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Real name: Cristopher Ward
Date and place of birth: October 8, 1965, Long
Island
Ramones career: Become to The Ramones in August
1989 and
continued to the end.
Play on official albums: Loco Live, Mondo
Bizarro, Acid
Eaters, Adios Amigos, Greatest Hits Live and We're Outta Here.
Other bands: Rapid Fire, Axe Attack, Los
Gusanos,
Warm Jets, Bad
Chopper.
Something else: His first Ramones show
was in Leicester, UK, on September 30, 1989. He likes motorbikes. CJ has
three kids. CJ was married
with Marky Ramone's niece Chessa. They divorced in 2003. CJ is now
married with Denise.
* Read CJ
Ramone's cool interview what was published in The Great Southern
Brainfart. He explains how he was approached joining Metallica twice
etc. etc.
* My really long interview with CJ is included for Ramones: Soundtrack Of Our Lives
(2009).
* I did my first interviews with CJ Ramone already in 1997-1998.
Read those interviews here.
CJ Ramone on the official releases:
- Axe
Attack LP's Dead Soldier's Revenge (1985) and
Nightmare/Nitemare (1986).
- Los
Gusanos: Quick To Cut -7'-single (1993).
- Los
Gusanos: I'd Love To Save The World -CD/7'-single (1994).
- The Independents: In For The Kill -CD. CJ is guest vocalist in track
Love Sucks.
- Los Gusanos (Snake Piss-song)/ Youth Gone Mad -splitsingle
- Los
Gusanos: Los Gusanos album (1998).
- Los Gusanos: No Bone Movies -song on the Legend Of A Madman -Ozzy
Osbourne tribute album (1999).
- Warm
Jets debut single (2000).
- Bad
Chopper single Real Bad Time (2003).
- Bad
Chopper album (2007).
- CJ Ramone: Reconquista
album (2012/2013).
- CJ Ramone plays in four songs in Jiro Okabe's Return Of
The Kamikazi (2014).
- CJ Ramone: Understand
Me? single (2014).
- CJ Ramone: Last
Chance To Dance album (2014).
- CJ Ramone: American Beauty (2017).
- CJ Ramone: Christmas
Lullaby (2018) / Santa's Got A GTO, Volume 2 (2017).
- CJ Ramone: The
Holy Spell... (2019).
CJ has produced some records:
Like: - Blackfire's 5 song EP.