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Dee Dee and Joey checking equipments to buy, NY 1976

Price range: 200.00€ through 550.00€

High quality Photographic Print
Epson K3 Ultrachrome inks
Canson Rc Photo Lustre Premium 310 gr paper
Signed by the author on a label at the backside

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MY RAMONES, photographs by DANNY FIELDS

Danny Fields’ importance in the musical firmament is pretty much unsurpassed. His involvement over the evolution of music these past 50+ years has seen him connected to many of the most important acts ever. In this instance, his journey to becoming the first Ramones manager is testament to the fact that he had signed both The Stooges and The MC5 to Elektra Records. Add a dash of his teen pop sensibility from writing for 16 magazine and going on tour with the Bay City Rollers and no one could have been more suited to the job of bringing Dee Dee, Joey, Johnny and Tommy to an unsuspecting world. If you haven’t seen the documentary “Danny Says” then you should. This guy was present when a good deal of your rock n’ roll dreams were coming true. He’s the real thing and somehow he seems to have retained his fan sensibility despite all these years in a business that tends to burn people out double quick. From 1975 to 1980 he managed the Ramones, and photographed them constantly. These are some of the photos he took.

Photographic copies, Epson K3 Ultrachrome inks on Rc Photo Lustre Premium 310 gr paper. All photos signed on the back by Danny Fields, and with a Certificate of Authenticity. Contact the gallery for other sizes.

Danny Fields

DANNY FIELDS (New York, USA, 1939)

The importance of Danny Fields in the musical firmament can hardly be exaggerated. A legendary manager, publicist, journalist and record label executive, Fields was at the heart of every major episode in rock music history for two decades and is considered one of the driving forces behind the punk rock explosion in the United States.

He was instrumental in launching the careers of iconic bands like The Doors, The MC5, The Stooges and the Ramones, and he was the ultimate “insider” and king of cool in the 1960s and 70s, when he rubbed shoulders with Andy Warhol and the entire Factory gang, Nico, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. When Danny first saw the Ramones in a 15-minute set at CBGB in New York in 1974, he offered to become their manager on the spot and soon landed them a recording contract.

He represented the band from the beginning, accompanying them on their first European and American tours while photographing them on stage, with their fans and in the most ordinary situations.

Danny Fields artworks in La Fiambrera Art gallery

Taken between 1975 and 1977, Danny’s photographs offer a rare glimpse of the band’s life on tour, backstage or recording their first album. In these charming, sweet, spontaneous images—many of which are unknown to the general public—we see the four original Ramones, Danny’s Ramones, during his time as their manager.

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Fields’s personal archives are sold exclusively at La Fiambrera.