Youth Gone Mad - Featuring Dee Dee Ramone (2002) [CD '2003] RESTORED

This disc contains Dee Dee's final studio sessions, as well as artwork by Dee Dee and Youth Gone Mad frontman, Paul "ENA" Kostabi. A solid, raw and diverse punk album that flows smoothly in and out of styles.

Part requiem, part-eulogy with a sardonic punk twist, it's Dee Dee Ramone's last musical will and testament. Sticking to spare, unsentimental energizied Ramones-like rocking, Dee Dee reels off a high elegiac that is twisted, funny, and at times downright morbid…

Youth Gone Mad frontman, Paul Kostabi, and former Ramones songwriter/bass player, Dee Dee Ramone, began working together as collaborative artists on a series of paintings. After doing some shows, both in art galleries and music halls, the two started recording songs together in New York. Dee Dee wrote some songs, played guitar, sang a little and even played bass on "Horror Hospital". Barbara Zampini (who played bass for The Ramainz, and on some of Dee Dee's solo records) and drummer Tony Mann (GG Allin, She Wolves) filled out the rhythm section. Paul sang and played several different instruments. The sessions ended up being Dee Dee's final studio recordings. The album was finished with the help of a few more friends, and released on 12" picture vinyl in 2002. It is now available on a digitally remastered compact disc, for your convenience and pleasure.

Tracklist:

01. Bego Bago
02. False Alarm
03. I Gotta Right To Love Her
04. I Kill You
05. You Guys Ready
06. Blitzkrieg Bop
07. Horror Hospital
08. Louse
09. Rock N Roll Vacation In L.A.
10. Sheena Is A Surf Punk
11. Stinky Punk
12. Twist And Shout
13. Yellow
14. Dee Dee Deceased
15. In The Pines


Produced by Paul Kostabi in New York at Court Metrage Studios and Los Angeles at Painted Sound studios
"In The Pines" produced by Ron Allaire at Giant Studios in NYC in 1995.
Mastered & sequenced by Mark Rubel at Pogo Studios in Champaign, IL.

• Paul Kostabi - vocals and guitar, bass on "Stinky Punk" with farfisa and melodica, drums
• Dee Dee ramone - guitar, lead vocals on "2 & 7", bass on "7", backing vocals where ever you can hear him
• Barbara Zampini - guitar and/or bass on tracks "3,9,10 & 12"
• Tony Mann - drums on "2,3,7,9,10 & 12"
• Fenton Lawless - guitar & vocals on "Dee Dee Deceased"
• Mike Solis - guitar on "Horror Hospital"
• Steve Gabe & Ron Allaire - guitar on "In The Pines"

Original Release Date: February 2002
CD-Release Date: February 11, 2003
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Label: Trend Is Dead Records
Catalog No.: 9