" According to a later description, " Like all cultural watersheds, Ramones was embraced by a discerning few and slagged off as a bad joke by the uncomprehending majority.

According to Bob Geldof, " Rock music in the seventies was changed by three bands — the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and The Saints ".

According to the autobiography Lobotomy: Surviving The Ramones, Dee Dee Ramone took a call in New York the next day from Stevie Klasson, Johnny's rhythm guitar player.

According to Yes drummer Alan White, Toledo was especially memorable for a sweltering-hot 1977 show the group did at Toledo Sports Arena.

According to an interview conducted in 1989, he explained the reason he wasn't handcuffed was that the policeman driving the car used to be a drummer in a semi-professional band which had supported The Yardbirds on one of its US college tours in the late-1960s.

According to a post made on the 25 May 2010 on the band's Myspace page, Barry, Diani and Fiocco are recording new material with new drummer Martin Davies.

According to the blog post, Melissa Auf der Maur would once again be bassist, with Micko Larkin replacing Eric Erlandson, and a drummer was not mentioned.

" According to the band's Ten Imaginary Years biography, between January and December of 1976, the shifting line-up for Malice featured several " other blokes ", with founding guitarist Marc Ceccagno being replaced by Porl Thompson, an early drummer known only as " Graham " replaced by Lol Tolhurst, and " Graham's brother " replaced for one show only by vocalist Martin Creasy.

According to a special issue of Kerrang !, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl turned down an approach by the band.

According to drummer, Ron Bushy ;" We went down to the Port Authority three times and waited for the helicopter, but it never showed up ".

According to drummer and bandleader Daniel Denis, all members read the short story in the studio and promptly improvised the piece.

According to their drummer Simon Kirke, Free's most popular song All Right Now was written by bassist Andy Fraser and singer Paul Rodgers in their dressing room in Dunelm House, after a set of slower material had failed to excite the audience .< ref >

According to Wayne, ” he is a 28 year old singer, songwriter, producer from Jacksonville, Florida who has a GREAT voice and will not only bring some fresh blood into the band but ; will also put a new spin on the Saliva sound .” Amaru was the frontman of his solo band Amaru, as well as the drummer for Burn Season.

According to drummer Billy Hart, Morgan said he had recorded " The Sidewinder " as filler for the album, and was bemused that it had turned into his biggest hit.

According to drummer / bandmember Stewart Smith, this occurred because the keyboard he was using at the time did not have the letter " s " and he improvised with the number 5 on the keypad — a convenient reflection of the band name.

According to drummer, Neil Peart, they more-or-less felt pressured to perform because of Toronto being their hometown, although they are not the type to do one-off concert performances.

According to drummer Vinny Appice, there were rehearsals with Lee and Dio and recordings of those rehearsals still exist.

According to journalist Greg Pratt, " Assück were an incredible band with probably metal's best drummer Proctor, although no one ever mentions his name.

According to Small Faces drummer Kenney Jones, most of Immediate's assets and income were embezzled by one of the company's senior partners, who allegedly channelled the funds to offshore bank accounts.

According to Richard Carpenter in an interview, Karen always considered herself a " drummer who sang ".

According to one story, he was the originator of the slap-style when the drummer failed to appear for a show.

According to an interview published on Pitchfork Media on May 6, 2009, " keyboardist Marty Crandall and drummer Jesse Sandoval had been replaced by Ron Lewis from Grand Archives and the Fruit Bats on bass and Joe Plummer of Modest Mouse on drums ".

According to an interview with Myx, Raimund said he first auditioned as bassist while Buddy as drummer.

According to drummer Nick Mason, a suggestion for the title of the box set was The Big Bong Theory.

According to Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason's book Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd almost got banned from the Boston Garden after their 1977 performances because the band, unknown to the venue's owners, used pyrotechnics during their performance ( the exploding pig for " Pigs ( Three Different Ones )" and firework displays on " Sheep " and " Money ").

According to drummer Sam Fogarino, the band is going on a hiatus and pursuing separate projects.

According to Iron Maiden's The Early Days DVD, he was introduced to the band by drummer Doug Sampson, an old friend of Harris ' from his days in the band ' Smiler '.

According to Ethel Williams, who helped popularize the Texas Tommy in New York in 1913, the Texas Tommy " was like the Lindy ", and the basic steps were followed by a breakaway identical to that found in the Lindy.

According to rock historian Walter Rasmussen, Pete Townshend once said that The Who's 1969 album Tommy was inspired by the rock opera " Epic " by People!

According to Stallone, pro wrestling legend Terry Funk helped choreograph much of the street fight between Rocky and Tommy Gunn.

According to Marilyn Wisbey, her father's share was hidden by his father Tommy Wisbey Senior in the panels in the doors of his home.

According to Dixon & Godrich, Tommy Johnson and Ishman Bracey were recorded by Victor on that company's second field trip to Memphis, in 1928.

According to Yair Lapid, son of Tommy Lapid who was then the IBA director general, Lapid called his counterpart at NOS and convinced him to take the " undesired honour ", when he realised that the extra cost could paralyse the regular work of the IBA.

According to the film's director: Tommy Lee Wallace, on the Halloween: 25 Years of Terror documentary DVD, he said that the film had made no money, at the box office, it had " pissed-off " a lot of Halloween fans, it should have been released as just Season of the Witch, with no association, whatsoever, with the Halloween franchise, and he believes it might have found its ' audience, although it was " a good movie, by itself, but was not the Halloween franchise ".

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in executing their search warrant, the federal agents seized 8, 000-10, 000 copies of the yet-to-be released documentary, a / k / a Tommy Chong.

According to polls / surveys conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( Canada's public broadcaster ), Tommy Douglas has been consistently voted as " The Most Important Canadian " for three years in a row.

According to Gene Wilder's autobiography, the Tommy role, played by Harrison Ford, was originally planned for John Wayne.

According to manager Tommy Manzi, Cherry's perfectionism made him keep the recordings under wraps until the album was virtually complete.

According to Nee, the slaying of Donald Killeen on May 13, 1972, was carried out not by Bulger but by Mullen Gang enforcers James Mantville and Tommy King.

According to Lieutenant General Sir William MacArthur in an article in the Army Medical Services Magazine ( circa 1950 ), " Tommy Atkins " was chosen as a generic name by the War Office in 1815.

According to Tommy Yune of Harmony Gold USA ( sub-licensor of the original Macross series and merchandising rights of The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?

According to the DVD commentary, Erin was originally supposed to be more like Tommy in the series ( worrisome, neurotic ), and Tommy was supposed to be more like how Erin was ( strong, supportive ).

According to David Simon, the creator of the HBO drama The Wire, the show's fictional mayor of Baltimore Tommy Carcetti is " not O ' Malley ", but O ' Malley was one of several inspirations.

According to General Tommy Franks, the commander of the U. S. military in the 2003 Iraq conflict, April Fool, an American officer working undercover as a diplomat, was approached by an Iraqi intelligence agent.

According to Twin Cities crime reporter Paul Maccabee, Kid Cann's rivalry with Minneapolis's Irish Mob ended after he and Irish Mob boss Tommy Banks divided their territories with a handshake.

According to Tommy James of Tommy James and the Shondells, during his time at the label, Roulette was a front business for the Genovese crime family.

According to some sources, including Tommy Chong, the film actually made more money during its second-run release in double-bill with the Blues Brothers film.

According to McDonald, the Gunston character and his show were initially devised as a parody of an ( unintentionally bad ) late-night Sydney TV variety show of the early 1970s hosted by expatriate American club entertainer Tommy Leonetti.