![]() Tommy joined the Ramones in the summer of that year after public auditions failed to produce a satisfactory drummer. They collaborated with future bandmate Jeffrey Hyman, later to become Joey Ramone, to form the Ramones with Richie Stern on bass. ![]() On the same trip, Dee Dee bought a Danelectro bass. Together they went to Manny's Music in New York City in January 1974, where Johnny bought a used blue Mosrite Ventures II guitar for just over $54. They would eat lunch together and discuss their mutual love of bands like the Stooges and MC5. He met future bandmate Douglas Colvin, later to become Dee Dee Ramone, in the early 1970s while delivering dry cleaning. He also worked as a plumber with his father before the Ramones became successful, at one point attended military school, and briefly attended college in Florida. As a teenager, he was known as a " greaser", though he was later described as a tie-dye-wearing Stooges fan. As a teenager, Johnny played in a band called the Tangerine Puppets alongside future Ramones drummer Tamás Erdélyi (better known as Tommy Ramone). ![]() He was raised in the Forest Hills, Queens neighborhood of New York City, where he grew up absorbing rock music. ![]() John William Cummings was born in Queens on October 8, 1948, the only child of a construction worker of Irish descent.
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