![]() ![]() ![]() MARKY RAMONE Dee Dee and I switched over to the Chuck Taylors because they stopped making U.S. The only running we did in Chuck Taylors was from the cops. It’s funny, back then you’d see guys playing basketball in ’em all the time, and we weren’t necessarily the biggest fans of jocks. I liked pointed-toe shoes, but those were expensive and we were poor as shit. In New York, you could find them at Army-Navy, at drug stores, pretty much anywhere. I probably just had a pair lying around my room.ĬHEETAH CHROME (guitarist, the Dead Boys) PF Flyers basically went out of production, so all the misfits started wearing Chuck Taylors. JOHN HOLMSTROM (illustrator) I have no idea why I drew Joey wearing shoes that looked like Chuck Taylors. Later on, Dee Dee and Marky, who replaced me, they wore Chuck Taylors. We got caricatured early on as wearing them. 3, there’s a John Holmstrom illustration of Joey wearing what look like Chuck Taylors. On the cover of the first Ramones album from 1976 we’re all wearing a kind of Keds that’s almost like a woman’s shoe. It’s basically an urban legend that the Ramones always wore Chuck Taylors. Bands like them and Nirvana are part of the Chuck Taylor DNA. GEOFF COTTRILL (Converse chief marketing officer) There’s a reason we have photos of the Ramones in the office. (guitarist, the Strokes) The first band that I think of as wearing Chuck Taylors is the Ramones. Also Read 30 Signature Guitars for Modern ArtistsĪLBERT HAMMOND JR. ![]()
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