Talk:Tommy Ramone

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I edited out the "he isn't given as much credit as he deserves." I edited it to make it more neutral.

Shouldn't his original given name be Tamas or Tomasz or something consistent with Hungarian? elpincha 15:38, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

may be his real name isn't hungarian because his family is american

It's Tamás. His family was Hungarian. [1] They emigrated in 1956 because of the Stalinist backlash. In this 2004 interview (in Hungarian) he says he doesn't remember much, only that they used to live in Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út in Pest. I guess his US name was always Tommy. European immigrants have always been eager to assimilate, name-wise. I don't want to imagine how people pronounced their last name, Erdélyi. --84.188.138.116 17:40, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] expansion

i added a good deal of content, most if not all of which can be confirmed by the given link. if you think something needs a reference or sounds iffy, just google 'tommy ramone bio' and it'll probably come up. Joeyramoney 02:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Editing

I'm using Please Kill Me as a reference. People with other sources with conflicting stories should add that material.

According to both Joey and Dee Dee in Please Kill Me, it was Dee Dee's idea to have Joey be the singer.

Dee Dee also says there that "Monte Melnick did us a favor by sneaking us into a rehearsal space called Performance Studios"--indicating that the space was not created specifically for the Ramones.

If we have a source for Tommy being underrated, we should put that back in. Nareek 13:50, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Tommy also loves cheese