Born To Lose / Hop Around 7' single was released by Hannu Jokinen's
label
Woimasointu Records (Finland) on March 14, 2002. At the same time was by
Woimasointu Records released LP version of Dee Dee Ramone's Hop Around. CD version
of Hop Around was published already in 2000.
Songs in this single are produced by Chris
Spedding. Recordings were made in 1998.
I did with Spedding interview to my 2nd book Rock In Peace: Dee Dee And Joey Ramone.
Part of that interview you can also read below
here.
LINE-UP:
Dee Dee Ramone: guitar and main vocals.
Barbara Ramone (Zampini): bass and vocals.
Billy Rogers: drums.
Gordie Lewis: guest guitarist.
300 copies of the single on white vinyl, 300 copies on blue and rest
on black.
7' cover have in front and back sides pictures taken by me (Jari-Pekka
Laitio-Ramone), from
my touring with Dee Dee Ramone, Barbara Zampini and Chase Manhattan in
Scandinavia in 2000. Read more of tour
here.
Guest musician is Teenage Head guitarist Gordie Lewis. Johnny Thunders'
70's punk anthem Born To Lose feature Gordie Lewis.
Born To Lose is track number 13 in Canada/USA release of Hop Around.
Chinese Rocks in track number 13 in European releases (CD and LP). Born
To Lose is only available in Europe on the Corazong Records sampler From
The Heart and on this Hop Around / Born To Lose 7' single release.
Single version is a bit different.
I did interview with Lewis to my 2nd book Rock In Peace: Dee Dee And Joey Ramone.
Here is one comment by him.
- I only met Dee Dee once in Toronto at a Remains show. This was after I
recorded some guitar for his Hop Around CD. I did these sessions with
Chris Spedding, as Dee Dee was back in New York. Everything the Ramones
have done has been an influence on me. When it comes to Dee Dee, it was
his song writing that I paid the most attention to, wrote Gordie Lewis
to me.
Chris Spedding produced Dee Dee Ramone's album Hop Around. Also man did
produce Greatest And Latest (2000). Spedding also played on both
records. I did with Spedding interview to my 2nd book Rock In Peace: Dee Dee And Joey Ramone
(2004). Here are few parts of it.
Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone: When did you meet with
Dee Dee for the first
time and how did the projects you worked on with him come about?
Chris Spedding: I met him in Toronto, Canada,
when I was hired by the OPM record company (Other
People's Music) to produce his album. We both enjoyed working together
on the first album Hop Around, but Dee Dee was disappointed with the
record company (OPM) delaying it's release and then not promoting it
properly. He wanted to re-record everything again and put it out on a
different label. He asked me to produce the new one. At this time, he
and Barbara moved to Los Angeles near where I was living in Santa
Monica. I dissuaded him from re-recording the songs from the previous
album and we recorded what was to become our last album together,
Greatest & Latest.
Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone: Can you describe a
little bit of the
production style that worked best for Dee Dee?
Chris Spedding: All a producer does is to get
the artist's music down on
tape as well as
possible, and to the artist.s satisfaction. With Dee Dee this meant
working quickly because Dee Dee uses a lot of energy in the studio and
got bored quickly. Because of this I think we were well suited.
