- The Ramones, Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, 1979. Warner Bros Records suits warned that Van Halen were raucous and difficult to handle when director Allan Arkush was searching for a band to (almost) close the movieat The Roxy concert. Cheap Trick, Devo, Tom Petty, Todd Rundgren all passed. Well, it was a Roger Corman show, not Warner Bros! And legend insists that after getting only $25,000 for the movie, the Ramone shad to play Californian gigs to help pay their hotel bills-and Dee Dee’s hospital bill after he ODed in jail following an assault arrest. No wonderhe couldn’t remember his seven-word dialogue “Hey, pizza! It’s great! Let’s dig in!” was cut to “Hey, pizza!” – cut to “Hey, pizza!”
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