Subscribe RSS“Intermittently celebrities call us and sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong,” Mr. Livingston said. “These guys aren’t authenticators and we’re talking about events occurred sometimes over 30 years ago.”
He added, “It’s a mucky element.”
Mr. Ramone wrote in an e-mail that when it came to leather jackets, his memory was anything but mucky.
“The jacket I wore in ’78 is documented on my first body ‘Dust’ album cover ,” he wrote. “I put out a capsule collection of leather jackets with Tommy Hilfiger and I can dig up my articles on the basis of wearing a motorcycle jacket five years before the Ramones existed.”
He wrote in another e-mail that claims concerning “pompous” Ramones artifacts and ephemera had become hard to sort out since the band’s demise. “The whole Ramones entities is a tangled web of nonsense and that’s putting it mildly!!”
As of 5:55 p.m. Tuesday, RR Auction was still taking bids.
