Joey's apartment was in a high rise coop apt high rise on 3rd Avenue, across fr The Continental, close to CBGBs. He combined 2 studio apartments together. He was surrounded by families, regular people. Heard he was a nice neighbor. I think his brother has the apartment now.
https://twitter.com/PunkRockStory/status/1428550146829307905
Even though The Ramones were one of the greatest bands of all time and were active for 22 years, they made a relatively modest living from touring, low record sales, & merch. They were well off but not multi-millionaires. I think Johnny was happy w/ his 1M retirement savings.
The real value of their music was with their amazing catalogue of music which benefits over time primarily the estates of Johnny (his wife) & Joey (his brother), & to a lesser extent DeeDee (his wife) bc he sold some of his rights before he passed. Also, Tommy's relatives. RIP.
They each led lives that were far from the stereotypical rock star; much closer to the way the rest of us live, except they performed amazing music for 22 years as a hard working touring band.
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