Richie Ramone Autographs
Richard Reinhardt (born August 11, 1957) is an American drummer best known by his stage name Richie Ramone, and for being the drummer for the punk band the Ramones from February 1983 until August 1987. As of 2025, he is one of three surviving members of the band, the others being Marky Ramone and C.J. Ramone. Richie appeared on three studio albums with the Ramones and played on Joey Ramone's second solo album ...Ya Know? He has later released three solo albums and currently fronts his own solo band.
Prior to joining the Ramones, Reinhardt played drums for Velveteen and the Shirts. He joined the Ramones in February 1983 before the release of Subterranean Jungle, and appeared in two music videos from that album, although he did not play on the record itself. In his first months with the group he broke the tradition of adopting the Ramones surname and instead performed under the stage name Richie Beau. However, by the time of his first recordings with the band he had switched to the name Richie Ramone. He played on the Ramones albums Too Tough to Die, Animal Boy and Halfway to Sanity and appears on their compilation albums Greatest Hits, Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits and Weird Tales of the Ramones, and on the Ramones live video album It's Alive 1974-1996. He wrote the Ramones' hit song "Somebody Put Something in My Drink" off the Animal Boy album and later included on the compilation album Ramones Mania, the first Ramones album to go gold. Richie also wrote the songs "Smash You", "Humankind", "I'm Not Jesus", "I Know Better Now" and "(You) Can't Say Anything Nice". Richie's songs "I'm Not Jesus" and "Somebody Put Something in my Drink" have later been covered by new generations of bands worldwide, notably by metal bands Children of Bodom and Behemoth.
Richie was the only drummer to sing lead vocals on a Ramones song, including "(You) Can't Say Anything Nice" and the unreleased 1985 demo "Elevator Operator" written by Joey Ramone, which also featured Joey's brother Mickey Leigh on guitar and Dave U. Hall on bass, both from The Rattlers, as well a multitude of Ramones demos. Joey said of Richie: "Richie's very talented and he's very diverse . . . He really strengthened the band a hundred percent because he sings backing tracks, he sings lead, and he sings with Dee Dee's stuff. In the past, it was always just me singing for the most part." Richie performed over 500 shows with the Ramones all over the world, including South America, where rabid fans held up signs proclaiming "Richie" and "Drink", the latter referring to the song "Somebody put Something in my Drink" written by Richie.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Richie Ramone (Joey & Richie Ramone signed SPIN Magazine Sweatshirt Vintage 1985 XL RAMONES) was sold in April 2025 for $750.00 while the cheapest item (Richie Ramone signed autographed 5x7 drummer Ramones 1983-1987) found a new owner for $0.99 in March 2023. The month with the most items sold (7) was April 2025 with an average selling price of $49.99 for an autographed item of Richie Ramone. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in December 2025 with $199.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $1.25 was August 2024. In average, an autographed item from Richie Ramone is worth $33.49.
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