house says. After that, he played it in every Ramones performance for the next two decades – about 1,985 shows, according to the auction house, RR Auction. Ramone, who was born John Cummings, bought the 1965 Mosrite Ventures II guitar in 1977. They were collected over the years by a close friend of the band, musician and songwriter Daniel Rey. The black and white Mosrite guitar is now up for auction along with other punk memorabilia, including Johnny’s early on-stage amp and a set of his bandmate Joey’s microphones. Johnny Ramone was known for his fast downstroke chords – he never strummed upward – and he played them aggressively on that guitar until the day he retired in 1996. The white paint is scratched off and worn away along the sides of Johnny Ramone’s electric guitar, the one he used on stage for nearly 20 years to make some of punk rock’s most distinctive chords with the legendary Ramones.īut it’s no wonder.
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