Might be the the score of a lifetime

[nick123]

Might be fun for the Loungers here to try to find out more about this jacket. Could turn out to be something! I'd buy first and ask questions later at this price, but I'll leave it for a diehard Ramones fan to pick up. Story sounds convincing though.

*not my listing. Mods please remove if not appropriate.

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/clo/5500111621.html

 

[nick123]

I've already tried googling images. No luck yet.

 

[tropicalbob]

Complete nonsense. Dee Dee was about 5'7" and 125 lbs., maybe. Also, I remember the sound guys, and they weren't hippies.

 

[Monitor]

What's that anyway, Brooks?

 

[Sloan1874]

It reminds me of a guy I was in band with. He had bought this beautiful vintage Rickenbacker bass, and when he went to pick it up from the seller in Glasgow, he was handed it in a case with a 'Big Star Crew' sticker on it. The guy told him, whatever he did, not to take the sticker off it. Now, the implication was that this was an instrument belonging to somebody who played with uber-cool 70s group Big Star, but who could tell? Rock star memorabilia is a murky old world, with lots of counterfeit stuff. I wouldn't risk it.

 

[TREEMAN]

Sounds like BS

 

[nick123]

Complete nonsense. Dee Dee was about 5'7" and 125 lbs., maybe. Also, I remember the sound guys, and they weren't hippies.

It says Dee Dee was 6" online. I don't know. No luck. The hippie thing I'll take your word for.

 

[nick123]

What's that anyway, Brooks?

I was hoping someone here would know. Beats on the brat me...

 

[Seb Lucas]

It's a 1980 (ish) Brooks cafe racer - the less desirable pattern but I like it anyway. I've had a couple of these.

Dee Dee was close to six feet according to my reading so he might have worn this. Baggy 1980's style.

The size of famous people is interesting. I know two people who have met and stood next to Harrison Ford and he is either five ten or six two depending on who you believe.

 

[Sloan1874]

My gf's interviewed him. She says he's 5ft10in, "not incredibly tall".

 

[tropicalbob]

Until about 1979, CBGB's was pretty much a neighborhood bar, and the atmosphere was very loose and relaxed. The Ramones, when they weren't on stage, hung out at the bar or sat at the tables. Believe me, DeeDee was shorter than me and I'm 5'9". Joey was tall, Johnny about my size, and Tommy was small.

 

[Edward]

Joey was a beanpole; the others, well - I think they're often taken for taller than they were because they were so dern skinny... Can't see the photos, but assume it's being touted as the jacket Dee Dee wore on the cover of the first album? That was before they settled on the Perfecto 'uniform' (or Perfecto style, at least - Joey wore both a Lewis Bronx and a Lewis Lightning at different times into the eighties, and I believe Marky had a Lewis too). If it was the jacket on that first album cover, it'd have to be late 60s / early 70s, a cheap, used item by the mid 70s, as the brudders Ramone sure didn't have any money by 76...