Monte A. Melnick, 'Little' Matt Lolya - The Ramones to U2!

Monte A. Melnick worked as the Ramones road manager for 22 years. He did over 2200 shows with the band. Matthew 'Little Matt' Lolya worked for the Ramones from 1976 to 1988. In addition, he toured with Chubby Checker and was the very first guitar/bass tech for both the Edge and Adam Clayton while touring with U2. 00:00 Intro 1:50 Ramones Origins 3:50 Performance Studios 5:45 Playing in Europe VS USA 6:40 Matt Leaving for U2 7:47 Frank Gallagher 7:57 Chubby Checker 8:07 “I Will Follow” 9:32 Milton Keynes Festival 11:15 Monte took a lot of Sh-t! 14:00 Joey & Johnny Ramone 15:50 Getting Paid 16:45 Dee Dee Ramone’s Knife 16:55 SIR – Marky Ramone & Dee Dee Ramone 17:47 D Generation & Jesse Malin 18:04 Ronnie Spector 18:09 Phil Spector, Ritchie Cordell 20:25 1977 The Whiskey 21:30 Dee Dee OD’s 22:10 Phil Spector in Studio 23:00 Al Lewis at Phil Spector’s house 23:58 Matt telling Johnny Goodbye 25:50 Club Bene 28:35 Linda Ramone 29:49 Ronald Regan 31:04 Hollywood Forever 33:09 Big Matt & Little Matt 33:20 Monte’s Book 35:40 Blue Oyster Cult at Nassau Coliseum 37:04 Doug Carrion 39:30 Soundchecks 40:28 U2 Stadium Tour 40:42 Matt Playing on “We Want the Airwaves” & “Time Has Come Today” 41:57 Johnny Rotten interview w/ Marky Ramone 42:41 Johnny Rotten drinking Ramones Piss 43:40 Sid Vicious 45:30 No Melnicks! 46:55 Frank Meyer 47:50 “What a Wonderful World” 48:07 Andy Shernoff – City Garden, Trenton 49:33 Poor Man Interview 50:50 Rock N Roll Hall of Fame – Green Day 53:24 Parasitic Twin 54:37 Firing Clem 57:30 Who hired Marky? 58:09 Sammy Hagar 58:26 Living Next door to Richie & Mark Ramone 59:00 Auditioning Billy from the Heartbreakers 59:09 Richie Ramone #ramones, #joeyramone, #johnnyramone