Looks like the Ramones may get there first:
http://www.movieline.com/2009/10/5-ways-to-make-the-proposed-ramones-biopic-work.php
3. Showcase their early ineptitude. Clinton Heylins punk/new-wave
chronicle From the Velvets to the Voidoids features a funny anecdote from
Richard Hell, the legendary wild-man poet/songwriter who, with Tom
Verlaine, once auditioned Dee Dee Ramone to play bass in their band the
Neon Boys: Tom would say, Well play a C, and [Dee Dee] went from fret
to fret, he would look up with these questioning eyes. Hed look up and
wed shake our heads. Hed advanced to rudimentary songwriting by the
time he met up with Johnny a garage-band alum and Joey, who gave up
drumming because he couldnt sing and play at 180 beats per minute. Then
Tommy Ramone went from manager to drummer because he kept having to show
Joeys replacements how to play the songs anyway. If you cast
non-musicians and capture the real feel (particularly the exhilaration) of
getting tighter over months and years of rehearsal and live performance,
you cant go wrong.
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