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setagoodexample,andsay,“Look,IcanbeanythingIwant.Youcangotakeall
the drugs that you want right now. But I'm not doing it! Just go home and think
it over.” I tell them, “I guarantee you—I may be miserable, but I'm not as miser-
able as you.” I try to tell that to G.G. all the time to not make it worse. I don't
want him to go to jail.
Not many people really knowhis story,and it'snot a pretty one. Noone ends
up like that because they're bored, exactly. Maybe the people who abused him
were ignorant, but they were still abusive. He's had a very abusive life. And now
he doesn't know any better.
ROBERT CAMPBELL
How does G.G.'s brother cope, then?
DEE DEE RAMONE
Merle?MerleislikeatotalJohnnyRamonetype.Hesaid,“Fuck!Togetoverthe
system is my God.” That'sit. Merle is
business.
He'sinto the business thing, and
that'shis way ofgetting over it. He won't take drugs,won't waste his life. That's
his thing—looking good and making the money!
ROBERT CAMPBELL
Dee Pop said he played for G.G. Allin, and he said he wouldn't even tell G.G.
where he lived. He said, “You don't want to bring G.G. home with you.”
DEE DEE RAMONE
No, no.
The rehearsals commenced, but their progress, to Campbell, seemed slow.
ROBERT CAMPBELL
Eventhoughitwasfun,IknewIwasovermyheadwithDeeDee,arockstar.So
I tried to take it one day at a time. I wondered if we were wasting our time trying
to start the Dee Dee Ramone Group. In fact, I felt more comfortable just playing
my old soul records for him, like Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, and Stax/Volt
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stuff. I was turning him on to some music from the past that he knew very little
about. Dee Dee wanted ablues band,andIthink playing with me was the closest
heevergottohavingabluesband.DeeDeeandIplayedblues,notrockorpunk.
What we had together was blues.
Thehonestfactwas,whenIfirstworkedwithDeeDee,Ithoughthewasstu-
pid.Healwayscameacrossasbeingignorant,like,“Oh,Idon'tknow.”Heacted
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