{"id":449313,"date":"2026-08-31T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449313\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:20:09","slug":"50th-anniversary-of-the-ramones-debut-honored-with-hollywood-forever-bash-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449313\/","title":{"rendered":"50th anniversary of the Ramones\u2019 debut honored with Hollywood Forever bash \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Pinky Dubin and Logan Smith wandered from Dee Dee Ramone\u2019s grave to Johnny Ramone<\/a>\u2018s memorial at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday, Aug. 30, the friends paused to talk about what the legendary punk band the Ramones<\/a> meant to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up, my parents, they met from, like, forming a punk band,\u201d said Pinky, 16, who wore her hair in a tall mohawk, having traveled from Pomona to attend the Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute. \u201cI just was always raised with punk, with the Ramones. They were always my favorite. Still are.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd yeah, I just love the Ramones; a big part of my childhood,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\"Billy<\/p>\n

Billy Idol joins Cretin Family as they play Ramones songs during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Raised<\/p>\n

Raised on the Ramones, Alana \u201cPinky\u201d Dubin, 16, of Pomona, poses for photos at Dee Dee Ramone\u2019s gravesite during the Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Ramones<\/p>\n

Ramones fans listen to Cretin Family perform Ramones songs during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Travis<\/p>\n

Travis Barker, of Blink 182, performs with Cretin Family as they play Ramones songs during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Shawn<\/p>\n

Shawn and Andrea Norman, of Albuquerque New Mexico, dance as Cretin Family performs Ramones songs during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Billie<\/p>\n

Billie Joe Armstrong, of Green Day, performs with Cretin Family as they play Ramones songs during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Ramones<\/p>\n

Ramones fans visit Dee Dee Ramone\u2019s gravesite during the Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"CJ<\/p>\n

CJ Ramone performs with Cretin Family as they play Ramones songs during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Ramones<\/p>\n

Ramones fans listen to Cretin Family perform Ramones songs during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Roger<\/p>\n

Roger Arnold, of Hisperia, and Ricky Lee Rogers, of East Bay, pose for photos at Dee Dee Ramone\u2019s gravesite during the Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Tim<\/p>\n

Tim Armstrong, of Rancid, performs with Cretin Family as they play Ramones songs during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Mike<\/p>\n

Mike Gonzalez, of Encinitas, dances to Cretin Family as they play Ramones songs during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A Ramones fan leaves a guitar pick at the Johnny Ramone memorial during the Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The Lo Cascios family poses at the Johnny Ramone memorial during the Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Cretin<\/p>\n

Cretin Family, Tim Armstrong of Rancid, Travis Barker of Blink 182 and Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, play Ramones songs during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Ramones<\/p>\n

Ramones fans listen to Cretin Family perform Ramones songs during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Ramones<\/p>\n

Ramones fans Chelsea Louro and her husband Chris Phillips, of Encinitas, watch Cretin Family perform Ramones songs during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Linda<\/p>\n

Linda Ramone and John Travolta appear during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

Show Caption<\/p>\n

1 of 18<\/p>\n

Billy Idol joins Cretin Family as they play Ramones songs during Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday night, August 30, 2026. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

Expand<\/a><\/p>\n

Logan, also 16, stood between the gravesites of Paul \u201cPee-wee Herman\u201d Reubens and Burt Reynolds, and shared a similar story.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad and my aunt, they were really into the Ramones,\u201d said Logan, who wore a Suicidal Tendencies hat over a Social Distortion T-shirt. \u201cIt\u2019s just like the classic stuff that everybody has to listen to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Linda Ramone,<\/a> who married Johnny Ramone in 1984, held the first Ramones tribute at Hollywood Forever<\/a> in 2005, a year after Johnny\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Ramones self-titled debut album<\/a>, the event attracted a large crowd to celebrate the band and hear the Cretin Family, a punk supergroup of Green Day\u2019s Billie Joe Armstrong<\/a>, Blink-182\u2019s Travis Barker<\/a>, Rancid\u2019s Tim Armstrong<\/a>, and C.J. Ramone<\/a>, one of three Ramones still living, to play a set of Ramones songs.<\/p>\n

Chris and Erica LoCascio posed for photos with their young children at the Johnny Ramone statue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ramones were a gateway band for me when it came to punk rock,\u201d said Chris LoCascio, who lives in Pasadena. \u201cIt\u2019s a big part of my identity and who I am and how I think about myself in the world. So you\u2019re here with a bunch of people who feel the same way and want to celebrate that.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just feels like the right kind of place to expose the kids to punk rock and something that\u2019s really important to me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Erica LoCascio said this was technically the second time the whole family had attended a Ramones tribute in the cemetery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time that we were here, he was one-and-a-half, and she was in my belly,\u201d she said of their children Benjamin, 4, and Madeline, 1. \u201cWe bought a book that he saw at the merch table that was counting with the Ramones [\u201cLearn to Count 1-2-3-4 with Johnny Ramone\u201d].<\/p>\n

\u201cWe read that almost every night and he knows their names,\u201d Erica LoCascio said. \u201cHe calls them the \u2018Mones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Linda Ramone was joined by John Travolta<\/a> to introduce the Cretin Family \u2013 Travolta\u2019s directorial debut, \u201cPropellor One-Way Night Coach,\u201d and the Brian DePalma horror movie \u201cCarrie,\u201d in which Travolta appeared, screened on the mausoleum wall after nightfall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry I\u2019m a little late, but there\u2019s so many people dying to get in here,\u201d Travolta said, after which a faint booing to be coming from either the crowd \u2013 or the crypts.<\/p>\n

Then, with Linda Ramone leading the crowd in chants of \u201cHey, ho! Let\u2019s go!\u201d the Cretin Family walked out and kicked off their set with the Ramones\u2019 instrumental \u201cDurango 95\u201d and \u201cRockaway Beach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tim Armstrong and CJ Ramone, who replaced Dee Dee as bassist from 1989 until the band\u2019s end in 1996, have played the Ramones tributes at Hollywood Forever before. For Billie Joe Armstrong and Travis Barker, it was their first time at the event.\n<\/p>\n

Both Armstrongs and CJ Ramone swapped off on lead vocals. Tim Armstrong handled songs such as \u201cTeenage Lobotomy,\u201d \u201cCommando,\u201d and \u201cHavana Affair.\u201d Billie Joe Armstrong took lead on many of the more romantic Ramones tunes, including \u201cDo You Wanna Dance,\u201d \u201cSheena Is a Punk Rocker,\u201d and \u201cOh Oh I Love Her So.\u201d<\/p>\n

After C.J. Ramone sang a pair of songs Dee Dee used to do, \u201cThe Crusher\u201d and the Ramones\u2019 cover of Mot\u00f6rhead\u2019s tribute, \u201cR.A.M.O.N.E.S,\u201d the Cretin Family started to bring guest vocalists out for a song or two.<\/p>\n

Musician-actor Fred Armisen sang \u201cDanny Says\u201d before the Los Angeles all-female quartet the Linda Lindas popped out to do \u201cCalifornia Sun\u201d and \u201cI Wanna Be Sedated,\u201d dancing and pogoing wildly on stage.<\/p>\n

The 20-song set came to a close with a trio of tunes sung by Billy Idol, sandwiching a pair of Ramones\u2019 favorites, \u201cBeat on the Brat\u201d and \u201cBlitzkrieg Bop,\u201d around one of Idol\u2019s own, \u201cReady Steady Go,\u201d from his pre-solo band Generation X.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Joleen Green and her daughter Bella Green sat on a blanket sipping beers as they waited for the Cretin Family to begin.<\/p>\n

Joleen Green, who owns a hot dog restaurant in Pacific Grove in Northern California, first heard the Ramones when she was about 15 years old.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re a staple; they\u2019re the best,\u201d Green said. \u201cAnd Tim Armstrong; Rancid is my favorite band,\u201d she added, showing off a Rancid tattoo on her forearm.<\/p>\n

Bella Green, who lives in San Diego where she\u2019s a hairstylist and tattoo artist, grew up with her mother\u2019s music often in her ears.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom introduced me to her music at a very young age, and I just tagged along for the trip,\u201d she said of coming to Los Angeles for Sunday\u2019s Ramones festivities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, \u2018Badass,\u2019\u201d Bella Green added of the change to hear the Ramones played by Tim Armstrong, her favorite as he is her mother\u2019s, and the others. \u201cHappy to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Pinky Dubin and Logan Smith wandered from Dee Dee Ramone\u2019s grave to Johnny Ramone\u2018s memorial at Hollywood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2644,48,52,51,47,50,49,6998,420],"class_list":["post-449313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-concerts","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-music-concerts","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}