Ramones: The Complete Twisted History

Ramones: The Complete Twisted history recounts the demented story of this influential band in a breathless and entertaining fashion. From their earliest days to the sad deaths of Joey and Dee Dee, Porter provides a thorough and impassioned history of a band that he obviously enjoys. The characters of the three main members; Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee are expanded from the band's 2-D image into the real world. Aside from Monte Melnick's first hand account of life with the band, this is the best book on the group written by an 'outsider'.

It's a while since I read it but I remember being really pissed off that I'd bought such a rubbish book blind. I've read pretty much all the books about the Ramones by this point and this is the most charmless, least interesting, worst researched, most rehashed biggest waste of paper in the entire world. I even liked Jim Bessman's book which many others considered trite but Dick Porter's book is BAD in the sense of being total garbage.

Believe it or not, this is even worse than Jim Bessman's RAMONES book.Twisted History is rubbish, a re-hash of stuff you've read before. Dick Porter adds nothing new, he doesn't even seem to be much of a fan of the band. All in all, very disappointing.If you want a worthwhile RAMONES book, Monte's is your best bet. Everett True's is also excellent.

Nice photos. Full of mistakes but nicely written

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