Ramones [photograph] signed by Tommy Ramone
Eunice, LA: Autographs Galore. Presumed one of only a few so autographed. Photograph. Format is approximately 6 inches by 4 inches. Black and white photograph of the four members of the band with a brick wall in the background and RAMONES at the top. Tommy Ramone is the second figure from the left and he signed his name across his chest in silver. This comes with A Certificate of Authenticity that this item was personally autographed by Tommy Ramone and was issued by Autographs Galore of Eunice, LA. Thomas Erdelyi (born Tamás Erdélyi; January 29, 1949 – July 11, 2014), known professionally as Tommy Ramone, was a Hungarian American record producer and musician. He was the drummer for the influential punk rock band the Ramones for the first four years of the band's existence and was the longest-surviving original member of the Ramones. In high school, Tommy played guitar in a mid-1960s, four-piece garage band, the Tangerine Puppets, with a schoolmate and guitarist, John Cummings, the future Johnny Ramone.[3][11] After leaving school at 18,[10] he started working as an assistant engineer at the Record Plant studio, where he worked on the production of the 1970 Jimi Hendrix album Band of Gypsys. When the Ramones first came together, with Johnny Ramone on guitar, Dee Dee Ramone on bass and Joey Ramone on drums, Erdelyi was supposed to be the manager, but, even though he never played drums before, was drafted as the band's drummer when Joey became the lead singer. "Tommy Ramone, who was managing us, finally had to sit down behind the drums, because nobody else wanted to," Dee Dee later recalled. He remained as drummer to 1978. More