Growing up on Long Island, Christopher Joseph Ward, who’d become known as CJ Ramone, was a metalhead with a soft spot for punk rock. But even though the area didn’t have much of a punk scene in the early ‘80s, the fact that his knee kept him from playing sports led him to pick up the bass.
“I sat down with the it and sounded things out,” he says. “I kind of taught myself a couple of basslines and I was off and running.”
