Three Chords and a Grudge - This Ain't no Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980-1995 - page 116

last time I went to one of his shows, he just went too far. He started making all
these anti-Semitic remarks, and I walked out.
Later I told him, “You know, G.G, I'm not a prejudiced person. That's why
I'm hanging out with you, man. But you gotta think this stuff over. You've got
this hard-line jail attitude.”
ROBERT CAMPBELL
Hey, what did they do in that van video?
DEE DEE RAMONE
I can't even say what they did. Their drummer is a big fan of the Lunachicks, an
all-girl band, and on their album cover, they're all messing around naked. But I
can't talk about that stuff! It's not my thing.
Now you know something about me: Dee Dee Ramone is very— conservat-
ive! People don't believe this about me, and they think I'm a nut when I get em-
barrassed about everything. But I'm only a human being!
ROBERT CAMPBELL
G.G.'s stuff sounds as wild as Lydia Lunch.
Lydia Lunch was a seminal screamer in New York's early punk and No Wave scene. She
first performed with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, as well as providing background vocals
(as “Stella Rico”) for James White's two bands—The Blacks and The Contortions. The
compilation album No New York featuring both Lunch and White is a collector's item doc-
umenting the music during this brief but energetic time.
DEE DEE RAMONE
Oh, Lydia Lunch is offensive! I never knew her well—I met her around 1976
when she came backstage at Max's Kansas City. I knew who she was, and she
came up to me. I don't know how she got backstage. She looked at me and said,
“Oh, man, I'm really disappointed in you. You're nothing like I thought you'd
be.”
So then all these years later, I went to a Blitzkrieg concert, and she was read-
ing before they went on. I had to leave. I couldn't listen to what she was read-
ing—it was going too far. I mean, what was that supposed to mean, what was
she saying? What's that have to do with getting famous? Shock value? The thing
about shock value is that it's very sleazy!
Now, Lydia Lunch and all these people want to be my friends. Because they
know I've also had a lot of difficult times in my life. And then what I try to do is